Good morning. Here are 3 of the 10 stories in today's Ten@10.
1. Democracy Briefing: Red against green in Wellington North
Bryce Edwards on the richest seat in the country. Labour's Ayesha Verrall is trying to win back Wellington North from the Greens' Tamatha Paul, and the only electorate poll has them less than three points apart. At the final meeting Verrall told Paul: "if I wasn't on the ballot, I'd vote for you."
Read it at The Democracy Project
5. Douglas vs Seymour
Sir Roger Douglas says ACT's tax-free KiwiSaver plan looks like the Muldoon era, when tax concessions steered savings into favoured products. He wants to know what it costs and who gains, and says a tax exemption shouldn't be accepted "simply because it sounds attractive to voters."
9. RICHARD PREBBLE: We decide how we vote
Richard Prebble has split his vote for the last three elections: Todd McClay for the electorate, ACT for the party vote. He says 159,585 party votes elected nobody last time, so why is it rorting MMP when National voters do the same? "In a democracy, it is voters who decide."
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