Budget 2026 Winners, Losers and Predictions
Banks get a joke tax. Landlords keep their loot. Beneficiaries, students, tenants and public servants get the bill. Budget 2026 is class warfare with spreadsheets.

Banks get a joke tax. Landlords keep their loot. Beneficiaries, students, tenants and public servants get the bill. Budget 2026 is class warfare with spreadsheets.

Hone Harawira is not standing in Te Tai Tokerau, but he is far from silent. He names who he backs, what the Government is destroying and why Winston Peters must be stopped.

Workers must prove their English. Millionaire investors do not. Public servants face AI cuts. Martyn Bradbury takes apart another week of government hypocrisy.

State tenants pay more. Students lose Fees Free. Beneficiaries are squeezed. Banks get a token levy. Budget 2026 is not recovery, it is abandonment.

Stuart Nash leaked Cabinet details to donors, disgraced himself talking about women, and has now found a new political home with NZ First. Of course he has.

Luxon said Winston Peters mischaracterised him on Iran. Now his own office says the evidence doesn’t exist. That is not a footnote, it is the story.

After years demanding Labour define a woman, NZ First’s answer appears to be: a woman is a biological female and a female is a biological female.

NZ corporate media gave itself another shiny dinner while the Fourth Estate burns, the BSA gets torched, RNZ gets threatened, and journalism is eaten alive.

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

KiwiBank was created to protect New Zealand’s economic independence. Selling it off now would hand even more power to Australian banks already extracting massive profits from Kiwi households.