Louisa Wall

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Louisa Wall
Full name Louisa Hareruia Wall
Date of birth February 1972
Place of birth Taupo, New Zealand
Previous Teams Silver Ferns

Louisa Hareruia Wall (born February 1972) is a New Zealand politician and netball player.

Wall is openly lesbian, and Māori,[1] though has characterised her primary identity as "New Zealander". Born in Taupo and brought up in Waiatahanui (just south of Taupo), Wall has Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Waikato ancestry. Wall attended Taupo Nui-a-tia College high school.

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[edit] Netball

In 1988 Wall became the youngest member of the 'Young Internationals' netball squad, to train under former New Zealand Captain and New Zealand Coach, Lyn Parker. In 1989, she was named in the Silver Ferns netball Team (New Zealand's national representative netball team) at 17. Wall also represented New Zealand in the Black Ferns (women’s rugby). She qualified from Waikato Institute of Technology, The University of Waikato and Massey University . She worked in the health field.

[edit] Politics

Parl. Electorate List Pos. Party
48th List 46 Labour

In the 2005 general election Wall stood for Port Waikato, occupied the 46th position on the Labour list. She became a Labour Party Member of Parliament on 4 March 2008 following her swearing in to replace retiring list MP Ann Hartley.

Wall hopes to stand for the Māori seat of Tāmaki Makaurau in the 2008 general election. She has said that she admires the present Māori Party MP for that seat, Pita Sharples, and will seek "the party vote more than the electorate vote” [2], although party president Mike Williams has underlined Labour policy to “seek two ticks” i.e. both the electorate and the party vote, particularly in the Maori seats. Wall was subsequently very careful to emphasise she would be running a "two ticks" campaign in her maiden speech to Parliament.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "MP Louisa Wall sworn in", Television New Zealand, 4 March 2008. 
  2. ^ Sunday Star-Times, 24 February 2008 (pages A6, C5)

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