Quick Hit — Political Intelligence — Chris Hipkins — Marama Davidson — Barbara Edmonds — Nicola Willis — Pay Equity — Greens — Labour Party — Election 2026 — NZ Politics
Quick Hit: The Number Chippy Won’t Name
Greens put about $1.1 billion a year, roughly $4.48 billion over four years, on care-worker pay equity. Hipkins called the 2025 change the most reprehensible thing he has seen and still will not cost the reverse. Moral fury without a price tag is not a budget.
Related
Quick Hit: Own It, Both Of You
National pledges a digital trans-Tasman trial before the 2028 T20 World Cup. Hipkins says he and Albanese agreed it in 2023. Luxon says you need National to get things done. The row is about credit, not caution. Own it, both of you.
Quick Hit: Family Farm Means the Invoice
Luxton could not define family farm on HDPA, then walked dairy accommodation into a proportionate CGT. National claims an $18.8b hole. Sold a farm exemption, taxed the cowshed.
Quick Hit: We Have Room
Day after PREFU, Hipkins tells Hosking there is room for pay equity in Labour's fiscal plan but will not put a line item on it. The costing is a vibe. The spend is a promise.
Quick Hit: Willis’s Better Books Came Partly Out of Your Trolley
Treasury has the deficit at $6.8 billion and next year within $0.8 billion of surplus. It says that is partly inflation lifting the tax take while spending allowances stay fixed, which is how Willis got there with no new taxes.
Latest
If You Interview Chlöe
The Greens can opt for materialism or irrationalism, but they can’t forever attempt to accommodate both.
Traitors in Our Midst
Homegrown subversives conspire with a Netherlands NGO to try and ruin New Zealand.
Your Good Oil AI desk Is Open
You’re a Good Oil VIP. Here’s early access to Good Oil AI: Ask, MPs, polls, markets and more.