Takutai Moana Natasha Kemp<\/a>, who suffered from kidney failure.<\/p>\nLeoni attended King\u2019s College in London and received a master\u2019s degree in economics and international politics. <\/p>\n
She told the Herald that if she wins the seat, some of her priorities will be wh\u0101nau suffering from poor health, housing problems and the high cost of living.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope to use my academic background and international experience and bring it to a M\u0101ori seat,\u201d Leoni said.<\/p>\n
I hope to use my academic background and international experience and bring it to a M\u0101ori seat.<\/p>\n
Labour candidate Kerrin Leoni<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important we have people with the knowledge and skill base for M\u0101ori in T\u0101maki Makaurau. We need someone to focus on bringing our people forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
The T\u0101maki Makaurau electorate was first formed for the 2002 election and has been previously held by John Tamihere for Labour, Pita Sharples for Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori, Peeni Henare for Labour and Kemp for Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori.<\/p>\n
Joseph Los\u2019e joined NZME in 2022 as Kaupapa M\u0101ori Editor. Los\u2019e was a chief reporter, news director at the Sunday News newspaper covering crime, justice and sport. He was also editor of the NZ Truth and before NZME worked for urban M\u0101ori organisation Wh\u0101nau Waipareira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI am so grateful for this opportunity and my role is to win the T\u0101maki Makaurau electorate for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,51,19956,13116,186,5903,42678,2740,2294,14236,78,23157,56450,6721,56451,6048,21168,2720,111,43,139,69,90,60340,46800,7248,58423,44836,199,6047,61],"class_list":["post-344444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-auckland","tag-candidate","tag-contest","tag-currently","tag-election","tag-electorate","tag-former","tag-general","tag-held","tag-in","tag-kaipara","tag-kerrin","tag-labour","tag-leoni","tag-makaurau","tag-mayoral","tag-mori","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-oriini","tag-pti","tag-seat","tag-selected","tag-selects","tag-take","tag-tmaki","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}