September/October 2021 - Bay of Plenty Business News

September/October 2021 BAY OF PLENTY BUSINESS NEWS 3
Muller contemplates life after parliament
One of the most interesting political trajectories Bay
of Plenty citizens have seen in local politics has been
Western Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller’s brief tilt at
the National leadership and his recently announced
decision to retire at the end of his term.
By DAVID PORTER
Muller recently spoke with Bay
of Plenty Business News on
the events surrounding his
decision to leave active politics.
Muller was reluctant to go into
too much detail over the spat with
the National leadership, which
seems to have been the trigger for the
move. It has been widely canvassed
that his relationship with National
leader Judith Collins has not been
close.
“The reality that became clear
recently is that the relationship with
the current leadership is not good,”
said Muller.
“I don’t have a particularly good
relationship between myself and the
leader and it’s essentially broken
down, but these things happen in your
personal and professional life. I’m
pretty open to other options.”
Muller handily won re-election at
the most recent elections and is now
finishing up what will be nine years
as an MP.
“It’s just become clear to me that
it’s time to apply myself outside of
the [parliament] building at the end of
my term,” he said.
“Nine years is a decent run.
You’ve got to make sure you feel
you can make a contribution in a way
that’s in line with your values and
your approach to life. And I think certainly
over the last year I have found
that pretty difficult.”
Muller in a shock move just over
a year ago ousted fellow Tauranga
MP Simon Bridges from the leadership,
but very quickly succumbed
to a severe anxiety attack and soon
stepped down from the leadership
role.
“I was determined to come back
after that if I had the support of the
You’ve got to make sure you feel you can make
a contribution in a way that’s in line with your
values and your approach to life. And I think
certainly over the last year I have found that pretty
difficult.” – Todd Muller
Todd Muller clarifies his shock resignation move. Photo/Supplied
BOP electorate, which I did. I got
back on the horse and enjoyed campaigning
and door knocking. Now
as we come into a year and ending a
third term, I’ve decided it’s time to
move on.”
Muller emphasized that he would
be using his remaining time in parliament
to work towards helping accomplish
the party’s goals.
“But I made my resignation
decision with an increasing sense
of excitement about what could be
around the corner,” he said.
As Muller acknowledges, it is a
matter of public record that he found
the leadership battle “brutal and
acute” and that he had an acute breakdown,
which drew widespread interest
and sympathy from a large part of
his electorate.
Muller, who moved to Tauranga in
1970, has a long relationship with the
area as had his late father who was a
well-respected member of the kiwifruit
industry.
Todd Muller has spent much of his
working life in the kiwifruit and dairy
industries and is deeply interested in
agribusiness.
“I haven’t turned my mind yet to
future work, but I have my focus very
much on some key areas.”
These include the provision of
mental health services in the BOP, and
Muller is especially aggrieved that the
current government has not delivered
on its initial promise to improve on
Tauranga’s mental health provision,
especially in growing Papamoa.
He is also concerned about the
flawed nexus between housing and
transport provision and how inadequate
both have been planned for in
this city.
“It’s a real frustration for a number
of years that governments have
not invested in the way they should
have for this city,”said Muller.
“It’s as if we’re caught in a historic
paradigm that we’re a little village out
by the sea as opposed to the reality
that we’re now 160,000 people and
the fifth biggest city in the country.”
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