Afioga Tagaloa Nua Su’a
Afioga Tagaloa Nua Su’a, of Christchurch, received the Queen’s Service Medal for services to the Pacific Islands community, on 5 September. She established the first National Pacific Advisory Group on Social Welfare and was instrumental in the development of the Child and Youth and Family Pacific Responsiveness Plan. She has been a member of the department’s Care and Protection Panel for nine years and is their cultural advisor at the Kingsley Residential Centre. She established the Tagata Atumotu Trust, a group made up of the Pacific Nurses Association and Pacific Health Professions to provide cultural support services. Ms Su’a was the first Samoan woman chair of the Samoan Advisory Council, the inaugural chairperson of the National Samoan Advisory Council, and is the chairperson of Samoa E Le Caro, a Samoan broadcasting service.