If You Interview Chlöe
The Greens can opt for materialism or irrationalism, but they can’t forever attempt to accommodate both.
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.
Traitors in Our Midst
Homegrown subversives conspire with a Netherlands NGO to try and ruin New Zealand.
Desperation Is a Stinky Cologne
Key says it will be tight getting Willis, Bishop, Goldsmith and Brownlee home. About 125,000 extra party votes for just one list MP, only if National holds 39 electorates. When the scare is Laws and Henry, panic is a confession.
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.
Hipkins the Hypocrite
Hipkins called Harry Mowbray’s split-vote campaign an absolute rort by wealthy entrenched interests. Under MMP an overhang is a feature, not a loophole. Chippy only hates it when his mates aren’t running it. If it is absolute fraud, rule Te Pāti Māori out. He will not.
Apparently, the Jews Don’t Need to Be Asked
The next time a Star of David appears alongside one of the oldest antisemitic stereotypes in existence, here is a radical suggestion for the media: Ask a Jew.
From Major to Middling
Economic credibility is hard to earn. Once lost, it is even harder to regain. Compare the PREFU with what was promised and it is easy to see why 44 per cent of us no longer have confidence in either of the two middling parties.
Protest on Anniversary Weekend of Oct 7
NZ Against Hamas is holding a counterprotest. Victim blaming on the anniversary weekend of October 7 of all days is a sickening act of evil.
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.
One Point In Mt Albert
Spinoff-Curia has Helen White on 33 and Melissa Lee on 32 in Mt Albert. Eighteen votes decided it in 2023. ACT and NZ First should clear the field for Lee. Every National electorate win without a list seat is another box for Willis, Bishop and Goldsmith.
Strategic Voting in the 2026 Election
Individuals within National face a disincentive toward an overhang. For high-ranking list figures like Nicola Willis (ranked second) and Chris Bishop (ranked third), an overhang scenario would force them out of parliament entirely.
Shout to the Top
If the planet were the priority, the pamphlet would lead with rivers, soil, fish and power that actually stays on. But, no: it leads with who owns the grocery aisle and who pays 45 per cent.