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The Week in Detail: Tiny homes, mental health awareness, and Afghan refugees

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

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Campaign marred by assault, home invasion

Condemnation of assault on Labour MP and home invasion and threat against Te Pāti Māori candidate

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New Zealand Labour MPs cry foul in tense campaign

Two female New Zealand Labour MPs have offered harrowing stories from the campaign trail, one of an assault and another of racist abuse.

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Raw Politics: Act and NZ First grab at the steering wheel

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: We look at what common wins might await New Zealand First and Act if National needs them both post-election; Plus How good are the Greens in the polls, and do overseas votes count for much?

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Hipkins angered by race ‘one-liners’

The Prime Minister says progress on Treaty relationships has never been so at risk in his lifetime, reports Matthew Scott

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Hipkins accuses National of race-baiting in NZ campaign

National leader Chris Luxon says Chris Hipkins is desperate after the Labour leader accused him of siding with racists in the New Zealand election campaign.

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Hipkins promises campaign roar as NZ election nears

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has admitted to a slow start to Labour's election campaign but promised to hit his stride as polling day nears.

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More gameshow than gamechanger

The second leaders debate screened on Three last night and while it was entertaining it left Mark Jennings pondering whether this style of debate really helps the undecided voter make up their mind.

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Hipkins steps up yet leaders lack human touch in debate

The Labour leader knew he had to win the second leaders’ debate and came out swinging. It’s a well overdue gear shift from Chris Hipkins who has been failing to fire for weeks, writes Jo Moir.

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Fact check: Did Hipkins and Luxon say anything false?

Newshub's leaders' debate was an hour and a half of fiery politics, but how much of what was said was actually true? Newsroom fact checks the men vying to be our next prime minister.

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PM Hipkins wins second New Zealand leaders' debate

Fired-up Labour leader Chris Hipkins has scored a win over National's Chris Luxon in the second leaders' debate before next month's New Zealand election.

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National, ACT, NZ First in three-way coalition: poll

The centre-right National party has a 10-point lead over Labour in New Zealand but would need two coalition partners to govern, polling shows.

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Fiscal plans fly as overseas voting opens

The Labour Party has released its fiscal plan showing how its election promises and the ongoing cost pressures in the public sector would fit within Budget allowances.

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Dally M awards 2023 red carpet – as it happened

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Hipkins makes Australian pitch as NZ voting opens

Australian-based Kiwis who can finally apply for citizenship are welcome to thank New Zealand Labour at the ballot box, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says.

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Labour MPs save themselves in face of bad polling

Chris Hipkins is in damage control as his MPs get nervous in the face of bad polling. Left untreated, it could be the start of a caucus splintering, writes Jo Moir

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Greens surge in NZ as Labour cites climate credentials

The National party says it will keep Jacinda Ardern's "Zero Carbon" emissions-cutting infrastructure if it wins office at next month's New Zealand election.

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Recycling the wrong ideas about climate change

Recycling is not the beginning nor end when it comes to climate change. In fact, it comes way down the list of things you can personally do to help save the planet.

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Disrupting trades education an expensive game

Stability is essential if 'the Te Pūkenga disaster' gets reversed, reports Andrew Bevin.

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On the campaign trail, New Zealand leader Chris Hipkins faces an uphill battle wooing voters

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is facing an uphill battle to woo voters less than three weeks before an election

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Greens the winners in latest poll

The Green Party is eating up the vote on the left in a new poll, and for the third time this month National needs Winston Peters to form a government, reports Jo Moir

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Hipkins invokes Winston Churchill in flat NZ campaign

Labour is facing more bad news in the polls while Prime Minister Chris Hipkins compared his position to that of Britain's leader after World War II.

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Labour to consider 2.1 million hectares of native reforestation

Labour released the first ever climate-specific policy manifesto from a political party in New Zealand on Monday but not everything in the document was new.

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Gone are the days of political leaders being mobbed

Over back-to-back days in Auckland with the two Chrises, political editor Jo Moir observed increased security and vetting, and safe party-faithful crowds.

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Hipkins goes on the attack in rally speech

Halfway through the campaign period and with Labour still falling in the polls, Chris Hipkins has debuted a new and more aggressive approach at a rally in Wellington.

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