Nine weeks out from this year's election, Jack Tame thinks we should be thinking about some issues that are less in our self-interest, and less economic.

With the news yesterday that Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington took his life, Jack thinks New Zealand's high youth suicide toll should be a major election talking point.

Additionally, with Police saying that seven people in Auckland have died in the last month from synthetic cannabis, shouldn't we be trying to change something here?

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