Fuel Price Spike New Zealand Hits Households
Petrol up. Diesel soaring. Everything else follows. For households already stretched, this isn’t pressure — it’s breaking point.

Petrol up. Diesel soaring. Everything else follows. For households already stretched, this isn’t pressure — it’s breaking point.

If Luxon falls, it won’t stabilise National — it could detonate the whole political cycle.

When disaster hits, it’s not politicians on the frontline — it’s marae. The question is why we’re still not funding them like it.

Luxon promised fewer jobseekers. Instead, tens of thousands more Kiwis are out of work — and the numbers are still climbing.

When Ministers praise “resilience”, are they applauding communities — or quietly preparing us to expect less help when climate disasters hit?

We tax wages. We tax spending. But wealth? Not so much. The CTU says that imbalance can’t survive another election cycle.

If the fuel crisis gets worse, what exactly is the Government’s plan? Labour says Luxon still can’t answer the one question New Zealanders deserve answered.

Trump’s geopolitical madness won’t stay in the Middle East. It’s coming for your groceries, your mortgage, your job and every excuse this Government makes for staying silent.

Iran threatens to close it. Trump says he’ll close it first. Oil spikes. Markets panic. And somehow this is meant to be strategy?

Bend the logic hard enough and anything looks defensible. That’s the trick. That’s also the tell.