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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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.
Why do you think they haven't done those things?
Is it that they don't care?
The National Party told, in my view, it's a whopping lie before the last election, which was that the reason that we had high inflation in New Zealand was because of the spending of the New Zealand government.
And it was not true.
New Zealand's inflation and that spike in inflation that we experienced post-COVID did really hurt.
It hurt families.
But it was in line with the spike of inflation that you saw all around the world.
We were about average.
We certainly weren't the highest.
Countries like the UK got into over 10% inflation.
We were about 7.5%.
That really hurts, though.
It's 7.5% more when you're going into the supermarket.
You're going to really feel that.
But the National Party's view was that this was all down to actions taken by the New Zealand government.
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