{"id":600527,"date":"2026-09-14T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:30:11","slug":"full-video-pm-luxon-holds-post-cabinet-media-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600527\/","title":{"rendered":"Full video: PM Luxon holds post-Cabinet media briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is addressing media after Cabinet met in Wellington this morning.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second to last week that Parliament is sitting before it rises for the election.<\/p>\n<p>Policy announcements have continued to come from the parties as the campaign continues to build.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/13\/labour-unveils-kiwisaver-overhaul-with-mandatory-employer-contributions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Labour promised to increase KiwiSaver earnings<\/a> for employees by introducing stricter regulations for employers. If elected, the party says employer contributions will become mandatory from July 1, 2028, with the minimum contribution rising to 6% by 2032.<\/p>\n<p>National, meanwhile, announced it would put a dedicated team of police officers on trains and buses if it is re-elected to government in November, establishing a dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/13\/national-announces-auckland-transport-police-team-if-re-elected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Auckland Transport Police Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 50 new officers would be recruited, and police would receive an additional $7 million in funding through the 2027 budget.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/13\/live-stream-henry-leapfrogs-sitting-mps-to-fourth-on-act-party-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ACT released its party list<\/a> for the election, with broadcaster Paul Henry placed fourth, leapfrogging several sitting MPs and minister Karen Chhour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is addressing media after Cabinet met in Wellington this morning. This is the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11508,42,11507,43,135,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-600527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christopher-luxon","tag-headlines","tag-national-party","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600527","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=600527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}