Quick Hit: NZ First Is No Side Character
Spinoff demoted Winston Peters to a side character. Strip out NZ First’s 12 seats and the coalition loses its majority.
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National and TPM both benefit from overhangs. The evidence about how they got there differs, but a serious review must examine both.
Quick Hit: The Fiscal Update in Numbers and Who Paid for the Better Books
The deficit is $3 billion for the quarter, $1.4 billion better than Treasury forecast. Treasury’s own pre-election update says part of the improvement comes from inflation lifting the tax take.
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.
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The End of the Two-Party Era
The votes have been counted, but there is no clear victor. Instead, New Zealanders delivered a clear message to both major parties and rewarded the smaller. Will lessons be learned?
There’s No Vacancy. Just Two Losses.
Hipkins says there is no vacancy and the election is not over. The caucus may wait until 27 November. It will not wait forever.
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The billionaire founder of tech companies Adaytum and Anaplan has been vocal about New Zealand’s poor economic performance in the past decade and says the country needs stability and a long-term plan.