It may not mean a lot to people on this side of the Tasman (besides Barnaby Joyce and Scott Ludlum), but across the ditch there’s a general election with ramifications for Australian politics.

New Zealand votes on 23 September. The National Party-led conservative coalition of Prime Minister Bill English is being hotly challenged by a resurgent Labour party led by a telegenic and newly-selected 37-year-old leader, Jacinda Ardern.