Hone Harawira

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hone Harawira
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 6, 1955(1955-01-06)
Age	69
Country	New Zealand
Birth City	Whangarei
Horoscope	Capricorn

Hone Harawira Biography

Hone Harawira is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 6, 1955 in Whangarei, New Zealand. Harawira was the son of John Puriri Harawira, and Titewhai Harawira. He was born in Whangarei on January 6, 1955. He was born in West Auckland, where he attended St Stephen’s School (a boarding school for Maori boys) and the University of Auckland. His mother, Maori Marsden and Syd Jackson are some of the people he credits for instilling him with “the need to strength, commitment and wisdom.” His mother is from Ngati Hau and Ngati Hine tribes. His father is from Te Aupouri, Ngapuhi, and Ngati Whatua. He is also part Pakeha. He married Hilda Halkyard, a Ngati Haua subtribe of Te Rarawa.

After his return to Europe in November 2009, Hawawira received a request to repay travel expenses. He had skipped a taxpayer-funded conference held in Brussels in order to visit Paris. “How many times will I ever travel to Europe in my life?” I decided to go ahead and say, “F it! He said, “I’m off to Paris.” Harawira replied to Buddy Mikaere, an ex-director of the Waitangi Tribunal, by saying “Gee Buddy. Do you believe that white man bullshit also?” You want me to join their puritanical bullshit ….? White motherfers have been raping and ripping off our lands for centuries. OK?”. Harawira’s email was viewed as racist by the media, other members and members of parliament, and severely criticised by members of the public.

On 31 July 2010 Harawira told The New Zealand Herald he “wouldn’t feel comfortable” if one of his children came home with a Pākehā partner, but he asked whether “all Pākehās would be happy with their daughters coming home with a Māori boy? The answer is they wouldn’t.” He was asked, since some of his whānau have dated Pacific Islanders and he didn’t have an issue with it, “does that make him prejudiced?” He said “Probably, but how many people don’t have prejudices?”

Harawira was returned to Parliament as the Member for Te Tai Tokerau at the general election held on 26 November 2011.

Harawira posted a Facebook post in September 2012 referring to Maori MPs as prime minister John Keys’ “little house niggers”. This was in response to Key refusing National party members to attend a water rights hui. He said, “Time John Key realized a few home truths such as (1) he can tell the little house niggers what he should do, but (2) we don’t care a sh*t for his opinions or him.” Pita Sharples, a party leader, was moved to attend the hui after this comment. Rawdon Christie interviewed Harawira about his statement, stating that New Zealand needed to “mature” and that he wouldn’t be the first or last person to use the n–word in the country. Harawira had used the n’word before in an address to this chamber on 6/11/2007. He stated that the United States military operated under the motto “The best Indian is dead Indian” and that the current American-led War on Terror was conducted under the new motto “The good sandnigger is dead sandnigger”.

Hone Harawira Net Worth

Hone Harawira is one of the richest Politician from New Zealand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hone Harawira 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His mother is a well-known Maori activist. Harawira was involved in Maori language revitalisation, Maori land occupations, Treaty of Waitangi issues and Maori broadcasting. Harawira was a member of He Taua in 1979. They confronted University of Auckland engineering students who were drunk and performed a parody of “Ka Mate” with obscenities on their bodies. He Taua responded to the insult, which led to several broken bones for the engineering students. When he and his wife visited the School of Engineering Harawira stated that “when people refuse to do the right thing, at the end of each day you step in, doing what you can.” He Taua, the 1981 Springbok tour protests and the 2004 foreshore & seabed hikoi were key events that led to his entry into Parliament.

Harawira was the Maori Party candidate for Te Tai Tokerau in 2005’s general election and was elected to Parliament. He has been a member of Parliament since 2005 and continues to support community activism while also pushing for legislative change. Harawira has been outspoken and criticized the Australian Prime Minister John Howard for his interference in aboriginal affairs. He was also fined for leaving a planned parliamentary tour overseas to raise awareness about aboriginal rights. In April 2009, a Waikato University student complained about Harawira after Harawira had sworn in response to a question that referred to Maori as a “minority” group. Steve Baron, a political science student, told him that he was a racist and “lumped Maori into with other minorities such as homosexuals and Asians He tried it on, and he got his retribution.”

Harawira writes a regular column in the Kaitaia-based newspaper The Northland Age, entitled Ae Marika. In the edition dated 29 October 2009, during the time he was on a Parliamentary trip in Europe, he wrote: “…we’ve been scrapping and squabbling and brawling and bawling about this, that and the other thing for so long that all of the original Waitangi Tribunal claimants are now long dead.” “…the European Union…27 distinct languages and hundreds of different dialects…political diversity…everyone doing their best to talk with one another, and work together!” “So hangin’ with these folks has been a great learning experience.” “…I for one learned heaps.”

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Who is Hone Harawira Dating?

According to our records, Hone Harawira married to Hilda Halkyard Harawira. As of December 1, 2023, Hone Harawira’s is not dating anyone.

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On 7 February 2011 Harawira was suspended from the Māori Party caucus, with a statement by Turia and Sharples saying they had lost faith in him after five years of ill-discipline. He responded saying he wishes to stay with the party and stand for it in the 2011 election.

Facts & Trivia

Hone Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in New Zealand. Hone Harawira celebrates birthday on January 6 of every year.

On 16 January 2011 in an interview published in the Sunday Star-Times, Harawira was highly critical of the Māori Party’s relationship with the National Party, in particular over the Foreshore and Seabed issue, saying “If we support this bill, we’re effectively saying that our coalition with National is more important than our commitment to Māori – surely not?”