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Cost Of Living War Support

27 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 4 May 2026

A critical commentary accuses Christopher Luxon of being unfit to lead New Zealand due to his alleged support for the US and Israeli war actions in Iran, framing it as a betrayal of national honour, moral values, and the Treaty of Waitangi.

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Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

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Heard on radio

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  • No, it's right now, Heather, because this is a case in point. We as a government have a pay equity regime in law and we have funding in our budget for it. What they've said is they would restore completely the previous regime. That's the commitment they've made to the unions, to the workers, to New Zealanders. Now we know exactly the cost of that because Treasury have given us the cost of that, and the cost of that is more than 10 billion dollars. So that's known. So either what you're telling me is they're going to backslide, and actually they didn't really mean it when they said they were going to revert to the previous regime. Actually, they're going to do something different, or they're going to have to come up with that 10 billion dollars. It's actually that simple. And if what they're saying is, look, we're going to weasel out of it later, and actually we never meant it when we said we were going to fully restore it. That's fine, but come clean with New Zealanders now.
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