TUESDAY 2nd JUNE 2026 Open Mic
TUESDAY 2nd JUNE 2026 FACT OF THE DAY: Kangaroos have three vaginas. POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Returning hate for…
Author: The Daily Blog
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Budget 2026 Disinvestment Hits Whānau Hard
This is what austerity looks like when it puts on a suit. Whānau struggle, community groups carry the load, and the Government calls it responsibility.
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Budget 2026 Care Crisis While Defence Gets Billions
The Government calls this security. Care workers call it poverty wages, broken cars, impossible rent and another Budget that tells them they do not matter.
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Budget 2026 Child Poverty Failure: CPAG
The Government lowered its child poverty bar and Budget 2026 still cannot clear it. Now public housing families are being asked to pay more.
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Automated Benefit Decisions: Greens Warn of Harm
A machine will now be allowed to make decisions about benefit support. The Greens say New Zealand is walking straight towards its own robodebt disaster.
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Budget 2026 Offers Little Relief for Children in Poverty
Save the Children says Budget 2026 offers little comfort to families choosing between heating, fuel and food, while young people face fewer opportunities.
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Budget 2026 Fails Climate and Fuel Crises
Greenpeace says Budget 2026 repairs roads wrecked by climate change while refusing to cut the pollution causing the damage. That is not a plan.
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Chlöe Swarbrick Budget Speech 2026: No Plan
Chlöe Swarbrick calls Budget 2026 austerity in slow motion: a country made poorer while corporations profit and public services are left to crumble.
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National Reopens NZ Nuclear-Free Policy Debate
New Zealand’s nuclear-free stance helped define us as an independent country. Chris Hipkins says National should stop hinting it is up for negotiation.
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Political Caption Competition
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