Mike Hosking: Labour can't understand they've divided this country

Willow-Jean Prime, who I think it is fair to suggest will lose her Northland seat this time around, has nevertheless been out on the hustings campaigning and she has struck trouble.

She has been in local and national politics for 20 years and has never seen racism like it, she says. She calls it unhinged.

Mike Hosking: We are all equal, or the country is shot

I suspect Dr Shane Reti is one of the many doctors up and down this country who sees the ethnicity ranking in our health system the same way we do.

He would refuse to do it, he says.

The upside for him is he gets to repeal it in a couple of months should the election go the way we think it will.