AI Is Already Damaging Beneficiaries In NZ
First they came for the beneficiaries, because that’s where the State tests cruelty before rolling it out to everyone else.
Poverty
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Automated Benefit Decisions: Greens Warn of Harm
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.
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You have more chance of winning lotto than getting a state house or any help from this Government
Nicola Willis says State housing tenants have won Lotto. Funny, because most of them are still waiting for a safe roof and a Government that cares.
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Budget 2026 Housing Cuts Are Reverse Robin Hood
The Government calls it fairer housing support. The NZCTU says it is taking money from struggling tenants and handing the advantage to landlords.
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How Zohran Mamdani Is Winning And What Labour Must Learn
While centrists manage decline, Zohran Mamdani is rolling out public supermarkets, confronting monopoly power and giving working people something Labour forgot how to offer: hope.
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Temporary Additional Support Cuts Hit Vulnerable Kiwis
When families can’t afford food, power or rent, National’s answer is to cut the last bit of support keeping them afloat.
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Greens Slam National Public Housing Reforms
The Greens say National is balancing its Budget on the backs of public housing tenants, beneficiaries and disabled New Zealanders.
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Labour Slams National’s Social Housing Cuts
Labour says National is forcing vulnerable social housing tenants to pay for Budget savings through higher rents and reduced support.
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MSD Accused of Helping Debt Collectors Target Beneficiaries
The State is taking money from beneficiaries and handing it to debt collectors while taxpayers fund emergency support to keep those same people afloat.
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What would Jesus do? Criminalising homelessness after causing the homelessness is an obscenity
After cutting housing and social support, the Government now wants police powers to move on and punish the homeless its own policies helped create.
