Ani O'Brien: What will Hipkins have to give away to become Prime Minister?

Kiwipower, KiwiMart, Wealth Taxes, and Te Tiriti: What survives negotiations?

Every election campaign we, the voters, are treated to a pantomime in which parties make promise after promise about what they would do if given the power to rule these small isles. Most of us have been around long enough to recognise that a great deal of these plans are poorly thought out fiction but we will attempt to discern the realistic from the outlandish. The others will vote Green until they become a parent, own property, or simply fully develop their frontal lobe.

Damien Grant: The worst economic policy since buying back BNZ was mooted

On occasion I will visit a supermarket. This is usually a task that I leave to my long-suffering travelling companion but when she has failed to purchase the right brand of peanut butter, I venture into the void to find, to my dismay, that Sanitarium discontinued this product in 2024.

However, once present in this cornucopia I wander around in a daze, with the same wonder that befell soviet leader Boris Yeltsin when he visited a Texas supermarket back in 1989. For research purposes, I dropped into my local Pak’nSave where I was shocked, shocked I declare, to discover 35 pre-cooked sausages on sale for $19. That’s 54c a sausage!

Rodney Hide: KiwiMart — The Great Leap Forward

The Greens have a plan for cheaper groceries. It’s called KiwiMart. Force Foodstuffs and Woolworths to sell 120 stores and a couple of warehouses into state ownership at a heavy discount, splash about $2.8 billion, ban “price gouging,” and — abracadabra — milk is affordable.