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

Well we are we are clearly a government and a party that believes in low tax. voice-verified

You saw us do it, first tax relief in fourteen years. voice-verified

Um and um we of course want to keep moving to lower taxes, but the first thing we have to do is deliver a surplus and start to pay down some of this debt. voice-verified

But that would be clearly a conversation that we're coming to that frame. voice-verified

Yeah, I think that's not a good look. voice-verified

No, I think if you back the truck up a bit though, we've got this backstop option. voice-verified

You know, what's what's happening? voice-verified

We've got the new RMA in our law, we're gonna have forty five percent less consents. voice-verified

We're gonna go kill the regional councils. voice-verified

We need a layer of management taken out of the business out of the country, which is important. voice-verified

We've got a plan, which is a backstop plan, which is essentially these combined territory boards to deal with sub regional issues in New Zealand. voice-verified

The councils came to us and said, look, we think there's a better way to do that. voice-verified

We actually could come together, we think there's a better voice-verified

We got eighteen high quality proposals in fairness, but actually none of them were unanimous, meaning that councils proposed ideas where other councils were in those groupings but hadn't agreed to be part of those groupings. voice-verified

So but the fact is it's not going ahead. voice-verified

Well it is going to go ahead pretty soon after a new government gets formed. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Labour's not up for dismantling our you know regional councils and not up for the amalgamation, then they should come out and say so. voice-verified

But I mean, from our point of view, it's just saying, look, there's complexity in those cases. voice-verified

There wasn't unanimous. voice-verified

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