page_title: Laila Harré
section_title: 2002-2014 - Intermission from parliamentary politics
hierarchical_section_title: Laila Harré / Professional life / 2002-2014 - Intermission from parliamentary politics
caption_attribution_description: English: w:en:Laila Harre, former leader of the Alliance party, in front of the NZ Parliament
context_page_description: Laila Jane Harré is a New Zealand politician and trade unionist. She was the first leader of the Internet Party, and stood for Parliament in the 2014 general election through the Helensville electorate. From 1996 to 2002, she was a Member of Parliament for the Alliance party, briefly leading that party after the group experienced a schism in 2002.
context_section_description: From 2002 to 2005, Harré led the industrial work of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, including its successful pay-equity campaign for public-sector nurses. She served as General Secretary of the National Distribution Union from 2005 to 2009, after which she joined the Auckland Transition Agency.
  Between 2010 and 2012 Harré worked for the International Labour Organization in Fiji. Subsequently, in 2012 she started work as the inaugural issues director of the Green Party, a position she resigned from in 2013. Harré quit the Green Party in protest to the way that the Greens had handled a rebuffed proposition by the Labour Party for conducting a joint electoral campaign.
  Harré co-owns an Auckland restaurant, Ika, which pays a living wage to its staff.
caption: Harré speaking outside parliament buildings in 2006
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