You say: What’s the most important issue?

Piripi Amohau, 18, hairdressing student, Lower Hutt

Making the right vote. I don’t mind people judging me, it’s just ... a big deal deciding who is going to take leadership over New Zealand, and I just feel like people should, instead of vocally saying it out loud, just keep it to yourself.

Daisy Xu, 40, marketing specialist, Lower Hutt

Education. International student recruitments seems to be slowed down a little bit, because people, especially prospective students, are kind of holding their enrolment. Whereas New Zealand education schools and institutes, they would rather wait until after the election to see how the result goes and then make their decision.

Earl Hawtim, 68, retired/statistical researcher, Lower Hutt

Poverty and housing. The poverty situation is horrendous, you see people sleeping in the streets and all that. There must be some way in which we can take them completely out of circulation and put them into a better situation than they’ll ever be in.

Kirsty Evison, 75, retired teacher, Lower Hutt

Education, poverty and local retailing. I’minterested to knowmore about child poverty. I don’t think that throwing $1000 more a year at a poverty-stricken family is necessarily going to end up with shoes on the children. That’s the bit that bothers me, but it needs to be addressed.

Luke Hewson, 22, unemployed, Lower Hutt

Poverty and homelessness. There’s families that don’t have houses and they have to live in cars and stuff. I’mgoing to vote for Labour because it seems like [Jacinda Ardern] is going to do all the right things to help others and National’s just not really looking too good, to be honest.