Greens Attack Luxon’s ‘DOGE Style’ Public Cuts
The Greens say Luxon’s “DOGE style” austerity agenda is hollowing out public services while frontline workers pay the price.

The Greens say Luxon’s “DOGE style” austerity agenda is hollowing out public services while frontline workers pay the price.

Labour warns Nicola Willis’ planned public sector cuts could devastate regional economies while making public services slower and weaker.

The CTU says Nicola Willis is pushing reckless austerity cuts while gambling on AI and consultants to replace public sector workers.
Election 2026 is becoming a political knife fight over who gets heard, who gets blamed and who gets protected. Independent media has never mattered more.
The State is taking money from beneficiaries and handing it to debt collectors while taxpayers fund emergency support to keep those same people afloat.

From the placards to the rhetoric, NZ’s fuel tax protests are beginning to look like the Parliament lawn movement with a petrol twist.

After disability carers won in the Supreme Court, the Government’s response is to rewrite the law and strip protections away again.

NZ’s economy is dominated by monopolies and duopolies. If BNZ should return to public ownership, maybe that argument applies elsewhere too.

The Government is once again selling public service cuts as “efficiency” while New Zealand faces economic instability, climate disasters and collapsing infrastructure. The real debate isn’t bureaucracy, it’s whether the State still has the capacity to function.

Tory Whanau was publicly torn apart for rumours and innuendo, yet Ray Chung’s resignation following police concerns around an emergency response has generated nowhere near the same level of scrutiny. The contrast says a lot about who the media chooses to target.