NZ Politics — Election 2026 — Chris Hipkins — Labour Party — Barbara Edmonds — Nicola Willis — National Party — Christopher Luxon — Pay Equity — Green Party — Chloe Swarbrick — NZ First — Winston Peters
If the Plan Matches National’s, the Bill Is What Labour Is Hiding
Labour kept Willis’s $2.4b allowance, hit surplus in the same year, costed one pay equity claim, and parked the rest in $10.5b of “headroom”. Luxon v Hipkins is Tuesday. Ask who signed the IOU.
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Quick Hit: Quarter-Trillion and No Books
Taxpayers’ Union puts Green promises at $236.7b, or $114,239 a household, after the passenger rail add. Swarbrick wants Finance. Full books still weeks away.
Welfare Is Missing From the Campaign
Dragging eyes away from aimless, spirit-sapping, benefit-dependence towards resented superannuitants might play well politically, but it won’t address the disaster that welfarism is. Who is going to talk about it?
When a Cycleway Makes Your Builder Think Twice
If we are going to spend substantial sums of public money and permanently alter the way people live, work, shop, visit one another and move around their city, we should have the evidence to demonstrate that the promised benefits are actually being delivered.
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Quick Hit: Quarter-Trillion and No Books
Taxpayers’ Union puts Green promises at $236.7b, or $114,239 a household, after the passenger rail add. Swarbrick wants Finance. Full books still weeks away.
Welfare Is Missing From the Campaign
Dragging eyes away from aimless, spirit-sapping, benefit-dependence towards resented superannuitants might play well politically, but it won’t address the disaster that welfarism is. Who is going to talk about it?
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