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Year 10s at Wellington High School are looking closely at this year’s General Election

ACT’s Stephen Berry was booed at the LGBTQI Rainbow forum on Tuesday for not backing new hate speech law.

Newswire’s AIMEE EASTWOOD asked candidates after the meeting about hate speech and free speech.

New party gets electioneering opportunity at Victoria University

There are questions about his mana, but Te Ururoa Flavell tells SAM DUFF it is better to be on the field scoring goals.

Everything quoted from tape “deadly accurate”, says Peters.

A slight victory for ACT but to party members, it is not enough.

Parish platform perfect pulpit for political pontificating

Hecklers’ drown out candidates at final Wellington Central.meeting

Anti-National Cuba St rally urges voters to cast an educated vote.

Candidate tosses in his own question for opponents.

The ACT party’s Freedom of Association bill – heading into its final stages in Parliament – could destroy student unions as we know them.

JONATHAN CHILTON-TOWLE talks to both sides of a debate about the world’s last surviving compulsory unions.

Mana by-election takes place on November 20. ALICE PETRIE reports on the efforts to get young people voting while TANYA WOOD lines up the candidates.

The dust is settled and National has won the reins of power – PAUL McBETH looks at what they have planned for New Zealand.

NewsWire’s resident political pundit PAUL McBETH joins the chorus of picks for Cabinet places.

Current polling has National sleep-walking to victory, but PAUL McBETH’s analysis shows it will be much closer than you think.

Mt Victoria’s Meet the Candidates meeting got off to a smoking start on Thursday night with Michael Appleby pontificating on the benefits of cannabis.