There are just ten days to go until voting closes in the general election.
Labour's Chris Hipkins and National's Christopher Luxon will face-off for one final televised debate next week.
The South Island-focused contest hosted by The Press is unlikely to go ahead with those leaders at any time.
The prime minister, who's isolating with a covid-19 infection, says he'll make himself available as soon as he's well.
But the leader of the opposition says he can't find the time in his very busy campaign to reschedule.
Hipkins says it's because his opponent is too chicken to debate the issues affecting the 1.2 million New Zealanders living in Te Waipounamu.
Well is he?
National Party leader Christopher Luxon spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
