NZ Herald
  • Home
  • Latest news
  • Herald NOW
  • Video
  • New Zealand
  • Sport
  • World
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Podcasts
  • Quizzes
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Viva
  • Weather

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • New Zealand
    • All New Zealand
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Open Justice
    • Scam Update
  • Herald NOW
  • On The Up
  • World
    • All World
    • Australia
    • Asia
    • UK
    • United States
    • Middle East
    • Europe
    • Pacific
  • Business
    • All Business
    • MarketsSharesCurrencyCommoditiesStock TakesCrypto
    • Markets with Madison
    • Media Insider
    • Business analysis
    • Personal financeKiwiSaverInterest ratesTaxInvestment
    • EconomyInflationGDPOfficial cash rateEmployment
    • Small business
    • Business reportsMood of the BoardroomProject AucklandSustainable business and financeCapital markets reportAgribusiness reportInfrastructure reportDynamic business
    • Deloitte Top 200 Awards
    • CompaniesAged CareAgribusinessAirlinesBanking and financeConstructionEnergyFreight and logisticsHealthcareManufacturingMedia and MarketingRetailTelecommunicationsTourism
  • Opinion
    • All Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Editorials
    • Business analysis
    • Premium opinion
    • Letters to the editor
  • Politics
  • Sport
    • All Sport
    • OlympicsParalympics
    • RugbySuper RugbyNPCAll BlacksBlack FernsRugby sevensSchool rugby
    • CricketBlack CapsWhite Ferns
    • Racing
    • NetballSilver Ferns
    • LeagueWarriorsNRL
    • FootballWellington PhoenixAuckland FCAll WhitesFootball FernsEnglish Premier League
    • GolfNZ Open
    • MotorsportFormula 1
    • Boxing
    • UFC
    • BasketballNBABreakersTall BlacksTall Ferns
    • Tennis
    • Cycling
    • Athletics
    • SailingAmerica's CupSailGP
    • Rowing
  • Lifestyle
    • All Lifestyle
    • Viva - Food, fashion & beauty
    • Society Insider
    • Royals
    • Sex & relationships
    • Food & drinkRecipesRecipe collectionsRestaurant reviewsRestaurant bookings
    • Health & wellbeing
    • Fashion & beauty
    • Pets & animals
    • The Selection - Shop the trendsShop fashionShop beautyShop entertainmentShop giftsShop home & living
    • Milford's Investing Place
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • TV
    • MoviesMovie reviews
    • MusicMusic reviews
    • BooksBook reviews
    • Culture
    • ReviewsBook reviewsMovie reviewsMusic reviewsRestaurant reviews
  • Travel
    • All Travel
    • News
    • New ZealandNorthlandAucklandWellingtonCanterburyOtago / QueenstownNelson-TasmanBest NZ beaches
    • International travelAustraliaPacific IslandsEuropeUKUSAAfricaAsia
    • Rail holidays
    • Cruise holidays
    • Ski holidays
    • Luxury travel
    • Adventure travel
  • Kāhu Māori news
  • Environment
    • All Environment
    • Our Green Future
  • Talanoa Pacific news
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Property Insider
    • Interest rates tracker
    • Residential property listings
    • Commercial property listings
  • Health
  • Technology
    • All Technology
    • AI
    • Social media
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
    • Opinion
    • Audio & podcasts
  • Weather forecasts
    • All Weather forecasts
    • Kaitaia
    • Whangārei
    • Dargaville
    • Auckland
    • Thames
    • Tauranga
    • Hamilton
    • Whakatāne
    • Rotorua
    • Tokoroa
    • Te Kuiti
    • Taumaranui
    • Taupō
    • Gisborne
    • New Plymouth
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Dannevirke
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Levin
    • Paraparaumu
    • Masterton
    • Wellington
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Blenheim
    • Westport
    • Reefton
    • Kaikōura
    • Greymouth
    • Hokitika
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
    • Wānaka
    • Oamaru
    • Queenstown
    • Dunedin
    • Gore
    • Invercargill
  • Meet the journalists
  • Promotions & competitions
  • OneRoof property listings
  • Driven car news

Puzzles & Quizzes

  • Puzzles
    • All Puzzles
    • Sudoku
    • Code Cracker
    • Crosswords
    • Cryptic crossword
    • Wordsearch
  • Quizzes
    • All Quizzes
    • Morning quiz
    • Afternoon quiz
    • Sports quiz

Regions

  • Northland
    • All Northland
    • Far North
    • Kaitaia
    • Kerikeri
    • Kaikohe
    • Bay of Islands
    • Whangarei
    • Dargaville
    • Kaipara
    • Mangawhai
  • Auckland
  • Waikato
    • All Waikato
    • Hamilton
    • Coromandel & Hauraki
    • Matamata & Piako
    • Cambridge
    • Te Awamutu
    • Tokoroa & South Waikato
    • Taupō & Tūrangi
  • Bay of Plenty
    • All Bay of Plenty
    • Katikati
    • Tauranga
    • Mount Maunganui
    • Pāpāmoa
    • Te Puke
    • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua
  • Hawke's Bay
    • All Hawke's Bay
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Havelock North
    • Central Hawke's Bay
    • Wairoa
  • Taranaki
    • All Taranaki
    • Stratford
    • New Plymouth
    • Hāwera
  • Manawatū - Whanganui
    • All Manawatū - Whanganui
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Manawatū
    • Tararua
    • Horowhenua
  • Wellington
    • All Wellington
    • Kapiti
    • Wairarapa
    • Upper Hutt
    • Lower Hutt
  • Nelson & Tasman
    • All Nelson & Tasman
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Tasman
  • Marlborough
  • West Coast
  • Canterbury
    • All Canterbury
    • Kaikōura
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
  • Otago
    • All Otago
    • Oamaru
    • Dunedin
    • Balclutha
    • Alexandra
    • Queenstown
    • Wanaka
  • Southland
    • All Southland
    • Invercargill
    • Gore
    • Stewart Island
  • Gisborne

Media

  • Video
    • All Video
    • NZ news video
    • Herald NOW
    • Business news video
    • Politics news video
    • Sport video
    • World news video
    • Lifestyle video
    • Entertainment video
    • Travel video
    • Markets with Madison
    • Kea Kids news
  • Podcasts
    • All Podcasts
    • The Front Page
    • On the Tiles
    • Ask me Anything
    • The Little Things
  • Cartoons
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / New Zealand

What will Marama Fox do next? Ousted MPs reveal their plans after politics

By Isaac Davison and Claire Trevett
NZ Herald·
28 Sep, 2017 06:08 AM4 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox says she is not wallowing after losing her seat in Parliament. Photo / Warren Buckland
Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox says she is not wallowing after losing her seat in Parliament. Photo / Warren Buckland

Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox says she is not wallowing after losing her seat in Parliament. Photo / Warren Buckland

Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox is turning her hand to house-building after being ousted from Parliament.

Fox is involved in a recently-created consortium which wants to build 3000 prefabricated homes in the next three years for homeless or low income families. Set up before the election, the newly-jobless Fox said she could now focus her energy on it.

"I'm going to build houses everywhere," she said. "They will be affordable and gorgeous and they will be homesteads for families forever."

Negotiations are underway with a social housing provider in Flaxmere to build the first 100 houses.

Fox's unnamed company would follow the papakainga model for housing, which uses ancestral or multiple-title land for housing.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

By using this model, building at scale, and using prefab housing, Fox hoped some of the houses could be sold for as little as $60,000.

"We have been approaching iwi who have land that they want to put affordable houses on for their whanau," she said. "We want to build to scale so we can reduce the cost. They will be energy efficient, environmentally sustainable and top of the range."

While in Parliament, Fox's party was part of a cross-party inquiry into homelessness. It also tried to encourage and get funding for initiatives which helped get Maori into secure housing.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Maori ownership rates have fallen to a paltry 28 per cent in New Zealand - well below the national level of around 50 per cent. Maori also make up a disproportionate number of the 40,000 Kiwis in insecure housing.

Fox, a list MP, lost her place in Parliament after her party polled just 1.1 per cent in the election and co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell lost his Waiariki seat.

Flavell is retiring but Fox plans to stand for Parliament again in three years. Her party has been given a boost by the recruitment of high-profile doctor and former New Zealander of the Year Lance O'Sullivan.

She was angry after the election result on Saturday, she said, but she refused to be "melancholy" and was already looking ahead to 2020.

Discover more

New Zealand|politics

Super Fund payments could be part of NZF-National talks

28 Sep 07:21 AM
Pita Paraone says disagreement over the settlement is tearing Ngapuhi apart. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Pita Paraone says disagreement over the settlement is tearing Ngapuhi apart. Photo / Peter de Graaf

Former NZ First MP Pita Paraone said he had always known a political career was not a certainty.

"I accept it's all part of politics so while I'm disappointed I'm not part of the current team because we'd be in government this time, other than that I have no regrets."

Paraone, 71, missed out on returning after being an MP since 2002 with a six year break between 2008 and 2014. He expected to remain involved in Maori development - and possibly the drawn-out struggle to get Ngapuhi around the negotiating table for a Treaty settlement.

"I hope that now I'm free of the politics that people at home might see I have a place to play in the Ngapuhi settlement."

He said disagreement over the settlement was tearing the iwi apart.

"People say the Crown is the enemy, but the way people have been reacting amongst ourselves, you've got to point to ourselves as the enemy."

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Paraone said he had no idea what decision Peters would make in relation to forming a new government but did believe the first obligation should be to the voters which had supported NZ First.

Peters would likely be concerned by "hypocrisy" on the National side of the equation and the number of parties involved on the Labour side.

"It doesn't really matter which side NZ First decides to go, we'll always be criticised for it.

"And I think it's a little bit rich all the commentary telling the party which way they should go when you know a large proportion of those people didn't even vote for us."

He said it would not be a decision by Peters alone.

"People really don't appreciate just how much the boss does take into consideration the views of the rest of the party and the rest of the caucus. One could say that is reflected in the list that came out - I'm sure he would have liked to see more of the previous caucus up there, but as he keeps reminding people who will listen, he is only one voice."

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Paraone missed out on returning by two list places - Mahesh Bindra is above him and will be next in if an MP drops out or NZ First does very well on the special votes.

Save

    Share this article

Latest from New Zealand

New Zealand

Fire at Wellington apartment blocks roads, prompts evacuations

12 Jun 04:20 AM
Politics

Ministry of Culture and Heritage mulling restructure after $2m annual funding cut

12 Jun 04:14 AM
New Zealand

Delays on SH1 near Taupō after slip

12 Jun 04:08 AM

It was just a stopover – 18 months later, they call it home

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Recommended for you
Ministry of Culture and Heritage mulling restructure after $2m annual funding cut
Politics

Ministry of Culture and Heritage mulling restructure after $2m annual funding cut

12 Jun 04:14 AM
Delays on SH1 near Taupō after slip
Waikato Herald

Delays on SH1 near Taupō after slip

12 Jun 04:08 AM
'You are on notice': Council pulls Māori ward videos after Hobson's Pledge legal letter
Hawkes Bay Today

'You are on notice': Council pulls Māori ward videos after Hobson's Pledge legal letter

12 Jun 04:08 AM
Lender accused of preying on 'vulnerable' members of NZ Tongan community
Business

Lender accused of preying on 'vulnerable' members of NZ Tongan community

12 Jun 04:08 AM
US crisis escalates: The latest as protests spread across the country
World

US crisis escalates: The latest as protests spread across the country

12 Jun 04:01 AM

Latest from New Zealand

Fire at Wellington apartment blocks roads, prompts evacuations

Fire at Wellington apartment blocks roads, prompts evacuations

12 Jun 04:20 AM

The fire started on the second floor, triggering two sprinklers.

Ministry of Culture and Heritage mulling restructure after $2m annual funding cut

Ministry of Culture and Heritage mulling restructure after $2m annual funding cut

12 Jun 04:14 AM
Delays on SH1 near Taupō after slip

Delays on SH1 near Taupō after slip

12 Jun 04:08 AM
'You are on notice': Council pulls Māori ward videos after Hobson's Pledge legal letter

'You are on notice': Council pulls Māori ward videos after Hobson's Pledge legal letter

12 Jun 04:08 AM
The woman behind NZ’s first PAK’nSAVE
sponsored

The woman behind NZ’s first PAK’nSAVE

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • NZ Herald e-editions
  • Daily puzzles & quizzes
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Subscribe to the NZ Herald newspaper
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • What the Actual
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven CarGuide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP
search by queryly Advanced Search