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Alice Neville is The Spinoff's deputy editor. Her interests include politics, food and data-driven deep dives of all kinds.

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Is David Seymour steadying the ship or stirring the pot?

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Election 2026: Here's how the first leaders' debate unfolded

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Government officials think scrapping the BSA is a really bad idea

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Revealed: Six months of roadside drug testing in New Zealand, by the numbers

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New Zealand’s proposed social media ban for under-16s, explained

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School lunches inquiry finds long list of failures

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Nicola Willis’s magic money tree and other go-to spending metaphors in NZ politics

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Three-and-a-bit years and $50m+ of political donations, visualised