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.
Budget 2026
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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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Budget 2026 Debt Monsters Are a Right-Wing Scam
The Right cuts revenue, creates the hole, then screams about debt monsters. Martyn says Budget 2026 is austerity theatre designed to protect private wealth.
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Budget 2026 and the Managed Decline of New Zealand
The Alliance Party says Budget 2026 is managed decline in spreadsheet form: cuts to public services, more militarisation and nothing for working people.
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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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Budget 2026 Leaves Pasifika Behind – Greens
Teanau Tuiono says Budget 2026 makes the Government’s priorities brutally clear: Pasifika wellbeing is cut while landlords, fossil fuels and military spending win.
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Budget 2026 Exposes This Hard-Right Government
Banks get a token levy. Public servants get the axe. State tenants get higher rents. Budget 2026 is not balance, it is class warfare dressed as discipline.
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Budget 2026 Austerity Is a Misery Budget
Workers First says Budget 2026 is a misery Budget: a crumbling house with fresh paint, built on cuts to students, women, disabled people and public servants.
