Minister Gore, Port Moresby, 15 Dec (cropped)

Delilah Pueka Gore (born 24 June 1962) is a

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

n politician. She was a member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea from 2012 to 2017, representing the electorate of Sohe Open. She was Minister for Higher Education, Science, Research and Technology and later Minister for Religion, Youth & Community Development in the government of

Peter O'Neill Peter Charles Paire O'Neill (born 13 February 1965) is a Papua New Guinean politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea from 2011 to 2019. From 2002 until the present he served as Member of Parliament for Ialibu-Pan ...

. She was elected to the

Sohe District Sohe District is a district of the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Kokoda. The population was 86,547 at the 2011 census. In 2017, St. Andrew's First Aid Australia commenced first aid support to the villages along the Kokoda tr ...

, in the Northern Province, in the 2012 election. She was one of only three women in the 2021-17 Parliament, and had spoken out in the past about the need for a small number of reserved seats for women in parliament. However, she rejected calls for affirmative action, and undid some of the pro-women reforms introduced by her predecessor, Dame Carol Kidu. In August 2015 she was suspended from Cabinet for three months without pay after verbally abusing and threatening a flight attendant who had asked her to turn off her mobile phone on an

Air Niugini Air Niugini Limited is the national airline of Papua New Guinea, based in Air Niugini House on the property of Jacksons International Airport, Port Moresby. It operates a domestic network from Port Moresby to 12 major airports while its subsidia ...

flight. (Gore was removed from the plane as a consequence of her behaviour.) She was defeated by Henry Amuli at the 2017 election. She had been the last of the three women MPs in the previous parliament to remain in serious contention; her defeat marked the first time since 1997 that no women sat in the parliament.

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Profile Page on the PNG Parliament Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gore, Delilah 1962 births Living people Members of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea People from Oro Province Women members of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea Government ministers of Papua New Guinea Women government ministers of Papua New Guinea