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Patricia Hekia Parata, Lady Gardiner (born 1 November 1958) is a New Zealand politician and member of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, having been elected to parliament in the 2008 general election. She is a member of the New Zealand National Party and serves as the Minister of Education in the Fifth National Government. ==Life and career prior to Parliament== Born and raised in Ruatoria, Parata shares Scottish, Irish, English, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Porou ancestry. She was one of eight children to her mother, Hīria Te Kiekie Reedy of Ngāti Porou. Her maternal grandfather was Arnold Reedy. Her father, Ron Parata, was of Ngāi Tahu and was raised in Puketeraki, near Dunedin. He served in the Māori Battalion and was a teacher and then principal at Ngata Memorial College in Ruatoria. Tame Parata, a member of parliament from 1885 to 1911, was Hekia Parata's great-great-grandfather. One of Parata's sisters, Nori, is principal at Tolaga Bay Area School. Parata attended the University of Waikato, where she graduated with a Master of Arts. While at Waikato, she served as President of the Waikato Student Union in 1980. She was also a Senior Executive Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Parata was a Youth Representative at the first Hui Taumata held in 1984.〔Dominion Post, 26 February 2005, "HUI TAUMATA" Nick Venter.〕 Parata joined the National Party in August 2001. During the Springbok rugby tour of 1981 Parata took an active part in protests including the protest at Rugby Park in Hamilton, which ended in a pitch invasion that stopped a rugby test. She claimed that a plaster cast stopped her getting on the field. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hekia Parata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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