Budget

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  40%+ of middle income households plan to cut spending

  23 May 11 – The intention to cut back spending after the Budget is highest among middle-income New Zealand households. HorizonPoll post-Budget research finds 35% of households say they will spend less as a result of the Budget. It particularly affects spending intentions among middle income households. 44.2%...

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  59% back borrowing to fund Canterbury quake recovery

  23 May 11 – A nationwide post-Budget HorizonPoll finds 59.4% support extra Government borrowing to help fund Canterbury’s earthquake recovery. The Government says the Canterbury earthquakes will cost the Government an extra $5.5 billion over several years. This is on top of costs being met by the...

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  Act breaks through 5% support threshold

  15 May 11 – The Act Party now has 5.3% voter support. A new HorizonPoll conducted between Thursday and Friday shows Act is up from 3.7% in April after making Don Brash its leader. The first result for the new Mana Party shows it has 2.3% party vote support nationwide, ahead of the Maori Party on 2.1%. Mana is...

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  Budget forecasts unrealistic, households feel worse off

  22 May 11 – The economic growth forecasts which underpin this week’s Budget are seen as unrealistic by 49% of New Zealanders. The first nationwide post-Budget HorizonPoll of 1,154 people, conducted between 11.5am Friday May 20 and 6.30am Saturday May 21 (maximum margin of error at a 95% confidence level...

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  Budget unlikely to change KiwiSaver savings levels

  14 Jun 11 – Research commissioned by the Investment Savings and Insurance Association (ISI) shows that while few New Zealanders support the KiwiSaver changes announced in the Budget, most are likely to remain committed to the scheme. Not surprisingly, the HorizonPoll survey found that 75% of those surveyed...

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  Kiwis enter Budget week feeling country on wrong track

  16 May 11 – A new poll shows New Zealanders head into Budget week thinking the country is generally off on the wrong track – but with individuals rating National as being much better than Labour to advance their own economic interests. A Horizon Research survey of 1,864 people nationwide finds 48.4% of...

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  Majority back Hobbit movie deal, but don’t want a repeat

  23 Nov 10 – A majority of New Zealanders support the deal the Government did with Warner Bros to keep Hobbit film production in New Zealand. However, a majority don’t want a similar deal done again. A new nationwide HorizonPoll finds 56.4% support for the agreement the Government made with United States...

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  National vote slips further 1.5%

  6 Jun 12 – 6 June 2012 National’s party vote support among the total adult population has slipped a further 1.5% in the past month. A HorizonPoll survey of 2,814 New Zealanders aged 18+, conducted between May 18 and June 6, 2012, finds National with 26.6% support. This is down from 28.1% in April-May...

• No women at all support Act?

  28 May 11 – The Herald reports its DigiPoll finds no women at all are supporting the Act party. It says: “Act not only has a polling issue with only 1.7 per cent, it has a major gender issue, with no women at all supporting it in the poll.” DigiPoll’s published results are for a sample of 750...

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  Political poll results may exclude 30%?

  28 May 11 – The Electoral Commission might be well advised to see if some research companies are excluding up to 30% of respondents before they publish party vote poll results. The commission in 2008 allocated $3.2 million to political parties to fund election broadcasting. One of its criteria to allocate the...

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  Public mandates one of four major Budget policy proposals

  22 May 11 – The first nationwide post-Budget HorizonPoll shows the Government would not get a mandate to make changes to KiwiSaver, sell up to 49% of state-owned energy company shares or reduce its shareholding in Air New Zealand. It would get a mandate to make changes to the Working for Families scheme. Some...

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  Slight support fall for National in post-Budget poll

  24 May 11 – National has lost 1.1% party vote support in the four days since the Government presented its Budget. A post-Budget HorizonPoll covering 1,758 respondents nationwide shows the potential centre left and centre right coalitions neck and neck. The currently governing National-Act-Maori Party-United...

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  What Kiwis say on growth forecasts

  22 May 11 – Here’s what New Zealanders are saying on the economic and job growth forecasts, which underpin the 2011 Budget. The information provided and question results are shown first, followed by responses when HorizonPoll asked “why do you say that?” 2011 Budget Firstly, some background...