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And he's up against people like Louise Hutt, who is really good at what she does, really amazing with the connection with the public out there.

um but a green party candidate which is not something that hamilton west has ever had before but there's this big shift going towards the greens and the polling so who knows how that's actually going to turn out it's going to be a really fascinating race to sit down and watch in general You've also got Myra Williamson.

She's running for the Labour Party.

She is a highly qualified, world-renowned international legal expert.

And in our last episode, we covered, obviously, the Opportunity Party, QLA Wong.

Didn't go too well, but today we're going to do the Green co-leaders, Maraba and Chloe.

Is it going to go any better? You probably know the answer to that one.

Let's check it out.

So each of the party leaders were sent our questionnaire and we have profiled their answers.

Now, interestingly enough for the Green Party, the co-leaders responded three years ago for that election, but this year they didn't.

But we were able to take their questions from last time and also look at their voting record and figure out where they stood.

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The report was commissioned by a coalition of health care unions, Public Futures Aotearoa.

The Green Party's lodged a formal complaint against the Sensible Sentencing Trust, accusing the lobby group of impersonating the party with its latest election attack ad.

The billboard ad features Green Party co-leaders Chloe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson and Labour's Chris Hipkins, alongside the text backing the gangs and the Greens campaign slogan for all of us.

The Greens say it's a despicable downgrading of democracy and they've complained to the Advertising Standards Authority.

RNZ understands the billboard company has paused displaying the ads.

And even when you do that, the biggest party in that coalition discussion tends to set the agenda for what's going to happen.

So, you know, when the Greens or Te Pāti Māori or or the opportunity party on the left or indeed act or new zealand first make a promise you kind of got to take it a little bit with a grain of salt because if the nets in their case or labor in the case of the of the left aren't prepared to live with that then it ain't going to happen um so so for people who are concerned about what's coming up i'd be encouraging them to look at the uh the totality of what those coalitions will look like to see to see what to be worried about um and there's some really scary stuff on the left Also worth noting that when we talk about the left, because I notice all the political polls coming out are talking about the left block and the right block, and then they tend to treat the Opportunity Party as kind of some sort of...

Yeah.

It's not.

I'm not entirely sure how to characterise Labour as being... completely without blame on this though because they've also made quite clear that they've got some pretty strong ambition when it comes to increasing the tax base in order to fund the things that they've said that they're going to do and in fact there's a fairly big gap between what Labour's saying they're going to do and the amount of revenue that would be collected from the two or three taxes that they've declared so far so I think all four parties on the left are equally guilty of throwing that out there and It'll be interesting to see what happens after election night to see whether they're in a position to do that.

Yeah.

Property values, definitely some property values would take a hit generally, I think, if the Greens had more power and the people who hold a lot of wealth, who probably employ a lot of people, they might shut down businesses, they might leave, they might take their assets with them.

But am I being too dramatic? Because I think a true believer on the left would probably say I am.

It was like a little...

It seemed like a bit of an improv exercise where, prompt, what's the stereotypical thing your party would do? And Greens is...

Yeah, they were

doing world's worst Greens policy on the step.

Yeah, which is a thing that can work.

It generally works in very rural and conservative areas where you can't maintain a natural price competition market.

But also, you know, this is the state steps in.

Well, actually, it wasn't.