Labour is set to unveil its first major policy ahead of next year’s election, signalling the announcement as part of a broader plan to keep jobs and wealth in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Hipkins will be joined by finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds to make the announcement in central Auckland.<\/p>\n
“For too long we\u2019ve leaned on overseas investment, and too often the jobs and wealth that start here end up offshore,” Hipkins said in a video statement last week.<\/p>\n
Hipkins said Prime Minister Christopher Luxon had made “big promises” to fix the economy but had instead made it worse.<\/p>\n
“Every day more than 200 Kiwis vote with their feet and leave New Zealand to find work overseas,” Hipkins said.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t have to be this way. We have everything we need right here. What we need is a government that backs our people, our ideas, and our industries so our people and wealth stay here at home.<\/p>\n
“Labour’s got a plan to do just that.”<\/p>\n
The pair were expected to speak at around 1.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour is set to unveil its first major policy ahead of next year’s election, signalling the announcement as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,8028,111,139,69,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-89090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-labour-party","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89090","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=89090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}