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	Donna Awatere Huata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Donna Awatere Huata was born in the city of Rotorua in 1949, and was educated in Auckland.
		ACT contended that because Awatere Huata is no longer a member of the party, the party had less strength in parliament than its last election result awarded it, thereby undermining proportional representation.
		Awatere Huata, however, claimed that even if she was not a member of ACT, she still voted according to ACT policies, ensuring that the public still got the policies that they voted for.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donna_Awatere-Huata (742 words)

	Station Information - Donna Awatere Huata
		ACT contends that because Awatere Huata is no longer a member of the party, the party has less strength in parliament than its last election result awarded it, thereby undermining proportional representation.
		Awatere Huata, however, claims that even if she is not a member of ACT, she will still vote according to ACT policies, ensuring that the public will still get the policies that they voted for.
		Awatere Huata will also be removed from parliament if she is found guilty of the charges against her.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/d/do/donna_awatere_huata.html (675 words)

	ACT New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was claimed that Awatere Huata had diverted funds from a children's educational program for her own personal use, and an official investigation was launched.
		Awatere Huata refused to resign from her parliamentary seat, but was expelled from the ACT caucus.
		In November 2004, Awatere Huata was finally removed from Parliament after her last court challenge failed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ACT_New_Zealand (954 words)

	A revealing saga: New Zealand Maori MP faces charges over misuse of funds
		Huata was among the most strident in calling for Maori “sovereignty” or self-rule—thereby encouraging Maori workers to identify on the basis of race and tribal affiliation rather than class.
		Huata herself was quickly tapped on the shoulder by the political and corporate elite and went further than most in openly expressing the inherently anti-working class character of all identity politics.
		Huata became an unabashed, well-heeled mouthpiece for—in her words—the “flowering of capitalism” and in 1996 was elected to parliament.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jan2004/newz-j29_prn.shtml (1885 words)

	ORCON: Awatere: A Soldier's Story - Arapeta Awatere
		Awatere was an extraordinary man and this is an extraordinary book, written in extraordinary circumstances.
		Awatere married young and raised a family, of whom the best known is his youngest daughter, Donna Awatere-Huata, MP.
		Awatere conveys sadness at having hurt the former, and a sense of inevitability about his connection with the latter.
	www.gig.co.nz /home/entertainment/books/17672 (547 words)

	News on Donna, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Donna Karan CEO Fred Wilson is leaving the fashion house to replace Christina Johnson as head of Saks Fifth Avenue, The New York Post reported on Thursday.
		Donna Walker, the person whose arrest two months ago for claiming to be the missing daughter of an Indiana couple had triggered this media event, was no longer...
		Donna Karan lives in the moment; she's focused on what's directly in front of her, which, on this day, in this hour, is the fall preview of her DKNY collection...
	linkmorgue.org /us/TX/Donna.html (5831 words)

	List MP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In New Zealand, there have been several controversies regarding list MPs who left their parties â” Alamein Kopu, elected from the Alliance list, controversially defected and gave her support to the Alliance's enemies, and Donna Awatere Huata, elected from the ACT list, became an independent.
		In the latter case, Awatere Huata's former party went to the Supreme Court to expel her from Parliament.
		ACT alleged that it was ACT, not Awatere Huata, who was awarded the seat in the last election, and that when Awatere Huata left ACT, she should not have been able to take the seat with her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_MP (558 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Awatere Huata is seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the Act Party from having her expelled from parliament under the so-called party hopping law.
		Awatere Huata's lawyer told Justice Gendall that the court should intervene as the process followed by Act to trigger the law is flawed.
		Awatere Huata turned 55 on Friday but will have to wait to find out if she's got something to celebrate.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,255310-1-8,00.html (219 words)

	Capital Diary: Huata's appeal continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		ACT MP Donna Awatere Huata's appeal at her dumping by ACT continues.
		Huata is appealing against a High Court ruling to lift an injunction stopping Prebble using party-hopping laws to ask Parliament's Speaker to have her removed under the Electoral Integrity Act.
		It is unlikely to be the last time Mrs Huata and ACT square off in court over her parliamentary status.
	capitaldiary.blogspot.com /2004/04/huatas-appeal-continues.html (121 words)

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		In the Huata case, Mrs Huata challenged the decision of Richard Prebble as parliamentary leader of ACT, and Ken Shirley (as acting leader), to invoke the procedure laid down by the party-hopping amendments to remove her from Parliament.
		Mrs Huata argued in support of the Court’s jurisdiction to intervene on the basis that the leaders and caucus were exercising, in judicial review terms, “statutory powers of decision”, and thus the decisions were not proceedings in Parliament in relation to which the Courts ought to decline jurisdiction.
		Mrs Huata argues this is an action of the ACT leader and the Speaker, and therefore cannot be her “actions” in terms of the party-hopping amendments.
	www.chapmantripp.co.nz /resource_library/published_article.asp?id=2634 (2768 words)

	The New Zealand Government Directory - Archive visitors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The ACT Party governing board has called for ACT list MP Donna Awatere Huata to "make a full public disclosure in answer to the serious allegations against her, or resign" and has asked the ACT caucus to suspend her in the meantime.
		The move means that Mrs Awatere Huata is excluded from the ACT caucus but remains an MP while the allegations against her are investigated.
		The Speaker, Rt Hon Jonathon Hunt, has ruled that Donna Awatere Huata is now an independent MP after the ACT Party advised him that she was no longer a member of ACT for parliamentary purposes.
	www.nzgovtdirectory.com /Visitors/news/Archive2003.htm (8504 words)

	Awatere Huata wins appeal \| POLITICS \| NEWS \| tvnz.co.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Independent MP Donna Awatere Huata has won her appeal against her former party's plans to expel her from parliament under the so-called party hopping law.
		Awatere Huata was expelled from Act's caucus soon after fraud allegations were laid against her in relation to the publicly-funded Pipi Foundation, and shortly after she was declared an independent.
		Awatere Huata says she is pleased with the Court of Appeal decision.
	www.tvnz.co.nz /view/news_politics_story_skin/436493%3fformat=html (248 words)

	Scoop: Donna Awatere Huata V Richard William Prebble
		We accept that, viewed as a whole, from the perspective of the parliamentary party leader, the actions of Mrs Huata were reasonably regarded as having caused a breakdown in the relationship of trust and confidence between her and the other caucus members.
		The actions of Mrs Huata of concern to the leaders are either of insufficient significance reasonably to be regarded as amounting to altering the number of the party’s seats in the House or its voting strength.
		The legislation is concerned to regulate behaviour in the nature of defection and Mrs Huata has demonstrated that this is not the character of the conduct alleged against her.
	www.scoop.co.nz /mason/stories/PO0407/S00187.htm (20604 words)

	Awatere Huata expelled \| POLITICS \| NEWS \| tvnz.co.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Former Act MP Donna Awatere Huata has been expelled from parliament after Jonathan Hunt, the Speaker of the House, declared her seat vacant under the party hopping law.
		Awatere Huata has about a week to move out of her parliamentary office.
		Prebble said he was outraged at Awatere Huata's actions from a democracy point of view and he was personally prepared to take the case against the MP to the Supreme Court.
	tvnz.co.nz /view/news_politics_story_skin/459758?format=html (352 words)

	ObservatioNZ: Donna gone
		The judgement of the Supreme Court in the Donna Awatere Huata case has been issued - this is the first case the NZ Supreme Court has heard.
		I can't disagree with the judgment (not paying your dues seems to be to be a fairly clear cut way of leaving an organisation to me), but I do think it's a good think the waka-jumping legislation is going to lapse.
		Selecting someone like Awatere Huata as a list MP doesn't seem to show much judgment and I think political parties should have to live with their bum decisions.
	observationz.blogspot.com /2004/11/donna-gone.html (168 words)

	Court teaches ACT a lesson in democracy - Green Party
		The Court of Appeal ruled today that Mrs Awatere Huata's actions had not amounted to defection, and that ACT could not therefore invoke legislation to have her thrown out of Parliament.
		“Whatever you think of Mrs Awatere Huata’s behaviour it should be fundamental to our democracy that unless an MP has been convicted of a significant offence, only the voters have the power to elect and un-elect them,” said Mr Donald.
		If Donna Awatere Huata hadn’t taken her case to the court she would have been kicked out of parliament.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/PR7670.html (215 words)

	Awatere Huata hearing continues \| POLITICS \| NEWS \| tvnz.co.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The depositions hearing into fraud allegations against Donna Awatere Huata has heard that financial investigations into the Pipi Foundation found that poor documentation made it hard to determine where money was going.
		The fraud hearing involving the MP Donna Awatere Huata and her husband Wi Huata entered its fourth day on Friday amid allegations the MP asked a staffer to lie.
		Kyle said the MP gave her the money, but Awatere Huata wanted her to say it was Wi Huata.
	tvnz.co.nz /view/news_politics_story_skin/455884?format=html (352 words)

	Scoop: A Second Look At The Leadership Of Richard Prebble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Donna Awatere- Huata was in the house and the landline was working.
		More recently, for the last year and a half Donna Awatere Huata and her husband have helped embarrass the ACT party through events surrounding the use of money meant for the Pipi Foundation.
		As to Mrs Awatere Huata, it appears that the extent of her involvement was two phone calls to the former Minister of Immigration’s office inquiring on behalf of her husband’s submission.
	www.scoop.co.nz /mason/stories/HL0404/S00248.htm (1743 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		MP Donna Awatere Huata was defending herself on Wednesday morning after being suspended from the Act caucus following allegations she mis-spent public money.
		It is believed the complaint relates to information Awatere Huata revealed about her financial interests over the last four years.
		Awatere Huata told Mike Hosking on Breakfast that she has not mis-led the Act caucus and that she would "go" if she is found to have done anything wrong.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,167739-1-8,00.html (137 words)

	Re: Donna Awatere Huata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I think Donna is entitled to continue with her job as an MP until serious accusations against her are proved correct.
		It is premature of the ACT party to suspend her and i think they are using all sorts of other things i.e.
		I agree with Donna "to put the boot in, is going too far".
	www.pl.net /wwwboard/messages/755.html (335 words)

	Donna, Texas - links to government resources and information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Donna Morstad, MP Senior Aging Policy Analyst Texas Department on Aging.
		Retamal Dam is located south of Donna, Texas and is used to divert Mexicoâs share of floodwaters into Mexicoâs interior floodway and to regulate flood...
		Louis County; and NAZARIO ACEVEDO, 28, of Donna, Texas; were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges including conspiracy to distribute and possess with...
	www.us-news-watch.com /Texas/Donna.html (603 words)

	Re: Donna Awatere Huata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In Reply to: Re: Donna Awatere Huata posted by Alan Marston on February 18, 19103 at 17:59:10:
		I didn't support her when asked if she should go to Cuba as part of a Socialist Youth world gathering for which I was one of the NZ admin group.
		In general I see Donna as an entrepreneur in the crudest sense of the word - the sort of entrepreneur who takes the ups but not the downs.
	www.pl.net /wwwboard/messages/725.html (496 words)

	Top Stories from NZCity
		The Serious Fraud office says the charges laid against Donna Awatere Huata and her husband Wi Huata allege misuse of money belonging to the Pipi Foundation and an attempted cover-up.
		The SFO investigation was launched in the wake of allegations that Mrs Huata used money from the Foundation to finance a trip to a Sydney fashion show and some cosmetic surgery - claims she has always vigorously denied.
		Donna Awatere Huata says there are political reasons for the charges being laid against her and her husband.
	home.nzcity.co.nz /news?id=36743&cat=978&c=w (405 words)

	Inquiry into Public Funding of Organisations Associated with Donna Awatere Huata MP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Inquiry into Public Funding of Organisations Associated with Donna Awatere Huata MP All reports
		Inquiry into Public Funding of Organisations Associated with Donna Awatere Huata MP November 2003
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	www.oag.govt.nz /homepagefolders/Publications/Huata/Huata_Report.htm (53 words)

	The New Zealand Government Directory - Archive 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		MP Donna Awatere Huata has 10 days to appeal a decision by the High Court declining her application seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the ACT Party from writing to the Speaker to have her expelled from Parliament.
		Former ACT MP Donna Awatere-Huata is likely to be out of a job within days after the Supreme Court today ruled that the ACT Party could invoke the Electoral Integrity ACT to have her expelled from Parliament.
		Ms Awatere Huata has been sitting as an independent for more than a year since she was expelled from the ACT caucus.
	www.nzgovtdirectory.com /visitors/news/Archive2004.htm (9078 words)

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		As a result of the first, Mrs Awatere Huata has been expelled from Parliament, and in the second Mr Zaoui is to have his bail application heard by the Supreme Court (with the Supreme Court Judges sitting in their capacity as High Court Judges) despite national security concerns held by the Government.
		The Huata case began its life 12 months ago when Mrs Awatere-Huata sought an injunction in the High Court in Auckland preventing Richard Prebble and Ken Shirley (as then leader and deputy leader, respectively, of the ACT Party), from invoking the Electoral Integrity Amendments to remove her from Parliament.
		First, Mrs Awatere Huata appealed against the High Court decision to the Court of Appeal, which decided 4-1 in her favour.
	www.chapmantripp.co.nz /resource_library/published_article.asp?id=3905 (2920 words)

	David Farrar: December 2003 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Government's latest plan on ownership of the Seabed and Foreshore is being reported as likely to be tied 60-60 in the House, which means it would fail.
		The good news for embattled MP Donna Awatere-Huata is that the Court of Appeal has denied ACT an urgent hearing to overturn the High Court injunction.
		This means she will remain an MP until the substantive hearing in February or, if sucessful with that, until she gets convicted, as any of the crimes she has been charged with would automatically trigger the Electoral Act.
	www.kiwiblog.co.nz /archives/2003_12.html (1620 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Editorial Column
		Donna Awatere-Huata, a Maori MP, told me there are 500 hands on the Maori helm, but even she is optimistic.
		Near the center of things is the Waitangi Tribunal, set up by government to adjudicate claims based on violations of the 1840 treaty between Maori chiefs and British settlers.
		Donna Awatere-Huata, an early and continuing activist for Maori sovereignty, shocked many when she successfully ran for Parliament last October as a member of the right-wing Act Party.
	www.starbulletin.com /97/04/07/editorial/smyser.html (1954 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - Politics
		Parliament's Speaker has declared that Act MP Donna Awatere Huata will be regarded as an independent, following notification from Act that she is no longer part of its caucus.
		Act decided Awatere Huata had disqualified herself from caucus by letting her membership lapse.
		But Awatere Huata says she will continue to see herself as a representative of Act until the end of this Parliamentary term.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,234955-1-8,00.html (295 words)

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