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As local elections fever grips the nation, council candidates are jostling for your vote the best way they know how: by chucking up great big bloody signs on the side of the road. Here are The Spinoff’s top picks from around the motu. Oh oh oh, Ohakune (David “Rabbit” Nottage, Ruapehu District Council) Here’s a man who knows his colour wheel, with the plummy purples of his tie and shiny (!) leopard print (!) shirt popping beautifully against the egg yolk yellow of whatever the hell that is behind him (choco eclair tank?).
At the tail end of the election campaign in Queenstown, five of the six mayoral candidates made their cases to a room of undecided voters. The first question at the Queenstown mayoral debate, held in the Arrowtown hall on Monday night, was an obvious one: who knows who they’re going to vote for?
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