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- 4 May 2026
Background
Rt Hon Chris Hipkins is a New Zealand politician affiliated with the Labour Party [45] who currently serves as Leader of the Opposition [26] . Hipkins attended Hutt Valley Memorial College, where he served as head boy in 1996 [16] [18]…
AI-assembled biography sourced from Wikipedia, Hansard, Beehive and the Parliament register. Every claim is footnoted to a verbatim quote in one of the cited sources and tagged confirmed / unverified / disputed.
Pecuniary interests
2025 register · as of 27 May 2026As a sitting MP, this candidate files an annual Register of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests. Items below are the most recent declarations from the Register.
- Beneficial interests in, and trusteeships of, trusts
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C.J Hipkins Family Trust C.J Hipkins Family Trust (trustee and beneficiary)
- Debts owed by you
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Westpac Bank Westpac Bank – mortgages
- Real property
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Family home – Upper Hutt, WellingtonResidential property (owned by superannuation trust) – Raumati South, Paraparaumu
- Retirement schemes
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AMP KiwiSaver AMP KiwiSaverAMP State Sector Retirement Savings Scheme AMP State Sector Retirement Savings SchemeForest Road Superannuation Trust Forest Road Superannuation Trust
Companies Office links
as of 27 May 2026Directorships, shareholdings, and trusteeships filed against this person in the Companies Office register.
Trusteeships
Recent press
50 articles across 7 outletsRNZ 15
- Delays on climate adaptation must stop now, mayor says
- The missing Beehive document: Who knew what, and when?
- Missing climate document: Who knew what, and when?
- Missing climate briefing note: Who knew what, and when?
- Climate case briefing sent to former Beehive staffer's private email
- Climate case briefing against major emitters sent to former Beehive staffer's private email
- Non-negotiable: Christopher Luxon says nuclear-free stance not changing
- Nuclear free status changes not on the table, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's office says
- Budget 2026 in pictures: Sound and fury, signifying numbers
- The House: Budget Day - as much performance as spreadsheet
- Budget 2026: Government 'weakening' Pacific ministry, opposition claims
- Top economist casts doubt on Nicola Willis' surplus
- 'Just need to vote for it': Nicola Willis ends Budget speech with call to arms for supporters
- Budget 2026 could be a tough pill for those feeling the pinch
- 'Immediate pain, cuts and no plan': Opposition attacks Budget 2026
1News 10
- Missing climate briefing note: Who knew what, and when?
- Five Big Things That Happened Today: Tuesday, June 2
- Fonterra legal case doc sent to private email of Luxon's former staffer
- Hipkins says new policy coming soon, Labour still working through Budget
- Discussion on NZ's anti-nuclear stance could be 'helpful' - Penk
- Top economist casts doubt on Willis' surplus forecast
- Analysis: Did Nicola Willis deliver a 'tough love' Budget?
- 'No hope, no plan': Opposition parties react to Budget 2026
- Kiwis grappling to balance books, Govt will do the same - Bishop
- It's Budget Day: Are we in for a dull day or a day of surprises?
Stuff 8
- The $45m black hole: Why one Chch building is splitting Kiwi politics
- Officials investigating after climate doc went missing, PM’s staffer used private email
- We aren’t ‘freeloaders’, and we won’t be changing our nuclear-free policy, PM says
- MPs claiming accommodation allowances ‘something we’re looking at’, Hipkins says
- Labour will ‘never change’ New Zealand’s nuclear-free status, Hipkins says
- No new fuel and cost-of-living relief - money tucked away if crisis worsens
- Bowel cancer screening age getting lowered
- A ‘humiliating day’ for minister, Labour says, as she U-turns on bill a day after introducing it
The Spinoff 7
- Melissa Lee and Jenny Salesa used taxpayer-funded entitlements to buy and stay in own homes
- Missing climate briefing note: Who knew what, and when?
- New Zealand will stay nuclear free (mainly because it can’t afford not to)
- The missing climate briefing email has been found
- Are we really just a bunch of (military) freeloaders?
- From Eminem to Michael Jackson: watching the budget debate
- Echo Chamber: Christopher Luxon and the disappearing documents
Otago Daily Times 6
- Delays on climate adaptation must stop now: Mayor
- Climate case briefing sent to former Beehive staffer's private email
- PM's office rules out change to nuclear-free status
- Look at moi! Look at moi! as climate case issue simmers
- Little in Budget for struggling Kiwis
- Opposition: Govt making Kiwis' lives harder