The Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector is a minister in the government of New Zealand. The minister oversees the government's relationship to the community and voluntary sector and the services they provide. The minister is also responsible for the New Zealand Office for the Community & Voluntary Sector.

Dame Tariana Turia is a former New Zealand politician. She was first elected to Parliament in 1996. Turia gained considerable prominence during the foreshore and seabed controversy in 2004, and eventually broke with the Labour Party as a result. She resigned from parliament, and successfully contested a by-election in her former electorate as a candidate of the newly formed Māori Party, of which became a co-leader. She retired from Parliament in 2014.