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High net worth individuals are back behind New Zealand First as it bids for a return to Parliament three years after being expelled in the Labour landslide.

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Electorates to watch: the battle for Northland

After a historic win by Willow-Jean Prime in 2020, can Labour hold onto Northland or are things about to go south for them?

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National not showing Act, NZ First cards yet

Hitting the ground in Palmerston North today Christopher Luxon faced friendly faces on the campaign trail, but niggling issues on tax and coalition partners continue to flare up.

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New Zealand voters search for relief from ‘shocking’ living costs as election looms

Tax cuts and cheaper fruit among Labour and National party plans to address rising cost of living pressures as people once comfortable are swept into crisis

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Election gets six of the best

Law firm Bell Gully brought together two panels of some of our sharpest media political observers to cut through the campaign and predict who and what we'll end up with after October 14. Tim Murphy moderated.

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Health targets may be good politics, but they're not always good policy

If the National Party interprets health outcomes to mean shorter waiting times and increased rates of immunisation then they will succeed – because it's a circular argument, writes Tim Tenbensel

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National's landlord tax break could cost $100m more a year

The spike in mortgage rates since 2021 means National's planned restoration of interest deductibility for landlords could cost millions more than it has budgeted.

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Labour lists fresh policy, campaigns on National's cuts

Chris Hipkins is campaigning on what he says would be lost under a National-led government, as much as what Labour is offering

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National's red carpet for tech elite

Three new visa classes to attract bright and well-heeled technology migrants are the latest part of National's economic plan, Ella Scott-Fleming reports.

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Luxon presides over a kerfuffle in Kirwee

The theatre of media events contributes to a crowd commotion

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National's agriculture policy a John Key re-heat

Increasing on-farm water storage panned as a ‘knee-jerk kickback’, reports David Williams

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Raw Politics: What pricked Act's bubble?

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Who to believe over the state of the nation's books, and what's eating the Act Party?

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When four politicians walk into a room

There were, says Grant Robertson, a lot of professors of hindsight economics in the room at the ASB Queenstown finance debate. Newsroom's Jonathan Milne was also there.

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For Te Pāti Māori, it's compromise or be compromised

Te Pāti Māori is campaigning on GST-free food and abolishing prisons. As aspirational as that may be, no coalition partner would ever support it as a policy. So what compromise would they consider?

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Finance debate draws taxing admission from Nicola Willis

National finance spokesperson's extraordinary concession raises more questions about the impact of National’s tax policies on house prices, writes Jo Moir.

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NZ election 2023: with a month to go, polls point to a right-wing coalition government

The New Zealand general election to be held in one month, on October 14, will be the country’s tenth under the mixed member proportional system (MMP).

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NZ election 2023: combined poll trends now show a clear rightward shift since June

With exactly one month until New Zealand’s general election, all major polls are now showing a clear rightward trend since June.

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National's foreign buyers tax falls $450m short, says economists' review

Analysis of housing data reveals foreigners would need to buy twice as many houses – and many at massively over-inflated prices – for National to pull in its promised $740m tax revenue, Jonathan Milne reports.

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The man who won’t be king

Act is looking increasingly likely to form part of the next government, but its leader was clear with people gathered to see him speak that he has no qualms with ‘turning down the baubles of power’.

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New poll pushes National close to 40 percent

A new poll has Labour well short of being able to form a government and confirms the news Chris Hipkins didn’t need, that National is in arm’s reach of 40 percent

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Luxon looks to leverage law and order in Labour stronghold

It was high-vis and head wraps for Christopher Luxon this morning as he visited South Auckland to plead National’s case

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After the election, Christopher Luxon’s real test could come from his right – not the left

Christopher Luxon is no slouch on the dance floor, it seems. As his wife Amanda told the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, the two prepared for their university ball with a ballroom dancing class.

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Guardian Essential New Zealand poll: Winston Peters in position to become election kingmaker

Latest survey sees support for New Zealand First exceed 5% for second month as Labour falters and National remains unchanged ahead of October election

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Politicians promise to get New Zealand’s houses in order

Parties mostly agree on the need for verified sustainable standards for new public buildings – but solving the residential construction conundrum is far more vexed. Matthew Scott reports.

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Stark messages in a Labour stronghold

Chris Hipkins doesn’t get it all his own way in a deep-red seat

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