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Parliament House, Tonga

Tongan Parliament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ111914143 ↗
Source-derived summary

Parliament House in Nukuʻalofa was the base of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga until 2018 when it was destroyed by Cyclone Gita.

History

The 100-year-old Tongan Parliament House was destroyed by Cyclone Gita, a Category 4 tropical cyclone that passed through the nation on 12 and 13 February 2018. Parliament subsequently moved to the Tongan National Centre complex in Tofoa. In November 2021 the Tonga government announced that a new parliament building would be constructed on Nuku'alofa's waterfront.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Parliament House, Tonga” as tongan Parliament. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Parliament, House and Tonga can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as tongan Parliament. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q111914143. Authority coordinates are -21.133, -175.198. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2021.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Parliament House, Tonga”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Parliament House, Tonga primary sources, Parliament House, Tonga archive and Parliament research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Parliament House, Tonga”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Parliament House, Tonga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.