Life Outside Parliament
Goff is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation-Australasia.
Phil Goff is married to Mary Ellen Goff, whom he met in 1971 and married in 1979. They have three adult children – Kristopher, Sara, and Kieran. He lives on a 8-hectare (20-acre) farmlet in the rural Auckland suburb of Clevedon. Goff's nephew, U.S. Army Captain Matthew Ferrara, was killed in 2007 during the Afghanistan War.
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