The lesson from CPAC Australia is that voters notice when parties drift from the values that originally earned their support. Whether New Zealand’s major parties recognise that lesson before the next election remains to be seen.
Hipkins and Luxon tied on 20 per cent, National and Labour on 34 seats each and Opportunity holding the balance. The kingmaker who won the debate had already said dropping her own tax reform was worth considering. Electorate vote National, party vote ACT or NZ First.
The Whanganui River gets two guardians to speak for it in law. The baby born alive after a botched abortion gets nobody.
Mr Wooten said ArkeaBio expected to submit an application for regulatory approval in 2027, having spent the past two years working with the government on the process, and wants to be generating revenue the following year.
Responding to Willis’s warning that there was no such thing as a free lunch, Edmonds, a mother of eight, said she agreed. “There is no free lunch. Lunch always costs… But ultimately, it comes down to the choices you make, and this is taxpayers’ dollars. We have to be responsible around it.”
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”.
If the National Party caucus had accepted Christopher Luxon’s challenge to replace him.
Labour says Luxon costs you $6302 a year. National says Labour will cost you $2263. Neither of them is cutting your income tax. The only party offering a business tax cut it has costed is NZ First.
Under Hipkins, New Zealand recorded a big fall in maths achievement in the 2022 PISA results. I know what happens when children are not guaranteed time to learn maths. I have seen it twice in my own family.
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”.
Winston Peters says Luxon and Hipkins will not decide this election and the media is still running it like first past the post. Two more Chris-on-Chris debates are booked. The kingmaker is the story nobody is billing.
It will move people around in the benefit system rather than out of it.
