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Quick Hit: The Number Chippy Won’t Name

Greens put about $1.1 billion a year, roughly $4.48 billion over four years, on care-worker pay equity. Hipkins called the 2025 change the most reprehensible thing he has seen and still will not cost the reverse. Moral fury without a price tag is not a budget.

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Cartoon: Christopher Luxon in a bathroom reaches for a bottle labelled Desperation beside a paper showing National 28 percent

Desperation Is a Stinky Cologne

Key says it will be tight getting Willis, Bishop, Goldsmith and Brownlee home. About 125,000 extra party votes for just one list MP, only if National holds 39 electorates. When the scare is Laws and Henry, panic is a confession.

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