MPs have some of the highest pressure jobs in New Zealand, and the stressors aren’t always what you might think. So does anyone help them carry the load, and how do they personally cope?
A relative of the man badly beaten by a dozen gang members over the weekend has hit out at the politicians who repeated the same-old slogans at a community meeting last night. Videos on social media show the patched Rebel gang members circling a man as he lies on the ground, beating him and kicking him hard in the face. Following a community outcry, a meeting was held in Coromandel Town last night, attended by local and national political leaders. But as Tom Taylor reports, the meeting did little to quell locals' fears of further violence.
If there’s one group who we don’t hear enough about, it’s the photographers who cover Parliament. A new exhibition is casting light on five of these practitioners. We talk to two of them.