Quick Hit — Labour — Chris Hipkins — Election 2026 — Political Intelligence — NZ Politics — Winston Peters
Quick Hit: Fifteen Questions. Roaming.
Hipkins dropped 15 written questions on Pacific roaming and SIM cards weeks from the election. Suit: some SIM cards at USD $35. Fifteen questions. Roaming. Country can wait.
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Quick Hit: 880,000 Costumes
TPU puts a red price tag on $880k from the Major Events Fund for a World of WearableArt exhibition. Upston sells visitors and Kiwi creativity. Major Events Fund. Minor accountability. Eight hundred and 80 thousand costumes. One line on the invoice.
Quick Hit: Two Hundred And One Billion
Taxpayers’ Union Bribe-O-Meter puts Opportunity at $201 billion over four years. Another $407m Industry Energy Resilience this week. Hope has an invoice. $201 billion. Still other people’s money.
Quick Hit: Make NZ Healthy
NZ First Make NZ Healthy: prevention over medicines that manage decline and sell another Pharmac cheque. Nutrition curriculum, metabolic health, written consent, GP autonomy, Medsafe/Pharmac barriers, Vit D and IV C trials are selling a different destination.
Quick Hit: Labour Breaks Both. Nat Breaks One. ACT Breaks Nothing.
Labour would force Woolworths and Foodstuffs to split retail from wholesale. National still hedges Foodstuffs behind ComCom. Seymour brings the scissors. Breakup season. Same aisle. Three scripts. Labour breaks both. Nat breaks one (maybe). ACT breaks nothing.
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Change of Government Coming to Victoria?
Whichever party wins the state election, I don’t see a solution to the state’s enormous debt burden in the short term.
‘I Was Trying to Protect My Child’
And the educational bureaucracy will punish you for it, while protecting the abusers.
It Is a Butter Chicken Tsunami
Flood a nation with different cultures at warp speed and watch what happens
Fifty Point Seven Million. Confidence For Now.
Fifty point seven million wasted on Immigration NZ biometrics. Contempt for misleading parliament. Offered to resign. Still employed. Confidence for now.