Quick Hit — Labour Party — 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: Stuff Checked Labour’s $6,000 Bill and Found the Credits Missing
Stuff fact-checked Labour’s “Cost of Luxon” line by line. Some numbers hold, rates come in at about half and the document counts every cost while leaving out tax cuts, mortgage savings and FamilyBoost. Chris Hipkins admits it “does not account for changes in income”.
Quick Hit: $2.19 Million Says Cap It
Opportunity wants a $30,000 donation cap. Gareth Morgan has given it $2,190,617. Pull the ladder up once you are on the roof.
Quick Hit: 284,000 Jobs by Masterplan
The Greens say their nearly $6 billion economic plan will create 284,000 jobs over four years. Treasury already forecasts 220,000 of them. Marama Davidson says what’s missing is “the masterplan”.
Quick Hit: Now Is Not The Time
National’s fiscal plan offers no income tax cuts until the books are in surplus in 2028/29, only a “pathway to potential tax relief”. Nicola Willis still called National “the party of low tax”.
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‘World’s Oldest Living Culture’ Acts Exactly Like It
Captains of Aboriginal Industry brawling in the boardroom and organising fist-fights.
I Asked AI to Find Chris Hipkins’s Worldview
Luxon is a manager who keeps his values private. Swarbrick is a theorist who says so. Hipkins is the one to watch. He doesn’t talk about his ideology, he legislates it.
Georgia Waddington on Preparing for Miss Universe
The victory has secured her place at the 75th Miss Universe competition in Puerto Rico in November, 43 years after Lorraine Downes won the international title in 1983.
