The Make New Zealand Great Again Party failed to make its advertising great again after a complaint against a sponsored Facebook post, suggesting the Labour Party was going to solve child poverty with abortion, was upheld.
Labour today announced that it would be jettisoning its previous slogan, ‘A fresh approach, for the more action-oriented, Nike-esque ‘Let’s do this’ to accompany new leader Jacinda Ardern as she heads into the final seven weeks of the campaign trail. We look at a few other examples of slogans that were dumped and replaced by others.
With many young voters not turning out to the last election, who better to get them up to speed with New Zealand politics than one of their own? Newshub thought just that, so it got one of its interns on the case to create a new series called Ticked Off.
Combining the best of the old with the rise of the new, Newshub has implemented a new methodology that hopes to get opinion polling right. We talk to political editor Patrick Gower on the reasons behind this change, why polling matters, whether politics is becoming a two-horse race and whether we can still trust the polls (and the media) in light of last year’s shock political events.
A Facebook page that popped up on June 24 aims to expalin New Zealand politics with the wise words of Mr Kanye West.