Chris Hipkins
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455 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Jun
Chris Hipkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The meeting was over the weekend, so we wanted to know in advance of that.
And when did he tell you?
He confirmed with us last week at the same time as he confirmed with us that he definitely wanted to go ahead.
He told his employer at police at that time.
I think he told them earlier in the week.
I think he told his supervisor earlier in the week.
But I mean, I'm confident that he's acted with integrity around the way he's handled this and that he's certainly been very conscious that the police is a politically independent organisation.
We did certainly have a much shorter process for him.
We'd had a couple of conversations over the last few months where he'd indicated that he was open to thinking about that and he was giving it some thought.
But we really did say to him that he wouldn't need to confirm until very late in the piece.
And that was because he was working for the police and you do have to have a different process where someone's doing those kind of jobs.
No, look, I think Kingi Kiriona probably chose some words unfortunate in the press conference that we did the other day.
We've been clear that cost of living is a focus.
There'll be some cost of living relief coming from the Labour Party during the campaign.
That's certainly not what our announcement this week is.
We're going to be talking about the cost of living and the things that we can do to support people.
we are making an announcement that will have an impact on household cost of living issues.
You just have to wait and see what the policy is, but it will have a cost of living impact for a Kiwi family.
Ultimately, superannuation is a retirement savings scheme and I've chosen to use my retirement savings scheme and a residential property, a batch, that my parents were selling because it's been our family batch for about 40 years.
They wanted to sell it and I used my superannuation, my retirement savings, to buy it off them.
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