{"id":108962,"date":"2025-08-31T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108962\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:22:09","slug":"labour-leads-on-cost-of-living-as-national-loses-economic-ground-in-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108962\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour leads on cost of living as National loses economic ground in poll"},"content":{"rendered":"
In that previous survey, Labour overtook National on the cost of living, and it has now increased its lead by one point to 33%.<\/p>\n
National, meanwhile, has dropped five points to 26%.<\/p>\n
Photo \/ Supplied, Ipsos Issues Monitor<\/p>\n
National remains the party seen most capable of handling the economy, crime\/law and order, and defence\/foreign affairs.<\/p>\n
But its lead on the economy has slipped from 35% to 32%, while Labour is now closing in on 30%.<\/p>\n
Photo \/ Supplied, Ipsos Issues Monitor<\/p>\n
In total, Labour is seen as most capable on 14 of the top 20 issues, including healthcare, housing, education, and immigration.<\/p>\n
The Greens keep on top of climate change and environmental pollution\/water concerns, while Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori is still seen most able handling M\u0101ori issues.<\/p>\n
Photo \/ Supplied, Ipsos Issues Monitor<\/p>\n
Healthcare remains the second biggest issue, though perceptions of both Labour and National\u2019s ability to handle it have taken slight dips. Labour maintains a 15-point lead over National in this area.<\/p>\n
The economy, housing\/the price of housing, and crime\/law and order round out the top five.<\/p>\n
Concerns about unemployment have been steadily rising, with the latest survey now putting it joint-sixth with poverty\/inequality on 19%.<\/p>\n
That is a four-point rise from the most recent survey, and puts it just two points behind crime\/law and order, which has been steadily tracking downwards (21%, down from 25% in the previous survey), along with perceptions of National\u2019s ability to handle it (31%, down from 34%, but still ahead of Labour\u2019s 24%).<\/p>\n
Ratings of the Government\u2019s performance have dipped back to 4.2 out of 10.<\/p>\n
Photo \/ Supplied, Ipsos Issues Monitor<\/p>\n
The study took place between August 11 to 18, with 1002 New Zealanders aged 18 or older asked what were the top three most important issues facing the country today.<\/p>\n
The study was conducted using online research panels, and quotas were set to ensure representativeness. The total New Zealand results have a credibility interval of +\/-3.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n
\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In that previous survey, Labour overtook National on the cost of living, and it has now increased its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10960,64,63,99,41262,7241,15261,164,78026,31588,4717,13468,2346,3322,21886,621,1787,2652,112],"class_list":["post-108962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-as","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-cost","tag-dexter","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-giles","tag-ground","tag-in","tag-labour","tag-leads","tag-living","tag-loses","tag-national","tag-of","tag-on","tag-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}