Pundits seriously describing Tuesday night's televised debate been the Labour and National leaders as...

"a wonderful debate between two centre-left politicians"

https://theworkinggroup.podbean.com/e/nz-taxpayers-union-and-working-group-post-1news-election-debate-analysis-show-wellington/

... have to be looking at political reality through a pretty distorted ideological lens. It would be stretching the truth to call them "centre-right".

This academic assessment positions both National *and* Labour policy in 2023 in the economic hard right:

https://politicalcompass.org/nz2023

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