The Wire

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and Nationals leader Don Brash are neck and neck in the polls, and both are frantically churning out attractive policies to try and sway voters. Brash believes he may get more people on the National’s side by abolishing the fixed Maori seats currently held in parliament. Head of Politics and Auckland University, Professor Jack Vowles, gives the lowdown on the political race so far, and President of the Maori Party Professor Whatarangi Winiata says the indigenous Maori’s are being pushed aside in favour of other issues.