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Bank Takeover Proposal

12 items · 9 aliases · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 17 May 2026

Winston Peters announces a policy to automatically enrol all newborns into KiwiSaver with a government contribution and proposes buying back the Bank of New Zealand to create a state-owned bank.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 2 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • And I think he would have done several fifty thousands in his day, an absolute legend of a sharer. Yeah, exactly. All right, Tom Young, thanks for your time. You're the twelve million dollar man, or the twelve dollar a kilogram lamb man, put it that way. See you later. Thanks well, see you later. Yeah, good on you, Tom. Yeah, it's uh uh this is an off-season premium, let's be honest about it. But it's still it is still good money, especially for those uh winter finishes. Some of your feedback. Um, what a shame these prices have come twelve months too late, talking about the lamb prices there. How many farms would have been saved from pines at these prices? Well, you might have to go back uh wee bit more than twelve months. Um yeah, look, I I I was and I'm gonna talk about this a bit later in the show. I was in Lawrence, one of my favourite little towns in the country in South Otago. Uh there's a lot of pine trees there growing around there, some of them in fair enough places, but I just look and I think I don't know. I I hope I'm proven wrong here, but I don't know that I will be in 20 years' time. We're gonna look back on this carbon farming experiment and thinking and think, what the hell were we doing? You know, it's plenty of places in this country to plant pine trees for carbon uh credits. Good on you, fill your boots, but not on a flat piece of ground that should be grazing an animal in some cases, even good enough to grow arable crops. It's the wrong country. Um here's someone else on the school lunches, David Seymour. Don't forget the teachers, and God knows how many others who ordering extra lunches for themselves at the taxpayers' expense. I don't know about that one, but would you begrudge a teacher uh one of Seymour's three dollar lunches? Gotta put up with those ratish and prattish kids all day. I reckon they deserve a free lunch for doing that. And there's another one with Winston wanting to buy the BNZ. New Zealand first just lost my vote. Winning Winston is a cunning old bugger. No other word for it. He's only putting policy like that out because he knows it will scratch some itches. Uh and I think he's rightly or wrongly going to do very well in this election. Right now, up next from meat from red meat to another industry that's on a bit of a high at the moment.
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Sample framings

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a populist, dramatic policy with little economic substance

News Briefing: 18 May 2026
17 May
the-country Government / N-A

populist political stunt with hidden risks

The Country Full Show: Monday, May 18, 2026
18 May
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