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Place of Birth: Upper Hutt, Wellington Region, New Zealand
About Matthew Tukaki
- Matthew Tukaki (born 10 August 1974 Upper Hutt, New Zealand) is a businessman.
- Tukaki is best known as the former head of Drake International.
- (Australia) (Australia),[1] one of the world's oldest employment companies and latterly as the founder of Entrehub, formally co-founder of the Sustain Group, formerly a director of the board of Australia's Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and a current member of Australia's peak mental health body, Suicide Prevention Australia.
- He was previously chair of Deakin University's Centre for Social and Responsible Organisations, chair of the international advisory board of the joint initiative between the United States National Science Foundation and the University of Sydney (BESERG).
- He is a best selling author of more than ten eBooks ranging from social media engagement, sustainability and entrepreneurship to raising capital and crowd funding.
- In 2015 Tukaki was appointed as chair of Australia's National Coalition for Suicide Prevention and has been a non-executive director of the board of that country's peak mental health body, Suicide Prevention Australia.
- Tukaki served as Chair of Suicide Prevention Australia between November 2017 and April 2019.
- In March 2018 Tukaki was appointed as executive chairman of the National Maori Authority Nga Ngaru Rautahi O Aotearoa and in mid 2018 became the Chair of the New Zealand's Maori Council Tamaki (Auckland) and a member of the National Executive of the New Zealand Maori Council (where he also serves in the role of Executive Director).
- In April 2019 he was invited to be Chair of the Royal Commission into Abuse in State Care Appointments Panel.
- Tukaki remains a member of a number of private and public sector boards. Tukaki is of Ngai Te Rangi descent and has strong tribal affiliations with Matakana Island which is off the coast of the city of Tauranga in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty.
- Tukaki attended St Patrick's College, Silverstream (88–92) in Wellington, New Zealand.
- He is the Great Grandson on his mother's side of Sir Charles St Julian who served on the Waverley council in 1860 and as its chairman in 1861.
- He went on to serve as an alderman on the Marrickville Borough Council from 1868 to 1871, and as Mayor from 1868 to 1869 and again in 1871.
- In February 1870, he became a magistrate.
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- Julian remained as Law Reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald until 1872, when King Seru Epenisa Cakobau appointed him Chief Justice of Fiji.
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See Also
- Famous People's Birthdays on 10 August, New Zealand
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