Chris Hipkins
speaker
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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I adopted a rule that one of my old colleagues said to me, my old boss, Trevor Mallard said to me, if you're going into politics, don't eat while standing up.
If you don't eat when you're standing up, you'll be all right.
Because what happens is you go to places and you're always on the move and there's always food and stuff.
And if you just restrict yourself to just three meals a day, then actually it's not so bad.
So that's what I've been trying to do.
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.
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