What’s at stake as New Zealand prepares for cliffhanger election

New Zealanders are preparing to vote in what’s shaping up to be one of the country’s tightest elections in years.

The incumbent centre-right National Party, which governs in coalition with ACT and New Zealand First, is only just trailing the centre-left Labour Party in the polls.

But as voters become increasingly disillusioned by the main parties, they’re turning to smaller parties who have seen a rapid rise in the polls and may hold great sway in forming the next government.

SBS World News Reporter Tom Stayner travelled to New Zealand’s Far North to hear from voters ahead of this weekend’s vote.

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