A teal wave washes across New Zealand, while the NZ First nostalgia supergroup just keeps growing.

The Opportunity Party has shot up to the threshold fun zone. Qiulae Wong is getting traction as the new leader presenting the party as an alternative to NZ First.

Will the distaste for the establishment parties and the salvos from across the spectrum mean an unprecedented fully new arrival in parliament soon? Will it be Q, anon? Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire discuss the fourth attempt by Opportunity (nee TOP) to cross the line in a new episode of the Spinoff politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime.

Also on the agenda: the imminent arrival of Narendra Modi, who will be the most powerful head of government on our soils for more than a decade. Christopher Luxon and the Indian PM will crack the Champagne on the free-trade deal, and Luxon has seized the moment to pledge as National leader a catalogue of new bilateral deals. But does the stance of his foreign minister (Winston Peters, curiously, is overseas during Modi’s visit) risk pissing in the PM’s punch?

Plus: Headlines around homelessness, rough sleeping and emergency housing have surged into the foreground with revealtions around MSD KPIs, move-on orders and the prime minister’s admission he didn’t know Auckland city has no night shelter.

And the New Zealand First redemption train continues, with Michael Laws added to an increasingly bulging carriage of survivors from decades past. Is it like something out of Cocoon? A scene from the Thriller video? The Expendables? The Traveling Wilburys? Or is Ben on the money when he strikes a comparison with “that bit of the Book of Revelations, where all the armies of the world gather under demonic thrall to fight the final battle of Armageddon”?