Angene was born in Tupapa Rarotonga and attended a local primary school, but received no secondary education.

[3] He became infamous in Rarotonga when he in 1992 set fire to the building block encompassing Ministry of Justice, Cook Islands Post Office and Telecom which were all badly damaged.

[2] He was selected as Cook Islands Party candidate for Tupapa–Maraerenga in a public runoff,[3] and subsequently won the seat in the 2010 election.

[6] Following the election he was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Corrective Services, Culture, Business Trade and Investment Board and the House of Ariki[7] and rejoined the Cook Islands Party.

[10] In April 2021 an audit report found that Angene had acted improperly in arranging day-release for a convicted child-murderer to work in a tourism business.