Maori cultural leader, educationalist and composer, Sir Pita Russell Sharples KNZM CBE (born Peter Russell Sharples, [1] 20 July ) is a New Zealand Māori academic and politician, who was a co-leader of the Māori Party from to , and a minister outside Cabinet in the National Party-led government from to
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Pita Sharples, the son of Sir Pita Russell Sharples KNZM Commander of the Order of the British Empire is a Māori academic and politician, who was a co-leader of the Māori Party from to , and a minister outside Cabinet in the National Party-led government from to Sharples was born in Waipawa, a town in Hawke"s Bay.
Panel Read more about Sharples briefly describes his own education and belief system and then provides a history of Māori education, notes the effects of Pakeha education and shortsighted education policies directed towards the Māori and writes of the development of Kohanga Reo and Kura Kaupapa Māori.
Pita Sharples is the Described as “kaumatua to the nation” and known as Papa Pita, Tā Pita Sharples has played a key role in the Māori renaissance of the last 40 years, operating as a bicultural advocate while working to reconnect Māori with the treasures of their cultural history.
Born in Palmerston North
Maori cultural leader, educationalist and composer, of Auckland (WWNZ 12th ed) Co-leader of the Maori Party with Tariana Turia. Minister of Maori Affairs and Associate Minister of Corrections and Education Made a Knight Companion of the Order in Queen's Birthday Honours in Date: We pulled out all the stops Pita Russell Sharples (born 20 Julie ) is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Maori Pairty. He is a Maori consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Tamaki Makaurau.
He's done so much for Todd Michael McClay (born 22 November ) is a New Zealand politician and former ambassador. He is the Member of Parliament for Rotorua. He was previously an ambassador for the Cook Islands and Niue to the European Union.