Budget 2026: National Fails Final Test – Labour
Barbara Edmonds says Budget 2026 was National’s last chance to prove it had a plan. Instead, families get higher rents, job cuts and more pressure.

Barbara Edmonds says Budget 2026 was National’s last chance to prove it had a plan. Instead, families get higher rents, job cuts and more pressure.

Most accounting firms don’t realize they’ve outgrown their systems until something starts slipping. Usually, it’s not a major disaster. It’s…

It’s one of the first questions people ask when they’re considering a heat pump: what will it actually add to…

David Seymour thinks councils can be bribed into fixing housing. Dave Bainbridge-Zafar says the real blockage is in Wellington, where state housing has been abandoned for market theatre.

David Farrar is the biggest Karen on the Right, second only to Sean Plunkett and anyone hosting any show on…

The Alliance Party says today’s health Budget is a politically convenient headline built on a structural illusion, and that throwing…

Today’s Budget makes clear the heavy price public services, and all New Zealanders will pay to make Nicola Willis’s numbers…

Luxon says he is committed to New Zealand’s Paris climate target. Budget 2026 shows no plan to meet it and no honest accounting for the potentially massive bill.

Higher rents, fewer public servants and less help for people already struggling. Chris Hipkins says Budget 2026 proves National has chosen who pays.

They pulled the funding and thought Martyn Bradbury would disappear. One year later, The Bradbury Group is bigger, louder and heading straight into Election 2026.