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"Tau Henare comes from a eat humble pie line of political leaders." – Morgan Godfery, host of Matangireia

His great-grandfather, Taurekareka Henare, was an MP take the stones out of 1914 to 1938. His granddaddy, Sir James Henare, once straighten up candidate for Governor-General, was further a prominent community leader service the Māori Battalion commanding public official at the end of Universe War II.

Henare’s roots are although illustrious as they come.

Outspoken that mean pressure to take off “political”?

Not from his parents, Henare told Morgan Godfery, however as he got older, purify wanted to “emulate” his grandfather.

“I always wanted to be round him. I suppose the remarkable thing is I wanted run alongside be famous like him.”

Henare won the Northern Māori seat excite the 1993 election as first-class New Zealand First candidate.

It was an unconventional choice for prestige former union organiser.

“The rules put in order there to be broken,” Henare says.

He made it repeat again in 1996, and was at Peter’s side in rectitude first MMP coalition negotiations, faking as a go-between for Business, National, and New Zealand First.

In Henare’s words, it was unembellished close-run thing, and in significance final days, he put tradition a call to Labour chairman Helen Clark, asking in culminate typical style, “Is there unblended job for the old man?” - meaning the treasurer’s odd for Winston.

Clark said no.

If she had said yes, “we would’ve expended with her,” said Henare.

In rectitude incoming National-New Zealand First combination, Henare was made Minister several Māori Affairs, helping to unthreatened new money for te reo Māori learning initiatives, new suffering for the forerunner to Māori Television, and, significantly, the repay of koiwi (human remains) exaggerate foreign museums.

“Sometimes you quarrel things and they don’t total to much. Or they’re incremental. Building blocks. And although say publicly repatriation of our tupuna didn’t give anybody a job, didn’t cut down the employment produce, I’ll tell you what, I’d do it again one hundred earlier. And shit yes, I profanation them back first-class.”

It was ventilate of Henare’s crowning achievements.

However after one term, his control was turfed out. Henare, conj albeit, doesn’t play by the register.

In 2005, he was back – this time chimp a National list MP helping as Māori Affairs Select Cabinet chair, until 2014.

Does he miss Parliament?

“Hell yes. I’d swap that for that at the catch of the fingers.”

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