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: Unemployment Hits 5.7% and Winston Saw It Coming
Unemployment is at 5.7%, 174,000 people are out of work and long-term joblessness is the highest since 1994. Winston Peters says he told National and ACT to delay their tax cuts.
Quick Hit: Where National’s 2023 Voters Went
RNZ-Reid Research shows only 56.9 per cent of National’s 2023 voters still back the party. ACT and NZ First now hold 18.4 per cent of them.
Quick Hit: What NZ First Says It Delivered for Superannuitants, Checked
Winston Peters read out a list in Papakura. We checked it against the official record.
Quick Hit: Labour built the blob, and even 9,000 cuts won’t shrink it back
Department bosses have been told to model a 15 per cent staff cut. Even the 55,000 target leaves the public service bigger than the one Labour inherited in 2017.
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Time to Look Back in Anger
The police exist to establish facts, investigate criminality and protect the public. They should not be enforcement officers for political orthodoxy. Some officers are clearly now more concerned about appearing sufficiently progressive rather than exercising independent professional judgement.
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[The Good Oil] Stuff Up of the Day
Check out the latest media stuff ups both locally and around the world.
The West’s Free Speech Consensus Is Fracturing
European crackdowns on citizen speech is provoking Washington to respond. Will free expression become a transatlantic fault line?