The October 2025 report, based on responses from 1004 people between 21 October and 30 October, has shown that 61 percent of New Zealanders see inflation and the cost of living as the most important issue facing the country.
It is the fifteenth consecutive survey where it has ranked first.
Healthcare and hospitals remained the second highest concern at 42 percent. The economy is third at thirty two percent.
Housing has dropped to 22 percent, the lowest level since September 2018. Concern about crime and law and order has continued to ease, with nineteen percent selecting it as a top issue.
Ipsos said unemployment and poverty remain mid-level concerns at nineteen percent each. Climate change sits at fifteen percent. Race relations has re-entered the top ten at seven percent.
Generational differences remain strong. Young New Zealanders aged 18 to 34 are mostly worried about financial pressures, with unemployment rising sharply for this group. Older New Zealanders aged sixty five and over remain most concerned about healthcare and inflation, while crime is a significantly higher concern for those over fifty.
The report has shown a significant drop in how the public rates the government.
The average performance score has fallen to three point nine out of ten, down from four point two in August. Forty five percent of respondents rated the government between zero and three.
When asked which political party is most capable of managing the top issues, respondents selected Labour for six of the top seven concerns, including inflation and the economy. National was seen as most capable on crime and law and order.
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. This article was originally published by Chris Lynch Media and is published here with kind permission.
Healthcare and hospitals remained the second highest concern at 42 percent. The economy is third at thirty two percent.
Housing has dropped to 22 percent, the lowest level since September 2018. Concern about crime and law and order has continued to ease, with nineteen percent selecting it as a top issue.
Ipsos said unemployment and poverty remain mid-level concerns at nineteen percent each. Climate change sits at fifteen percent. Race relations has re-entered the top ten at seven percent.
Generational differences remain strong. Young New Zealanders aged 18 to 34 are mostly worried about financial pressures, with unemployment rising sharply for this group. Older New Zealanders aged sixty five and over remain most concerned about healthcare and inflation, while crime is a significantly higher concern for those over fifty.
The report has shown a significant drop in how the public rates the government.
The average performance score has fallen to three point nine out of ten, down from four point two in August. Forty five percent of respondents rated the government between zero and three.
When asked which political party is most capable of managing the top issues, respondents selected Labour for six of the top seven concerns, including inflation and the economy. National was seen as most capable on crime and law and order.
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. This article was originally published by Chris Lynch Media and is published here with kind permission.
7 comments:
National is on the brink as Luxon and Willis have focused on the economy above all else. A more competent/experienced Finance Minister is certainly essential. But a robust and productivity- driven economy cannot function without the context of a harmonious and unified society. National has ignored race relations so it now faces double trouble.
National polls are tanking meanwhile...
Nicola Willis makes a $48m taxpayer funded grant to a kapa haka festival which costs $5.7m to run and recieves $7m income.
Willis, Watts, and Simpson are forcing voters back to Labour. The same Labour Ministers which ruined the country by mysteriously gifting $10m to the Maori Kings family, and spending a world leading $74b on the great covid fraud.
Now, NZs auditor general and covid inquiry minister Brooke Van Velden mysteriously cant find where our covid tax money disappeared to.
That's quite a legacy your silent complicity is creating for yourselves: Luxon, Upston, Brown, Bishop McLay, Reti, Stanford, Penn, McClay, and Mitchell,
You certainly won't be remembered for your portfolio work!
As my father said some people need their head read. People think the Labour will run the economy better. OMG !!!
If most people think Labour can best handle the problem economic issues, there is something badly wrong with National's PR machine. The Nats would be well advised to diagnose the problem and do something about it by improving on their performance in the communications dept. Are people at large clear about exactly what the Nats' policies are and how these will impact them?
Or... maybe the Left's deep indoctrination process really has convinced gullible people that they are sound economic managers. Astounding but not excluded.
When asked which political party is most capable of managing the top issues, respondents selected Labour for six of the top seven concerns, including inflation and the economy.
Really!!!
Or, does National prefer to be in opposition 2026-29 to allow the Left to accelerate - and complete? - the He Puapua agenda?
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