If labour act like that, ignoring public opinion they will be gone in a term as well. They do need to implement policy not just talk about it and that is one of the messages I heard from them at the weekend.

Give it time....

They were all in the air New Zealnd lounge making a quick get away!!! That's where i saw quite a few including Seymour and Peters.

Honestly has he not seen the number of young NZers who have left the country since this coalition came into power??!!! Does he not realize they are driving us into poverty??!!! NZ First misnamed should be Wealthy First.

Farewelled my boy to Australia today. He works in the construction sector so needed to go for work there as it has dried up in NZ.

Yet. Strategically I don't think it would be good for Labour to put too much out this fat away from the elections. The rights big money propaganda team would be all.over it spreading disinformation and vitriol. When you have a significantly smaller PR budget I think timing is key.

I do have an MBA and I definitely can't see any well thought-out business case for this decision. COC will surely allude to information we don't know and costs that are commercially sensitive to cover up their ineptitude. They keep inflating the potential costs of the canceled plan to blame Labour.

Such good points to keep repeating from now until the next election. Lest people forget.!!!

Absolutely.Privatised health system would be disastrous for many in the country. This includes middle income earners not just those on lower incomes.

It's bad. I'm about to loose one of the ypunger family members to Australia because of this. He's a scaffolder.

I work in tertiary education and see the increase every year in the anxiety young people suffer. I wonder what impact the pass/fail, one size fits all nature of exams will have on teenagers. The old school cert etc system ensured 50% fail, grades scaled, and not many left at school by 7th form.

Is this how the British arrived??

Luxon thinks that when he asks if "we are better off today?" at election time next year that we will realize we are. Good luck with that!

Beats the $2.60 i paid today in Christchurch.

Christchurch city, not on the coast or by a waterway so didn't get it.

If you want to show voting is free from manipulation then stop all advertising, hoardings, T.V., radio, social media and party political broadcasts from the time early voting opens. Why just on the actual polling day!

Totally agree. Such an undervalued profession by this government and many in the past. Why is it that those who 'care' are taken for granted? Shameful.

When the voting booth was at my local primary school back in the day the PTA.would have a fund raising stall there on the day. Nothing wrong with that. It didn't influence my vote in any way.

They pinched free ECE for 2 year olds and gave it to rich people.