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First polls of 2025 show coalition losing
Long stories short, the top six things in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Tuesday, February 11 are:
* Polls out overnight from Curia and Verian confirmed last week’s reading from a Talbot Mills’ poll that combined support for the governing coalition of National, ACT and New Zealand First fell behind the combined support for Labour, Green and Te Pāti Māori in the first six weeks of 2025;
* The polls also showed voters thought the governing coalition had put the country on the wrong track to the greatest extent since well before the 2023 election, while…
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