In this Vote Chat we talk to John about:
• Would high taxation cause the wealthy to leave New Zealand?
• Talleys
• Free food in schools
• Community gardens
• Industrial relations
• Treatment by the media
• Pokie machines
• Refuting the individualist argument
• Giving power to communities
• Activism in Parliament
• Ross Robertson and Manukau East
• MPs pay
• Unite Union

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.