Chris Hipkins

There's a lot that the government could be considering.

So if you think about the really, really hard stuff.

So diesel, it's really hard because diesel is now more expensive than petrol and you're paying road user charges on top of that.

A lot of small businesses rely on diesel.

You know, if you're a trader, you've probably got a diesel truck or a diesel ute and that all of that.

And if you're in the food distribution business, diesel is huge.

So I reckon looking closely at what they can do there around diesel in particular, I think is important.

The Aussies have done more.

In fact, not only have they taken road user charges off, they've actually recycled some of the GST back into lowering the price of diesel.

They should be looking at that.

But at a family level, the support they've given, that $50 a week, that's only going to a small number of families.

So $140,000 sounds like a lot of families.

Actually, it's a pretty narrow criteria.

There's a lot of families on low incomes who go to work every day who are not going to get that extra $50 a week.

And they do need to do more to support people through that.

So I think those are all things that should be on the table.

Free public transport.

You know, I'm very sympathetic to those calls.

We had half-price public transport for younger people, which we'd put in place before the election and the current government took it away.

I think that was a mistake because young people are among the group of people who really struggle in times like these.