Government Allows AI Benefit Decisions Against Beneficiaries
Jobseeker recipients now reapply every six months. MSD can now use automated systems for welfare decisions. Somehow the poorest are always first in line for State experiments.

Jobseeker recipients now reapply every six months. MSD can now use automated systems for welfare decisions. Somehow the poorest are always first in line for State experiments.

National has stopped pretending to be centrist. Six months before Election 2026, the cruelty is out in the open and the target is anyone too exhausted to fight back.

National’s vision of AI-powered public services sounds less like innovation and more like automating neglect.

Nicola Willis didn’t just dodge the jobs crisis. She got the basic unemployment facts wrong in her own city.

MSD plans security guard cuts at Work and Income offices. A look at the Ashburton murders, welfare hostility, and the political anger behind it.