New Zealand's right-leaning coalition looks increasingly likely to be a one-term government, with two new polls putting the group in an election-losing position.
The polls underscore the tricky position Prime Minister Chris Luxon finds himself as his three-party government nears the halfway mark of its first term.
New Zealand is deep in an economic mire, with GDP falling by two per cent last year, and in an existential and divisive debate over the place of Maori, fuelled by an unpopular government reform.