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Week of 25 May 2026
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National Party Donation War Chest

6 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 7 May 2026

The National Party has amassed over $11 million in donations, significantly outpacing other parties, and is set to have the largest election-year campaign war chest in New Zealand.

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Alias drift

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 2 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • Well, but the other thing is, just so you know, it won't be a BHN debate, it'll be on the BHN network. It'll probably they'll probably be called like the big hairy health debate and the big hairy finance debate. Uh, because are we actually we're aware? I mean, we we're blatant about our bias, and I'm aware that there might be some on the other side of politics that don't want to come on board because they think they're being set up for something, they're not, um, but they may not accept that from us. So, what we're trying to do is not make it so that Barb, for example, who's just been on, feels like she's got home court advantage. If it was BHN, you know, there's a chance that some people would feel like they've got home court advantage and others wouldn't. So we are going to keep it obviously within the network, but it will have some of its own unique branding. I've seen a couple of times. The very last thing people talk about tickets, uh, we are going to ticket it. There may be a cost to those tickets. I'm not sure yet. Um, but we will probably only have space. Well, in Dunedin for maybe 150 people, I am a little bit worried we're gonna have more of a demand than we have for, but that's one of the reasons we're live streaming it. Uh in South Auckland, I don't know, we're sort of looking around for a Mudai or somewhere that'll be cool to hold the titility debate on. Uh in Wellington, we're talking about the National Library. Um, so we're we're we're looking and we're on the hunt. But our big news for this year for the second half of this year, is hoping to do these live debates. Well, I'm saying we're doing them. The only reason we wouldn't be doing them, um, because you know, patrons, thank you. This is the kind of stuff we talk about when we talk about we can we can you know start to project and think about the future. Um, the only reason we wouldn't be doing them is if we didn't feel the engagement from the other side was worth it. Because even though Chewy, you kind of say, oh, you know, they say we won't come on or they won't come on.
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spinoff Centre-left

financial dominance with historical consistency

Six months and six million dollars until the election
7 May
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How the public reacted

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