Hekla parata minister of education biography

hekla parata minister of education biography

Parata, Hekia - New Zealand Parliament

    She was Minister of Education for five-and-a-half years in the second and third terms of the Fifth National Government.
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  • Patricia Hekia Parata (born 1 November 1958) is a former New Zealand public servant, diplomat, and politician.

    • Patricia Hekia Parata

      This is the archived biography page for former Member of Parliament, Hon Hekia Parata.

    Hekia Parata

    New Zealand politician

    Patricia Hekia Parata (born 1 November 1958) is a former New Zealand public servant, diplomat, and politician.

    After a career as a senior public servant, Parata was a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, representing the National Party, from 2008 until 2017. She served as the Minister of Education in the Fifth National Government.

    Early life, family and education

    Born and raised in Ruatoria, Parata shares Scottish, Irish, English, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Porou ancestry. She was one of ten children to her mother, Hīria Te Kiekie Reedy of Ngāti Porou. Her maternal grandfather was Arnold Reedy.[1] Her father, Ron Parata, was of Ngāi Tahu descent and was raised in Puketeraki, near Dunedin. He served in the Māori Battalion and was a teacher and then principal at Ngata Memorial College in Ruatoria. Tame Parata, a Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1911, was Hekia Parata's great-great-grandfather.[2]

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  • Hekia Parata has been the Minister of Education for New Zealand since , after first entering Parliament in Parata grew up in a large family on the east coast of New Zealand.
    • Dear Minister Parata, We are the parents of a pupil at Our Lady of Fatima School in Christchurch.
    Hekia Parata has served as education minister longer than any of her predecessors.
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      Education Minister Hekia Parata is travelling back from the United Kingdom after sharing New Zealand’s Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako with experts from around the world.

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