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Election 2023: Photos from the campaign trail, Tuesday 12 September

21:45 pm on 12 September 2023

With just over a month until the general election, Tuesday's highlights from the election trail included protest, food and finances.

Here are a selection of images RNZ photographers and reporters snapped today.

Christopher Luxon on Petone's beachfront in the morning. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone

Taxpayers' Union executive director Jordan Williams pushed his way through to Luxon and interviewed him about government debt. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone

Luxon and Chris Bishop then visited The Neighbourhood cafe in Lower Hutt. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone

Labour leader Chris Hipkins was in Christchurch this morning and visited a local pharmacy. Photo: RNZ / Katie Scotcher

Hipkins spoke with Pharmacy Guild president Des Bailey. Photo: RNZ / Katie Scotcher

At lunch time, Hipkins stopped at the Riverside Market and Rollickin Gelato, where Luxon visited last week. Photo: RNZ / Katie Scotcher

Climate protestors at Riverside Market chanted "We thought Labour supported universities" before Hipkins arrived. Photo: RNZ / Katie Scotcher

Green Party co-leader James Shaw in Auckland. The Green Party is campaigning to sit around the Cabinet table with the Labour Party, he said. Photo: RNZ / Jemima Huston

Luxon visiting the Mexicano corn chip factory. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone

Hipkins having a steak and cheese pie while out campaigning in Christchurch. Photo: RNZ / Katie Scotcher

ACT leader David Seymour talking to Taxpayer Union's executive director Jordan Williams outside Parliament where the group staged a sausage sizzle, 'selling' snags to help pay off government debt. Photo: RNZ / Anneke Smith

Grant Robertson at the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU) briefing at Parliament. Photo: RNZ / Angus Dreaver

Luxon and deputy Nicola Willis following the PREFU announcement. Photo: RNZ / Giles Dexter