Fenua Tamuera Explained

Fenua Tamuera is a former I-Kiribati politician. She was a member of Parliament for Butaritari during the fourth Parliament of Kiribati.[1] She was the second woman to be elected to the House of Assembly, after Tekarei Russell in 1974.[2] Originally from Tuvalu, Tamuera qualified with a General Nursing and Obstetric Nursing Certificate from the Fiji School of Nursing in 1967.[3] She was elected to the House of Assembly after the death of her husband, Tamuera Taniera,[4] triggered a by-election in 1990, but she lost her seat in the subsequent 1991 Kiribati parliamentary election.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Members Previous Parliament . Parliament of Kiribati . 9 July 2019 . 14 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191114031524/https://www.parliament.gov.ki/members-previous-parliament-all/ . dead .
  2. Van Trease 1993, p. 356.
  3. Van Trease 1993, p. 375.
  4. Book: A Statistical Profile on Men and Women of Kiribati . The Department . 1997 . 13.
  5. Book: National reviews of the Nairobi forward-looking strategies for the advancement of women: Micronesia . South Pacific Commission . Takashy, Tina . 1995 . 75. 9789822034301 .