Delilah Gore
Delilah Pueka Gore is a Papua New Guinean politician, and the current Minister for Religion, Youth & Community Development. She is also the former Minister for Higher Education, Science, Research and Technology.[1] She was elected to the Sohe District, in the Northern Province, in the 2012 election.[2] She is one of only three women in the current Parliament,[3] and has spoken out in the past about the need for a small number of reserved seats for women in parliament.[4]
In August 2015 she was suspended from Cabinet for three months without pay after verbally abusing and threatening a flight attendant who had asked her to turn off her mobile phone on an Air Niugini flight. (Gore was removed from the plane as a consequence of her behaviour.)[5]
References
- ^ Kafcaloudes, Phil (3 March 2014). "Delilah Gore appointment paves way for more PNG women in politics". ABC Radio Australia. ABC Online. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
A minor cabinet reshuffle by PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has led to the appointment of Delilah Gore as the Minister for Higher Education.
- ^ Raphael, Elliot & Barthy Ewada (22 July 2012). "Delilah Gore becomes first woman in new PNG Parliament". Pacific Women in Politics. UNDP Pacific Centre. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ^ Fox, Liam (9 May 2013). "Gillard trip excites PNG women". ABC Radio Australia. ABC Online. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
Delilah Gore is one of the three women in PNG's 111-seat Parliament.
- ^ "Women MP prefers four seats". www.pina.com.fj. Pacific Island News Association. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
"I don't support the 22 reserved seats for women because this would only contradict how I came into parliament. But I would like to see women given autonomy through these four reserved seats – to be the voice for women in each of their regions," Gore said.
- ^ "Flight stoush sees PNG minister grounded", Radio New Zealand, 11 August 2015