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Quick Hit: Two Ticks Against Your Partner
Paul Goldsmith, sixth on National's list, is door-knocking Epsom for two ticks blue against David Seymour. National is polling with no list headroom and needs ACT's seats to govern.
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Quick Hit: Immoral Until the Cheque Clears
A Green MP says being a billionaire is immoral and a Green candidate wants the rich drug tested at charity events. In 2023, the party banked $50,000 from James Cameron, now a Forbes billionaire.
Quick Hit: Back to the Dual Mandate
Barbara Edmonds wants unemployment back in the Reserve Bank’s mandate. Labour added it in 2018 and the coalition took it out. Last time, cheap money came with an inflation bill.
Quick Hit: Pharmac Said No in May
National wants $604m more for medicines, paid for mostly by a 10 per cent aid cut with the Pacific protected. In May its own budget turned down Pharmac’s request of about $800m and gave it $54m.
Quick Hit: Quarter-Trillion and No Books
Taxpayers’ Union puts Green promises at $236.7b, or $114,239 a household, after the passenger rail add. Swarbrick wants Finance. Full books still weeks away.
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Paying readers got the full cut this week. Free readers got a teaser, or the wall. Three pieces that prove the point.
Winston Brought the Majority
NZ First is up to 12 per cent and 16 seats and that is what puts the coalition on 65. National’s party vote still buys no list MP. Electorate vote National, party vote ACT or NZ First.
Greenpeace NZ with Professor Jane Kelsey Are Sandbagging New Zealand
Greenpeace NZ, with Professor Jane Kelsey, is sandbagging New Zealand.