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“Politicians are all as bad as each other,” says Mike, a retail salesperson from Porirua. “I don’t want any of them. Politics is a load of crap. You can’t believe anything anyone says.” Photo: RNZ / Kate Newton
This week, it's a Make Voting Sexy Again, written and read aloud here by Nadine Anne Hura, and published on The Spinoff.
Nadine joins The Detail's Alexia Russell to discuss why she felt compelled to write about New Zealand's clutch of eligible non-voters – 17 percent of the total population, but rising to 27 percent among Māori.
If those with the least wealth and privilege understood how much power they held collectively and exercised it at the polls, their voice really could make a difference.
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