Election 2026

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National's Erica Stanford says the Government's put a lot of work into boosting educational outcomes - and she wants students to improve.  The Party is campaigning on requiring students to stay in school until they finish Year 11, rather than being able to leave as soon as they turn 16. Stan…

Hss Paddock to Pantry just confirmed what most of us who think the whole “blow up the super market” game is stupid …were in fact right? The most open display of pandering to the lowest common denominator I have seen in years is virtually every party promising to take you to the promised isle of ch…

ACT Leader David Seymour suspects it'll be events that'll drive a lift in the Super age, rather than a particular party. His party and National are both campaigning on gradually raising the super age to 67. Labour and New Zealand First are both campaigning to keep it at 65. Seymour says the chan…

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Careful Who You Bring Back from the Dead/Murder Is Not a Hard Luck Story/Are Politicians First Responders Too?/The New Supermarket In Town (well... in some towns) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's thought young people need to master basic life skills,  before making decisions about their futures. National wants to require students to stay in school until they complete Year 11, unless an exemption applies. Currently, students can leave once they turn 16. Blue Light Ventures Chief…

Chris Luxon says National's continuing to take the same fiscal approach, as it did under Sir John Key and Sir Bill English. National's fiscal plan - due out today - would involve a return to surplus a year later, than under Act's plan released yesterday. Luxon told Mike Hosking National is contin…

There’s been a concerted campaign bby Don Brash and Nick Mowbray to get National voters to split their vote to engineer an overhang  A move John Key has said would be the opposite of clever  In the Weekend Don Brash went to press again to say why it’s a good idea  The upshot being…

More New Zealanders are looking to their Kiwisaver to get them to the future, or to their first-home with the property market on a down-turn.  Because of that, the election's become a more vested interest for voters, with the future of their KiwiSaver determined by what Government forms. So w…

The Green Party's announced a jobs guarantee programme for young people who've been out of work for 6 months, with unemployment at an 11-year high, and three times worse for younger people. The party says the country's infrastructure and nature need maintenance and care, but community services are…