Maryan Street

She retired in May 2022 after seven years as KiwiRail’s Employee Relations Manager.

She has previously served on the Board of Housing NZ (2000-2005) including a period as Deputy Chair; as an establishment and then permanent member of the Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa/NZ; and as a government member of the Crown Forestry Rental Trust (2001-2005).

She was the President of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1993-95.

Before becoming a Member of Parliament in 2005, Maryan was a teacher, a union official, an academic and an industrial relations practitioner.

She was Minister of Housing, and ACC, and Associate Minister of Tertiary Education and Economic Development in Helen Clark’s fifth Labour Government (2007-2008). In Opposition, she had a range of portfolios including Foreign Affairs, Trade, Health, Treaty Negotiations, Environment, State Services, Disarmament and Arms Control, Overseas Development Assistance and Human Rights.

She has a BA (Hons) in English from Victoria University of Wellington and a Master of Philosophy with First Class Honours in Industrial Relations from Auckland University. She also has an AMusTCL in music theory.