The last time an independent was elected as an MP was 1993. After a public split from Te Pāti Māori in 2025, MP for Te Tai Tonga Tākuta Ferris is looking to make history by defending his seat as an independent.
Join Jack Tame and the Q+A team and find the answers to the questions that matter. Made with the support of NZ on Air.
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Why are young people forced to live or having to live in the middle of nowhere away from housing hospitals and jobs? Isn't that a parents responsibility?. Not the Government
LOL , he cracks me up😂😂
This interview is proof that the only thing activist can run is a country into the ground 😮
Well spoken despite what all the BOTS and keyboard warriors have to say, Stood up for his moral and ethical standards something lacking with this Trumpian Government respect !!
He is very articulate.
Jack Tame: What values did you diverge from? Ferris (Translation): I wasn't getting cut in on the grift. Tamihere was holding out in giving me more cash.
Jack Tame: Why are you running? Ferris (Translation): Best paid job I've ever had.
First time I’ve heard or seen him…. , why do I not trust him
A racist, activist. Every one not being "one of our people" making his statements would be prosecutet.
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Once again a soft interview by Tame with a Maori MP. Not one question on the joke of a leadership issue with the Tamahere's at the forefront of it all!!
He's 💯 TRUTHful.
All politicians should be working for the people not a party
Gerry Brownlee lives in Ngaio Wellington, I always see him at the local fish and chips ordering up a storm.
what a total loser.
Kia ora, kia kaha ❤❤❤
The " house theory seems to exclude ordinary citizens…..we get to decide!!! The voters, it's not just between Maori and the Crown.
Maori are an etnic minority. When you look at a census……they have the same rights as anyone else actually more just because they are Maori…….
Splitting the vote leaves us back where we were before the last election. Takuta plays it so virtuous. So much BS.
Takuta Ferris Che he's all good kuz!!!
winning that electorate was his ticket out of there. grift elsewhere bruh
2 imposters .
this arrogant git did nothing for us…bloody fraud
KIA KAHA, TANGATA WHENUA 😛
He would’ve been a great technocrat, parliament will be poorer without him if he isn’t returned.
Non-Māori showing up on a Māori roll voter’s doorstep and telling them who to vote for is the issue. Was the campaigner well versed in treaty, Māori and iwi issues? Unlikely.
They were fighting hard,unfortunately it was just about the dollars
Will he work with National?
Vote Labour, Greens or TPM to give gangs another bash at running NZ. Literally.
If you support National, ACT or NZF, please do this:
Vote for the National candidate and give your party vote to ACT or NZF. Irrespective of what electorate you're in.
There is no better way for you to maximise the number of Nat + ACT + NZF seats in parliament and counter the unfair advantage given to the left by the Maori electorate overhang seats. This election is too tight to do anything other than just maximise the chance of keeping the left out of power (i.e. Chloe as Finance Minister, Rawiri as Justice Minister, Oriini as Gang Coordination Minister, Willie as Co-Greatness Minister, etc).
This strategy works, at this election, because only National can generate extra seats on the right (called overhang seats). This is because of their historic hold on electorates and the fact that their party vote has now shrunk to the point that it entitles them to less seats than they actually win from electorates. There is no possibility of overhang seats for ACT or NZF, as they don't win enough electorates.
To put it another way, at this election, the almost one million party votes that National normally get will be completely wasted and will not return a single extra National MP to parliament. Giving those party votes instead to ACT or NZF will return more MPs for the right.
John Key thinks you're a bit thick and wants you to 'two-ticks National' as he is trying to save National as an old-time major party. That ship has sailed, for now. John wants to save National; the voting advice above is your best shot to save NZ.
I'm not sure I would trust this bloke to organise a piss-up in a brewery let alone run an electorate.
10:59 Good point. Māori who come into wealth tend to quickly relocate into predominantly Pākehā communities and neighbourhoods. It's a form of internal capital flight, or economic leakage. I wonder if it's a core driver of uneven development investment between communities. A situation where Pākehā invests in Pākehā communities, Māori invests in Pākehā communities, and nobody investing in Māori communities. And little to no visual evidence or economic data indicating development via remittances sent back. Which is distinctly different from other Austronesian cultures, which all participate extensively in remittance networks. Those people likely feel double abandoned by a lack of action, amid an excess of talk