Displaying items by tag: ELECTION 2026

OPINION: The Green Party’s rivers and oceans policy may have a new name but nothing else has changed.

Retiring MP and dairy farmer Mark Cameron is blasting the Green Party for proposing to ban the use of synthetic fertiliser and cutting cow numbers.

OPINION: No one messes around with Winston Peters, more so in a general election year.

OPINION: It's election time.

With the general election just molnths away, farmers have launched a five-point plan for the next government.

Centre right parties are backing policy positions pushed by three farmer lobby groups ahead of the general election.

The battle for the rural vote is on and parties are securing high profile names to try and bolster their chances at the general election.

OPINION: At a time when farmers are advocating for less government spending and no new taxes, the dairy sector is rightly concerned by ACT's new immigration policy.

ACT's new immigration policy has come under fire from farmers and the Government.

ACT MP and Minister for Biosecurity Andrew Hoggard says he's hearing a common story about school buses, with empty seats, driving past pick-up points, while a parent follows behind in a farm ute, burning fuel and taking up time to get their children to school.