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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1601/
- Published: 2026-10-12T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-12T17:30:00.000Z
- Description: “I’m going to be blunt with you, Chris Hipkins said no,” Nicola Willis said, adding she hoped to work together on a solution in the next term.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, Election 2026

> Christopher Luxon has confirmed his party will not campaign on raising the retirement age this election.  
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> “Instinctively we’re a party that believes that the age should lift ... but the reality is, we also being very pragmatic and acknowledge it requires a political consensus, and we don’t have that currently,” he said.   
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> He said National will continue working towards a bipartisan solution, but they will not do so with a predetermined outcome.  
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> Finance spokesperson Nicola Willis had previously expressed that she was very keen for a change, but acknowledged that she was not able to gather enough support.   
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> “I’m going to be blunt with you, Chris Hipkins said no,” she said, adding she hoped to work together on a solution in the next term.   
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> “This is bigger than one election campaign. This is about New Zealand’s New Zealanders’ \[sic\] future entitlement and their retirement, and I want them to have security about that. So let’s work together on it,” she said.   
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