List Member of Parliament
Major Portfolios: Maori Affairs, Fisheries, Broadcasting and Housing
Select Committee: Maori Affairs
Pita Paraone is a list MP for the New Zealand First Party, having entered Parliament in 2002.
Educated at the Motatau Maori District High School and Bay of Islands College he left school to work in Whangarei with the then Department of Maori Affairs. He holds Diplomas in Social Work and Business Development from the universities of Victoria and Auckland. He has attended the NZ Staff College of Management and the Henley Management College, UK.
He has spent 38 years in the Public Service in the area of Maori economic and social development that has included working in the Maori Land Court [Clerk & Interpreter and Title Improvement], Land Development [budgetary control] and Community Services [including housing].
Pita is the New Zealand First Party spokesperson for Maori Affairs. He brings wide experience to the role having served in a number of various capacities as a marae trustee, with the Waitangi National Trust Board and on tribal councils and a forestry trust.
Pita and his wife Elva live in Howick and have three adult children and five grandchildren.
In addition to family interests he enjoys rugby, rugby league, tennis, NZ history and music.
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