From the article:

National's campaign chair has called a media standup to demand Labour and the Greens explain which smaller-party policies would emerge from coalition negotiations - despite National refusing to do the same. 
 
Speaking to reporters in Auckland, Simeon Brown says the situation for a Labour-led coalition is "completely different" compared to a National-led one.  [...]

Brown pushed back on reporters' questions about which of New Zealand First's promises - which some commentators have estimated at costing $50b to $100b - National would take up. 
 
He also denied that David Seymour - who said in 2023 he would like to be finance minister - could be named in the role, saying that would be for Nicola Willis. National has consistently attacked Labour over the risk that Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick could be finance minister, despite Chris Hipkins ruling that out. 
 
Asked what National would do if Willis - a list-only MP - failed to return to Parliament, he simply rejected that possibility. 

This all seems very rational and reasonable.

My only conclusion from reading this is that Luxon is still an out of touch c-suite. Saying his government hasn’t stoked division is delulu.

Misinformation is false information spread unintentionally without harmful intent - perhaps a rumour being passed along, a Facebook post being shared.

Disinformation is false information that is deliberately spread with harmful intent - a post that lies about a candidate's personal life, for instance, or accuses them of a crime.

And we're also seeing malinformation, which is true information used with malice - presented out of context, or with details omitted. That's harder to pin down, but an example could be a post about medicine emphasising some rare side effects without explaining that they're rare.

There’s a lot of scaremongering about opportunity in the Facebook comments from boomers (only boomers comment on Facebook). The left say that opportunity will go with national and the right say they will go with labour. In my opinion I think they should and will go with the Labour Party as the aspirational goals of a land tax and UBI are fundamentally different from the national parties “no new taxes” mantra. In addition the only way I see that the government can be changed is through the election of the opportunity party.

I’m tired of both labour and national and their attitudes to a new party. I watched Erica Stanford and her smug attitude to them on Duncan Garners podcast and was extremely put off. It seems our election has now gone down to schoolyard bullying tactics. The confidence and arrogance of both labour and national is unfathomable to me given how unpopular they are as reflected by the polls. In particular the overconfidence of Luxon given his recent train wreck interview where he was schooled on his own policy by a university student that was more articulate than him. How can national be so confident when they tried to oust their troubled leader three times and failed. Remember this is the lowest these parties have polled since the National party was formed in the 30s.

I also do not agree with the right discrediting Chloe swarbrick as inequipped to be finance minister because of her qualifications being some university papers in economics. What about Nicola Willis and her background in English literature and being a lobbyist?

David Seymour also had a mind numbing argument about TOPs apparent contradiction regarding electoral donations, despite receiving electoral donations themselves. Clearly electoral donations donations are unfair given the ACT party received millions in donations far more than any party including TOP.

Please share your thoughts in a polite way so educated discussion can be had.

I'm the first to give Stuff shit, so it feels only fair to credit them when they do good.

Lets see if I've got this right. A sex offending priest, who grew and smoked his own weed at the vigarage where he lived with his gay Labour MP partner, was supported at trial by the former Anglican dean of Christchurch who is now the head of a charitable law organisation that assisted survivors who gave witness statements to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in state and faith-based care.

Who wanted permanent name suppression. Which was successfully opposed by our media, namely Stuff.

Hold up, I need to call Netflix, I got a show idea..

From the article:

Both major parties seeking election to government attended and spoke at the launch of a new organisation led by controversial Chinese businessman Zhang Yikun, who was prosecuted for concealing donations to them ahead of the 2017 election.

Zhang is said to be a leading figure here in the Chinese government’s overseas influence effort, through what is known as the United Front.

National Party campaign chair Simeon Brown led the party’s delegation to the launch of Zhang’s new body, and MP Camilla Belich fronted for Labour. [...]

The launch in Auckland of the NZ Chinese Chamber of Commerce, also known as the NZ Chinese General Business Association, on October 3 was before hundreds of people and also attended by former National Prime Minister John Key and Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere. [...]

Geoff Wade, a senior analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, tells Newsroom “the re-emergence of key United Front figure Yikun Zhang in the NZ political scene just before the national election is worthy of close attention by both politicians and security agencies.”

He said it was notable that Zhang had named himself founder and president of the new body and also that one of his co-accused over the political donations, Colin Zheng, was one of its honorary presidents.

Zhang and associates were convicted of breaking up their donations in order to conceal them in 2022 but overturned on appeal. Both National and Labour say they haven't received any donations from Zhang in 2026.

Guess that inflation is sticking around for a bit. I wonder how this will be spun by Nicola? lol

People will gnash and wail at this because NZF/politics, but the report into the Manawanui did paint an embarrassing picture for New Zealand.