NZ Super: Younger Kiwis Should Be Furious
They got cheap houses, free education and the welfare state. Now propertied boomers want younger Kiwis to surrender NZ Super too.

They got cheap houses, free education and the welfare state. Now propertied boomers want younger Kiwis to surrender NZ Super too.

They promised to fund Plunket properly. Then Budget 26 arrived, and the nurses caring for our newborn babies were left waiting again.

New mothers were told three-day postnatal stays were here. Labour says the Government’s own plan shows many will wait years.

Labour has been warned for months. Now the Roy Morgan poll has delivered the punishment: a 7.5% plunge and TOP suddenly over 5%.

Private emails, hidden lobbying and big polluters trying to dodge Smith v Fonterra. This is what corporate influence looks like.

National calls it a conversation. The rest of us should call it what it is: the first greasy step toward selling nuclear-free New Zealand.

Pete Hegseth’s insult should not make New Zealand kneel harder. It should make us stand up, fund independence and stop outsourcing sovereignty.

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.

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.

Chlöe Swarbrick calls Budget 2026 austerity in slow motion: a country made poorer while corporations profit and public services are left to crumble.