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.

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.

The Alliance Party says Budget 2026 is managed decline in spreadsheet form: cuts to public services, more militarisation and nothing for working people.

The Government says there’s no money for social needs, yet billions appear for war and military expansion. Peace Action Wellington says the priorities are grotesque.
Trillions for war. Cuts for people. The Military Industrial Complex doesn’t just win — it decides.

Peace Action Wellington plans a noise protest outside Parliament as Lockheed Martin and other weapons firms meet with officials.