{"id":613706,"date":"2026-09-27T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613706\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:24:10","slug":"pm-christopher-luxon-says-very-legitimate-question-about-waitangi-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613706\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Christopher Luxon says \u2018very legitimate question\u2019 about Waitangi Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"

But National was not in a position to say whether it would be completely dismantled, Luxon said.<\/p>\n

He referred back to a review of the tribunal, which has been completed but will not be released before the election. The review was part of the coalition agreement between NZ First and National.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to see that review and I want that to be understood and talked about in Cabinet properly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luxon revealed a 10-point pledge card and hammered the \u201cno new taxes\u201d message at National\u2019s campaign launch<\/a> at the International Convention Centre on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Luxon spoke after speeches from senior minister Simeon Brown and Finance Minister Nicola Willis, who gave hints about this week\u2019s Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (Prefu) from Treasury, telling the crowd: \u201cYou\u2019ll like what you see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former PM John Key also used his speech to warn people against \u201cstrategic voting\u201d – giving their electorate vote to National and casting their party vote elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at Labour\u2019s campaign launch<\/a> at South Auckland\u2019s Due Drop centre, the party pledged to forgive 10% of student loan debt if re-elected, with an estimated cost of $583 million over four years.<\/p>\n

The policy would apply to anyone who had finished studying, hadn\u2019t benefited from the Fees Free programme and was still paying off their loan. Those owing $2000 or less would see their debt wiped completely.<\/p>\n

Party leader Chris Hipkins gave a fiery speech, focusing on the cost of living and slamming as \u201cbull****\u201d National\u2019s claim that a Labour-led coalition would bring in several new taxes.<\/p>\n

Asked on Ryan Bridge TODAY if he was \u201cpeeved\u201d over the National Party\u2019s attacks on taxes following his \u201cbull****\u201d comment yesterday, Hipkins said his opposition has nothing to campaign on other than lies about his party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been putting up billboards all over the country. Of course, they\u2019re funded by very, very wealthy people, so they can afford to spend a lot of money spreading lies about the Labour Party.\u201c<\/p>\n

Hipkins said Labour does have some rich donors when questioned by Bridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a few wealthy people with a conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Act Party also revealed on Saturday it planned to deploy a fleet of relocatable noise cameras<\/a> to catch \u201cexcessively noisy\u201d vehicles. They would operate like speed cameras, with the ability to issue fines for noise infringements.<\/p>\n

The rollout of 20 cameras would partially start in the T\u0101maki electorate in east Auckland. Act MP Brooke van Velden is the seat\u2019s current MP but she is stepping down, with Act hoping its candidate James Christmas will replace her in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But National was not in a position to say whether it would be completely dismantled, Luxon said. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1443,9218,16426,36426,5903,8219,16427,6722,3556,111,43,139,69,16422,415,9831,40182,312,6847,303,27704,14905,6730],"class_list":["post-613706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-about","tag-before","tag-christopher","tag-drawn","tag-election","tag-legitimate","tag-luxon","tag-minister","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pm","tag-prime","tag-question","tag-refusing","tag-says","tag-tribunal","tag-very","tag-waitangi","tag-whether","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613706","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=613706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}