Back in July, farmers and their friends took to the streets of more than 50 towns and cities in New Zealand in 'A Howl of Protest' against what they said is a "a tsunami of regulations." Today the Groundswell movement is promising 'the Mother of all Protests' - and this time anger about vaccine mandates and the Covid response has made the mix more volatile.
The editor of the 115-year-old King Country News Heather Carston takes the temperature for us in her region.