Willie Jackson: Government making it worse for families
Labour’s Willie Jackson says new Salvation Army data shows unemployment rising and families struggling as cost of living pressures deepen.
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Economy in meltdown and the broken privatisation experiment never more apparent – so why is NZ Left floundering?
Rising unemployment, collapsing public services, and growing inequality expose New Zealand as a failed privatisation experiment — and raise hard questions for the Left.
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Cheaty of Waitangi 2026: Brown on Brown unfriendly fire while the Right escapes accountability
Waitangi Day should be about accountability, power, and honouring Te Tiriti. In 2026, it became something else entirely. As a…
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MEDIAWATCH: How does Heather Duplicity-Allan and Jason Wells define recovery?
As unemployment climbs to its highest level in over a decade, sections of New Zealand’s right-wing media are attempting to…
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Unemployment at 10-year high — Free Market Cheerleaders say relax
New Zealand’s unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over a decade, but the Government and free-market cheerleaders…
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Highest unemployment rate in a decade sparks Green Party warning
The Greens say unemployment at 5.4% is a tragedy for families, warning the National–ACT–NZ First Government is failing workers and communities.
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Unemployment hits 10-year high as NZCTU warns workers are paying the price
Stats NZ data shows unemployment at a 10-year high. NZCTU says workers, young people and Māori are bearing the cost of Government economic mismanagement.
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Unemployment hits 11-year high — where are the Green Shoots of Recovery?
Official data is now doing what political rhetoric could not — exposing the gap between economic promises and lived reality….
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The “free” market can’t even build a bloody hotel?!
Our crisis in construction reaches tipping point! According to recent reports in the media, New Zealand is no longer able to build and complete major projects…
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2017 – Ongoing jobless tally
All unemployment data from Statistics NZ should therefore be treated with caution. Unemployment is likely to be much higher than Statistics NZ figures indicate.
