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Jennifer Lees-Marshment looks closely at likeability data, finding Jacinda Ardern and David Seymour have played the political management dance to perfection - other leaders not so much.
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With just over three weeks until the General Election, the release of the first major pre-election opinion poll this week confirmed what w...
RNZ
Opinion - The conservative tax policies proposed by Labour and National ahead of next month's election are hard to distinguish in substance, with each party offering no more than a gesture towards income tax equity, writes Jonathan Barrett.
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The National Party leader shared her love of debating on TVNZ1's Breakfast this morning.
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The debate was a fair and largely evenly matched contest, but big questions still remain.
RNZ
Contrasting styles, some substance: Five experts break down the first televised leaders' debate of the New Zealand election.
Newshub
Waiariki electorate contenders appeared on The Hui debate on Tuesday.
Newshub
"Paul, your plan doesn't add up."
RNZ
Power Play - Judith Collins needed to perform in the first major televised election campaign, and she did, writes Political Editor Jane Patterson.
The Spinoff
Who came out on top in tonight's leaders' debate? Here are our debate watchers' verdicts. A bit knackered Given that most of the country, most of the Covid-battered world, is basically just knackered, is it any surprise that tonight’s opening debate felt a bit knackered, too Whether it was in
Stuff
OPINION: National's leader had nothing to lose and came out swinging; Labour's looked a hardened political professional.
The pair will be debating live tonight – follow the Herald's live updates.
Stuff
The poll is promising for two minor parties, and will set the tone for the first leaders debate.
Stuff
Billion-dollar miscalculations don't affect National's policies, the party's finance spokesman says.
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Social Distancing Be Damned - It's Jacinda! Shortly after ascending to Labour’s leadership, Jacinda described herself as a “pragmatic ideal...
Kiwiblog
The Taxpayers’ Union has released a list of questions that should be asked at tonight’s TVNZ leaders’ debate – and at tonight’s separate finance debate in Queenstown. What would you ask if yo…
Stuff
ANALYSIS: Todd Muller got burnt by the border. Can Judith Collins and Gerry Brownlee avoid the same fate?
Newshub
"The claim is mostly false with a minor element of truth."
The Spinoff
On Thursday night the arts, culture and heritage spokespeople from Labour, National and the Greens will have a conversation on arts policy, facilitated by Miriama Kamo. We’ve got all their policies here, so you know who stands for what. Earlier this year, Ben Thomas wrote for The Spinoff about wh
Newsroom
The West Coast was promised $140 million from the provincial growth fund. We discover how much has been spent
Newsroom
A Government plan to charge people for emergency housing like motels was derailed by Covid-19, but will now come into effect two days after the election.
Newsroom
Spending cuts aren't the only way politicians could worsen New Zealand's recession.
The Spinoff
On Saturday four parties that believe Covid-19 is being used by the government to impose social control put their differences aside to share a stage. Alex Braae went to Nelson to see where they were coming from. “If you question the government, you get called a conspiracy theorist. Why? And what’s
The Standard
With news of a second mistake in National’s draft budget its campaign is in trouble and support for other right wing parties appears to be surging.
A top epidemiologist says Kiwis should continue wearing masks.
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The Spinoff
The usual way electoral results maps are presented can be deceiving, over-emphasising large but sparsely populated rural areas and under-emphasising densely populated ones. Here's another way to make sense of 2020's election results. This post was updated on 16 November 2020 to reflect the final
NZ Herald
How is the next government going to look? Check results for each electorate and the nation
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Quo Vadis, Winston? Where are you going, Winston, Son of the winterless north? We have lost count of the summers Since first you ventured f...
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