The Maori Party has attracted two new big names to its party list, Naida Glavish and Iritana Tawhiwhirangi.
Naida Glavish, the chairwoman of Ngati Whatua, is also known as the "kia ora lady" after the former toll operator challenged the reprimand the Post Office gave her in 1984for using "kia ora" to greet callers.
Iritana Tawhiwhirangi is the high-profile founder of the Kohanga Reo National Trust.
The women are listed at numbers eight and nine, straight after the party's constituency candidates in the seven Maori seats, including its four MPs.
But their chances of getting into Parliament are slim.
The party vote would have to soar from 2.1 per cent last election to more like 6 or 7 per cent.
Most parties win fewer electorate seats than their share of the party vote gives them. The Maori Party is the opposite and last time won more seats than its share of the party vote.
That caused the size of Parliament to increase by one, to 121, which is called an overhang.
Last election, the Maori Party gained four seats.
The party has convinced Te Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira to go on the list this time, which he did not do last election when he won the northern seat from Labour MP Dover Samuels.
The Maori Party is running a two-ticks campaign this election.
It criticised the Green Party for suggesting Maori split their vote between the two parties.
The party has pruned its list to 19 compared with 51 last time.
