Facts: - parliament: new zealand - order: minister of internal affairs - successor: graeme lee constituency abolished - party: labour party and united new zealand - constituency mp: yaldhurst - predecessor: michael bassett mick connelly - primeminister: david lange geoffrey palmer - term end: 1990 1996 - term start: 1990 14 july 1984 - birth date: 1 april 1933 - name: margaret austin - birth place: christchurch , new zealand Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of margaret austin .
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margaret elizabeth austin , cnzm -lrb- born 1 april 1933 -rrb- is a former new zealand politician .she was born in dunedin in 1933 .she was senior mistress at riccarton high school .she was then an mp from 1984 to 1996 , representing first the labour party and then briefly united new zealand .she was first elected to parliament in the 1984 election as the mp for yaldhurst , an electorate in western christchurch .during her time in parliament , austin served as a minister of research and development , internal affairs and of arts , culture and heritage .she held the seat for the labour party until 1995 when the seat was abolished , in preparation for the changeover to mmp , and she joined with six other mps to found the centrist united new zealand party .like all united new zealand mps -lrb- but peter dunne -rrb- , austin was not re-elected in the 1996 election ; austin stood in the new electorate where she came third .she later became chancellor of lincoln university .