Christopher Luxon

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2,840 appearances 35 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 20 Sep

Christopher Luxon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Mike Hosking Breakfast · Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister talks PREFU, council amalgamation, campaign launch and the Waitangi Tribunal · 27 Sep 2026 podcast

Uh and you know, as you'd said, you know, a couple of weeks ago, we got through that quarter two period, which was pretty sporty with the fuel problems and we still grew the economy through that. voice-verified

Well we kinda did. voice-verified

I went back through the list of things that we've already announced. voice-verified

We'll have more things to announce as we go through to November the seventh. voice-verified

The key thing was really just the pledge card, which is our ten key commitments on it, that I you know personally committed to eight of them last time in twenty twenty three. voice-verified

I think it's a good idea, keeps our government focused on on what we're there to deliver and do. voice-verified

the thing that I found interesting was, you know, that is tradies and truckees and nurses and teachers that are now paying tax to underwrite and write off ten percent of a student loan for a lawyer or an engineer coming through school, graduate school, right? voice-verified

Uh through through university. voice-verified

You know, our program is to say, look, you know, we already subsidised seventy percent of tertiary education in this country, some of the highest in the world. voice-verified

We have certainly the most generous student debt, we'd have interest free student loans here. voice-verified

if you stay in New Zealand. voice-verified

Uh and all we've done as a government is said, look, you can pay that back slower, uh interest free, and as a result, keep, you know, typically a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars a year in your back pocket. voice-verified

Eight or ten years of that helps you get a deposit together or contribute to a deposit for a house. voice-verified

What Labor's done is then said, okay, we're gonna write off ten percent of the debt and then if you leave after three years and go to London, uh, we're actually two and a half billion dollars worth of overdue student debt sits overseas. voice-verified

uh with overseas students, uh former former students, and you're making a contribution to another country with the skills that New Zealand's trained you in, um didn't seem there was no penalty on that. voice-verified

And actually again, you know, you're basically now moving the debt from the individual uh to the taxpayer. voice-verified

And uh I just don't think that's the right way. voice-verified

Well, our real focus is I think we have to get ourselves to surplus, uh, and then we can certainly talk tax um, you know, relief and and uh that comes after all of that. voice-verified

But voice-verified

be very disciplined at the moment. voice-verified

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