Tamati Coffey

Tamati Coffey

Tamati Coffey (born September 19, 1979 in Lower Hutt ) is a former New Zealand television presenter and has been a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the New Zealand Labor Party since 2017.

Life

Coffey attended Onslow College in Lower Hutt and then studied Political Science at the University of Auckland , where he graduated with honors in 2003.

He began his television career as a television presenter in 2004, hosting the children's television program What Now? of the television channel TV one and has since worked as a presenter in a wide variety of television programs (see list below). In 2013, he gave up his full-time job to focus more on politics. His last appearance on New Zealand television, which made him known and loved nationwide, was on the program Moving Out With Tamati in 2017.

Political career

Coffey , who even in his own words with the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and with individual members of the Māori Party sympathizes, but sees his political home in the Labor Party , for which he was in 2014 as a candidate for the constituency Rotorua had erected . His result was not enough for a seat in parliament at the time and the list position number 30 was also not high enough for a seat in parliament. For the general election on September 23, 2017, he ran for the seat of the Māori constituency of Waiariki and won. Since November 15, 2017, he has been a member of the Parliament's Finance Committee and since July 24, 2019, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Science and Innovation.

family

Coffey has been married to Tim Smith since 2011 . Their child, who were born in 2019, was carried by a surrogate mother. In August 2019, various media around the world reported anecdotally on the case that the President of the New Zealand Parliament, Trevor Mallard, unceremoniously took over Tamati Coffey's child during a parliamentary debate and gave him the bottle in his seat as the President of Parliament.

Coffey and Smith run a jazz and cocktail bar together in Rotorua .

TV moderation

Period	Television production	Television company	activities
2004-2007	What now?	TV one	Moderator in the children's television program
2006-2011	Sparkle Friends	Voice of Tamati	Speaker in the children's comic series
2007–2012	Breakfast	TV one	Weather moderation
2009	Dancing with the Stars		Moderation of five programs
2011	Intrepid Journeys		Moderation of the travel television program
2012-2013	New Zealand's Got Talent	TV One	Moderation of the television program
2017	Moving Out With Tamati	TVNZ	Moderation
????	2 Kids Own Awards	TV 2	Moderation of the children's program

Source: NZonScreen

Web links

Commons : Tamati Coffey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tamati Coffey . New Zealand Parliament, July 26, 2019,accessed August 26, 2019. 
• Tamati Coffey . New Zealand Labor Party,accessed August 26, 2019. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benn Bathgate : Can Coffey break McClay's hold on Rotorua ? In: stuff . Fairfax Media , March 4, 2014, accessed August 26, 2019 .  
2. ↑ Tamati Coffey says goodbye to Breakfast . In: New Zealand Herald . NZME. Publisher , December 14, 2012, accessed August 26, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Tamati Coffey . New Zealand Labor Party , accessed August 26, 2019 .  
4. ^ Lynley Bilby : Tamati Coffey selected for Labor . In: New Zealand Herald . NZME. Publisher , March 29, 2014, accessed August 26, 2019 .  
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Tamati Coffey . Māori Television , July 26, 2019, accessed August 26, 2019 .  
6. ↑ Tamati Coffey . New Zealand Parliament , July 26, 2019, accessed August 26, 2019 .  
7. ↑ In the middle of the debate: New Zealand's Speaker of Parliament is tending baby. In: BR24. Bayerischer Rundfunk, August 22, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2019 .  
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Tamati Coffey . Presenter ( Te Arawa, Te-Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Te Ātiawa) . NZonScreen , December 14, 2012, accessed August 26, 2019 .  
9. ↑ Kids' Own Awards . TVNZ , December 14, 2012, accessed on August 26, 2019 .