{"id":564746,"date":"2026-08-10T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564746\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:12:10","slug":"election-2026-education-health-housing-tax-every-major-party-policy-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/564746\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: Education, health, housing, tax – every major party policy so far"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a lot of policy floating around out there, so we\u2019ve had to make some judgments about what we have included. <\/p>\n

First of all, we\u2019ve had to make a judgment about which parties make the grid. We\u2019ve included all the parties currently represented in Parliament plus the Opportunity Party which, according to our Herald-Motu Research Poll of Polls<\/a>, stands a good chance of entering Parliament after the election.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also had to make judgments about which policies we\u2019ve put on the grid. We\u2019ve tried to include all obvious campaign commitments. Sometimes, a party has long-standing party positions that are not necessarily part of its core manifesto for the coming election.<\/p>\n

In some cases, we\u2019ve had to be selective with what goes on the grid.<\/p>\n

The grid will be updated as the campaign goes on. You can toggle settings to display the most recently announced policies, so check back to see the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a lot of policy floating around out there, so we\u2019ve had to make some judgments about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,84,5903,14768,528,55281,228,134,10938,3339,1739,661,111,43,139,69,247315,4762,7254,17509,7496,1961,1865,1959],"class_list":["post-564746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-education","tag-election","tag-every","tag-far","tag-grid","tag-guide","tag-health","tag-herald","tag-housing","tag-launches","tag-major","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-onestop","tag-party","tag-policy","tag-so","tag-tax","tag-this","tag-today","tag-your"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}