Dad to Jeremy and Matilda. MP for Hutt South. NZ Minister of Housing, Transport, Infrastructure, RMA Reform, Associate Finance. Attorney-General.
Days Bay, New Zealand
Joined August 2010
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To give Ginny credit she at least clears the low bar for shadow Minister of checking her emails
Fact checking Hipkins’ claim that I’ve refused to meet with Ginny Andersen.
July diary release:
Ginny Andersen Thursday 23 July 2026 at 3.30pm
Fact: It took 1 text and 3 emails from my office to Willow Jean Prime and Chris Hipkins to get a final reply saying she declined my invitation to meet.
Hipkins is trying to re-write history with complete lies and has no idea what his own MPs are up to.
The Herald should really stop reporting Labour Party robopolls conducted by Clint Smith’s polling company
Really enjoyed this. Thanks for having me.
Outstanding interview with @cjsbishop and Verity Johnson; we talk housing, the RMA, and the vicissitudes of a political career.
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In case you wondered why RMA reform is critical, on Monday I opened 5 new one bedroom social housing units in Auckland specifically designed for autistic people. It took them 18 months to get resource consent.
Christopher Bishop retweeted
An hour a day of maths was a key recommendation of the 2021 Royal Society Maths Report that was commissioned BY HIPKINS. He sat on that report for 2 years and did nothing. We implemented an hour a day in our first 100 days and used the rest of the recommendations as a blueprint for our 2024 Maths Action Plan. We now have 6% more students at curriculum expectations in maths at year 6. Hipkins sat and watched maths results tank while ignoring the answers right in front of him and he is still refusing to keep an hour a day in tonight’s debate. National listened to the experts and early results are improving for the first time in many years as a result. Our kids deserve a world-leading education and National are delivering it.
Bold new policy - Labour will get rid of an hour of day of reading writing and maths! #tvnzdebate
Hipkins says he wants jobs and higher wages. Officials estimate Investment Boost will improve growth, lifting New Zealand’s GDP by 1 per cent and wages by 1.5 per cent over the next 20 years, with around half these gains expected in the first 5 years. And he’s scrapping it.
Christopher Bishop retweeted
Chris Hipkins claims there is a hiring freeze in our hospitals.
Fact check: false.
There are more than 2,100 additional nurses employed at our hospitals since 2023, and more than 900 additional doctors.
We are currently hiring thousands more frontline staff in our hospitals.
#LeadersDebate
The idea Labour stuck to their spending commitments when they were last in government is a joke. Grant Robertson exceeded his Budget allowances almost every Budget! Went on a spending spree which we’re still paying for. #tvnzdebate
Hipkins all over the show on petrol taxes. He can deny it all he likes but there’s a cost to their freeze of $3.2 billion. It’s not even mentioned in their fiscal plan. They now claim it’s $1.8 billion (and haven’t accounted for it) but won’t even show how they got that!
Christopher Bishop retweeted
September was another big month for battery EV and plug-in hybrid vehicle registrations in New Zealand.
More lies from Hipkins in his stand up saying National cancelled the Woodend Bypass. It just got Fast Track consent, early works have been underway for a year, it’s the next cab off the rank in the Major Transport Project pipeline. It’s ready to go.
Labour have announced a ‘right to repair’ law for cars. They’ll need it given the $3.2 billion hole in their transport budget means there’ll be potholes everywhere! Their cuts will come at the expense of road maintenance, local roads, resilience and emergency works.
Christopher Bishop retweeted
#BREAKING Labour just released the least credible fiscal plan in living memory.
Chris Hipkins has felt the political pressure from Kiwis who don’t want nine new taxes, now he’s trying to hide the true cost of his promises.
Here’s some of the biggest gaps:
• Pay Equity - $8.5 billion missing
• Land Transport Fund - $3.1 billion hole
• Future Fund - $2.8 billion missing
• Nurse Grads - $526 million hole
• Public transport fares - $260 million gap
Labour are straight up trying to mislead Kiwis about how much their unfunded policies will end up costing Kiwis.
This election is going to be very tight, and the choice could not be clearer.
It’s either a Labour coalition which would squander surpluses, increase debt, and hit Kiwis with nine new taxes.
Or National with a plan to grow the economy, spend sensibly and pay down debt, with no new taxes so Kiwis get ahead and have a more secure future.
Christopher Bishop retweeted
Labour's fiscal plan doesn't add up.
Today was Chris Hipkins and Barbara Edmonds' chance to make Labour's numbers add up, and they have failed far worse than anyone could have expected.
Here's what Labour has left out of its plan.
👉 $8.5 billion to fully restore the previous pay equity scheme. Labour says it will restore the old scheme in its first 100 days. Treasury says that would cost $11 billion, but Labour has only set aside $2.5 billion.
👉 $3.1 billion to freeze fuel excise and road user charges. National fully costed our own fuel excise freeze in our 2023 fiscal plan, so why hasn't Labour?
👉 $2.8 billion in lost dividends from companies in the Future Fund.
👉 $1.55 billion for health cost pressures in Budget 2030.
👉 $526 million for Labour's unfunded graduate nurse promise.
👉 $260 million to cap public transport fares.
Labour says the rest of the money for pay equity will come from cost pressure funding. If that's true, it would mean taking almost every spare dollar from the next four Budgets. That leaves nothing more for hospitals, schools, police, prisons, defence, and other frontline services.
Labour can't be trusted with the economy. It has released a dishonest fiscal plan that lacks any credibility and would leave New Zealanders paying a higher price.
This is the least credible fiscal plan released by a major party in living memory.
Labour won't tell Kiwis the truth, and households will end up paying for its unfunded promises through more new taxes. Labour is doubling down on its hidden bill, and that bill doesn't even include the $6.5 billion increase in foreign aid promised by its own Foreign Affairs spokesperson.
This election is going to be very tight, and the choice couldn't be clearer.
A Labour coalition would squander surpluses, increase debt, and hit Kiwis with nine new taxes.
National has a plan to grow the economy, spend sensibly and pay down debt, with no new taxes, so Kiwis can get ahead and have a more secure future.
The irony of Winston Peters saying we’re copying him on Mill Rd is that it would’ve been underway by 2020 if he hadn’t anointed Jacinda Ardern as PM in 2017.
This is just a lie sorry Richard. It’s in the Auckland Deal, it’s in the NZTA Motorway Plan for Auckland, it’s going through fast track consenting right now and it’s listed in the Major Project Pipeline as one of the next roads to be built.
