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.

Family carers won a path to employment rights in the Supreme Court. Now the Government has introduced a Bill to shut that path down.

Disabled communities say they were shut out again as the Government rushed through sweeping disability support law changes.

After disability carers won in the Supreme Court, the Government’s response is to rewrite the law and strip protections away again.

When the people who care for others can’t afford the petrol to get there, something’s broken.

Fuel relief New Zealand debate heats up as low-income whānau bear the cost of rising petrol prices from a war they had no role in.

The Government’s fuel relief package is under fire for excluding beneficiaries, disabled people, and carers during a worsening cost of living crisis.