What is Mere Broughton?
[[File:Whaea Mere Broughton (18726151435).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Broughton in 2015]] '''Mary Mereiwa Broughton''' {{postnominals|country=NZL|QSM|size=85%}} (née '''Whakaruru''', 24 December 1938 – 31 January 2016), known as '''Mere Broughton''', was a [[New Zealand]] [[Māori language]] [[activist]] and [[Trades union|unionist]].<ref name=teu>{{cite web |url=http://teu.ac.nz/2009/08/te-toi-ahurangi/ |title=Te Toi Ahurangi |access-date=4 February 2016 |work=TEU |archive-date=4 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204042327/http://teu.ac.nz/2009/08/te-toi-ahurangi/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was born in [[Hastings, New Zealand|Hastings]], New Zealand. In the 1970s and 1980s, she worked at [[Victoria University of Wellington|Victoria University]]. She created Te Herenga Waka Marae with her husband, [[Te Huirangi Waikerepuru]], and [[Wiremu Parker]]. At the university she became active in union affairs, in the [[Association of University Staff of New Zealand|Association of University Staff]] (now the [[New Zealand Tertiary Education Union|TEU]]).<ref name=teu/> In 2010, she became the TEUs first lifetime member.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1011/S00080/maori-union-leader-to-receive-teu-life-membership.htm|title=Maori union leader to receive TEU life membership |access-date=4 February 2016}}</ref> Broughton was on the Tekaumārua, the advisory board to the [[Māori King Movement|Māori King]], [[Tuheitia Paki]].<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-events/advisories/2014/03media-advisory-march-31.shtml |publisher=[[University of Waikato]] |title=Media Advisory March 31 |date=31 March 2014 |access-date=4 February 2016 |archivedate=4 February 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204024926/http://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-events/advisories/2014/03media-advisory-march-31.shtml }}</ref> In 2014, she was part of the New Zealand delegation that sent off the canoes of the [[Polynesian Voyaging Society]], Hōkūle'a and Hikianalia. Broughton died on 3