National is down 4.6 points to 29.6% from December while Labour is up 4.0 points to 30.9%. The Greens are up 1.2 points to 9.5%, while ACT is down 2.2 points to 10.8%. New Zealand First is up 2.7 points to 8.1%, while Te Pāti Māori is down 0.2 points to 5.3%.
For the minor parties, Outdoors and Freedom is at 1.7% (-0.3 points), TOP is at 2.1% (+1 points), and Vision NZ is at 0.6 (+0.4 points).
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The first five-time Olympic medallist in the colourful, unpredictable sport of snowboarding comes from a colourful, unexpected place: New Zealand. The honour belongs to Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, a 24-year-old from Wānaka.
His accounts have been criticised in international media as ‘AI blackface’ and ‘digital fiction’.
Duvall’s wife Luciana released a statement, writing, “Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort.”
Will Appelbe has upset a rural Canterbury town after he blinded their prized salmon statue. The Greenpeace freshwater activist covered the salmon’s eyes with double sided tape and paper and left a pointed message saying, “Fonterra killed my family.”
“You will be told you can’t complain because you’re Islamophobic.”
President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin should be applauded for actually following the science and respecting the rule of law – things that have been too often ignored when it comes to climate.
At its core, this is not about Muslims at all. It is about how a governing party chooses to organise society. Does it treat citizens as individuals under a shared civic contract, or as demographic blocs to be structured, managed and electorally harvested?
