Moana Mackey

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Parl.	Electorate	List Pos.	Party
47th	List	53	Labour
48th	List	41	Labour

Moana Lynore Mackey (born 1974) is a New Zealand politician. She is a member of the governing Labour Party. Mackey entered Parliament on 29 July 2003, having been the next candidate on Labour's party list when Graham Kelly vacated his seat. She is the daughter of Janet Mackey, who until 2005 was also a Labour MP — the two were the first mother-daughter team in Parliament. In the elections that year, Janet Mackey retired from politics, and Moana Mackey contested but narrowly lost her mother's East Coast electorate seat. She was returned to Parliament however as a List MP. Previously Moana had been President of Young Labour (1999-2000), and is noted as a unionist.

She was born in Auckland and raised in Gisborne. Before entering politics, she was a scientist, leading a team at an environmental laboratory in Lower Hutt. She graduated with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1996.