Roy Morgan Poll Shock: Labour Plunges, TOP Hits 6%
Labour has been warned for months. Now the Roy Morgan poll has delivered the punishment: a 7.5% plunge and TOP suddenly over 5%.

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

Christchurch has seen enough wreckage. Now Matthew Horncastle wants to add a glowing billboard of rich-man grievance to the skyline.

Marama Davidson, Mike Smith, John Tamihere, Matthew Hooton and Matthew Tukaki walk into The Bradbury Group. New Zealand politics may not survive the hour.

First they came for the beneficiaries, because that’s where the State tests cruelty before rolling it out to everyone else.

A machine will now be allowed to make decisions about benefit support. The Greens say New Zealand is walking straight towards its own robodebt disaster.

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

Teanau Tuiono says Budget 2026 makes the Government’s priorities brutally clear: Pasifika wellbeing is cut while landlords, fossil fuels and military spending win.

Marama Davidson says Budget 2026 makes the Government’s priorities brutally clear: landlords, fossil fuels and military spending before Māori, whānau and taiao.

Luxon says he is committed to New Zealand’s Paris climate target. Budget 2026 shows no plan to meet it and no honest accounting for the potentially massive bill.

National has abolished the Ministry for the Environment and folded nature’s voice into a development mega-ministry. It feels less like reform than an institutional bonfire.