The election campaign was in full swing today as Winston Peters took pot shots at his coalition partners and previous governments during a fiery speech laying out his plan for the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter.
The New Zealand First leader spoke to a packed room at Invercargill's Workingmen's Club on Friday afternoon.
He told the 250 strong-crowd that if elected, his party would commit to a 20-year agreement with Rio Tinto and a 10-year review.
But as RNZ Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown found out, not everyone is convinced by his plan.
