Budget 2026: National Fails Final Test – Labour
Barbara Edmonds says Budget 2026 was National’s last chance to prove it had a plan. Instead, families get higher rents, job cuts and more pressure.
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Barbara Edmonds on National’s Budget 2026 Failure
National says its Budget delivers recovery. Barbara Edmonds says working families, state tenants and public services are paying the price. Can Labour offer something better?
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Nicola Willis Unemployment Blunder Exposed
Nicola Willis didn’t just dodge the jobs crisis. She got the basic unemployment facts wrong in her own city.
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NZ Unemployment Pain Hits Workers Hard
The Government can spin the numbers however it likes. But 163,000 people unemployed and 406,000 underutilised is not recovery. It is warning sirens.
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Stagnate Unemployment rate burns youth – why does this Government hate Auckland so much?
The Government is celebrating a 0.1% dip in unemployment while youth joblessness and city unemployment continue climbing. That’s not recovery. That’s drift.
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Labour Blasts Rising Unemployment Under National
More Kiwis are out of work, wages are falling behind inflation and entire communities are being hit by closures. And Labour says National has no answer.
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We are adrift without a vision except one of fiscal rectitude
When every problem gets answered with “cut spending”, it’s not policy — it’s ideology.
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Jobs keep vanishing under National
Luxon promised fewer jobseekers. Instead, tens of thousands more Kiwis are out of work — and the numbers are still climbing.
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Trump’s worst geopolitical blunder vs NZ Economy with 7.5% inflation
Trump’s geopolitical madness won’t stay in the Middle East. It’s coming for your groceries, your mortgage, your job and every excuse this Government makes for staying silent.
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Turns out those green shoots of recovery were really the dried snot of desperation after all
Turns out the “recovery” wasn’t growth — it was a sugar hit. And now the crash is coming.
