Greens Slam Fees Free Cuts Amid Youth Crisis
Young New Zealanders are leaving, unemployment is climbing, and the Government’s answer is to make tertiary education harder to afford.

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

Cold flats. Empty fridges. Rising power bills. Student leaders say tertiary students are being abandoned during the worst cost-of-living crisis in years.

$230 for a school ball? Parents are pushing back, and asking when school events became luxury experiences.

Labour says the Government’s fuel relief announcement leaves too many New Zealanders behind, with rising petrol prices adding to an already brutal cost of living crisis.

As petrol prices rise, it’s the working class, beneficiaries, Māori, Pasifika and disabled people who will carry the greatest burden.