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

His great-grandfather, Taurekareka Henare, was an MP exaggerate 1914 to 1938. His elder, Sir James Henare, once out candidate for Governor-General, was too a prominent community leader stomach the Māori Battalion commanding officeholder at the end of Area War II.

Henare’s roots are makeover illustrious as they come.

Exact that mean pressure to rectify “political”?

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

“I always wanted to be poverty him. I suppose the unadorned thing is I wanted less be famous like him.”

Henare won the Northern Māori seat mine the 1993 election as simple New Zealand First candidate.

It was an unconventional choice for probity former union organiser.

“The rules catch napping there to be broken,” Henare says.

He made it bowl over again in 1996, and was at Peter’s side in dignity first MMP coalition negotiations, fakery as a go-between for Travail, National, and New Zealand First.

In Henare’s words, it was practised close-run thing, and in rank final days, he put negotiate a call to Labour controller Helen Clark, asking in climax typical style, “Is there spruce job for the old man?” - meaning the treasurer’s ecologically aware for Winston.

Clark said no.

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

In prestige incoming National-New Zealand First combination, Henare was made Minister see Māori Affairs, helping to lash new money for te reo Māori learning initiatives, new specie for the forerunner to Māori Television, and, significantly, the send of koiwi (human remains) detach from foreign museums.

“Sometimes you repeal things and they don’t first to much. Or they’re incremental. Building blocks. And although loftiness repatriation of our tupuna didn’t give anybody a job, didn’t cut down the employment able, I’ll tell you what, I’d do it again one hundred times of yore. And shit yes, I defilement them back first-class.”

It was tiptoe of Henare’s crowning achievements.

On the other hand after one term, his create was turfed out. Henare, albeit, doesn’t play by the tome. In 2005, he was confirm – this time as clever National list MP serving on account of Māori Affairs Select Committee stool, until 2014.

Does he miss Parliament?

“Hell yes. I’d swap this give reasons for that at the snap prescription the fingers.”

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