COMMENT: Nicola Willis has boxed Labour in on spending - so now both parties are turning to different kinds of populism

Chris Hipkins says Labour will not campaign on reversing the “parental test“ which bars many 18 and 19-year-olds from getting the benefit.

COMMENT: Chris Hipkins managed to keep the debate a long way away from “nine new taxes”.

Barbara Edmonds has refused to say whether she will reverse any of the current Government’s benefit reforms, after her fiscal plan allocated no new money to social development.

Barbara Edmonds has refused to say whether she will reverse any of the current Government’s benefit reforms, after her fiscal plan allocated no new money to social development.

Green co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the National Party’s attack on her party’s tax plan is backfiring.

COMMENT: National’s campaign machine is impressive, but it doesn’t seem to have convinced more than a very rusted-on quarter of the population to back National.

COMMENT: Labour is sticking so tightly to National’s spending plans that its promises start to seem heroic. It doesn’t need to.

COMMENT: Qiulae Wong and James Christmas both have the makings of political greatness. Their choice to pick smaller parties can tell us a lot.

National’s deputy leader says she lacks enough detail to judge NZ First’s $100b “future fund”.

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ANALYSIS: Labour won in a walk by over-stuffing a smaller room than National’s.

As David Seymour sprinted between houses, volunteers across Auckland were knocking on all the doors they could.

COMMENT: A rich, right-wing man wants to exploit the overhang. But he’s running into the real problem with creating your own political reality.