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rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliament" title="New Zealand Parliament">New Zealand Parliament</a></span><br />for <a href="/wiki/Te_Tai_Tonga" title="Te Tai Tonga">Te Tai Tonga</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; margin:0; color: black; background-color: lavender"><b><a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">Incumbent</a></b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Assumed office</b></span> <br />14 October 2023</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rino_Tirikatene" title="Rino Tirikatene">Rino Tirikatene</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1978 (age 45–46)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Te_P%C4%81ti_M%C4%81ori" title="Te Pāti Māori">Te Pāti Māori</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Piri_Sciascia" title="Piri Sciascia">Piri Sciascia</a> (uncle)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Tākuta</b> "<b>Doc</b>" <b>Ferris</b> (born 1978) is a New Zealand politician. A member of <a href="/wiki/Te_P%C4%81ti_M%C4%81ori" title="Te Pāti Māori">Te Pāti Māori</a>, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="New Zealand House of Representatives">New Zealand House of Representatives</a> at the <a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 general election</a> as the MP for <a href="/wiki/Te_Tai_Tonga" title="Te Tai Tonga">Te Tai Tonga</a>. Ferris's electoral success was one of the biggest surprises of the 2023 general election. His win was unexpected, with the family of the incumbent <a href="/wiki/Rino_Tirikatene" title="Rino Tirikatene">Rino Tirikatene</a> having held the Te Tai Tonga electorate for 72 of the last 91 years. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=T%C4%81kuta_Ferris&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ferris was born in 1978.<sup id="cite_ref-Māori_artist_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Māori_artist-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Piri_Sciascia" title="Piri Sciascia">Piri Sciascia</a> was his uncle.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ferris has a degree in Māori design and art, as well as a degree in <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81tauranga_M%C4%81ori" title="Mātauranga Māori">mātauranga Māori</a>, both from <a href="/wiki/Te_W%C4%81nanga_o_Raukawa" title="Te Wānanga o Raukawa">Te Wānanga o Raukawa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Māori_artist_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Māori_artist-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-two_new_MPs_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_new_MPs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is of the <a href="/wiki/Ng%C4%81i_Tahu" title="Ngāi Tahu">Ngāi Tahu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ng%C4%81ti_Kuia" title="Ngāti Kuia">Ngāti Kuia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ng%C4%81ti_Kahungunu" title="Ngāti Kahungunu">Ngāti Kahungunu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ng%C4%81ti_Porou" title="Ngāti Porou">Ngāti Porou</a> <a href="/wiki/Iwi" title="Iwi">iwi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-announcement_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-announcement-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ferris was a lecturer and adviser at <a href="/wiki/Massey_University" title="Massey University">Massey University</a>'s Manawatū campus.<sup id="cite_ref-two_new_MPs_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_new_MPs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He describes himself as "a fisherman, a diver, and an artist".<sup id="cite_ref-rising_star_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rising_star-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=T%C4%81kuta_Ferris&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="width: 440px; float: right; margin-left:1em; margin-right: 0; border: 4; cellpadding: 2; cellspacing: 0;"> <caption><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliament" title="New Zealand Parliament"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000013-QINU`"'</style><span class="tmp-color" style="color:black">New Zealand Parliament</span></a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width: 95px;">Years </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 35px;">Term </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 125px;">Electorate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 35px;">List </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 150px;">Party </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023</a>–present </td> <td><a href="/wiki/54th_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="54th New Zealand Parliament">54th</a> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Te_Tai_Tonga" title="Te Tai Tonga">Te Tai Tonga</a> </td> <td>5 </td> <td style="background-color:#B2001A; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Te_P%C4%81ti_M%C4%81ori" title="Te Pāti Māori">Te Pāti Māori</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>On 10 May 2020, Tākuta Ferris was selected as the <a href="/wiki/Te_P%C4%81ti_M%C4%81ori" title="Te Pāti Māori">Māori Party</a> candidate for <a href="/wiki/Te_Tai_Tonga" title="Te Tai Tonga">Te Tai Tonga</a> for the <a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020 election</a>. Ferris was quoted as saying that "the status quo is no longer acceptable. It is our responsibility to challenge it and change the development narrative for our tamariki and mokopuna."<sup id="cite_ref-announcement_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-announcement-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ferris was beaten by the incumbent, <a href="/wiki/Rino_Tirikatene" title="Rino Tirikatene">Rino Tirikatene</a>, by a margin of over 6,800 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-two_new_MPs_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two_new_MPs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the announcement of the proposed closure of the <a href="/wiki/Tiwai_Point_Aluminium_Smelter" title="Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter">Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter</a>, Ferris called for the government to put whānau first, arguing that central and regional government should intervene with an aim for a more diversified regional economy.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ferris was re-selected to stand in Te Tai Tonga for Te Pāti Māori in the <a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His campaign strategy targeted younger voters because older people are "entrapped in the status quo". He stated he intended to increase support for himself from younger people over three to fifteen years as they grow up.<sup id="cite_ref-rising_star_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rising_star-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ferris stood in for his party's co-leaders in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Press" title="The Press">The Press</a></i> leaders' debate. He was praised for his contributions to the debate; despite sparring against two senior politicians—<a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Seymour_(New_Zealand_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Seymour (New Zealand politician)">David Seymour</a>—Ferris "stood out from the pack" and was "shining".<sup id="cite_ref-rising_star_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rising_star-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, journalists considered Ferris "still has little chance of making it to Parliament" since the incumbent Tirikatene's family had represented Te Tai Tonga and its predecessor electorate for 72 of the last 91 years and an opinion poll in late September 2023 had Tirikatene ahead with an 11-point margin.<sup id="cite_ref-rising_star_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rising_star-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite these predictions, Ferris defeated Tirikatene with a 2,800-vote margin.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his maiden speech on 12 December, Ferris stated that he was there not to service the needs of the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="New Zealand House of Representatives">New Zealand House of Representatives</a> but rather to "contest it." He also criticised the <a href="/wiki/Sixth_National_Government_of_New_Zealand" title="Sixth National Government of New Zealand">National-led coalition government</a>'s policies which he claimed attacked <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language" title="Māori language">Māori language</a> and culture.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed Te Pāti Māori's education, <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi" title="Treaty of Waitangi">Te Tiriti o Waitangi</a>, justice, police, corrections, drug law reform, water, fisheries, forestry, broadcasting and public service spokesperson and sits on Parliament's justice committee.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 September 2024, <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a> <a href="/wiki/Gerry_Brownlee" title="Gerry Brownlee">Gerry Brownlee</a> referred Ferris to Parliament's Privileges Committee after he made remarks accused Members of Parliament of lying. He said: "Politicians call this obfuscation. The art of making something unclear, intentionally vague, ambiguous, to conceal or obscure the truth, to confuse others. Lies – in other words. Many in this House are masters of it, and it is a disservice to those who voted you into your positions." In response, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">New Zealand First</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> called for a point of order. When Brownlee asked Ferris to withdraw the comment and apologize, he denied making the comment. Brownlee referred Ferris to the Privileges Committee on the grounds that Ferris had "deliberately misled" the House.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=T%C4%81kuta_Ferris&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Spirit+Wrestler+Gallery&rft.atitle=T%C4%81kuta+%28Doc%29+Ferris&rft.aulast=Ferris&rft.aufirst=T%C4%81kuta&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiritwrestler.com%2Fcatalog%2Findex.php%3Fartists_id%3D900&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AT%C4%81kuta+Ferris" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ngaitahu.iwi.nz/our_stories/maori-party-announce-te-tai-tonga-candidate/">"Māori Party announce Te Tai Tonga candidate"</a> (in Māori). <a href="/wiki/Te_R%C5%ABnanga_o_Ng%C4%81i_Tahu" class="mw-redirect" title="Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu">Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu</a>. 10 May 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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