[1] After graduating from Honiara Solomon Islands College of Higher Education, he worked as a teacher.
He was then appointed Minister for National Unity, Reconciliation and Peace in Prime Minister Danny Philip's Cabinet, in the context of the country's efforts towards national reconciliation and unity after the ethnic violence of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
[1][2] When Gordon Darcy Lilo replaced Philip as Prime Minister in November 2011, Taremae retained his position in government.
[3] In January 2012, Taremae was assaulted in a street one evening around midnight, by an unidentified man who punched him on the nose before escaping in a car.
Suffering from "severe bruises to his nose, eyes and head", Taremae underwent a three-hour operation in hospital.