Oct 12, 2026 · 2 min · 1 segments
With National finally releasing its fiscal policy it’s easy to generalise the plan as more of the same. We’ve already seen and the only difference with Labour is that they are in love with pay equity…
Andrew DickensHost
But the enormous ogre under the bridge is the rapidly expanding cost of superannuation and how long are we going to talk in circles about this? ACT has said, let's raise it to 67.
In Australia, Denmark, Iceland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States, Norway at 67.
And now National is saying, we'll do it, but only if everyone else wants to do it, which is the way they seem to approach many things.
National Labour and New Zealand First are running scared because they're scared of how older people will react.
But if you're already getting the super, what's your beef? You can't sit there complaining about our books and being resistant to actually a rise in the age.
So what's to worry about? See, I've only got a year or two until I can get the pension.
Under 40s should already know the issue and They should be preparing for the new eventuality and not praying that at 66 the state will start looking after them a bit.
It's been told that you've been told it's total sense by every economist in the world and half our parties and most of our trading partners.
So why don't we do it? It seems like the leaders of our biggest parties seem unable to lead on this issue because some people might react negatively.
But the enormous ogre under the bridge is the rapidly expanding cost of superannuation and how long are we going to talk in circles about this? ACT has said, let's raise it to 67.
In Australia, Denmark, Iceland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States, Norway at 67.
And now National is saying, we'll do it, but only if everyone else wants to do it, which is the way they seem to approach many things.
National Labour and New Zealand First are running scared because they're scared of how older people will react.
But if you're already getting the super, what's your beef? You can't sit there complaining about our books and being resistant to actually a rise in the age.
So what's to worry about? See, I've only got a year or two until I can get the pension.
Under 40s should already know the issue and They should be preparing for the new eventuality and not praying that at 66 the state will start looking after them a bit.
It's been told that you've been told it's total sense by every economist in the world and half our parties and most of our trading partners.
So why don't we do it? It seems like the leaders of our biggest parties seem unable to lead on this issue because some people might react negatively.
