New Zealand First's "war on woke" is delivering Winston Peters' party a political dividend, pushing the populist force to fresh heights in a pair of polls.
At the half-way point of Chris Luxon's coalition government, both New Zealand's major polling firms released new surveys this week, delivering differing outcomes for the first-term administration.
Mr Luxon's three-party right-wing coalition would be returned to power on the TVNZ-Verian numbers, with a tight win over the left bloc.