Good morning. Here are 3 of the 10 stories in today's Ten@10.
1. Democracy Briefing: The overhang that could decide the election
Bryce Edwards says the MMP overhang has taken over from Opportunity as the thing most likely to decide Saturday. National holds 44 electorates on a falling party vote, and The Overhang's forecast gives the coalition "a 67% chance of governing without needing Opportunity". He condemns organised vote-splitting on both sides, Te Pāti Māori's included.
Read it at The Democracy Project
2. The Left does not have a monopoly on empathy
Swarbrick says National is "effectively cyberbullying her". Ani O'Brien reminds us Swarbrick platformed an activist who livestreamed the protest outside Winston Peters' home, days before a man put a crowbar through his window. Her verdict on the Greens co-leader: selective empathy.
6. A Sacred Trust Betrayed
Gary Judd KC says the courts' embrace of tikanga is sacrificing judicial independence. A Supreme Court majority accepted tikanga as the "first law" on the say-so of two experts, with no written record to test it against, and he says that is "betraying a sacred trust".
Read it at Thoughts from the North
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