Plunket Funding Promise Forgotten in Budget 26
They promised to fund Plunket properly. Then Budget 26 arrived, and the nurses caring for our newborn babies were left waiting again.
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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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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 Guts Tertiary Education – Labour
More than $1 billion stripped from Fees Free. Student fees rising again. Shanan Halbert says Budget 2026 abandons the generation meant to build the future.
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Southland Nitrate Contamination Needs Action Now
Southland does not need another three-year nitrate investigation while vulnerable drinking-water supplies sit at risk. Greenpeace says dairy pollution must be tackled now.
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A Black Budget Built On Human Misery – PSA
Today’s Budget makes clear the heavy price public services, and all New Zealanders will pay to make Nicola Willis’s numbers…
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Budget 2026 Exposes Luxon’s Climate Plan Trashfire
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.
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Budget 2026 Leaves Kiwis Behind – Labour
Higher rents, fewer public servants and less help for people already struggling. Chris Hipkins says Budget 2026 proves National has chosen who pays.
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Budget 2026 Child Poverty Failure Exposed – NZCCSS
A Budget promising security leaves children in poverty exactly where they were. NZCCSS says vulnerable whānau have been abandoned again.
