Moana Mackey

Moana Mackey MP
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Labour party list
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 July 2003
Preceded by	Graham Kelly
Personal details
Born	28 February 1974 (1974-02-28) (age 37) Auckland, New Zealand
Political party	Labour
Relations	Janet Mackey (mother)
Residences	Gisborne

Moana Lynore Mackey (born 28 February 1974 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand politician and has represented the New Zealand Labour Party in the Parliament of New Zealand since 2003. She has Māori, Irish, Scottish and Spanish ancestry.

Member of Parliament

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate	List	Party
2003–2005	47th	List	53	Labour
2005–2008	48th	List	41	Labour
2008–present	49th	List	25	Labour

Mackey entered Parliament on 29 July 2003 through the Labour party list after Graham Kelly vacated his list seat. Her mother, Janet Mackey, also sat as a Labour MP until 2005 — the two formed the first mother-daughter pair in New Zealand parliamentary history. In the elections that year, Janet Mackey retired from politics, and Moana Mackey contested but narrowly lost the East Coast electorate seat (formerly held by her mother) to National Party candidate, Anne Tolley. However, she returned to Parliament as a List MP. Mackey unsuccessfully contested East Coast again in the 2008 general election, losing to National's Anne Tolley by 6,413 votes.^[1] Mackey again returned to Parliament as a list MP for the Labour Party.

Personal life

Born in Auckland, New Zealand and raised in Gisborne, Mackey attended Mangapapa Primary School, Ilminster Intermediate and Lytton High School. While in high school, Mackey would participate in Young Labour, the New Zealand Youth Orchestra and Youth Parliament. After leaving high school, she attended Victoria University of Wellington from 1993, graduating with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. Remaining in the Wellington area, she worked as a scientist, leading a team at an environmental laboratory in Lower Hutt and became^[when?] a member on the Petone Community Board.

From 1999 to 2000, Moana Mackey served as President of Young Labour.^[2] She also worked in the Trade Union movement.

She currently lives in Gisborne.

Further reading

• Parliamentary biography retrieved on 17 April 2008.

References

1. ^ Chief Electoral Office: Official Count Results: East Coast.
2. ^ Manning, Selwyn (12 September 2005). "Marginal Predictions: It's Turning Blue Out There". Scoop. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00166.htm. Retrieved 21 October 2010. 

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Name	Mackey, Moana
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Date of birth	28 February 1974
Place of birth	Auckland, New Zealand
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