He served as a Hamilton City Councillor from 1998 to 2001[REF] on the 'City Vision' ticket,[REF] representing the West Ward [REF].
In 2009 a complaint was filed to the Advertising Standards Authority against one of Mallett's advertisements in the Hamilton This Week campaigning against Māori electorates being established on the Auckland 'Supercity' Council, which called such reserved political positions and their promoters "racist".