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henry cooke

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political editor at the post, wellington tragic send me gossip or stories: 📞021 241 1398 📧henry.cooke@thepost.co.nz 📧henry.cooke.post@proton.me

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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 6d ago

There are just six days left to enrol, but we are about 130k behind where final enrolment got to last time - when people could still enrol all the way through election day. It is becoming very hard to see this gap really closing in such a short time.

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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · last wk.

Christopher Luxon answered “yes” at the debate last night when asked if he would make sure the minimum wage outpaced inflation. But in the press conference afterwards he made clear he meant that it would be a “starting point” - as it had throughout his term www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Christopher Luxon walks back promise to raise minimum wage by rate of inflation

Luxon said he had only committed to talking inflation into account.

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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 3w ago

Labour allocated no money to reversing any of this Government's benefit changes, such as indexing benefits to inflation or removing jobseeker from many 18-19-year-olds. All Barbara Edmonds would tell me about their approach was her focus was on employment: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

‘Our focus is employment’: Edmonds coy on reversing benefit cuts

Barbara Edmonds has refused to say whether she will reverse any of the current Government’s benefit reforms, after her fiscal plan allocated no new money to social development.

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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 3w ago

Six weeks ago, before “no new taxes” and before PREFU, Labour wanted spending and taxation to sit at around 33% - and was fine with the surplus arriving a year later. Now it is tying itself in knots trying to match Nicola Willis: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Why is Labour pretending it wants a big surplus?

COMMENT: Labour is sticking so tightly to National’s spending plans that its promises start to seem heroic. It doesn’t need to.

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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nicola Willis says she hasn't expressed much of an opinion on NZ First's $100b future fund bc she's not really sure what it is. She says Labour is under more pressure than Nats to release fiscal plan bc she's already made her budget allowances clear: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Nicola Willis defends attack on Labour while sidestepping NZ First’s $100b plan

National’s deputy leader says she lacks enough detail to judge NZ First’s $100b “future fund”.

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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 3w ago

Todd McClay earlier this week accused of Greens of "acting with foreign actors" to make a complaint to the EU about climate. But asked about this claim today, the PM has suggested that it was actually just something the media came up with.

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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: Enrolment figures just released show 22k 18-24 year olds enrolled in the last month - leaving a lot more work to do. All the data can be found in our (non-paywalled) election dashboard:

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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the more interesting bits of the Hager book is his concern about small dollar donations. It's far more focused on this flow of small donations, which allegedly spiked whenever TPU engaged in race populism, than big business funding or anything like that.