[3] In 1993 Hauiti founded Front of the Box, a television production company specialising in Māori and Pasifika programming.
[9] Hauiti is a journalist for Radio Waatea and is the station's Parliamentary Press Gallery reporter.
Hauiti stood in the Māngere electorate during the 2011 general election representing National,[12] losing to Labour's William Sio.
[16] Hauiti announced her resignation from politics on 22 July 2014, after having already been selected as the candidate for Kelston in the upcoming election.
[18] In December 2014 and again in January 2015 Hauiti re-appeared in media when she was found to have spent approximately $23,000 on MP's expenses despite her known decision to stand down.
[19] Her second media appearance came when her sister had an employment-related dispute with Raukawa FM, a station formerly run by Hauiti as Strategic Advisor.