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With Labour trailing in the polls, Chris Hipkins' team will feel he has to win tonight’s TVNZ debate. To do this Hipkins will need to draw his opponent into a debate and beat him, writes Mark Jennings

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MMP system is complex and secretive

Advantages of the First-Past-the-Post system are that it tends to deliver stable, single-party governments, and there is rarely any need for coalitions, argues Michael Johnston

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The race to represent a battered region

It’s one of the largest electorates in the country physically, stretching from East Cape to Wellington. It was virtually a lock for Labour until their candidate jumped to Te Pāti Māori. Now two strong candidates are vying for the seat of Te Ikaroa-Rāwhiti.

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Pulling tax from one part of teetering Jenga tower to place it in another

Strategic investment in a high-wage economy is better than a future dependent on real estate, where countless elections are fought on how to extract more value from property.

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The Sure Things: 'Steve from Spotify' wants to bring activism to Parliament

Veteran environmental activist Steve Abel is getting a second crack at Parliament after narrowly missing out in 2020, reports Marc Daalder

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Luxon and media playing intense game of hide and seek

Things are getting tense, loud and stubborn as National leader Christopher Luxon feels the intensity of a media pack with a tax package in its bonnet, and unanswered questions, writes Tim Murphy

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NZ's richest man backing NZ First again

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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Māori and Pacific leaders propose legal personhood for whales at UN

Legal personhood has been signed into law for the Whanganui River and the Urewera. Now Māori and Pacific leaders are proposing the same for whales.

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Tone of election to be revealed in big data week

A slowing economy expected out of GDP, trade and consumer confidence

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The burning question on rubbish

Mass incineration could be a great solution to New Zealand's increasingly scarce landfill space – or it could be a step backwards environmentally.

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The flow on effect is a period game-changer

It's time to normalise conversations around periods to help young women feel comfortable playing sport - the goal of the Flow on Effect initiative. Suzanne McFadden talks to wāhine aiming to make a difference in athletes' health and wellbeing.

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Best new Māori writing: Shilo

Shilo Kino on the power of being a Māori journalist, from a powerful new anthology of Māori writing

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Quarry highlights failings for Māori and the environment

The quarry at Te Weraiti has disfigured an ancestral mountain and been detrimental to natural features of high significance, write Te Ao o te Rangi Apaapa and Reto Blattner de-Vries

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Taking stock of City Rail Link's property risks

A tribunal decision means more money for affected property owners, but CRL sees it all covered, reports Andrew Bevin

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When policy manifestos become lolly scrambles instead

There are such big problems that they need deep and often inconvenient responses, and they need leadership, not snippets and soundbites, argues Rob Campbell

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Act’s high energy campaign launch turns into a fizzer

Sunday’s campaign rally was meant to be the launchpad for a final election push. Instead, protesters stole much of the media attention and left Act leader, David Seymour, frustrated and looking for a new way to gain momentum.

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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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An Ode for .. Baron Luxon

Bard Billot on the Baron (and Lord Winston the Undead)

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Damning report into rest-home closure

The threat of Omicron was just the final nail in the coffin of a mismanaged DHB-owned and run aged-care facility.

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Long Read: Turning the tide

A team of New Zealanders and Tongans have just carpeted a remote Tongan island with poisoned bait, hoping to eradicate rats.

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The Week in Detail: Winston's return, landlord rules, and big cats

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

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Short story of a Te Pāti Māori candidate

"The founding document of this country has been used to wipe Pākehā arses": Tracey Tawhiao imagines a Te Pāti Māori candidate in the second of our series of election campaign short stories.

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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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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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