Budget 2026 Child Poverty Targets at Risk
Treasury’s own numbers show child poverty targets slipping out of reach. The Greens say National has chosen to leave tamariki behind.

Treasury’s own numbers show child poverty targets slipping out of reach. The Greens say National has chosen to leave tamariki behind.

The Greens say young people leaving state care should never be abandoned into homelessness while emergency housing systems collapse around them.

The Government is accused of quietly stripping Treaty protections from legislation after New Zealanders overwhelmingly rejected the Treaty Principles Bill.

The Government may have lost the public fight over the Treaty Principles Bill, but critics say it’s now dismantling te Tiriti protections quietly through changes buried across legislation.

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.

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.

Young New Zealanders are leaving, unemployment is climbing, and the Government’s answer is to make tertiary education harder to afford.

The Government calls it modernisation. The Greens call it a bulldozer through public conservation land, and once it is gone, it is gone.

The Greens are drawing a hard line: no support, no involvement, no war. Now Luxon has to answer.

Fuel crisis, storms and political chaos — Te Kaupapa Election 2026 goes live this Anzac Day with a heavyweight panel.