Meka Whaitiri, Chief Executive Officer for Ngati Kahungunu confirmed today that she would be seeking selection for the Labour Party candidacy for the upcoming by-election in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti ...
Meka Whaitiri will be removed as a Minister with immediate effect Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said today. The decision was made after receiving a report into an incident that occurred on 27 August ...
A Government minister, a Labour Party backbencher and a Green MP are being wooed by Te Pāti Māori following the coup of enticing Cabinet Minister Meka Whaitiri to cross the political floor. The Herald ...
Former Ikaroa-Rāwhiti MP Meka Whaitiri says serving the community is her motivation in her new role as chair of Gisborne-based Te Rūnanga o Tūranganui a Kiwa. This election year is the first in four ...
Labour MP Meka Whaitiri takes a selfie with her sons Wirangi Parata (left), 16, and Nohorua Parata, 18, at the Ikaroa-Rawhiti election night party. Photo / Duncan Brown One of the foregone conclusions ...
Kiri Allan speaks to the media. Government defector Meka Whaitiri will remain in Parliament as an independent MP and her move to Te Pāti Māori will not trigger the waka-jumping legislation, Parliament ...
Maori development Minister Willie Jackson on Meka Whaitiri's defection to Te Pāti Māori. Video / Mark Mitchell Parliament’s Speaker Adrian Rurawhe has reiterated that Meka Whaitiri will remain an MP ...
The day of the incident which led to Meka Whaitiri being suspended was the same day her family learned one of the Cabinet minister's brothers was awarded money from their mother in a Tenancy Tribunal ...
Former United Future Leader Peter Dunne says the Meka Whaitiri saga has exposed the failures of the waka-jumping ban. Dunne, who defected from Labour himself in 1994, told Mike Hosking the legislation ...