Ōtāhuhu

I was treating myself to get a bus home.

I lived in Grafton, but I ended up on the express bus to Otahuhu by mistake.

Two Ubers, a bus and a train ride later, I got home after three hours.

Oh, God, you would just be fuming.

Grafton's in the CBD.

Otahuhu is in deep South Auckland.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're miles away.

Yep.

You've got Otahu, you've got Mangere.

And everything else in between.

Yep.

Let's meet them.

18-year-old Meleame Mafua is finishing her last year at South Auckland's Otahuhu College.

Just over 50% of 18 to 24-year-olds are enrolled in that electorate.

Kia ora, Miliame.

Now, if you were just joining us, we are talking to three young people who will be voting for the first time this election.

Voter registrations for 18 to 24-year-olds are just 62%, with a deadline to enrol midnight Sunday.

18-year-old Meleami Mafua is enrolled in the Otahuhu electorate.

Gordon Shapiro is 18 and lives in Banks Peninsula, where he is enrolled.

The red ones and the blue ones, chuck up the yellow ones.

I reckon you should go to Otahu this weekend and put a stop to it.

Tell everyone off, eh? Yeah.

I might call the cops on

Things are neck and neck, as we know.

I live in Otahu, who here in Auckland just sense that our Tongan community in particular are more interested in what's going on with their footy team in the Rugby League World Cup than they are about the election.

But this situation where you've got to have your enrolment in by the end of this week, It's just deplorable, really, because some people are slow to get themselves motivated to get to those polls.

I think it's a very backward step that we've denied people the opportunity to come a little bit later to have their democratic say.

Things are neck and neck, as we know.

I live in Otahu, here in Auckland.

I just sense that our Tongan community in particular are more interested in what's going on with their footy team in the Rugby League World Cup than they are about the election.

But this situation where you've got to have your enrolment in by the end of this week, It's just deplorable, really, because some people are slow to get themselves motivated to get to those polls.

Fire and Emergency were called to the fire on Robertson Road in Favona about four o'clock this afternoon.

Crews from Māngere, Onehunga, Ōtāhuhu, and Otara attended, and the fire has now been extinguished.

A fire investigator has been on the scene, and there are no reports of injuries.

Auckland's two polytechnics, Unitec and MIT, will choose a new name before the end of the year.