New Zealand heads toward the 2026 election facing three interconnected difficulties that are shaping voter sentiment: a deepening cost‑of‑living crisis, a perception of political instability within the governing coalition, and unresolved attacks on our constitutional integrity through co‑governance.
These pressures have been intensified by global events, particularly the conflict in the Middle East which Treasury warns could worsen inflation, slow growth, and push unemployment higher than previously forecast.
The cost-of-living squeeze remains the most immediate concern for households as fuel prices escalate and the increases flow through to food, power and all other goods and services. In a scenario analysis released in recent weeks, Treasury outlined the potential impacts of a sustained disruption to global oil supplies. In the best-case scenario where oil stays around US$110 per barrel, inflation could reach 3.9 percent, GDP growth slow to 2.0 percent, and unemployment hit 5.3 percent by the June 2026 quarter. A moderate scenario would see inflation at 5.2 percent, growth at 1.5 percent, and unemployment at 5.4 percent. In the worst-case scenario where the conflict is prolonged with oil prices near US$180 and sustained supply-chain disruptions, inflation could spike at 7.4 percent, GDP growth could fall to 0.8 percent, and unemployment could reach 5.7 percent. For context, annual inflation last peaked at a 32-year high of 7.3 percent in June 2022.
These projections underline how vulnerable New Zealand has now become to external shocks, and they help to explain why consumer confidence has fallen sharply with households bracing for further price rises.
Public services are also under strain, particularly the health system, which continues to grapple with workforce shortages and extended waiting times. With infrastructure backlogs persisting in regions still recovering from severe weather events and years of under‑investment, these challenges compound household anxiety.
All of this needs to be understood in the context of the Coalition agreements. Those pledges were set out in two formal arrangements – one between National and ACT, and the other between National and New Zealand First – supported by National’s own commitments to rebuild the economy through three primary frameworks: the 100-Day Action Plan, the 100-Point Economic Plan, and a detailed Fiscal and Tax Plan. Together, these documents formed the basis of the Coalition Government’s work programme for the three‑year term.
Against that background, it’s important to recall the challenges the new Government inherited. After six years of Labour’s reckless mismanagement of the economy, the incoming Coalition faced a country in recession. Growth had stalled, inflation was high, and families were struggling as the cost‑of‑living escalated. To counter excessive government spending, the Reserve Bank had aggressively raised the Official Cash Rate, substantially increasing mortgage interest payments for most households. The Government’s books showed a growing deficit, and the current‑account gap had widened sharply, signalling the country was spending far beyond its means while its productive engine had stalled.
Compounding this, after four years of restrictive immigration controls, Labour abruptly opened the borders, resulting in record‑high net migration. This placed additional pressure on housing, infrastructure, and social services, further straining an already fragile economy.
The Coalition’s fiscal plan rests on three pillars: returning the Crown’s operating balance to surplus, reducing core Crown expenses as a share of GDP toward 30 percent, and placing net core Crown debt on a clear downward trajectory toward a prudent range below 40 percent of GDP. However, weaker‑than‑expected economic growth, lower tax revenues, and persistent spending pressures have seriously delayed progress.
The problem was that instead of confronting those targets head on when first elected, by aggressively reducing government spending through line-by-line reviews to eliminate poor quality expenditure, and by reversing Labour’s escalation of public service staff numbers from 47,000 when they took office in 2017, to 63,000 by the time of the election, National opted instead for a ‘softly, softly’ approach.
This was the strategy successfully used by former Finance Minister Bill English during the Global Financial Crisis: hold expenditure steady, grow the economy, and allow the size of government to fall naturally toward the long‑standing benchmark of 25 percent of GDP, which many economists regard as the optimal size of government.
Unfortunately for the Coalition, that strategy has not worked for Finance Minister Nicola Willis, largely because the economy has failed to fire. And just as the early signs of recovery were finally starting to emerge at the start of the New Year, the Middle East crisis erupted, rendering all growth forecasts obsolete.
In fact, Treasury’s December 2025 Half‑Year Economic and Fiscal Update showed just how difficult it has been to revive the economy: instead of the country being on track for the $166 million surplus the Coalition originally forecast in their first Budget, a $10.4 billion deficit is expected. This would be followed by deficits of $5.1 billion next year and $0.9 billion the year after, with a modest $2.3 billion surplus not emerging until the 2029 financial year – if, and only if, spending discipline is maintained.
With global shocks such as the conflict in Iran and ongoing fuel‑price volatility having emerged since those updates, we are likely to see a return to surplus delayed even further when the Budget is released on May 28.
Meanwhile Core Crown expenses are still projected to fall gradually toward 30 percent of GDP over the forecast period, as they have been driven by tight operating allowances and ongoing fiscal reprioritisation.
And while net core Crown debt had been expected to peak last year at 43.5 percent of GDP, it is now forecast to rise to 46.9 percent in the 2028 and 2029 financial years before slowly declining toward the 40‑percent target.
In response to this global disruption, rating agencies have grown more cautious. Fitch shifted its outlook on New Zealand’s AA+ rating to negative in March, while Moody’s did the same for its Aaa rating in April, citing delayed fiscal consolidation, on-going deficits, persistent inflation – particularly in fuel, housing, and electricity – and risks from global uncertainty. These agencies have affirmed the underlying strength of New Zealand’s institutions but have effectively put the Government “on notice”: if progress toward a surplus and debt stabilisation continues to slide, a formal downgrade in the coming years becomes a real possibility.
With economic headwinds delaying the Coalition’s fiscal consolidation, the on-going deficits are resulting in continued high borrowing, rising interest costs, and very limited room for new spending or further tax relief. For households, the result is a sense that despite the Government’s best intentions, little is improving in their day‑to‑day lives.
Compounding this situation is the fact that several key policy reforms, that should have been helping to lift economic performance — most notably the long-awaited replacement of the Resource Management Act — have yet to be delivered. That means the promised benefits of cutting red tape, increasing housing supply, speeding up infrastructure delivery, and improving productivity have not materialised. Housing and infrastructure bottlenecks remain entrenched, and the long‑awaited step‑change in development speed and affordability has yet to occur.
The same pattern is evident in health, where the improvements voters were promised are slow to materialise.
This is another instance where the finger of blame can be pointed fairly and squarely at the Labour Party. Their agenda to introduce race-based co-governance control of health was foolish. The rushed disestablishment of the District Health Boards in the middle of the pandemic not only wasted $600 million, it destabilised the entire health system, leaving many regions without experienced leadership. Rebuilding capacity takes time and progress has been made more difficult by the aggressive stance of the trade unions that dominate the sector.
A further challenge for the Coalition has been the public‑sector workforce itself. Many officials hired to advance Labour’s policy agenda are actively resisting efforts to unwind it. In several areas, the bureaucracy is dominant, with laws undermined in practice and ministerial directives only partially executed. The result is a system where the machinery of government is not consistently aligned with the elected Government’s objectives. In this environment, advice to Ministers cannot be trusted, with bills drafted by the bureaucracy – such as the RMA replacement – containing so many Labour-aligned provisions that should have been rejected, that the new laws promise to be worse than the old.
Layered on top of the country’s economic anxiety is a period of political instability. In recent weeks, National’s internal tensions have spilled into the open, culminating in a caucus confidence vote in the Prime Minister. Public disagreements between coalition partners have reinforced the perception that the Government is preoccupied with its own internal struggles rather than the country’s priorities.
The mainstream media has played a major role in amplifying the perception of instability through relentlessly hostile coverage and by hounding Coalition MPs. This stands in stark contrast to the favourable treatment Labour received, not only in government, but also when Jacinda Ardern first became leader and their manic enthusiasm – which reached such a fever pitch that it became known as “Jacindamania” – helped to propel the Party into a position where it could form a government in 2017.
Today, while the Coalition is criticised at every turn, Labour not only receives supportive coverage, but so too does The Opportunities Party (TOP), which is clearly regarded as a more acceptable coalition partner for Labour than the Maori Party – if they reach the 5‑percent threshold to Parliament.
All of this reinforces the view that the media should be providing fair and balanced journalism, not attempting to shape the political landscape nor influence the outcome of the election.
Beneath these immediate pressures lies a deeper constitutional unease. The debate over co‑governance, democratic accountability, and the future interpretation of the Treaty continues to simmer. While these issues may not dominate daily headlines, they shape long‑term public confidence in the integrity of New Zealand’s democratic institutions and remain a potent undercurrent in the election environment.
This week’s NZCPR Guest Commentator, Auckland University’s Professor Elizabeth Rata, has long followed Maoridom’s “aggressive march through public institutions to co-governance” and her views on the matter are clear:
“The co-governance of New Zealand’s institutions, including parliament itself, by both a tribal entity and a democratic one is impossible. There is no ‘co’ in democratic governance.”
Yet in spite of ‘co-governance’ being illegitimate, it continues to exist.
Professor Rata explains, “In the 1990s, I developed the theory of neotribal capitalism to explain a phenomenon occurring in New Zealand’s version of identity politics. The phenomenon was the rapid emergence of the neotribal corporation. These economic entities gained their initial capital in the 1980s by claiming Treaty of Waitangi Settlements on behalf of all Maori. They have since become the political and ideological vehicle for co-governance demands. This poses a serious threat to nearly two centuries of democratic nation-building by both Maori and colonists.
“Those in charge of the neotribal corporations have grandiose ambitions. Not content with righting historical wrongs, their ambitions extend to acquiring both vast amounts of capital and political power … through ‘co-governance’.
“Neotribal capitalists are rent-seekers living off the profits of others’ investment and labour. Acquiring capital as a tribal entitlement by falsely claiming to be the inheritors of history, their main ambition is to acquire political power.”
The desire of tribal leaders for political power is insatiable – they want nothing less than control of the country, and to date successive governments have been foolish enough to entertain their greed. It has therefore been extremely disappointing to many voters that in spite of grandiose promises at the last election that the country would finally be freed from race-based laws and tribal co-governance, it is still there.
With hundreds of thousands of voters still undecided, the 2026 election remains fluid. In an environment of ongoing global uncertainty, questions over economic security, political stability, and the future of our constitutional arrangements are likely to dominate voter decisions. How the Coalition responds to these intertwined pressures and delivers for those who backed it in 2023 – before Parliament dissolves on 1 October – will be pivotal in shaping voter sentiment and, ultimately, the election outcome.
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THIS WEEK’S POLL ASKS:
*What is the most important issue influencing your vote in the 2026 election?
*Poll comments are posted below.
*All NZCPR poll results can be seen in the Archive.
THIS WEEK’S POLL COMMENTS
| Get rid of the Maori seats. They have been a disaster particularly in the current term; their voter turnout is very poor. . Get rid of co-governance and other apartheid outlooks and from there, the economy will sort itself out eventually, as long as the left don’t get in next election. And yes I am part maori. | John |
| Stick to the promise to stop the waste of money. | Pauline |
| The iissue this election, will be what parties will end up being ,controlled opposition? after the votes have been countedin November?? They ALL WORK FOR THE SAME BOSSES… WHO WILL DRAW THE SHORT MATCH??? | David |
| The NATIONAL PARTY,are shaking in their boots. and so is LUXFLAKE, they can see the writing on the wall, come their approaching decimation at the election in November.Don,t be surprised if he goes with the COWARD OPTION, and forms a GRAND COALITION with DIPKINS AND LIEBOUR. THEY HAVE BOTH WANTED THIS OPTION, LIEBOUR ARE DROOLING, AT THE MOUTH, AND THINK IT,S A GREAT IDEA AS WELL….. BUT, LIEBOUR, AS WE ALL KNOW…. THEY CAN NEVER BE TRUSTED! DON,T TRUST TWEEDLEDUM OR TWEEDLEDEE… YOU WON,T BE GETTING ANY THING FOR TEA!!! | David |
| I f we don’t dsmantle the co governance drive once and for all and return to One Nation , One Law for all we will continue to slide towards Tribal rule and that will be the end of NZ as we have known it. | John |
| Reading what wdc is setting up to entrench what I regard as reprehensible , is permanent maori involvement in local government without being voted. Maoris are neck deep in a coup and I don’t want a bar of their lies. | Mark |
| My concern is the apparent deliberate dilution of democracy, of one person, one vote at all levels, councils and Government including council dismissing local community requests to maintain Local English names in favor of so called gifted unpronounceable names. Lack of TRUST in our elected representative in favor of un-elected paid people over ruling majority requests is a HUGE concern. That is not democracy however you spin it. | Sam |
| they have not followed through on their promises at the previous election They need to wipe all the bureaucratic layers that hinder productivity increase and add burden – both socially and economically We need to be one people working together – not divided by reverse-racism | gill |
| There are so many issues at the moment in this country, but no Government is going to sort things out in just three years, they inherited a right bloody mess from the Labour party, debt, Maori issues, Green issues, and lets not forget that the first thing Labour do when they return to power up go the taxes on everything. So i think the present Government need more time to sort SHIT out and i think they will, because this first term is been all about the economic side of things which was starting to slowly grow until some orange faced humpty dumpty started something in the middle east that he didn’t think to much about and has NO hope of winning, and all it’s done is made things so much worst all around the world. Which is not the fault of any other Government as they all have a great amount to deal with right around the world. I pray the the other lot don’t return to power as i think that is just what the Maroi Party want as they know that the rest of us won’t want to put up with all their BULL SHIT again. i think that all of the points that Muriel are a concern to us all, but as most people know when you start to build something it always takes longer than you thought, So be patient and give the coalition another go at the problem or put up with another 3-6-9-12 years of the other lot, | COLIN |
| It seems so much govt energy is going into maori issues and maori elite seen to take the piss on many issues, that is holding the country back. | Willy |
| NZ has never felt more divided because of these constitutional issues. | Kevin |
| Economic Management is crucial but it is secondary to the more fundamental issue of growing race based agenda from Maoridom. | Michael |
| All of the above | Carol |
| Co-governance is a farce and must be dealt with and abolished. | Margaret |
| The current government appear to have the economy’s troubled waters covered as best they can. Global issues are not able to be influenced by a nation of 5m people. Once the global turmoil settles NZ will be well positioned to springboard from the platform being built by the coalition. Health and infrastructure will benefit greatly from the current economic policies…..It just going to take time!! Apart from some election year strategies being employed by some of the coalition, they are basically a stable bunch who have demonstrated cohesion over the past 2 and a half years. Enough of the He PuaPua nonsense. Let’s get NZ back to basics and no race based policies. Unite, not divide!! | Carl |
| Co governance aspirations do not benefit NZ only a very loud minority most of whom are paid by the Govt ie they don’t earn an honest living | John |
| Maori rule is not for a nation but for individuals of even minor maori ehnicity. It is personal for gain for Maori/part maori – no matter the cost to the nation. | Margaret |
| Zio-Anti semitism, are the Race causing, the war in the Middle-east. they are trafficking and poisoning our children,,They are poisoning our food and water.Stop your indoctrination by the lying M.S.M! The real name for Anti- zionism, should be called, our Self-defense…Time to call the real terrorists out… it’s called Zionism…..They are the root cause of world wars, because they are the GREEDY BANKERS, they cause all the trouble and are behind all WARS,They are the CAUSE of ALL WAR, and are the biggest RACISTS, in the world today!! | David |
| Why keep on trying to be divisive and allowing this to continue. That means even the Govt is unstable, till it shows ‘business’ in law to fight it. | Henk |
| In reality the powerful tribal corporations don’t want co-governance, they want total control and are making use of their vast resources (based on treaty handouts and increasing influence in the public sector) to get it, therefore it is essential that this is stopped. | Richard |
| Regardless of what specific concerns people may have, trust in an incoming government to follow through on electoral promises has increasingly been shattered, and particularly so by National with its weak a d indecisive leadership during the current term of office. I predict that they will pay heavily for this at the polls as right wing voters transfer their allegiances to ACT and NZF | Rob |
| My main concern is the decline of Western Civilisation. Here in New Zealand this takes the form of the backward, parasitic maorification culture being forced down our throats. | Monica |
| Living standards in NZ will continue to fall whilst race based legislation remains to divide the country. National must accept this and act without further delay. | Keith |
| Net Zero | Alan |
| In reality the powerful tribal corporations don’t want co-governance, they want total control and are making use of their vast resources (based on treaty handouts and increasing influence in the public sector) to get it, therefore it is essential that this is stopped. | Richard |
| All NZers should be treated as equal. Race should not define how we are treated. | Murray |
| Change is needed but there are no good options at all. Easy to see why people are fleeing to Australia. | Tony |
| Without first fixing the racist nonsense other issues will only get worse. | Richard |
| Both choices 1 &2 | Ray |
| Constitutional issues are long-term… and will impact ALL other issues. The other issues should be short/medium. | Peter |
| Difficult to make a choice – all the above are of concern. Health services (or lack thereof) would be my second choice. | Lenice |
| Stability in the New Zealand community is critical before the country will have the confidence to grow to the expectations largely held by the voting public. | Neville |
| The Govmnt is out of touch with reality and the People of NZ !! | Pierr Olivier |
| First, let me say that this article “Voter Sentiment” does a very fine job of laying out the various issues to consider. Economic management and constitutional issues are about equal as factors in my mind. Morality related issues also play a big role for me. As to which party I will be voting for: I am, and have been, a NZ First member for over a decade now and am thrilled to see it rising in the polls. The National Party led by Luxon seems to be a twin, at least a fraternal twin, to Labour on economic issues and is weak and vacillating on co-governance and the Treaty. NZ First has a distinct economic plan and has made its strong stand on “one law for all” well known. | Marla |
| Bring back equality and democracy. Maori are not special or wonderful. Even the word maori has been reinterpreted from what it meant in 1840 when it was used in the Treaty. Stop forcing Animism into schools and places of business. Stop brainwashing our kids with false history and Stone Age thinking branded as culture. Stop blaming people for the wrongs of long dead ancestors and perpetually giving the wealth of the country to part Maori. | Peter |
| Our entire extended family, including myself, have left New Zealand because of this and will not be returning. If we get a vote (uncertain) we will all be voting either ACT or NZ First – definitely not National – purely because we believe those we left behind sorely deserve something better. | Juliet |
| NZ needs Equality | Karen |
| follow the electoral commission reccommendations and abolish Maori Seats, together with a repudiation of the UN’ s UNdrip and the interpretation through into HePuaPua in this country | terrence |
| Race based stuff must be weeded out of Government, public service and education. Has the government got the guts to do this for the sake of New Zealand??? | Ray |
| Not having the left in power. | Irene |
| They said they would get rid of co-governance and they have failed miserably | Brian |
| What has happened to DEMOCRACY IN NEW ZEALAND??? | Sylvia |
| Toss up between Constitutional issues and leadership. They go hand in hand. Decisive, principled leadership would already have addressed the Constitutional issues. Sadly we are lacking the quality and stregth of leadership to provide the vision and reform required to stop New Zealand slide to becoming the Zimbabwe of the South Pacific. | Chris |
| National has NOT done what they said they would do. Very disappointing. | Ronald |
| Authoritarianism – ie the introduction of the Gangs Act 2024. | Magog |
| Tired of election promises not being followed through by “Let’s not stand on any toes” government. | Hugh |
| New Zealand will not proceed as a successful country until it reverts to it’s full unfettered democratic status. The current nonsense should be flushed down the toilet so that we can concentrate on sorting out how best we each can do, to contribute to our wonderful little country. We will only succeed if we all understand that it’s through a strong positive national productivity drive that will resurface the wreak, thus enabling us to reset the sails and to get back on to the wining course. Go team New Zealand. | garry |
| No backbone in the Nat.Party. Too slow to bring the changes promised,like Govt Dept.names. | William |
| Get rid of the division and illegal payments to maori iwi for fanciful nonsense, and payments from hardworking NewZealanders out of their taxs to falsly elevate maoridom. | Lorraine |
| The agenda is to make NZ broke and divided. Nearly there. Just one more election, thats all it will take. | alan |
| We lack real leadership, someone who can stand up for what he/she believes in and has the ability to convey that opinion to the people with conviction. Thie is so true of the co-governance issue because our PM has a total lack of the much-needed ability it achieve this task. He is hopeless. | William |
| If the National party had honoured its coalition pledges we would be in a far stronger position now. Wellington bureaucrats and radical Maori will never vote centre right so they and their policies should have had the knife taken to them within the first 12 months. Now I fear it is too late. | Rod |
| N.Z is beginning to feel the PHYSICAL LONG TERM effects, of the multiple convid bio poison jabs, mandated by ARDERN, HIPKINS, BLOMFELDT! N.Z is in one HELL OF A MESS, with all of the above problems, and the ongoing HEALTH EPEDEMIC, OF INFECTIONUS NEW ILLNESES, due to these vaciines.Both LABOUR AND NATIONAL have not mentioned, anything, about the new ‘experimental heart medicines’ that are being given to pre-teenage girls,!! this is being carrried out, under the radar, by TE phati ora, and THE NZ MEDICAL COUNCIL… No one seems to know about t this?? Why hasn,t any of this been mentioned by the minister of health?This needs to be INVESTIGATED…. | David |
| We need to return to one people with equal rights. We need to get rid of all race based policies and special privileges. Get rid of greedy activists like Tamahere and the Maori party | Angela |
| Getting rid of co-Governance ideas as promised by National Party prior to 2023 election.. TREATY tribunal is past it’s use by date. | william |
| Closely followed by co-governace | Cookie |
| would like to see an end to race based policies and co governance, cant but wonder how wealthy the nation could be without constant paying to all things maori | john |
| This is not democratic, and the ultimate aim is Maori sovereignty, which would be a disaster. Labour was not transparent about these issues and imposed the Maori language, the distortion of the Treaty, the inclusion of Maori so-called rights in organisations, and Maori propaganda. Non-Maori are also victims of a treaty that they didn’t break, and which only gained prominence over the last decade or so. Many non-Maori knew nothing about. The reason for the Treaty is also never mentioned. The Government has also paid millions in compensation for land that was taken. | Ann |
| The problems associated with the given constitutional issues will destroy NZs economy and government. We need to be uniting to shore ourselves up against what is happening in Europe. | Barrie |
| I chose the first option but also feel second is just as important | Ange |
| Luxon like Key completely suckered by Maoridom | Peter |
| Stop ramming Maori down our throats and remove all the Maori bullshit names from Government departments. | Des |
| The (part) maori ‘elite’ have no interest in co-governance. Their aim is total control of the country on their terms; tribal rule, no accountability, no opportunity to remove bad leaders unless you are prepared to kill and eat them! For God’s sake WAKE UP New Zealand! | TOBY |
| The main Party, in this coalition, trio, is National… who , at the present moment, have been “under the pump”… and with good reason, to be! we live in a so called DEMOCRACY, that has been under fire… in a fierce war, for our FREEDOM AND SOVEREGNITY! As we get closer to the election, things will intensify, politically,LUXFLAKES, has been given his orders, by the INTER- NATIONAL W.E.F, at Davos. They are coming here, for EVERYTHING… our Country, Lands, and everything they can grab!! They told us the PLAN, when ARDERN, AND CO,were last in GOVT.but no-one was paying attention.They always tell us what they are going to do. We have to double-down… Enough is enough. LUXON is not going to change the W.H.O/W.E.F/UN/ROTHCHILD Plan, We have to UNIFY TO STOP THIS EVIL PLAN…THEY ARE NOT GOING TO STOP!! MORE POISON JABS… ON THE WAY! Treasonous Insider PLAN. | David |
| All off the above,but One Person One Vote. One Law for All. We are All New Zealanders! | Olwyn |
| Tribal elitists take over is the biggest concern for NZ | Peter |
| National did not constitutional issues that they promised. | Helen |
| This matter is costing us dearly in all the other issues. | David |
| We need to agree on if we are a democracy (one person one vote) or if we want to be run as a race based type of democracy | Gerhard |
| Getting rid of co-governance. | Gayle |
| And the money that is constantly being given to maori agencies with no accountability and no improvement in maori lives. | Lesley |
| Our priority is still to create one Nation no matter what your ethnicity is. That will save vasts amount of wasted money that could be put toward Health & Education. | Martin |
| Etno separatists are engaged in A Coup d,etat. The Army has very recently been taken over. The unbelievable part is NOBODY seems to care less, she will be right. That may wash today. As this evolves, ACTUAL genocide, unlike the accusations of genocide by Arab terrorist supporters is NOT unimaginable. | Tracy |
| With co-governance all else becomes lost to the people, New Zealanders are screwed. | Russell |
| Stop tribal co-governance before we all go to Australia | Gilbert |
| NOTHING can be improved until the co-governance etc issues are sorted out | Ken |
| The basis of all good economic management is true democracy in which every citizen is treated equally and fairly (and we all know what the rules are) by our layers of government. If we allow favouritism, apartheid power & money flows, legalised corruption – we don’t have democracy and our economy will collapse as people give up on it. It’s actually happening right now. | Fiona |
| IT IS PREVENTING THE PROPER WORKING OF ELECTED OFFOCIALS | PADDY |
| Usually I would choose Economic Management as my first priority, but with the continued Apartheid in NZ, this will hold us back anyway. It MUST be smashed. | Geoffrey |
| Every element of the above points… Better accountability from OUR “Employees” the Politicians and civil servants whom work for us, but ignore our wishes, wants and desires at every single turn… The perfect example is the CON of the India Trade Agreement, an agreement I did NOT Agree too as one of the many other 5 million “Government employers” of this Sovereign Nation. ONE NATION, ONE LANGUAGE, ONE PEOPLE! And whilst here… Sort out the mess that is creating the extortionate cost of living! Eliminate ALL connections to The UN/WEF/WHO/IMF and the grossly failing EU. Commit NO MORE of our Tax Dollars to aid and abet DEATH and Mutilation in Ukraine, they are a totally lost, corrupt cause… And, always have been. Wake-Up! | Graham |
| The treaty gravy train has got to find a station and everyone on it needs to get off including the Waiting Tribunal. The references to the treaty need to be removed from the statute books as per Goldstones comments but totally not leaving them in in some manner otherwise the gravy train will start all over again. Let’s have another crack at Acts Treaty Principles Bill as there are no principles in the original treaty. | Rod |
| co govt is insidious cancer spreading RAPIDLY!!!! must be stopped | tony |
| Sadly this Maori takeover will now see us leaving NZ as fourth generation Kiwis to our extended family , children & grandchildren most in the medical field in Australia early 2027 after the farm is sold. You have been a voice in the wilderness but sadly NZ is now dominated by the far left Marxists ideology & Iwi white sympathisers & will be its demise. Interesting note aside my friend is closing his engineering business in the Deep South & leaves in June to Perth reopening his business their with his so sons. | Derek |
| Immigration, and I dont know why it is not usually stated as an option? | wayne |
| The coalition, particularly the National party, has proved that their promise to get rid of co- governance was a complete lie. This issue has got worse. Grow a pair, Luxon. | John |
| Unfortunately companies have become corporate owned, so more and more jobs will disappear overseas as these corporates put profit above anything else. Consequently Luxon’s ‘promises’ of restoring the economy are pure fantasy. With descendants of Maori receiving hundreds of millions of taxpayers Dollars every time they invent a Tiriti claim, no money is left to expand vital public services such as health etc without more borrowing that creates more debt, which is exactly where the last two governments have taken us. Yet still the voters choose either National or Labour as the MAJOR Parties. Very slow learners are our voting public. | A.G.R. |
| We have to get rid of these power hungry maori. | Mike |
| get ride of ALL TREATY /Co-governance/maori seats in LOCAL and Govt bodies, and SACK any govt department head that allows or carries on using the mumbo jumbo sound that you hear on tv/radio, pigeon English that is used in PNG sounds much better than the crap which is heard here and STOP it being used in Parliament. and dump luxon from national to get this country called NEW ZEALAND back on its feat, BUT for gods sack don’t allow Liebour or the greens and Maori back in power in November | Richard |
| We are one people under one law. Co-governance is neither democratic nor fair. End all race-based institutional privilege. | Warwick |
| Ngai Tahu’s shake down of Santana Minerals mining proposal is just the latest example of iwi rent seeking. The more ordinary Kiwis who know about this stuff, the better. | Alastair |
| Corrupt spineless selfish leadership are leading the charge into chaos , they say/promise one thing and don’t follow through and as of now they have gone quiet on any progress. WE ARNET MIND READERS! Tell us NOW what your going to do B4 the election ! and DO IT B4 the election. Because we dont trust YOU ! Your word is no longer your bond. If you want trust/support from the people of New Zealand ,then PRODUCE THE GOODS ! NO MORE BROKEN PROMISES ! NO MORE FALSE RHETORIC ! Stand up and be counted, because right now you have been weighed in the balance and found to be wanting. Part Maori are riding roughshod over the rights of New Zealanders WITH ZERO RESISTANCE from those whose role is to protect and serve . Standing by while the mainstream media criminals the sewer rats of society promote Apartheid racism and communism . I end with a quote from Germaine Tillion. “At the end of my journey , I realise how fragile and malleable man is. Nothing can be taken for granted . Our duty of vigilance must be absolute . Evil can return at any time, it smoulders everywhere . And we must act while there is still time to prevent the worst.” Wake up New Zealand time is short. | GlynJ |
| With increasing levels of immigration the “we are the indigenous people” push has to stop. One multi-cultural nation going forward together. | Alan |
| Co-Governance is destructive and this Government needs to grow a spine and get rid of it now. One People Equal before One Law! And it’s NEW ZEALAND not Aotearoa! | John |
| If one was to have Government stability and leadership and were honest and true to their word, then all of the other above would be delt with honestly. | Richard |
| One vote for all | Ken |
| The continuing School issues with Maori being force fed into our kids WE must remove all these weird ‘must haves’ to leave us clear to treat everyone equally | Peter |
| Constitutional issues by a long neck,largely a result in weak leadershipWhen these issues are finally and irreversibly corrected only then will any progress take effect.Mr luxon has to man up and make good his preelection promises with full support of his caucus and coaltian partners.Time is almost out Mr Luxon,you can still do it if you want it enough,otherwise walk away and let it be done by others.The risk of another labour government iwould destroy our country with their incompetence. | galem |
| Co governance needs to be dumped. we are a democracy, tribalism/co governance has no place in it, Stop the gravy train! | Steve |
| Co-governance is a cancer, a moral collapse of the principle of secularism. Keynsian fiddling with Marxist underpinngs is still the dominant economic philosophy. We need an Austrian reversal. | Mark |
| I will vote for any party that promises to stop handouts to Maori and ensure that all people are treated equally except for radical Muslims who must all be deported.. | Steve |
| Plus, all of the above!!! | Frederick |
| You’re absolutely correct in your assessment of the situation Thank you! Please keep up your good work. | Alan |
| Economic management is a very close second choice for me | Bob |
| this to include council overreach and non elected people being co-opted onto councils with the right/ability to influence any votes taken | Alastair |
| I messaged Luxon before the last election and since and said to him that no matter how economically stable a country is, racist policies and co governance will kill a country. Look how Zimbabwe and South Africa have turned out. Very disappointed with the coalition on this issue especially National and Winston who knows how to encourage people to vote for him but doesn’t keep his promises. For example the winding up of the Waitangi Tribunal. I don’t trust NZ First but like the name. | Robert |
| That no matter who is in government they are all dictated their rolls by non government entities they signed “non binding” contracts with decades ago. If they step outside these boundries the purse strings will be pulled tight, any country stepping out of line will suffer finacially. It happened to Japan when they refused to attend the paris agreement talks a decade or so ago. Within months they had a “financial crisis”. | larry |
| Defence, issues in N.Z have been seriously overlooked. To keep N.Z. FREE FROM WAR, N.Z should adopt, the NEUTRAL FREE, OPTION.NZ had the neutral free Nuclear option, under David Lange, in the 80,s, was repealed by NATIONAL, under Bolger, when they got in, later. There are many good reasons to adopt POSITIVE NUTRALITY, in this age of revived WAR, the likes of whay TRUMP is doing at present,no other countries seem to have noticed? NO NEED FOR WAR.!! | David |
| Uncontrolled chain immigration as copied for the same reason Joe Biden encouraged it – to alter voting numbers. | Rex |
| If the nation is split on grounds of ancestry all other issues pale into insignificance. | John |
| Maori demands are not the will of the majority. Stick to democracy. | Robbie |
| Too many plastic Maoris running the country for their own benefit. | Gary |
| Iwi are having far too much input into every thing that is going on in this country | Nev |
| Health care is the most important thing, if you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything. | Harry |
| We cannot move ahead on any of these problems while maoris still demand rent. The Santana shambles shows this. | Antoni |
| Who can we vote for this time around ? The National led coalition has completely failed to address the constitutional issues ! We should migrate. | Donald |
| Co-governance is a cancer on New Zealand society. We cannot grow as a country and an economy until separatism is defeated and we can concentrate on improving the lives of ALL New Zealanders. This is the ONE issue that I will be voting on! | Roger |
| I am concerned that rent seekers are sucking the life out of the economy, causing low productivity that will not allow the economy to recover. | Fiona |
| I think both the first and second options. No 1 addresses our future and the insidious creep of tribal ‘power’. No. 2 in our present economic situation, now worsened by the oil crisis. | Elizabeth |
| National has lied to us over the maori takeover of this country . They will pay for it at the next election and may well become the 2nd party in Winston’s coalition govt. What an embarrassment for National and Luxon | Sydney |
| I’m just lost for words , so disappointed | Nick |
| This is possibly the last chance to get the co govenence agenda put where it belongs in the trash can. We need a society where we are all EQUAL | LesW |
| water meters, petrol tax, overspending of councils, clean water security | Nina |
| one nation one people | Mat |
| UNLESS WE HAVE ONE LAW FOR ALL NZ WILL ALWAYS BE POOR AND CONFLICTED. | BRUCE |
| Coalition govt must honour the promise I voted them in on, that no race or religion would have more rights or responsibilities than any other and equality for all. They have failed dismally but the other parties winning would end democracy and cannot be considered. | Brenda |
| This Maori problem involving Local Councils and the Public Service being ruled by Maori crazy thinking is going to totally destroy NZ as a country and its way of life. | Don |
| Unless we get rid of all those items outlined at the top, once and for all, none of the others on the list, will matter, in my opinion – they will eventually sort themselves out in the fullness of time, but we will be irrevocably lost as a free democratic nation if we allow ourselves to be taken over by a pack of greedy, self serving, racist, rat cunning, brown parasites! Any political party with the gumption to drive a stake through the heart of this monstrosity can be assured of my full support, along with my vote! | Scott |
| Can the genie be put back in the bottle!! | Ian |
| All the above are important but until comgovernance and Maori holding everyone to ransome demanding payments such as the power company and Santana gold mine this country will never progress or improve productivity. It is impossible .This government needs to work quickly to do what they were voted in to do .Chris Luxon needs a big wake up lesson and do some educating of his very ignorant ideas before it is too late. Remove the interference and stand over tactics which has also a huge financial cost and New Zealand can overcome the economic problems, but unless cogovernance is gone we are doomed to be a third world country. | Gail |
| All laws referring to Maori involvement must be reversed. No Co- governance anywhere, including Councils. We must be, ONE PEOPLE UNDER ONE LAW. | Valerie |
| Maori are on their way to 2040 rule | Lynn |
| There can be no economic, political or constitutional stability until ‘co governance’ disappears. | Tanya |
| You cannot trust our PM, he hunts with the hares and runs with the dogs. His comment about a referendum saying he was going to can it. What right has he to do that. He should have gone to the people. Who is pulling his strings. Regarding the LIST MP s who could be voted out this election, they were never voted in the fist place | ROB |
| Luxon is failing to accede to the wishes of the voting majority. It may cost his leadership and lose many National votes next election | fred |
| Too much public money is being wasted by appeasing radical maori. Its appalling the amount of taxpayers money that is being given to maori causes. Notice how they only go for products where very little work is involved but large and everlasting revenue is accumulated, and very .title auditing is done as to who gets the money. What is given to the from all their privileges etc would pay for a top rate health service for all New Zealanders to use. I would rather this government to carry on than a Labour coalition, God forbid. | Peter |
| Also co-governance. We need a chainsaw approach to the over loaded public sector and get rid of the State Srevices Commission | Ian |
| Dealing to the Maori issue which will require the current 3 parties to from DAY ONE to stop hedging and hit hard from day One. | Jim |
| Need to stop co-governance of New Zealand’s institutions, including parliament itself, by both a tribal entity and a democratic one is impossible. There is no ‘co’ in democratic governance. Have we reached the tipping point in the neotribal elite’s march through the nation’s institutions? Can we re-claim the pre-1970s commitment to democracy which enabled both Maori and colonists to build a better New Zealand. | Bruce |
| NZ will be stuck looking backwards to the past until the treaty gravy train is halted fully. | Gary |
| Every day there are more steps taken in the maorification of New Zealand. It is frightening and could destroy the country as we know it. Nothing is more important than addressing this. | Carole |
| If we are able to contain these constitutional issues, nz should have a greater access to taxes a lot of which re currently being spent on Maori handouts. | Sue |
| If we do not get back to true democracy none of the other things matter. | Mervyn |
| NZ country with equal rights for all, no race or tribal preferences… | Gerard |
| I suspect that the National Party is losing support because of its weakness in tackling Constitutional issues rather than anything else. Interestingly, the recent survey carried out by Ipsos asking what Kiwis are most concerned about offered race relations/racism as an option but not Constitutional issues. | John |
| Im sick of national politicians promising change and when elected doing nothing and just carrying where labour left off,govt waste of money to Maori mumbo.jumbo.Luxon is a manager not a leader,after 50yrs of borrow and hope we need real change | Maurice |
| I just get fed up with all the payouts to so called part Maori, which is keeping the country poor. It is pure greed and the present govt (Luxon) appears hellbent on continual appeasement of these greedy buggers. | Carolyn |
| One people One vote no co government | Loraine |
| Dont want Labour in charge of the country | John |
| Our Democracy to remain.& better exercised For ALL NEWZEALANDERS WITHOUT ANY FAVOUR FOR ANY RACE! | Dominique |
| The long term health of New Zealand society depends on everyone being equal in law and in our democracy. | Alister |
| The biggest worry is Maori Elite and their agenda. We have no politicians with the guts to squash any co governance or any other pro Maori agenda. In fact Maori have never had it so good but weak political parties and the Maori’s have warped history to suit. I am glad I am the gae I am because I would not want to live in the country comtolled by Maori. ALL my elderly friends say the same — we have had a gutsful of Te pati Maori and their party should be disbanded as was intended in the 1840’s. | Alan |
| All citizens equal Abolish Maori seats. | Edwin |
| Constitutional Issues like co governance are at the top of whether NZ is democratic or tribal in its governance. Everything, and I mean everything else is secondary. | Laurine |
| solving the co-governance issues that exist is by far the most important subject of the 2026 election | noel |
| Costs NZ billions. Sort this out and our economy significantly improves | Barry |
| We need to have an unbiased media before the truth of which party believes what. It is DREADFUL that so much damage can be done to the Govt. of the day by the totally biased media! | Sylvia |
| I will be voting to keep Labour/Greens/Maori Party out. Whatever you think of the current government it is still a lot more preferable than what the current opposition has to (doesn’t have to) offer. | Lee |
| We are One People | AndyE |
| All of the above, but most importantly someone who will step up and become a rallying cry for ordinary New Zealanders who are busy getting on with their lives raising kids, either saving for a home or struggling to pay a mortgage. We need someone who will become a visionary leader | Robert |
| I am 64 & SO tired of the maori hirarchy with their hand out , taking millions of dollars out of our economy & the people that need it getting nothing. This a MAJOR reason people are leaving our country – including my kids – it has to stop. | Mike |
| 80-85% of people living in Auckland, and indeed New Zealand are of European or Asian origin. People who identify as Maori make up about 12% of Aucklands population and 16-17% of New Zealands. With Maori divided into about 100 tribes it must be clear that Co-governance is not only total nonsence, but would be a total chaos. | CHARLES |
| Sort the co-governance/tribal stranglehold on productivity and we will move forward. | Henry |
| Get rid of race based policies | gary |
| This country needs to fiercely hold on to its long and well respected DEMOCRACY. We need to see and end to Race based policies, the continued bombardment of Maorification and Co-governance. But we need a strong leader with the balls to actually bring this about; and this is obviously not Mr Luxon. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! | John |
| The others are very important, but constitutional issues if not dealt with properly risk destroying democracy in NZ. | alan |
| reducing the size of the govt bureaucracy and govt spending | David |
| Co-govt {Maori rule. see what they are doing to Santana} affects all areas of life,Needs to be stopped and some how the people see that Sovern was ceded! | Grant |
| Without democracy this country will be in big trouble. Co Governance will see NZ revert to a banana republic and any economic productivity will be squandered. 1 person 1 vote is the only way forward to stability. | John |
| Keeping Labour out. | Iain |
| Cutting bloated bureaucracy that is unaffordable, a significant cause of our deficit, and standing in the way of lean, efficient, collaborative and innovative Government that is focused on the needs ot ALL NZers. | Tony |
| It’s the main reason I vote – let’s get back to one person one vote. | Clive |
| Removal of Maori seats in Government | NOEL |
| Get rid of Maori seats | Terry |
| How can we be so blind as a Nation not to see what Elite Maori are doing to our Country. | Alister |
| Moral Values. | Marie |
| With the rot still well entrenched in all things government local & national , this Mowri co-governance will destroy NZ faster than the current fiscal mess. That nonsense is fuelling our debt & division | Terry |
| keep democracy! | John |
| Unfettered demands for co-governance directly threatens democracy. Economic survival is dependent upon the denial of race-based separatist siphoning of productivity gains and production. | Peter |
| Say no to apartheid, one people one Nation, New Zealand. | Kerry |
| Unless this co governance aspect of NZ governance is removed promptly the foundation upon which everything else sits is effectively removed. | David |
| Co-governace would never result in equal rights for all New Zealanders. Therefore it should be abolished. | Mary |
| National promised to address the co-governance issue but have let public officials dictate legislation. | DAVE |
| The treaty was signed by the people of the day. Surely it should not bind this modern country forever! | Dave |
| While the tribal hijacking of the country got my vote economic management, cost of living and inflation, health and public services and government stability and leadership also rank highly. So called co governance, a Trojan horse for a takeover, is primary because if that occurs all the rest are irrelevant and we might as well emigrate to Australia or elsewhere, the country will be doomed. | John |
| One Nation. One People. | David |
| Clarity, transparency, simplicity, clear thinking and leadership are desperately needed if we are not to keep spiralling down the gurglar. | Francis |
| Let’s get real, clean out all one sided co governance legislations wish list. | Owen |
| The ‘elephant in the room’. National have been shockingly remiss on this fundamental issue. | Faye |
| NZ need’s to have a REFERENDUM TO Sort these Issuees OUT URGENTLY!! Or NZ wont Be Worth Live In ### It will be Totally STUFFED for OUR GRAND Children to LIVE HERE ### | Bill |
| Enough is enough. Our country is being destroyed by leftist activists on a mission. We are one country, one people under the articles of the Treaty. Respect of this article is paramount for our Country tpo prosper | Grant |
| We will not solve this while we have weak leadership from a prime minister who thinks that he is a CEO. Maybe this is because it is the only qualification he has. If National want to survive, they must replace him and Willis, both of whom are ideologically inept. That change at the top is three years overdue. Labour’s weird co-runners are a frightening possibility. A National Labour grand coalition would provide sufficient numbers of competent MPs to hold essential portfolios. | Hugh |
| And add to that the Waitangi Tribunal that has become the unelected mouth piece for anything that the elite Maori group dream up under the guise of “honor the treaty” | Barry |
| All the above are important but can be achieved with a STRONG Government | Leon |
| If we lose our democratic process, then there’s nothing left worth fighting for, only a broken system moving forward. | Jeff |
| The woke lefties and greedy maoris are my main concern and point in the direction I will vote . Whilst National should provide a reasoned and sensible party to support ,sadly I am struggling with voting for them . The risk of the Labour half wits or Greens lesbian /drama queens and of course the maori blood sucking fools is beyond contemplating getting my vote is as stupid as the guy with the facial road map tatts ,the gravy train is over guys .I am hoping a last minute bribe is to be offered by National ,sadly that trust has gone along with the nats fear of maori mafia . Act seems the only reasonable choice to maintain a forward thinking New Zealand society . | Ray |
| No brainer. Simply must be stopped and the bloody minded bureaucrats put back in their box. | David |
| Co governance has become a disease like a cancer in our culture. It has to be demolished for the sake of democracy. | Dianne |
| The left wing media’s relentless propaganda and attacks on the govt and ministers in particular the PM. No where have I ever seen any rational explanation of what the PM and his government has done wrong or could be doing better. | Ihaia |
| I’m hoping promises will be made to stop this nonsense and they will actually be carried through | David |
| Our government following UN agendas such as UNDRIP and the Paris Climate Accord etc. which covers all the above issues put together | Robyn |
| One country, one people. No more race based division. Democracy please! | Daphne |
| The base line. One person one vote one direction, one voice. | Fred |
| Until the issue of racial divide and the Treaty is sorted then the other issues remain minor and inhibit any future prosperity for New Zealand as an united country | Bill |
| This “maorification of New Zealand must cease. It is my contention that the biggest Racists in NZ are maori. It should also be remembered that maori slaughtered most of the original inhabitants & ate many. they did NOT purchase the land through Harcourts or Ray White’s etc. New Zealand is rapidly falling into a racial shithole.. How can we reverse this insidious situation????? | chris |
| there is no trace in the books of the total amount of money, over and above the Waitangi Tribunal contribution, that has been paid to multi maori activities in the last many years and what the forecast is iver the coming years. This is, in fact, sucking the till dry and leaving many government departments not able to fund numerous activities that they should be funding, eg St John ambulance, volunteer fire brigades etc etc…. | ARTHUR |
| Globalist FTA policies crafted using immigration. International oil prices are primarily influenced by OPEC, which controls a significant portion of global oil production, and major non-OPEC producers like Russia and the United States. The City of London plays a role in oil price levels through financial markets and trading, impacting how oil is bought and sold globally. No need for the extra tax taken and loaded onto essential food and service supplies | Max |
| Was in 2023 and still is! | Michael |
| Co-governance is a crok, it can’t ever work for the nation, just the elite within the structure | sam |
| If the coalition did what they promised they would romp home in the next election. Instead it looks like they will lose and the country will be in the proverbial hand kete | Mark |
| The issues being driven by pro co governance Activists, and not resisted by the current government, are a serious drain on the social and economic fabric of the country and hindering both productivity and international reputation by threatening potential investment and business.. | Peter |
| Very hard to single one out as they all in need of attention and the hard decisions that we thought National et al would be capable of. Instead we have got more of the same (or worse). | Murray |
| Just commit to democracy, before the smart workers leave?! | Kate |
| if they finally do something about getting rid of all things Treaty the rest of the country’s problems will come right | Cathy |
| Abolish the maori seats and return to a proper democracy where everyone is equal. Cut the benefit and the DPB down to Zero over a 3 year period. Too many bludgers in our society !! | Bruce |
| I feel that the Waitangi Tribunal should be put to bed and we should all live harmoniously together. Well I can dream can’t I? | Fraser |
| Westminster govt must prevail other NZ will slide into a backwater. | Richard |
| If we have a pseudo Dual Government it really means we have One Government because the Minority Part of it would Rule, not unlike the current Council ‘Unelected members’ who do control any Decisions..The Trojan Horse is NOT the Conquerors but the minority Activists.. God Defend New Zealand !! | Geoff |
| All of the above but Co Governance the most urgent, requiring action NOW. | john |
| Co governance is not the truth, its a total takeover by maori radicals and billion dollar maori companies. These blood suckers want it all. These treasonous scum have turned this country into a 3rd world country with no sign of our current govt pushing back. Departure seems to be only option. International airlines are busy. | Kevan |
| Sections of our country have become undemocratic with the blatant claims of Maori activists and the failure of many people to understand that the Coalition inherited huge problems because of Labour’s previous gross mismangement. Many voters will blame the Coalition for the current problems without understanding that the former Labour caused most of the mess. | Pauline |
| Saying NO to GE | Janet |
| Do we want 16 / 17 percent of the population ( Maori %u2014- but in effect the tribal elite) running this Country, SOLELY for their own benefit and to the total detriment of the rest of us , the other 83 / 84 percent (we non-Maori) , controlling us and telling us what we can and cannot do. NO WAY . The Treaty of Waitangi is about equality of citizenship before the law. There is NO role for tribes as entities specified in the Treaty , BECAUSE Maori in fact ceded sovereignty forever to the Crown , as THE central condition of the Treaty . The Treaty-mandated equality of citizenship before law is of paramount importance and underpins our democratic system, its values and citizens rights. Government has an unarguable obligation / responsibility to protect and preserve this mandate , no matter what. Tribal entities have ABSOLUTELY NO ROLE in our democratic system. Further, National undertook at last election-time to totally rid us of Maorification – and to eliminate Co-governance / any tribal involvement from our governance system – AND Government MUST HONOUR THOSE OBLIGATIONS. | Hugh |
| All of the above issues,New Zealand is one country, we do not want to follow rasist policys,that divides its citizens.We Dont want the old apartheid system of South Africa.We need the government to pull their finger out,and promote growth and help all its people,with a decent standard of living and get the country thriving. | Mike |
| If we are to be ruled by dictate nothing else will matter | ken |
| Of all I feel these two most important. 1) Cost of living and inflation… 2) Economic management including growth, jobs, debt, tax.. | Carl |
| We need democracy in its true form back I. This country | Gail |
| Tribal takeover well under way. NZ is no longer a democracy. No longer my country of choice. | Allan |
| The Maorification of NZ is appalling. The tribal elite are having so much influence in destabilising the country as does the press. | Chris |
| If we do not fix the Constitutional issues facing Kiwi’s today, none of the other pressing issues will matter, Kiwi’s will be fecked & New Zealand will be assigned to the History books replaced by some Neotribal bullcrap | John |
| I am very frustrated by the lack of progress on these issues. Non-Maori kiwis run a serious risk of becoming second class citizens. | Lucy |
| National will not be getting my vote in November, they promised to sort out all the maorification rubbish that has been forced into every aspect of our lives, and I know of so many people who feel the same. They are not listening to their voters, so disappointing. | Robyn |
| Government management, stability, co-government, Treaty, true democracy and Maori issues and reform of RMA are long term major issues that affect all NZ’ers and should have been dealt with by now. These items will affect this country for years to come. | John |
| I would like to see New Zealand declared (and truly become) a Christian Nation as it was founded to be. | Harvey |
| The country will be doomed if we don’t stop dividing us by race. Stop looking backwards put a line under the Treaty and use the 6 documents that made NZ a British colony. 1. Letter to the King of England by 13 Ngapuhi Chiefs dated 16 November 1831. 2. Declaration of Independence by James Busby dated 28 October 1835. 3. Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent dated 30 July 1839. 4. Treaty of Waitangi by Lt Governor Hobson dated 6 February 1840. 5. Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent dated 16 November 1840. 6. First Sitting of the Legislative Council of New Zealand. 24th May 1841. | Bev |
| I’m not happy with the Government sitting on their hands & not being positive. With rogue Maori running rings around local counsels. Simon Wattsour local MP isn’t doing anything about this problem | Tony |
| This has to be in place for economic stability to be managed. NZ is in a bad place. Ungodly government which shows in the lack of wisdom | Marilyn |
| The idea of co-governance is to divide the country and the maori to take over by stealth while the Europeans sleep, The frog in the pot syndrome | David |
| wake up and get some balls national | norman |
| STOP the gravy train. | Leigh |
| Luxon must put the fire that is co-governence out now while they can before it gets out of control whether he likes it or not this is his time in history to show true courage.Is he capable. | david |
| Your other issues are important too. | Derek |
| Maoris. | Warren |
| Modern feudalism. No way | Marshall |
| Our whole future as a successful democracy Depends on us all being equal. We also need to stop the gravy train that is bleeding us dry. | Patricia |
| The NZ taxpayer cannot afford to fund two separate systems. This is not tenable for the future and it breaches human rights. The National Party have to clarify their stance on these matters going into the next election. Guessing games will not help their cause. | Eileen |
| Co governance Co governance Co governance | Roy |
| we are one people | William |
| Luxon has NOT lived up to his pre election promises | Ross |
| racist rules and policy are not acceptable, one law for all.do not under estimate this fealing amongst sensible kiwis ! | norman |
| I would have thought and hoped the coalition would have done more to sort out the race based issues we are now facing. If Labour get in they will open the door to co-governance, treaty claims and more maorification of our beautiful country. I only wish I was younger I would be of rather than see our countries demise. | Judy |
| Good economic management is highly important but Luxon gaslights his support base by pretending it is the only issue. Just why he dogmatically remains in denial of the major constitutional concerns facing NZ’ers is a mystery. Without a healthy democracy we wont have a healthy economy. The plotters and destroyers of our democracy appear to be winning, but they are also overdue to reap the whirlwind they have sown. | Geoff |
| as National promised it would do. | LInda |
| A very worrying article that Muriel sums up extremely well. With the value of the NZ dollar going down the toilet the time for exiting is slipping away. I personally feel NZ’s future is looking more like SA. | Lawrie |
| Someone else but Luxon, leading | Ann |
| Hopefully VOTE ACT will fix everything | Hugh |
| Unless co governance is cancelled we are on a continuing downward spiral. | Anthony |
| I would have liked to have said the economy, but having a right wing government to get rid of Maori seats and co governance is essential first step. | Michael |
| The over “Woke” rubbish that 95% of all kiwis are sick of this agenda | Russ |
| Under the present governance which seems to be steadily introducing co-governance with Maori against the voting body – then and now – when and with genuine Kiwis voting for the then promoted “One Country under One Flag” by now changed his mind Luxon, New Zealand seems to be going down a racially divided political path – WITHOUT COMMENT from a developing autocratic leader in Luxon. How come Luxon could walk out of a concerned 2.5 hour party leadership debate without offering New Zealand one word of directional direction? How come Luxon seems to have a similar ‘one way’ attitude to that of his reported friend and earlier employer Ardern? Who voted for this change of social direction for New Zealand? Where is the open and free debate ? By their silence, do ALL elected politicians believe in a racially divided country – like South Africa etc.? I suggest freedom and openness gives everyone wonderful opportunities. Long live New Zealand. | Stuart |
| If New Zealanders do not wake up and completely stop this Treaty rubbish about co-governance then NZ is doomed to become again a tribal backwater. | BrUcE |
| I want an end to Maori representation without being first elected to a position by the citizens. I want an end to Maori language being forced upon us and buildings being named in Maori language. I want an end to the view that Maori have to be consulted on every thing we do and often paid for doing it. I don’t want to have karakia said over me or to me or being blessed by Maori. I am a Christian. | Lynne |
| National are obstructing true democracy. Continuing years of bad and weak decisions.NZ needs a coalition where NZF and ACT outnumber National , and work together to dominate the Coalition and effect their policies as the dominant actions. Otherwise NZ will be swamped by undemocratic co governance, weak and ineffective government, continued increasing debt, and deep division of NZ | Roger |
| Co-governance, Treaty, democracy, maori seats and the like have become literal brakes on growth, stability and social cohesion. The economic drain is, in whole, enormous, even though it is being carried out in myriad (relatively) small ways it is jas become the nations death by 1000 cuts. Add to this the recent appalling India Free Trade Agreement, that will prove itself detrimental to New Zealands well being over time and any hope of claiming future prosperity is going down the drain. Forecasts are only that and I don’t believe they allow for the true cost and social upheaval the ordinary New Zealander is facing, this will only accelerate. | Mark |
| One race and one people. Natives can afford to cover costs they bleat for with past payouts from The Nation. Carry their own load. evidence crime drugs, gangs | mike |
| Address the needs of those in the depths of poverty first and equally across the races. If some Maori are in deeper need than Pakeha in deep need, then help those Maori first. For those in equal need, do not distinguish between the races. Part Maori are also part Pakeha. | Graeme |
| While I have voted health I like some of the other points in fact most of them. One other point is I think the Govt should do a better job of culling local body spending and rates. This killing people | Barbara |
| Gene Technology Bill which has the ability to cause irreversible damage to our physiology. | Kath |
| being a democracy underpins having the authority to solve all the other very pressing issues with my chance of general agreement on the solutions with less greed and and rapacious opposition | vaughan |
| The constitutional issues probably need sorting first so the other issues can be properly dealt with. | Mick |
| Unfettered immigration | Debbie |
| Education. This is the core of understanding New Zealand’s true history and therefore understanding what commitments all New Zealanders need to make to ensure a progressive and prosperous country. There is nothing free. Every time someone receives some type of value without directly paying, someone else pays the cost. This needs to be driven home at all levels of the education process, not just in schools, universities and the like. Education never stops and all New Zealanders need to understand that we are fed a constant flow of biased opinions masquerading as facts by largely left leaning media of multiple types. | Peter |
| Forme getting rid of co governance treaty and Maori seats are the big issues. Without these to concern us we can the focus on the other issues | Michael |
| Totally against co governance Get rid of the Treaty of Waitangi and the Maori seats English first was an election promise Get it done | Anon |
| Honesty. If we were all honest we would discover the hidden plans that are destroying our culture. | Ray |
| 1 NZ and no more hand outs to Maori | Rod |
| With the way Trump has stuffed the world’s economy I doubt any NZ government can fix our economy and cost of living without putting the country further into debt. | David |
| A single choice for just one of these is not how I will be thinking. My priority order would be: 1. Economic Mgt 2. Constitutional issues 3. Govt stability and leadership 4. Cost of living 5. Health services. I would expect the incoming government to attend to all of these. I think your and Prof Rata’s analysis of what the present government inherited, the unpredictable impact of external events and what it has failed to do in respect to constitutional issues is spot on. | TONY |
| That plus the total Left Wing media on all fronts. Thank goodness for N Z C P R For clarity! | DICK |
| This is a fundamental issue that needs to be sorted out. Economies go up and down, good and bad – amended constitutional issues, you’re stuck with. | Chester |
| Everything else on the list is solvable in the short term but co-governance and the Maori issues are likely to get worse. much worse and yet the majority of the populace seems to be asleep and unconcerned even though their basic democracy is in great danger. | Roger |
| Honesty. If the people in power were honest, we would understand the threat from political dominance and avoid it as much as we could. | Ray |
| Especially if Labour, Greens and TPM become Government. | Rose |
| Get rid of the socialism, over taxation, over regulation. Free people will grow the economy. We need less government spending. | Larry |
| The drive for cogovernance if not stopped NOW is going to destroy this country in the not too distant future Labour wants it, National is OK with it. Neither of these two main parties is listening to the voters, and ACT and NZFirst are too small as yet, and bickering with each other. The drift towards cogovernance continues, the biggest factor contributing to the loss of Democracy. Our Polititians need to wake up! | Greg |
| Society cannot manage to live in this country,other to survive by being poor. | Ann |
| FTA agreement with India | Lisa |
| The problem with your listed items is that they are all vitally important to me, therefore, I cannot single out one topic alone as being the most important. It is as multitude of items or a coupling of items that will get my vote. Where I sit right now, my vote will go to Act, because Act embrasses most if not all the above items. | Peter |
| New Zealanders and our economy is being held to ransom by ongoing challenges to democratic rules of Governance | Jim |
| The Government is relentlessly pursuing an agenda that is undeniably co-governance. A Labour Government would continue to follow the path of co-governance and with the stated aim of winning the maori seats this will become clear very soon. | Phil |
| Humans were here in NEW ZEALAND 5,000 years ago – PROVEN. That cancels ALL treaty claims NOW. | Brian |
| Totally sick of stone age superstition and made-up language forced into every fibre of our society. | Alan |
| Economic management & constitutional issues. | Scott |
| National hasn’t carried out its pre election promises Luxon Is hopeless | Geoffrey |
| All the rest will degenerate if this is not stopped and settled. | Colin |
| TREADDY… needs soting and radical Ms silenced | Gill |
| The maorification of our country needs to be stopped. Cancel all payments to Maori initiatives that only benefit maori and return our country to a secular democracy | Gary |
| Sad. The goal is to railroad the elections in toto. | Janet |
| One person one vote | edward |
| A close 2nd for me is defence of New Zealand. | Tim |
| I’m comfortable with the current co- co- government, I think they are doing a good job, , considering the mess they walked walked into, they do need to keep the pressure on the one eyed media, also the discussing comment from Chris Hopkins to Nicola Wills last week to her credit she didn’t lower herself to his level, by responding re personality’s as we know a bit to come out about him yet | Paul |
| STABILITY, LEADERSHIP, DISCIPLINE. I for one have had enough of the infighting in the media and grandstanding in general. Also it is important to me that the Maoris and others remember we are one people with EQUAL RIGHTS and no one is more equal than others. GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALAND!!!! | Bruce |
| Successive governments continue to promise but not deliver the will of the people. All race based legislation should be removed, Maori seats gone and the Waitangi Tribunal has had its decades of fun and needs to be gone also. | Scott |
| All of the first three are important | Craig |
| I would include “Govt. Stability ‘under a traditional Westminster model. | Robert |
| The undermining of our constitution (Democracy) by self entitled, greedy people is also undermining the economy and cost of living. Get rid of co-governance; Result: No extortion costs and lost time wasted developing infrastructure. NO DEI, right person right, right qualification equals progress, equals unity, equals democracy, one person, one vote, equal value under one flag. Cost of living reduction overall. New Zealand gets its confidence back and we all get elevated as one nation. Now where is the leader, with Principals willing to get rid of the TOW, and fix local government ACT entirely? | Sam |
| We don’t want Labour and their coalition in power!!! | Les |
| All of the issues mentioned are vital and need to be urgently addressed. We do need to end this costly and unconstitutional co- governance rubbish once and for all. I do not accept as any race has presidence over any other. We need to grow up and move on. | Grant |
| constitutional issues and government stability with better leadership that listens. | Roderick and Rosemarie |
| This is PARAMOUNT | Hylton |
| Plus lack of confidence in the Coalition to carry out promised policy. | Keith |
| The other choices are a result of that which I have selected. Stop the gravy train and put the money to use in the other choices | Carl |
| While Treaty issues look to be mainly ideological, they are starting to have a significant fiscal cost,. the true scale of that will be if the left do succeed in winning the 2026 election, the mass exodus of the brains of the country leaving as a result will be fatal to NZ soul and finances. | Steve |
| Muriel’s summary is pretty much the truth. Maori radicles do not have the rights they claim. Maori radicles do not earn the rights or the costs they generate nor are they being honest. It is the Truth and responsibility that brings freedom. | Maurice |
| Should be a “NO brainer” | Martin |
| Sick to death of how our present government haven;t got the guts to stand up and say no to Maori demands. | Colleen |
| Get a surplus | Roger |
| Basically all of the issues you have listed | Moyra |
| The critical need for radically changed government structure and governance – see proposal for Australia on www.better-management.org | Peter |
| Get rid of the Treaty of Waitangi and make NZ a one class state!!! | DAVID |
| Tribalism is divisive and anti democratic. Gives power to self centered tribal leaders who only work for their own tribes gain and New Zealand’s loss | Terry |
| The coalition hasn’t fixed this money wasting., by: 1. Eliminating co governance, 2. Reducing the number of Government employees. I could go on, but Luxon doesn’t seem to want to cut government wasteful spending. | Mark |
| First we have to build a sound, one people base. No race, religion or gender must be part of our constitution. Unfortunately, many people have been programmed incorrectly and have lost the clear and pragmatic approach to running a society fairly. We are fertilising weed. | Leonard |
| National are completely out of touch with what the voters want. The coalition government has been disappointing in that they have not done what they promised in their campaigns. The Maori radicals are being given power on Councils etc, when they have not been elected which is unacceptable. Co-governance is bullshit. Maori just want a free ride to scam everything that they can for doing nothing. There are far too many immigrations coming into NZ, no wonder there is a shortage of housing & that the medical system & infrastructure cannot cope. | david |
| If Maori get more control all the rest will get far worse and then collapse. | Evans |
| The Maori corporations are amassing huge amounts of money through their not having to pay taxes on their investments. Will any future government have the will to change this? | Laurence |
| This covers every part of decision making for local and government issues and is stalling the process, and adding costs everywhere | Su |
| Treaty lies, separatism, division, hate, racism Identity politics, lack of Maori DNA, destruction of our democracy, wasteful expenditure on Te Reo, non stop maorification. Our country is being destroyed and Luxon does nothing about it. All people’s are equal; oh, no they’re not. | John |
| One person one vote | Andi |
| We need the Labour/Greens/TPM like a hole in the head !! We cannot risk what happened with their last coalition. | Andrew |
| As Prof Elizabeth Rata says there is NO co in a Democracy. | nicole |
| You should have included the disastrous effect of climate policies in your analysis. | Russell |
| We need politicians to say “no” to co-governance and stop funding it. We also need to follow Javier Milei’s example and make government drastically smaller | Rose |
| WEF predominance in government. Digital ID, CBDCs etc. Economy, governance cost of living, health and government stability in close but that order as well. | Lawrence |
| just that one thing | Maxwell |
| One country one people one vote one law one hospital for all based on need not colour. No apartied all equal no race baed policies. | Stephen |
| Luxon / National is pussy footing around this cogovernance ; which is in reality simply rule by maoris. | Ann |
| All the issues that Muriel has highlighted are important to the majority of New Zealanders, but I also believe that it goes deeper than just “the issues. I believe all the issues that Muriel has highlighted are important to the majority of New Zealanders, but I also believe that it goes deeper than just “the issues” we normally encounter during an election. What do I mean by that? Firstly: Do I trust any of the MPs squatting in the “halls of power in New Zealand? I would answer that in the negative, so it’s a No from me. How about you, do you trust any of them? I base my No on the facts relating to the actions, or inactions of all the MPs in Parliament during the covid plandemic. It is now known for a fact, that the covid death jabs were a bioweapon and that they were designed to kill and maim all of those who were fooled into allowing it to be injected into their bodies. People are now thinking to themselves, and some are saying aloud, how could I have been so easily fooled. They all “trusted” these people who had their interests at heart, or so they were propagandised into thinking. Let’s not forget those who are now dead or maimed and ignored as a result. Secondly: In the knowledge of the historical actions and decisions of these parliamentarians, do you believe, that going forward, they are driven to preserve and protect the values we hold so dear in New Zealand? Or are they driven by instructions given to them by the globalist (Bilderberg and other) parasite paedophile demonic scumbag puppet-masters? Thirdly: Do you believe that in light of the irrefutable knowledge we now have about how the government operates that any of these people even qualify to be representatives of us, because they sure don’t serve us as they so often claim. Fourthly: Are you happy with the decay of New Zealand into the slavery planned by (unelected) UN Agenda 2030 and beyond? If you are not aware of this, research it because it is spelled out in detail. In light of this, do you think it is time to think about what you want your future and your family’s future to look like. Lastly: I will not be voting for any of these mongrels because they do not qualify. I am in favour of abandoning the parliamentary disaster and de-centralizing. Declaring Christianity the guiding principle and as the official religion. Ejecting all the foreign interference in my country, especially Islam and the doctrine it represents. Nationalizing all public services. Seizing all foreign owned properties and businesses. Reviewing citizenship of all foreign peoples and repatriating those who no longer qualify. Sorry Muriel for bypassing the individual questions here, but a huge number believe our thinking needs to extended to encompass the all. | Neil |
| Co-Governance was an item National stated they would address ‘if they were elected to Parliament at the last Election’. This continues to be a rider in many of the ills Voters are still facing with the coming Election. The fact that the Coalition has not addressed this problem to date and is still not addressed will add to the continued loss of Voter popularity with the current Government. | Robyn |
| MMP in its current form is not sustainable. Only the party with a majority vote should be capable of forming a government. | Shane |
| Well written. thank you | chris |
| There should be no such thing as co_governance | Mark |
| Also the Carbon Taxes have to go. These insane impositions will forever impact the economy and the weather will do what the weather always does, continue to change. | Kevin |
| The cost of co-governance in this country is horrendous. If the billions already given to Maori by taxpayers and ratepayers had been spent on social services and infrastructure NZ would be in a much healthier position. | Bruce |
| If constructional issues remain unsettled and stability remains unsettled and is seen to by outsiders of Nz then confidence in the country is negated – eg oil exploration. This will spread across all economic investment – who would risk investing? And reputationally NZ is sunk | Julian |
| This Govt. has used the softly softly slow approach on all it’s policies. | Alan |
| all these are important | leo |
| Yet again we have been let down by Politicians election promises. | Philip |
| We must stop co governance | Paul |
| I feel this country has been lost to the tribal takeover. It seems nothing can be done about it even by a government who had the mandate to stop it. | Shane |
| Fed up with all this maori clap trap. | Steph |
| Time to stop radical maori pushing co-governance and remove all references to the “treaty” from Govt departments and schools. | Dave |
| Every issue mentioned is very important but eradicating The TOW and Maori seats and Co-Governance has to eliminated before we can achieve the other goals | Wayne |
| Definitely | Graeme |
| NZ is now so woke, broken and divided. It’s time to stop pushing all this Maori Treaty nonsense and stop the squandering of people’s taxes on Maori and put it back into our infrastructure, hospitals etc. Unite the people of NEW ZEALAND. | Joyce |
| The cost of living and inflation pressures are NOT the fault of the Govt who have zero control over the International carry-ons of Global Powers nor can it be expected to address the serious issues which impacted those same factors created by the earlier Labour led Govt overnight. The Treaty document does not describe the Negotiated agreement between the British and Maori Leaders at the time – it simply describes the benefits of the British Offer as set out by Lord Normanby and the consequences if agreement to the conditions to SAVE Maori from almost certain scary French Colonisation and /or being wiped out by inter tribal fighting now having 19 century musket technology This British conditional agreement IS THE SOLE PUPOSE OF THE TREATY What is posted are the benefits . Get this message out with the Public | Stan |
| This issue of co governance has not been touched. If nothing is done we may be seriously looking at who we vote for | Heather |
| National needs to commit to ending the co-governance discussion – They were voted in to close this door, and silence the ideology which has allowed the creation of racist policies in NZ | Merie |
| Unless co-governance and Maorification is stopped we will face civil war. | Grant |
| Co governance and attempts to entrench tribal rule undermine all the principles of democracy. Therefore heading NZ down a path of conflict which will have no positive outcome for NZers. What a sad sorry state we now live in through apathetic Government | Andrew |
| All mention of co governance, partnership, treaty obligations, principals should be removed from all legislation and the treaty put into historical records and stop all legal payments for any maori claims . If they have a genuine claim they pay themselves like everyone else | Colin |
| All of the bullet points are extremely important & immigration. We as a nation can no longer endure anymore immigration from cultures that are not the same as ours. other Western Nations especially the EU & the UK & now to our shock Australia, have become unsafe due to the imported ethnic violence. Islam especially, now is well past the time government’s stopped the ridiculous importing of foreigners & started training our own people for these rolls instead of letting the languish on the dole. Civil war is coming to this country because to many governments have been to soft on so many issues. God save us if the left get back in. | Nigel |
| With constitutional / co governance a close second | John |
| If we dont get together now and trample the co governance threat, I fear for my grandchildren! | Glenda |
| Until we are democracy with one person, one vote, with no division by race, we cannot ensure stability to achieve the other options. | Rod |
| A bit hard to answer using only one choice…Many of our current urgent issues have directly originated from leadership weaknesses. My vote will be influenced by those who commit to changing the current governance attitude across NZ to a “Back to Basics” political approach. Serving New Zealand citizens – Not competing against them with their own taxes. | Andrew |
| All of the above but, I have gone for the constitutional issues which I think affect all of the rest because of the sly way these issues are being enhanced by the National component of the current Coalition and to a lesser extent by NZFirst. | pdm |
| The size of government a dead weight on the economy. The National lead government (read, the Nats) way too timid. As it is with matters maori. | Martin |
| I believe everyone should be EQUAL no matter what race they are.ONE LAW FOR EVERYONE whci luxon PROMISED in the last election but is too weak to do it. | Cindy |
| Entitled belief of the radical Maori sector is costing this country a fortune and is causing serious division when we should all be pulling together. This is closely followed by the under performing health system. | Chris |
| We should be one nation of New Zealanders as it was back in the 50s’-90s’ all patriotic Kiwis. If this minority Maori activists get their way there will be infighting over assets and control amongst the tribes to ultimate demise of the NZ economy and poverty.- another ‘Nauru’ | Bruce |
| We are losing democracy. Maori do not want co-governance. They want total control, When the iwis can’t agree with each other, how can they expect to run a country? Get rid of Maori seats as well and the Maori roll. Too many of them are mixed race. | Sheila |
| race neutrality 1 vibrant peoples | Doug |
| Health should be the number one priority for all New Zealanders – without it one has nothing. Confucius is reported to have said – A healthy person has a thousand dreams – a sick person just one | John |
| Cogovernance is the noose around the neck of NZ killing us by slow strangulation as it has not yet broken our neck. Add unfettered immigration into the racial mix and kiss goodbye to ever rising above 40th in OECD standard of living | Mike |
| Amend the Charity laws re tax and reinforce “1 man, 1 vote” as the cornerstone of democracy. | David |
| 1 person – 1 vote. Remove Maori seats. | Vern |
| I should tick all of these options but from an upcoming election point of view I support the first option. | Garry |
| National have lost my electorate vote this election. Party vote to Act. electorate vote to New Zealand first candidate in Tasman. National are the Liberals in Australia.ie stuffed | John |
| The lack of progress in removing race-based policies and co governance by National will cost them dearly at the ballot box. And has contributed to slow economic growth. | Ken |
| A tribal run government will be disastrous for this country except for the tribal elites who are already making a fortune | Gareth |
| Co governance is killing this country. If it isn’t stopped all else becomes academic. | Michael |
| If we don’t sort out the Treaty and Democracy issues we will never be a great nation . I’m fed up with being branded as a colonial intruder on the Maori,.they were never a nation of people, they were tribes fighting each other for centuries until the English offered some Chiefs a better way to live, and they took that option in the Treaty that gave them peace, stability and values they never had. If they are not happy today, then stuff the Treaty and lets have a proper government for all and democracy under the Crown, NOT a republic, . . | Bev |
| The promotion of apartheid needs to stop. We are all created equal and have equal opportunity | Laurie |
| Need to get all this co-governance/tribal rule takeover nonsense removed asap. Will only ruin the country if allowed to take over. | Lee |
| All points are so important, I believe the existing government should go hard on all of them and stop pussyfooting. | Trevor |
| The continuation of policies commonly known as ‘woke’, where unscientific ideas are promoted as truth and the suffering that ensues, particularly in young adults, is ignored. It appears likely that the huge increase in public servants during the Ardern years contributed greatly to the ‘woke’ epidemic. The real need is for government to remove the funding of ‘woke’ policies in the public service and allow truth to prevail. | Peter |
| Most of New Zealand’s problems stem from the amount of time and/or money spent appeasing Maori. | Peter |
| Also the inflated number of bureaucrats and that they are predominantly leftites. Incoming govts should be able to hire their own rather than accept the previous regimes staff. | diana |
| Also very important are Cost of Living & Health services | Don |
| Successive governments in coalition or separately have made election promises to abolish Maori seats,no have.The current coalition promised to get rid of the seats,get rid of Treaty Principles from legislation if not part of a Treaty settlement, play merry he’ll with a big stick,and what happened,NOTHING,they have so far sold us down the river,but who else can we vote for? | Peter |
| One person, one vote, one people, one country New Zealand | Ron |
| A lot of other stuff we are all concerned about would simply disappear if maori greed was done away with. The Waitangi Tribunal should be dis-established , all monies returned to the taxpayer, then used to fix our health system, where everyone benefits, rather than no one under the current system. | Trevor |
| I do not consider Luxon’s leadership to be effective | Geoffrey |
| The economy waxes and wains. Constitutional issues are paramount and have enduring impact as we are seeing as our democracy is being destroyed by Maori separatism. | Graeme |
| As there are no full blood Maori, There should be no difference in how we are treated. We are all New Zealanders and should be treated the same in all legislation. | Andrew |
| One Governance is the foundation of good governance anywhere. It is enshrined in One Citizenship. These twinned things are foundational. | Alan |
| Promises made before the election not carried out, more lies for votes! | Diana |
| Constitutional issues including co-governance, Treaty, democracy, Maori seats | Catherine |
| This election is so important, if we don’t address the Maorification this time we’re on a path of Tribal control. | Sandra |
| It’s a hard decision to vote for only 1 as I believe so many problems facing New Zealand leading up to the election but I have to say co governance, treaty and the never ending maori issues are getting worse and need to be sorted out and the government need to say no more. | Chris |
| This issue is so divisive and so expensive, Maori ticket clipping and funding of special privilege along with all the Maori spiritual clap trap is costing us dearly, as is their litany of excuses for not paying rates. | dianna |
| The latest trade deal, with INDIA, does not give N.Z a fair deal for N.Z. KIWIS, have ended up with the short end of the deal, with not much for us as NEW ZEALANDERS… IT always takes SELFISH GLOBALISTS, WORKING FOR THE FOREIGN USURPER, so as to get our best produce, food,wines, agricultural products, dairy, meats, wood, prime fish products, but not much in return, for ordinary KIWIS? i THINK SHANE and WINSTON, MAY HAVE A GOOD POINT! IT’S NOT RACISM… IT,S GLOBAL CAPITALISM!! THE W.E.F KIND !! | David |
| People matter, not their race…We should all be treated equally by the law. A racist government will drive me from the country I have grown up in…. | Peter |
| Should have been well and truly done and dusted within the first 100 day’s, does tend to sharpen one’s focus when voting | Bob |
| Co-governance will never work. Same rights for everyone. | Gavin |
| like bolger and key govt. yet again we have national -do nothing,labour lite.no beneficial reform govt. national will lose many votes, hopefully to coalition partners. | Pattie |
| Honor what voted the current coalition in | Tony |
| The coalition must squash co-governance. | Clive |
| The single most threatening problem facing New Zealand | Bryan |
| Once we have competent leadership for all New Zealanders prudent management can address in haste all the vexing issues likethe Constitutional ,issues. | Ray |
| Co-governance will bleed the country dry | David |
| I note that the much-loved and community-valued Rawene Hospital in the Hokianga is under threat. It was one of many small hospitals I visited during my New Zealand-wide rural hospitals petition tour in the 1990s. About 100 public hospitals were closed during the 1980s and 1990s despite a Canterbury Area Health Board study of their rural hospitals which showed that it was over 60 percent CHEAPER to provide health services from local facilities than by centralising them. But still the blind centralisation dogma persists and the absurd growth in health bureaucracy continues to the detriment of services on the ground. To paraphrase the old saying; the only thing we learn from history is that politicians never learn from history. | David |
| Divide & rule is the principle behind this strategy. | Nick |
| Well overdue to be fixed | Bryce |
| Government stability and leadership are also high priority | Murray |
| Sort this tribalism out. Look at history, no country has survived well with a devided people. I can live on the “smell of an oily rag” to quote my father when needs must. I did it during the Muldoon times of Think Big projects. | Ian |
| Global war and how NZ deals with it. Continue to support the USA or go neutral? I want to see a strong neutral NZ. | Grant |
| I want to see one united country without any cogoverance or special treatment for Maori who are not indigenous as claimed | Peter |
| The Maori co-governance issue is paramount because this genie can ever be put back in the bottle. All other issues are important but not so urgent. | Vic |
| Economic issues are always central – BUT Treaty-issue-rot is really undermining our nation’s substance. | Jim |
| Much much more work needs to be done in this area. | Brenda |
| The NATIONAL GOVT. have now told KIWIS that they are not in anyway going to allow PEOPLES DEMOCRACY, because LUXON works for the W.E.F and his GLOBALIST CABAL MATES. They are not going to fullfill, the promises they made to KIWIS before they were elected, 3 years ago! Since when was SLAVERY, part of any TRADE DEAL? wasn’t there a war fought over that,? WINSTON is right about the latest trade deal with INDIA. N.Z gets the short end of the stick, with the minus TRADE DEAL, ! Now we know who LUXON is working for…. The W.E.F and the GLOBAL GANG… I.M.F, UN. JUST some other reasons not to be voting NATIONAL, this election!! | David |
| The separation of kiwis based on their genetic background is by far the most significant factor in my voting decision | Luke |
| Mass immigration, clearly being driven by people outside of New Zealand | Hone |
| A science based approch to climate change that supports our farmers. | Chuck |
| Get rid Maori District seats Get back to Democracy for all no double dipping by Maori re treaty Settlements Maori companies have to pay Income tax like all NZ companies .Can any right of ownership Bring back foreshore and seabed Queens Chain no one can own our beaches | Ian |
| Co-Governance is a complete oxymoron, it is a power grab pure and simple. If it is not rooted out and stopped nothing else matters much. | Doug |
| Actually all ot the ABOVE. All so important God help us and future of generations of New Zealanders no matter what creed or colour, all is at stake! | Derek |
| If we get this co governance TOW cancer embedded more and more into our country, we will become another South Africa. | Michael |
| NO to any race based privilege | Brian |
| Co-governance dominates all NZ problems and until this is removed in it’s entirety the rest of the problems won’t go away. | Mark |
| The constant wantoness of Maori elite appears to have few bounds. Their hands are always out for more. It is an oft repeated theme in recent times with little slack in the sail going forwards to be seen. NZ is a democracy. It is not the other word that RadioNZ and TV use constantly, as if the real name for our country is somehow a voodoo topic. Media have a lot to asnwer for in this regard as do parliament. The gravy train of handouts to Maori in nearly every avenue of NZ life has to be reined in. With unelected iwi sitting on councils having voting power, we have to ask ourselves ‘what is that’! | John |
| We need a stable government that doesn’t act like a child with a paddy in parliament I do think Winnie might do well as he is an elder statesman despite his faults. It seems a lot of people share my sentiments | Beryl |
| Self sustainability, including stopping the greedy corporates and corporations from over-charging and moving profits offshore. | Raymond |
| you can add biased left leaning media | chris |
| Enough APARTHEID | Mike |
| to prevent co governance | I E M |
| we are all equal | Collin |
| Stop all the cogovernment rubbish | Mike |
| I am worried about the aggressive style and confrontational attitude adopted by Maori activists and their increasing defiance of the laws of New Zealand | Terry |
| Co governance and the Maori activists takeover has to be stopped dead. | Boud |
| Also there is no properly peer reviewed evidence that CO2 significantly warms the planet. | Michael |
| I am most worried about the erosion of treaty rights and the continual attacks on Maori | Anon |
| This issue must be settled. for NZ to survive as a democracy – the outcome is not certain. | mary |
| National promised to deal with these issues. They have not and seem unwilling to do so. Such a disappointment. | Margaret |
| It’s understandable the business recovery has failed to fire when the government is throwing away our democracy to tribalism and propping up non-tax paying tribal charities and trusts when they are business corporations being funded by the taxpayers, plus are obviously pushing for tribal control of the country. National has simply ignored the elephant in the room and actually cast their lot in with what many consider to be treasonable activity. | Bryan |
| The maorification of New Zealand is cancerous, and must be treated like cancer – Cut it out. End the Maori rort, as luxflakes said he would do in the build up to the 2023 elections. | Gordon |
| The wrecking ball of Tribalism will destroy all else | Glenn |
| For me it’s Co Governance every time. How worrying it is that so many New Zealanders are not even aware of what is really going on. There are also those of course who seem to believe that it is a good thing. God help us. | Paul |
| In this area, maorification, we’ve been badly let down by successive governments with politicians seemingly intent on wrecking this country by absolutely failing to see the unintended (?) outcomes of their racial policies. Clearly, they lack the ability to think critically and the backbone to rectify the mess they have made. | Alan |
| So many very IMPORTANT ISSUES, IN NZ THAT HAVE BEEN OVERLOOKED! it,s very hard to decide what the most important issue is….there are so many…. GOVERNMENT, SOVEREIGNITY, IMMIGRATION, COST OF LIVING, HEALTH, EMPLOYMENT, JOBS, DEBT, TAX, WHAT IS THE BEST GOVT. PLAN FOR NZ? | David |
| If New Zealanders are not united, sharing commonly agreed goals, then we will fail completely. | Rodger |
| The cost of living beats all other considerations in my view. National has “tried hard” to fix the economy in one way, but in another they’ve been totally incompetent especially when it comes to RMA reforms, Why didn’t they have some carefully designed replacements already drafted and ready to go – after all, they had plenty of warning new laws would be needed. Chris Bishop is irresponsible. He couldn’t even get a decent replacement drafted, What he’s produced will make everything worse. | David |
| The tribal takeover of NZ is real. Those who don’t believe it need to open their eyes. | Murray |
| It is so disappointing that the Coalition have not fulfilled their promise to rid the country of race-based laws. This is the most important issue facing the country. Oil prices go up and down and the cost-of-living will settle down again at some stage but dividing the country by race will get worse unless the politicians have the guts to fix it. | Paul |
| Race is a blight on NZ. The sooner a government gets rid of it from our laws, the better. | Hugh |
| The attack on our constitution has to be the most dangerous problem facing the country. Those who don’t understand what’s going on need to get up to speed! | Kay |