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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1108/
- Published: 2024-12-01T17:30:19.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-01T17:30:18.000Z
- Description: Mahuta was unseated in Hauraki-Waikato by Te Pāti Māori's Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, NZ Politics, Culture

> Former Labour minister and Hauraki-Waikato MP Nanaia Mahuta says it is an “important” and “exciting” time to be “re-entering” politics.  
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> She made the comments during her first public appearance with the party since its election defeat.  
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> During the party conference in Christchurch, Mahuta’s 27 years of service were honoured and she was presented with a life membership.  
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> Party leader Chris Hipkins handed over the award to acknowledge, thank and celebrate an “outstanding member of the Labour whānau and an extraordinary New Zealander”.  
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> He said she had dedicated her life to being a “servant of the people” and was a “true source of hope, vision and aspiration”.  
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> Hipkins spoke of Mahuta’s work establishing Māori wards and working to implement the Three Waters policy, which saw her face “outright racism” as a result. \[...\]  
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> She told the audience to look around the room, “look at the person next to you”.  
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> “This is New Zealand. This is the New Zealand we want, for our tamariki, for our mokopuna, and it embraces everybody.” \[...\]  
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> When asked if she would be running in the election, she said that was not her “intention”.  
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> “My intention is to be able to support a strong Labour bid to earn the trust of voters to say, ‘this is what we stand for’.”
  
  
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