Housing, inequality, climate: what the Guardian's New Zealand readers asked Jacinda Ardern

As an election year approaches, several key themes emerged from questions you sent in for the prime minister

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As New Zealanders count down to the end of tumultuous year and look ahead to the election in 2020, the Guardian asked readers which questions they would like to pose to Jacinda Ardern.

We will publish the prime minister's answers on Monday, but here we lay out the topics that people in New Zealand felt were the most pressing.