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Aided by a fanbase who joyfully sing every word, the Ohioans channel their full range of melancholy Americana and pulverising post-punk in a stunning two-and-a-half-hour epic

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.

New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins has stepped up his election pitch, while National's Chris Luxon was confident canvassing votes in Labour strongholds.

On the heels of their surprise new album, the American five-piece meet again with Laura Barton to speak about facing depression, bonding as ‘brothers’, and finding ‘joy’ in their ‘incredibly sad’ songs

Polls put New Zealand on track to elect its most rightwing coalition government in decades as Act’s supporters grow

In this week's episode of VOTE2023, we talk to the Labour MP for Taieri and TOP's Dunedin candidate on key issues including political representation, climate change, and tax.

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

Winston Peters plays to his strengths in the Act Party heartland of Remuera, less than 24 hours after calling its local MP his “imitator” 

A rehashed claim from the NZ First leader on a televised debate to defend his backing of Labour in 2017 is dismissed as a "fabrication" by Sir Bill English

Crime has been one of the dominant themes of this election campaign and it proved to be the hot button in the second televised debate this week. As Mark Jennings writes, the leaders of the minor parties were taking no prisoners in their battle for crucial votes.

Gateway cities around the world are so important to national prosperity that they need to be actively supported and with customised arrangements. Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is right when he says a new relationship between government and the council is required, argues Mark Thomas