{"id":615140,"date":"2026-09-29T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615140\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:14:10","slug":"full-video-chris-hipkins-speaks-after-final-pre-election-fiscal-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615140\/","title":{"rendered":"Full video: Chris Hipkins speaks after final pre-election fiscal update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour leader Chris Hipkins has spoken to media from Auckland after the Government\u2019s books were opened in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU) today.<\/p>\n<p>PREFU is Treasury&#8217;s final snapshot of the Government&#8217;s finances before voters head to the polls. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/29\/better-picture-for-govt-books-not-a-green-light-to-spend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In today&#8217;s update<\/a>, Treasury forecast a smaller-than-expected $6.8 billion deficit for 2026\/27, with the Govt&#8217;s books still expected to return to surplus in 2028\/29.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Labour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/27\/labour-pledges-wiping-10-off-student-loans-for-nz-based-borrowers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched its official election campaign<\/a> over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Hipkins spoke shortly after 2pm. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/27\/politics-live-national-and-labour-to-launch-election-campaigns-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow all today\u2019s developments here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour leader Chris Hipkins has spoken to media from Auckland after the Government\u2019s books were opened in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,44152,42,8028,43,135,40,38,41,39,270122],"class_list":["post-615140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auckland","tag-chris-hipkins","tag-headlines","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vote-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615140","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=615140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}