The Poverty Premium in New Zealand: Why Working-Class Kiwis Pay More for Everything From Credit to Entertainment
The poverty premium may be the quietest tax in New Zealand. It is paid not by those with the broadest…
Author: The Daily Blog
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How New Zealand’s Gambling Regulation Debate Reflects the Broader Fight Against Corporate Capture
The current debate over gambling regulation in New Zealand is often presented as a narrow argument about licensing, compliance, and…
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Labour finally delivers with public transport policy that saves commuters $120 per month
Oh thank you sweet Jesus… Labour reveals public transport fare cap in long-awaited election policy The Labour Party has pledged…
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ACT demands more slaves for farmers
ACT Party book burner Andrew Hoggard may be the dumbest MP in the NZ Parliament. Watching him struggle to hide…
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Halving Food Banks will cost us all
One of the real frustrations of this Government is their needless counterproductive cruelty. Every single agency that worked with the…
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Political Caption Competition
Two rednecks tried to explain NZ First’s coalition strategy- they accidentally formed three different governments and collapsed all of them.
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Open Mic – WEDNESDAY 10th JUNE 2026
FACT OF THE DAY: The sun makes up about 99.86% of the total mass of the entire solar system. POLITICAL…
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Serious questions remain on LNG facility – Labour
The Government is rushing into a multi-billion dollar commitment to import gas without explaining how relying on volatile international markets…
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Calls for Ombudsman to open wider investigation into private back-channel emails in Luxon’s office – Green
The Green Party is calling for a fulsome investigation into the use of private email in the Prime Minister’s Office, after an…
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Budget 2026 hides a nearly $500 million KiwiSaver hole across the public service – Greens
The Green Party says Budget 2026 leaves a hole of nearly half a billion dollars, the cost of the higher…
