• Paid Parental Leave
  Newsletter

• Youth Link

• Communiqué
  News from the office of the Hon Laila Harré
• Maori Women:
  Mapping Inequalities and Pointing Ways Forward
  Text of foreword and summary of this report
• Lampen Work Choice Day
  Photo record of Onslow College visit

Biography
Laila Harré is 35 and has been a political activist since she was 15.

Elected as an Alliance list MP in 1996, she is now the Minister of Women's Affairs, Youth Affairs, Statistics and the Associate Minister of Labour and Commerce.

Laila was a lawyer in the trade union movement before entering parliament.

She is a founding member of the Alliance, having resigned from the Labour Party in 1989 in protest at the social and economic policies of the last Labour Government. At that time she was also required to leave her employment as an advisor to the Minister of Disarmament. Her interest in disarmament issues began as a teenager involved in the anti-nuclear movement and included a year at the UN in Geneva and New York with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom UN office.

Laila was educated at Auckland Girls Grammar Scool and Auckland University - where she won senior prizes in both politcal studies and law. She has a BA/LLB.

Laila is married to Barry Gribben, a health policy expert with a particular focus on primary health care services. They have two children - Sam and Jack.