Labour Slams National’s Social Housing Cuts
Labour says National is forcing vulnerable social housing tenants to pay for Budget savings through higher rents and reduced support.

Labour says National is forcing vulnerable social housing tenants to pay for Budget savings through higher rents and reduced support.

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

The Greens say National’s planned NCEA overhaul could push thousands of students out of education success and back towards outdated standardised assessment.

After cutting housing and social support, the Government now wants police powers to move on and punish the homeless its own policies helped create.

National claims the NCEA replacement will lift standards, but critics see something far darker… An education system rebuilt around competition, conformity and private interests.

KiwiBank was created to protect New Zealand’s economic independence. Selling it off now would hand even more power to Australian banks already extracting massive profits from Kiwi households.

Kāinga Ora is being accused of abandoning its public housing purpose as developments are scrapped, properties sold off and homelessness deepens.

The Waitangi Tribunal has delivered a brutal warning over the Government’s education reforms, and the Greens say Luxon can no longer hide the ideological agenda underneath them.

With petrol and diesel prices surging, Labour says National’s planned fuel excise increase would pile even more pressure onto families and businesses already stretched to breaking point.

Labour says the Coalition Government’s approach to te Tiriti and education reform is driving Māori-Crown relations into dangerous territory. With tamariki Māori paying the price.