Tina Browne | |
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Member of the Cook Islands Parliament for Rakahanga | |
Assumed office 14 June 2018 | |
Preceded by | Toka Hagai |
Personal details | |
Political party | Democratic Party |
Tina Pupuke-Browne is a member of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is the leader of the Democratic Party.
Browne is from the island of Rakahanga and is the daughter of former Cook Islands Prime Minister Pupuke Robati. [1] She was educated at Tereora College and then attended the University of Canterbury in Christchurch,New Zealand,graduating with a Bachelor of Laws in 1979 [1] [2] - the first woman from Rarotonga to do so. [3] She subsequently worked for New Zealand law firm Russell McVeagh. She returned to the Cook Islands in 1981 to work for the Crown Law Office before entering private practice. [2] She served as president of the Cook Islands Netball Association. [4]
Browne first entered politics in 1996,when she contested the Nikao-Panama by-election as a candidate for the Cook Islands Party. She was defeated by Ngamau Munokoa. [4]
She was elected as leader of the Democratic Party in April 2017,replacing William (Smiley) Heather. [5] In the 2018 election she contested the seat of Rakahanga,losing to the Cook Islands Party's Toka Hagai. Hagai subsequently resigned the seat following allegations of treating, [6] and Browne won it following an electoral petition. [7]
In December 2019 she was part of a protest by women MPs to permit the wearing of ei katu (floral crowns) in Parliament. [8]
In April 2020 she led several MPs in taking a pay cut during the COVID-19 pandemic. [9] [10] During 2020 she supported the government's efforts to prevent the spread of covid to the Cook Islands, [11] and later opposed the government's lifting of quarantine. [12]
In March 2021 she joined the government in opposing a 10-year moratorium on seabed mining. [13]
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