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.
Public Services
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Budget 2026 Disinvestment Hits Whānau Hard
This is what austerity looks like when it puts on a suit. Whānau struggle, community groups carry the load, and the Government calls it responsibility.
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Chlöe Swarbrick Budget Speech 2026: No Plan
Chlöe Swarbrick calls Budget 2026 austerity in slow motion: a country made poorer while corporations profit and public services are left to crumble.
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Budget 2026 Debt Monsters Are a Right-Wing Scam
The Right cuts revenue, creates the hole, then screams about debt monsters. Martyn says Budget 2026 is austerity theatre designed to protect private wealth.
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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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Military Spending Prioritised in Budget 2026
Budget 2026 finds billions for combat-ready armed forces while public services, housing, disability support and climate action are told to wait.
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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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Disability Support Services Bill Strips Carers’ Rights
Family carers won a path to employment rights in the Supreme Court. Now the Government has introduced a Bill to shut that path down.
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Debt wouldn’t be a problem if this Government taxed the rich!
Critics say New Zealand’s debt panic is driven by neoliberal myths designed to justify cuts while protecting wealthy interests and property speculation.
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Cheap racism + brutal economics – Luxon brings poppadoms for butter chicken tsunami while promising more austerity
Luxon is flirting with anti-immigration politics while promising more austerity, even as public services hollow out and corporate subsidies continue.
