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# Ten@10 Lite - 2026/202
- URL: https://goodoil.news/ten-10-lite-2026-202/
- Published: 2026-11-01T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-01T20:59:59.000Z
- Description: 3 of today's 10 stories. The full Ten@10 is a VIP benefit.
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Ten@10, Politics, Newsletters

Good morning. Here are 3 of the 10 stories in today's Ten@10.

## 1\. Democracy Briefing: Who is paying to engineer the election overhang?

Don Brash wrote a full-page Herald ad telling people not to party vote National, and Edwards says Act and NZ First must have signed it off. Harry Mowbray told The Platform he'd put "a little bit of money" into the RCR campaign and paid to boost influencers' posts. Advance voting is open, and voters still can't see who's paying.

[Read it at The Democracy Project](https://www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-briefing-who-is-paying?ref=goodoil.news)

## 5\. Who gets to run your life?

Labour's rent-to-buy plan would give some state tenants $100 a week towards a deposit, while the family renting privately next door gets nothing and helps pay for it. Ani O'Brien runs the left and right blocs past Rawls and Hayek and asks how much of your life should be decided in Wellington.

[Read it at Thought Crimes](https://aniobrien.substack.com/p/who-gets-to-run-your-life)

## 6\. RODNEY HIDE: The Future

Driverless cabs, superintelligence and robots that build robots will make almost everything cheap, Rodney Hide says, except permission. His briefing to incoming ministers: new tech is legal unless proven harmful, overseas approvals count here, and regulators get 60 days to say no.

[Read it at Brash and Mitchell](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/rodney-hide-the-future?ref=goodoil.news)

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