Kiwis feel strongly that our political system is not working as it should.

2 in 3 Kiwis Think our politicians don’t care about people like them.

And only 39% of Kiwis Think the system works for the majority of people.

Many Kiwis are worried the country is becoming more polarised (61%) and that our best years are behind us as a country (67%).

But we still have faith our system can be improved (68%), and we think it's our politicians who should fix it.

65% of Kiwis think politicians would do a better job than successful business leaders would.

And we’re pretty split on weather experts (50%) or Kiwis ourselves (56%) could do any better.

And Kiwis are pretty clear how we expect our politicians to do that:

• We want our politicians to listen to us more (84%)

  • and argue with each other less (64%).

• Kiwis want our politicians to be focused on balancing different perspectives (74%)

• that it is better for big political decisions in NZ to be the result of discussion, negotiation and compromise (60%)

• and that we need our politicians to do that so we can make progress as a country (69%)