{"id":619026,"date":"2026-10-03T02:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:18:15","slug":"election-2026-national-party-launches-campaign-bus-parties-hold-standups-and-walkabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619026\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2026: National Party launches campaign bus, parties hold standups and walkabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s not the only one hot on the campaign trail. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood Labour leader Chris Hipkins will also be rubbing shoulders with voters this afternoon.<\/p>\n

NZ First leader Winston Peters is meeting with Auckland businesses, while Green co-leader Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick held a media standup at her Auckland Central Campaign Office this morning to discuss issues of the day.<\/p>\n

The Green Party is expected to make its full transport policy announcement tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The Act Party will officially launch its election campaign at 1pm tomorrow at Big Shed on Cain Rd, Auckland.<\/p>\n

National and Labour officially kicked off their election campaigns in Auckland last week,<\/a> providing an insight into the parties\u2019 priorities ahead of the election.<\/p>\n

At the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Auckland central, Christopher Luxon and his National crew, including former Prime Minister Sir John Key, pushed the message of \u201cno new taxes\u201d and argued Labour was lean on ideas to take New Zealand forward.<\/p>\n

Further south at the Due Drop Event Centre in Manukau, Chris Hipkins unveiled a Labour policy to wipe 10% of student loan debt and attacked National for what he said were lies about his party\u2019s tax intentions.<\/p>\n

Yesterday National announced a nine-point energy plan<\/a> its energy spokesperson Simeon Brown said would \u201cmake it easier for households to connect rooftop solar and sell it into the grid\u201d if the party came into pwoer again.<\/p>\n

On Thursday Labour revealed its plan to ban \u201chidden fees\u201d with new consumer protections.<\/p>\n

The new rules<\/a> included banning \u201cjunk\u201d car insurance, such as paint insurance or mechanical breakdown cover \u201cthat excludes almost everything\u201d as well as making it easier for people to cancel subscriptions, with online cancellations for services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s not the only one hot on the campaign trail. It\u2019s understood Labour leader Chris Hipkins will also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[304798,2246,95,30482,1738,5903,2070,28162,1743,1739,97993,3556,111,43,139,69,2954,4762,151635,304796,1865,304797],"class_list":["post-619026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-304798","tag-2246","tag-and","tag-bus","tag-campaign","tag-election","tag-full","tag-hold","tag-launched","tag-launches","tag-mode","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parties","tag-party","tag-preelection","tag-standups","tag-today","tag-walkabouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619026","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=619026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}