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Foreign Bank Profits

12 items · 7 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 12 May 2026

The post argues that Kiwibank should remain to ensure New Zealanders have a local banking option, countering the benefits that flow to Australian banks.

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Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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Heard on radio

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  • Uh, there is no such thing as a cushy ministerial role. If someone who was a minister, it is about eighty or ninety hours a week, and you and you've got to be everywhere. And if you're an effective minister like the New Zealand First Ministers are in terms of holding National to account in this government, it's a substantial amount of work. But look, I I um first priority is on getting that party vote up for New Zealand First, going really, really hard, working hard in the Bay and wherever else New Zealand First want me. Um but it's going to be an interesting election, Jamie, because you are right. Your Labor has no policy. Uh the some of the policies that the Nats have, they're a little bit obtuse. But New Zealand First, you know, you New Zealand First has said it's about New Zealanders. I mean, you know, people say, what does the party stand for? Well, it's in the name. So, you know, they want to hold the electricity gene tailers to account. They want to hold the supermarkets to account. They want to hold the banks to account. You know, we all buy food, we all buy electricity, and we all bank, and we were a lot of us have got mortgages. All this money, uh the all the you know, seven billion dollars of the foreign banks is going across to Australia. Our supermarkets have got a duopoly, and the gentlers, you know, we have some of the most expensive power prices of the world. Yeah, but Stu, Stu, hang on.
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the-country Government / N-A

systemic financial imbalance requires urgent accountability

The Country 26/05/26: Stuart Nash talks to Jamie Mackay
26 May
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How the public reacted

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