Nooroa o Teariki Baker

Nooroa o Teariki Baker
Member of the Cook Islands Parliament
for Akaoa
In office
14 June 2018 – 1 August 2022
Preceded byTeariki Heather
Succeeded byRobert Stanley Heather
Personal details
Born15 August 1962
Rarotonga
Political partyCook Islands Democratic Party

Nooroa o Teariki Baker (born 15 August 1962)[1] is a Cook Islands politician and former member of the Cook Islands Parliament. He is a member of the Cook Islands Democratic Party.

Baker was born in Rarotonga, but left for New Zealand in 1977 at the age of 15.[2] He subsequently trained as an arborist in Australia. He returned to the Cook Islands in 1999 and after a failed effort to become a planter, established a tree-management company.[3]

After running unsuccessfully in the 2014 Cook Islands general election, he was elected to parliament in the 2018 election,[4] defeating both Deputy Prime Minister Teariki Heather and his great-uncle Norman George.[5]

In February 2020 he was appointed Democratic Party spokesperson on Renewable Energy and Transport.[6]

He lost his seat in the 2022 Cook Islands general election.[7]

  1. ^ "Nooroa-o-te-Ariki BAKER". Cook Islands Parliament. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Arborist is branching out". Cook Islands News. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Election: Arborist wants to cut spending". Cook Islands News. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Preliminary Results from Votes Counted 14-06-2018". Cook Islands Ministry of Justice. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  5. ^ Cameron Scott (15 June 2018). "Baker ousts DPM". Cook Islands News. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  6. ^ Melina Etches (19 February 2020). "Demos gunning for change". Cook Islands News. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  7. ^ "WARRANT DECLARING THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES AND THE NUMBER OF VOTES RECEIVED BY EACH CANDIDATE" (PDF). Cook Islands Gazette. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.