Delilah Gore

Delilah Pueka Gore (born 24 June 1962) is a Papua New Guinean politician.

[1] 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.

[5] However, she rejected calls for affirmative action, and undid some of the pro-women reforms introduced by her predecessor, Dame Carol Kidu.

[6] 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 flight.