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The first leader’s debate didn’t reach any great heights but those directly involved will not be unhappy with the outcome. Mark Jennings gives his thoughts on debate night - round one.

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First leaders' debate light on new insights

Televised debate reveals more similarities than differences between the two Chrises and shed very little new light on what makes the pair tick. Political editor Jo Moir was in the audience.

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Show us the (maths behind the) money!

It seems there is a cosy cartel among political parties: don’t ask to see our spreadsheets, and we won’t ask to see yours. But if it is just back-of-the-envelope stuff – or wishful thinking – we need to know, says Tim Hazledine

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Brooke van Velden against the odds in Tāmaki

Act is convinced its deputy leader, Brooke van Velden, can win the Tāmaki seat but a lot of things will have to go right for her to beat the National incumbent, writes Liam Hehir

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Jabs but no knockout in NZ Leaders' Debate

New Zealand's two Chrises - National leader Chris Luxon and Labour leader Chris Hipkins - have sparred in their first televised leaders' debate.

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The National, Laugh Track review: Not quite wedding disco material – but this loose, upbeat album is hard to resist

Matt Berninger ropes in old friends Bon Iver and Phoebe Bridgers for bullish surprise album

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Hipkins brushing up his messages - and memory

The Prime Minister tries to out-humble National's Christopher Luxon ahead of tonight's big leaders' debate, telling media he'll swot up on his numbers through Tuesday as he does not have a photographic memory

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Luxon will work with Peters, but only if he has to

There’s a reason Christopher Luxon won’t rule out Winston Peters - he’d likely lose more votes than he’d win, writes political editor Jo Moir

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Death of England: Closing Time’s Clint Dyer and Roy Williams – ‘We stay current because we look forward’

The final show in the Death of England series, which explores race and class in contemporary Britain, opens at the National Theatre later this month

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The National: Laugh Track review – second album of the year feels like a fresh start

The existential conundrums of a cast of sad-sack characters – including a shattering Phoebe Bridgers collaboration – build up in dread and anxiety toward an intense, teeth-baring pay off

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NZ parties standing by anti-science candidates

Ryan Hamilton, the National party's candidate for Hamilton East, has gone to ground after controversial social media posts were unearthed by Radio NZ.

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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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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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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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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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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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