Chris Hipkins

It is estimated to save the Government more than $1 billion.

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced more policies will be scrapped to get Kiwis through the cost of living crisis. The $568 million clean car upgrad.

The second set of government programmes to be cut, trimmed or delayed include the voting age, alcohol reform, a used container refund, and various transport ...

It amounts to $5.54 more than the $601.32 they would have received under wage-aligned scheme. Some of the things that we're delaying or stopping do mean a lot to us as a government, but we're taking the hard decisions because we know that Kiwis are also making some tough calls." This will be put on hold until all cases are heard. "At the moment, the cost of living and the recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle are right at the top of the list." "The two lots of reprioritisation will save about $1 billion, which will be reallocated to support New Zealanders with the cost of living," he said. He said this would give ministers and the government "more bandwidth to deal with cost of living" and the cyclone.

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Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced the "significant narrowing" of the speed limit reduction programme at his Monday post-Cabinet media conference as part of ...

Waka Kotahi NZTA is currently preparing its State Highway Speed Management Plan for 2024-2027. The changes announced today would include a "significant narrowing of the speed reduction programme to focus on the most dangerous 1% of state highways, and ensuring Waka Kotahi are consulting meaningfully with affected communities". The Government has backed down on its plans to cut speed limits on state highways and says it will now only focus on 1% of the "most dangerous" roads.

Chris Hipkins is leading the way as preferred Prime Minister while support for National leader Chris Luxon has tumbled in the latest political poll.

Hipkins also scrapped a number of policies to pay for the move, including narrowing the cuts to speed limits. Te Pāti Māori was on 1 per cent. Of the smaller parties, NZ First polled 4.2 per cent, New Conservatives 2.5 per cent, Top polled 1.7 per cent, and the Māori Party polled 1.4 per cent. In that January poll, Act was on 10 per cent (down 1), the Green Party on 7 per cent (down 2) and NZ First had dropped back to 2 per cent (down 2). In that poll Labour had a five-point bump rising to 38 per cent and overtaking National on 37 per cent. On the numbers, only Labour and the Greens could then form a Government with the support of Te Pāti Māori. Based on the results Labour could form a government with the support of the Greens and Te Pāti Māori. Hipkins said he would be happy to continue working with the Greens and that Labour had a “relatively constructive” working relationship with Te Pāti Māori. Of the parties outside of Parliament NZ First remained the most popular rising one point to three per cent - still below the five per cent threshold. The results would give Labour and the Greens 60 seats - and National and Act 57. The Greens now sit on 11 per cent, while Act was up one to also sit on 11 per cent. The Green Party meanwhile was the big winner rising four points and reversing a recent declining trend, while Te Pāti Māori also got a bump rising two points to three per cent.

ANALYSIS: Chris Hipkins continues to concentrate on what voters care about, while the Greens get a climate polling bump.

This is a serious challenge to the Hipkins ascendancy and could be the major stumbling block towards convincing people to vote for him again – if properly executed. Nevertheless, clearly Hipkins is going all in to win. A Labour-Greens Government is infinitely better for the Greens than being in opposition, even at the cost of losing a couple of dinky policies. Only a few years ago it was indexed to wages growth, which has now been outstripped by the increase in the general level of prices. On the numbers in this poll Labour and the Greens together would take 60 seats in the House – exactly 50% of them. It will mean $100 more each fortnight for a couple claiming NZ Super.

Chris Hipkins has surged ahead as preferred choice for Prime Minister in the latest Kantar poll. Hipkins has risen by four points to 27 percent while Natio.

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has resurrected his Labour Party's chances of winning a third term in office after replacing Jacinda Ardern, ...

Tonight on The Huddle, Herald senior writer Simon Wilson and Trish Sherson from Sherson Willis PR joined in on a discussion about the following issues of t.

The second set of government programmes to be cut, trimmed or delayed include the voting age, alcohol reform, a used container refund, and various transport ...

It amounts to $5.54 more than the $601.32 they would have received under wage-aligned scheme. "Across the two - the clean car upgrade, social leasing - schemes that we've announced today we're not going to be progressing with we'd be talking about 7000 tonnes of reductions during the first emissions budget period. "We had a really positive conversation, I'm not going to get into a blow-by-blow account for that. So we will be looking at how we can progress more of that faster." "We don't want to be imposing those additional costs right at the moment. We're not the same party, we're different parties, we'll be campaigning on different issues. What we didn't see today was inflation-adjusted tax thresholds, which would have made a big difference to working families," he said. It was proving difficult to implement and many of the areas where it was trialled were affected by recent severe weather. Some of the things that we're delaying or stopping do mean a lot to us as a government, but we're taking the hard decisions because we know that Kiwis are also making some tough calls." The legislation would be introduced in this Parliamentary term, but would be progressed by the next Parliament. For example when community groups are doing it tough, I don't want to see any restrictions on sponsorship increasing costs for community sports teams." It will be a massive task for our road builder, Waka Kotahi, and one that needs their total focus."

On May 16, 2022, James Shaw, the climate change minister, unveiled a $2.9 billion emissions reduction plan. Jacinda Ardern, the then prime minister, couldn't ...

Though evidence showed it helped to reduce waste, said Hipkins, “it’s estimated it will add a small cost to the average household and we don’t want to be imposing additional costs on families at this time”. All those involved would be “devastated” by a decision that extended the “Sisyphean” challenge, she said. “We work in good faith, as constructively as possible, and it’s super gutting that this is where the priority lies.” “But the collection does have quite a big impact on our emissions.” To meet the emissions budget dictated by the emissions reduction plan, “we do need to make the calls now,” he said. A “huge community rallying effort” involving councils and community groups around the country had underscored the case. We have to work out how to close the gap, to make up for those policies that are now off the table or kicked into the future.” Were New Zealand to slip further on emissions, it would only mean offsetting that abroad. “We had a really positive conversation, I’m not going to get into a blow-by-blow account of that,” he said. “In the sense that we have a constructive and open relationship.” But, he said, “obviously I was less than delighted about some of the reprioritisations”. The speed reduction programme will be narrowed “to focus on the most dangerous 1% of state highways”. “And it is not clear that this is the most cost-effective way to increase the uptake of low-emissions vehicles. “Yes,” he said after a pause. It was one of a host of policies binned or bumped into the long grass in today’s second tranche of policy “reprioritisations” – a process Ardern signalled before Christmas.

Green Party claims the change will only make future climate targets harder to achieve.

Willis said they were pleased to see superannuants getting the payments they deserve. Of course, the problem is over these past few years under Labour, average wages aren’t keeping up with prices - aren’t keeping up with inflation.” ”This is about looking across the work programme and saying: ‘Okay, what’s actually going to deliver the sort of change that we need? The Greens and Act were both on 11 per cent, however, only the Left could form a government on those numbers - provided they were supported by Te Pāti Māori. Auckland’s light rail survived the cut but would be staged. About 500 of those young people have been prosecuted.” “Instead of those being tagged to inflation - as they have been in the past - they tagged them to average wages. Interest rates will start to have an effect now.” Asked if investing in those now old policies had been a waste of time, Hipkins said looking at the vehicle scrappage scheme and the social leasing scheme, the advice that he had received that both were going to prove to be “quite difficult” to implement in the time frame concerned. “We saw a spike last year. What’s actually going to help New Zealanders with the cost of living?’ And making sure that we’re investing in and focusing in those things,” he told TVNZ. Hipkins said today that the removal of a couple of policies the Government had previously been investigating - including the old vehicle scrappage scheme and the social leasing scheme - was due to the fact that they would have made a very small contribution to our overall emissions budgets.

Hipkins said on Monday the Government was reprioritising further spending as Labour continues its refocus on the cost of living and recovery from Cyclone ...

Less than two months into Chris Hipkins' time as Prime Minister and the Government's agenda is looking much slimmer. Hipkins has axed - or amended - a ...