In this Vote Chat we talk to John about:
• Unite Union
• Occupy Movement
• Personal Parliamentary ambitions
• The Alliance
• Alcohol purchase age and reform
• Corporate advertising to children
• Left-wing stereotypes
• Corporate control of the country
• Financial Transactions Tax
• Compulsory unionism and imbalance in industrial relations
• Gender equality

Vote Chat is a series of public interviews of politicians bought to you by the University of Otago Politics Department. In this chat John Minto is interviewed by Dr Bryce Edwards in front of a public audience.

The idea is to foster a different type of political environment whereby the audience doesn't just get the usual well-rehearsed campaigning speech from a politician.

Audience participation is encouraged and you can ask your questions either on the spot in the flesh, or by tweeting @OtagoPolitics or the hashtag #OUVoteChat2011.

Footage courtesy of University of Otago Media Production.