ℕ𝕐 ℍ𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤: 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕒𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕜𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕤 𝕕𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕚𝕣𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕕

𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕊𝕚𝕣 𝕋𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕠𝕣, 𝕒𝕤 𝕋𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕠𝕣 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕂𝕚𝕨𝕚 𝕤𝕚𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟜 ℍ𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤 𝕃𝕚𝕤𝕥.

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oining the longtime politician are four others who will be receiving a new title in front of their names. Here is a brief rundown of what led to them being honoured.

Mallard has been made a Knight Companion of the said Order for services as a Member of Parliament and as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

He first entered Parliament in 1984 as a Labour Party MP. That stint lasted until 1990, before he went on to a long career in Parliament between 1993 and 2022.

I’ve been getting lots of congratulatory messages from home - I will try and do replies to each but in the interim this is a real honour and privilege https://t.co/lKVVkqsbco

— Trevor Mallard (@NZTrevorIreland) December 29, 2023

Mallard is perhaps best known for his recent stint as Speaker of the House that lasted from 2017 to 2022.

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Sarai Bareman

Bareman has been made a Dame Companion of the said Order for services to football governance.

She is Chief Women's Football Officer for FIFA and represents 211 member countries, making her one of the most powerful people in sports.

Congratulations to

SIR Trevor mallard

The RW will be in meltdown pic.twitter.com/7bXTYzFxH7

— king of the west II (@meco78526) December 29, 2023

John Campbell recently spent an extended period with Bareman during this year's FIFA Women's World Cup.

He described her as having a passion for transformation that goes beyond tea-towel homilies and the 'just do it' nonsense of people with less to say than they let on.

Dr Scott Duncan Macfarlane

Macfarlane has been made a Knight Companion of the said Order for services to health.

He is credited with transforming the treatment and improvement of children with cancer in New Zealand for the past 45 years.

He led the development of a National Child Cancer Service (now National Child Cancer Network) in 2000 and was instrumental in establishing the National Child Cancer Network in 2011.

Macfarlane was made a life member of the Child Cancer Foundation in 2015 and retired in 2021.

Pania Tyson-Nathan

Tyson-Nathan has been made a Dame Companion of the said Order for services to Māori and business.

It comes after she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2018 for her services to Māori and business.

She has been championing advancement in Māori economic development across various domains including community, business, and government sectors for more than three decades.

In recognition of her contributions to repositioning Māori tourism as deeper and more meaningful, she was named in the top 50 Global Tourism Innovators in 2021

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Ian Barry Mune

Mune has been made a Knight Companion of the said Order for services to film, television and theatre.

He is an award-winning actor, writer and director for stage and screen, who has focused on telling the stories of New Zealanders in an authentic voice since the 1970s.

His notable earlier film productions include co-writing seminal Kiwi classics Sleeping Dogs (1977) and Goodbye Pork Pie (1981).

He also directed Came a Hot Friday (1984).

As an actor with more than 70 screen roles to date, he has continued to perform in a variety of film, television and theatre productions, most recently in the miniseries The Pact (2021).

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