in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to education and the Pacific community. References External links Official Labour Party page 1955 births Companions of the Queen's Service Order Dames Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit Living people Massey University alumni New Zealand Labour Party MPs New Zealand list MPs New Zealand people of Samoan descent People educated at Wellington Girls' College Victoria University of Wellington alumni Victoria University of Wellington faculty Women members of the New Zealand House of Representatives Samoan chiefs Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives People educated at Erskine College, Wellington 21st-century New Zealand politicians 21st-century New Zealand women politicians People from Lower Hutt New Zealand Women of Influence Award recipients