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]
References
- ↑ "Members Previous Parliament". Parliament of Kiribati. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ↑ Van Trease 1993, p. 356.
- ↑ Van Trease 1993, p. 375.
- ↑ A Statistical Profile on Men and Women of Kiribati. The Department. 1997. p. 13.
- ↑ Takashy, Tina (1995). National reviews of the Nairobi forward-looking strategies for the advancement of women: Micronesia. South Pacific Commission. p. 75. ISBN 9789822034301.
Bibliography
- Van Trease, Howard, ed. (1993). Atoll Politics: The Republic of Kiribati. University of Canterbury and University of the South Pacific. ISBN 0-9583300-0-X.
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