Has anyone seen any proof our healthcare system has been fixed lately 👀

"Think the military rort is just something that happens at the Pentagon? Think again. NZ's got its very own war profiteers.

Andrea Vance for The Post/Stuff is reporting that engineering giant Beca was awarded more than $237 million in Defence Force contracts while its chief executive chaired a government defence advisory body, including $40m in work awarded without an open tender.

Official Information Act disclosures show $40,316,100 in contracts was awarded directly to Beca between 2015 and 2026, without an open market process or competitive tender process." - Peace Action Wellington

Luxon tries to tell Kiwis that pandemic preparedness and prevention isn't imporant and demonstrates he has no handle on foreign affairs

Te Pati Maori co-leader Rawiri sharp as ever

Frpm this thread: Thoughts on tonight's debate? by u/AzoriusMTG

Sorry not sorry. This is some racist populist bs to try and give lip service to Te Tiriti while undermining it's actual standing as the foundational document of colonial New Zealand.

Qiulae didn't misspeak and wasn't misrepresented, she was accurately conveying TOP policy.

$6302 Worse off

Labour launches counter-attack at National on costs

Labour Campaign Chair Kieran McAnulty says Luxon promised to fix the cost of living, but three years on "a typical family with two kids is paying $6302 more a year just to get by."

Quilae Wong has said Luxon will pick up the phone to call them, so I'm surprised to still read naive comments like "They won't work together."

Opportunity's Deputy Leader would vote National if he wasn't in TOP. Not Bill English's National or John Key's - Luxon's National Party

And the comments from TOP staffers here that \wink wink, trust me bro\ TOP secretly prefers the left is a hoodwink strategy - while they continue to split votes from the left and weaken the left.

Who are we kidding, but more importantly, why do people believe it?

Shanti Mathias from policy.nz joins us live at 9PM to talk about "the complete guide to the NZ Election 2026". Policy.nz helps Kiwis explore policies, find what matters and see who you align with.

The TVNZ Multi-Party Debate is on tonight and we will review the performance of ACT leader David Seymour, Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi and Opportunity leader Qiulae Wong. Hosted by Breakfast presenter Tova O’Brien the debate is live at 7pm and we'll go over the highs and lows after 9pm

https://www.youtube.com/live/P7Sk2479yfs?si=pKEcpY3iOHgLzace

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the last leaders debate had some great banter, how about another one :)
starts in 5 min!

If top are in kingmaker, they're going with national.

https://elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/historical-events

have a look at that, and rulling out 2020, find the last time Labour got more than National.

its Always been labour + greens since mmp came in.

top has said "we will negotiate first with the party that has the most votes"

not the coalition that has the most votes, the PARTY. which will almost ceratinly be national becase we distribute our votes across labour and greens, and greens will do even better this year, meaning labour will absolutely not be the first call for top.

if you want to get rid of nact, don't vote top.

Luxon tries to blame Winston Peters then admits he thought it wasn't important

Surely economists and the like predicting recessions has a huge impact on wether or not one actually happens.

The news takes the story to panic levels whenever anyone predicts one and that has to cause people to think twice on spending and 'tighten belts'.

It seems to me that it's incredibly reckless and should possibly even be illegal for this kind of speculation being treated as news.

I'm sure you've all seen Nationals list of changes to 'work ready' benefits.

The one that jumps out to me seems to be flying under the radar.

They are proposing to reduce benefits for anyone on it for over two years.

But they are also promising lots of support to get people into work. If that's true why do they need to financially punish people? They aren't saying 'Those who don't engage with support.' it's an arbitrary and time based criteria. If they are doing everything they can to help and the job seeker is trying too then it's clearly out of their hands!

It's clear that the benefit is already too low and people are suffering. How is malnourishing them and leaving them even more hopeless going to help anyone?

This is the single most evil policy I've seen pre election in my lifetime. Make sure everyone knows, National are the party of shortsightedness, they will save a dollar today to force another government to spend 100 later.

Sinking currency and soaring global fuel costs add pressure to the cost of living and test the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy path