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 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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The Puritan Budget: Budget 2026 Punishes the Poor
State tenants pay more. Students lose Fees Free. Beneficiaries are squeezed. The rich remain protected. This is not a recovery Budget, it is punishment with a sermon attached.
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Budget 2026 Cuts: The Abandonment Budget
State tenants pay more. Students lose Fees Free. Beneficiaries are squeezed. Banks get a token levy. Budget 2026 is not recovery, it is abandonment.
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Ending Fees Free Punishes Young New Zealanders
Student debt, impossible rents and collapsing home ownership aren’t accidents, they’re the economic architecture of modern New Zealand, and young people are paying for it.
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Government Cuts Education Funding As Youth Jobless Rate Climbs
Young people can’t find work, can’t afford study and are leaving the country in record numbers, yet the Government is still cutting education support.
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Greens Slam Fees Free Cuts Amid Youth Crisis
Young New Zealanders are leaving, unemployment is climbing, and the Government’s answer is to make tertiary education harder to afford.
