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NZ Herald
2 hours ago
- NZ Herald
First-term government should be doing better, as Labour overtakes in new poll
Greaves said she would expect a first-term government to be polling better than this. She also said that Labour still had work to do to 'get it together', with the party yet to announce its team or policies. Associate professor in politics at Victoria University Lara Greaves. Photo / Michael Craig She said the big decider will be the economy – not just where it is at, but how people feel about the state of it this time next year and who they blame for it. '[It's about] their evaluations of the economy and who caused what and who's at fault for what and, you know, Trump's the other thing that's concerning for any government. 'We can see anecdotally the Canadian and Australian elections affected by Trump, but political science research is starting to come out to show that, yes, Trump does have a huge effect on other democracies.' On why Labour is remaining tight-lipped, Greaves said she believed they had internalised the idea that 'timing is everything'. 'The longer that the current government have knowing what that policy is going to be, the longer they can test and figure out how to peg something on them. 'But they're going to think of some way to really phrase the capital gains tax as affecting the middle class, as affecting New Zealanders and affecting the economy and paint Labour a certain way.' Greaves believed it was 'quite unusual' for Chlöe Swarbrick to raise her hand for the Finance Minister's job. She believed the Greens were trying to take up as much airspace as possible before a capital gains tax announcement. 'Because I think once there is some kind of capital gains tax policy announcement from Labour, that's all we're really going to be talking about for a while.' Speaking to Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking this morning, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon dismissed the latest poll results, saying he does not want to speak about himself, and all Kiwis want is for National to fix the economy. 'I mean, I don't go into polls because every time there is a different poll every week in this country, and people don't want me to talk about myself or polls,' he told Hosking. 'I think the big trend is pretty obvious. People expect us to fix the economy. It's as simple as that. So fix it, and then in 2026, they'll make their call.'
RNZ News
3 hours ago
- RNZ News
New poll shows Labour ahead of National
politics about 1 hour ago The Taxpayers Union Curia Opinion poll was released on Monday morning has Labour now ahead of National on 33.6 percent - up two - and National on 31.8 down two. Acting political editor Craig McCulloch spoke to Corin Dann. Tags: To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
RNZ News
3 hours ago
- RNZ News
Government policies working to fix economy, raise living standards, Luxon says
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Photo: RNZ / Mark Papalii Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealanders want the government to fix the economy, and the government's policies are working to do just that. It comes after a new political poll shows the government is struggling to make headway amidst the cost of living crisis. The Taxpayers Curia Opinion poll, has Labour ahead of National on 33.6 percent (up two) and National on 31.8 (down two). National's Coalition partners Act and New Zealand have also eased back slightly to 8.6 percent and 7.8 percent respectively. With the Greens on 9.8 and TPM on 3.2 it would - based on seats in parliament - mean a hung parliament. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told Morning Report said people wanted the government to fix the economy. "I think New Zealanders understand if you take a step back, we've got the worst recession we have had in 30 years, we've had the Covid hangover with all the extra spending, we've actually good growth... in Q4 and Q1." He said big cities in New Zealand were struggling, while primary industry were showing signs of recovery. "It's certainly two speed, there certainly if you go to the South Island if you go to Hawke's Bay the primary sectors, they are all doing well, they are experiencing growth and coming out of the recession. "But if you are in Auckland and Wellington or the big cities, it's still really challenging." When ask about former National leader Simon Bridges' recent comments saying the government needed to be doing more, Luxon said progress would "come through to the big cities eventually". "I know it's difficult - particularly in our big cities... we've got to keep doing everything we can, but open to more things and discussing more things, but I think at this stage it's keep doing what we are doing". The Prime Minister confirmed the government were looking at joint ID's and driver licenses with Australia. "Yeah, I'd like to try and do everything we can to make everything as frictionless as we can," he said. Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recently met New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in Queenstown. Photo: RNZ/Katie Todd It's comes after Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met the Luxon in Queenstown for their annual Australia-New Zealand Leaders' Meeting. Despite the number of people moving to Australia, Luxon said New Zealand had been here before and could make a comeback. "We've gone through tough times in our economy and we have lost people to Australia and net migration, and we have built it back and we can and we are going to build it back." Luxon said the National government were focused on lifting New Zealand incomes to match Australia. He said New South Wales was currently 35 percent wealthier than New Zealand. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
