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[Elliot Ikilei - NZ First Candidate @ElliotIkilei]

Let's go!!!

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

ACT finishes historical claims then winds up the Waitangi Tribunal. Fifty years of scope creep gets a finish line.
It's a nice policy to claim, but Jim Bolger promised that in 1990... and the Waitangi Tribunal is still here causing chaos.

[New Zealand Taxpayers' Union @TaxpayersUnion]

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 "𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞-𝐎-𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫" 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝

After a nine year absence, the Taxpayers’ Union has relaunched its policy costing "Bribe-O-Meter" for the 2026 election, with the first update showing the Greens have already promised $114,139 per household in new spending.

The Bribe-O-Meter is the most comprehensive independent policy costing project undertaken in New Zealand. It cuts through the political noise by independently costing political party policies to show taxpayers what each party’s promises would cost on a per household basis.

The Bribe-O-Meter will be updated every week through to election day on 7 November to show what, where, and how parties are bribing voters with their own cash.

Today's release of the Bribe-O-Meter (which covers all policy announcements up to 11:59pm Sunday 6 September 2026) reveals that the Greens and Opportunity are far and away the biggest spenders, promising to blow $114,000-per-household and $97,000-per-household respectively. On the other side of the table, ACT has so far pledged $1,271, and National just $936 per household, in new spending.

Commenting on the project's launch, Taxpayers' Union Head of Policy James Ross said:

"This year's elections bribes are coming thick and fast, and they're bigger than ever. Kiwis deserve to know the cost of this election before they vote."

"The Greens and Opportunity are far and away the biggest spenders so far this year, but every party is going to cost taxpayers. If politicians won't front up on the cost of their policies, then we will do it for them."

Weekly Bribe-O-Meter updates, including our Transparency Score Rankings, are available at https://t.co/VpwWxLr1vh.

FAQ:
What is the Bribe-O-Meter?

The Bribe-O-Meter compiles the political promises of each of the main political parties, broken down by spending category.

The Bribe-O-Meter is about transparency. The Taxpayers’ Union’s policy staff and advisors will be updating the figures weekly, allowing potential voters to assess which parties are offering value for taxpayers’ money as the election campaign progresses.

Current Government spending plans are used as a baseline, so only policies that deviate from current Government policy spending are included.

How have you costed each policy?

For some policies, we have taken parties at their word. For uncosted policies, these have been independently costed by our team. In some cases, where parties' costings are not reasonable or based on a questionable assumption, independent costing have been preferred. These costings are separately listed within the Bribe-O-Meter. Explainers for each can be found at https://t.co/0931wj6UQL

Will you work with parties to update your figures?

Absolutely! We want to provide the public and media with as much information as possible. If there are errors or a party disagrees with our assessment of their costings, we hope that the Bribe-O-Meter will encourage the parties to provide the public with more information and transparency.

How often will the Bribe-O-Meter be updated?

The Bribe-O-Meter will be updated on a weekly basis, with updates published every Wednesday between now and the election.

Are the graphics free to use?

Yes, the media are free to use the graphics, but we ask that they are attributed to the Taxpayers' Union.

[The Salty One @the_salty_one_]

These union fucks in the public sector get 25% higher pay than the private sector and still fucking complain.

Assholes.

[Drew Ard @DrewWard2025]

Te Pati Maori got thar Tamihere Teflon coating.
The SFO,Police,Electoral Commission, just look the other way.
Way to politically scarey to investigate

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Winston: want NZ Super, become a citizen. Taxpayers are not a migrant bottomless pit. Packed halls still have an argument.

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

This 📻 has caused a major incident with his grandstanding at a Japanese temple.

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Health NZ is short 220 GPs. Chippy still sells free visits. That is not delivery. That is a longer queue.

[Beyond Agast @Itinerantguy]

The @top_nz party is exposed as a scam party
https://t.co/qSTGtL25Pk

[Gilda.Kirkpatrick @Strange_G]

Strip away the bureaucrats and the bureaucracy frame, then watch NZ go to the moon. ✌🏻🚀

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

Read the highlighted part again.

That's not us paraphrasing Labour's AI policy, that's what it actually says: they'll take the regulator built for the under-16 ban and expand it "beyond" child safety, then admit they still can't tell you whether it sits inside a government department or is "independent" of one. Or what "independent" even means. 

No safeguards. No accountability. No idea where the power even lands.

Would you trust this from the same party that gave us "single source of truth"?

This is manifestly not about protecting children. It's about what information adults are allowed to access and exchange online.

[Media Bias @Media58Bias]

And that’s why Labour got hammered in 2023.

[WildandFree17 @Wildnfree1984]

Tamatha Paul assaulting Jeremy

@nzpolice we want to lay an assault charge against Tamatha Paul

[Trevor Hughes @TrevorH53038397]

https://t.co/GSN8KyYzHN

The day the Waitangi Tribunal declared Maori had never ceded sovereignty to the Crown it effectively disestablished itself. What remains is an empty husk hijacked by extremists.

[Elliot Ikilei - NZ First Candidate @ElliotIkilei]

I have been asked by RNZ on my thoughts around the MAPAS scheme. This is one of them:

[The Salty One @the_salty_one_]

Imagine an end to the core apartheid agency in NZ... the years of struggle our people have endured for equal rights will be a big step forward.

Simply outstanding by @dbseymour and @actparty

[Barry Young @BarryYoungNZ]

This is the question that the constituent who had freely provided the sound system wanted to ask his parliamentary representative.
Not anti science.
FACTS AND TRUTH.
Which she ran away from.
Please watch this video.
Thank you for your attention and support.

[Simon Anderson @SimonRAnderson]

This nasty bitch is Comrade @EricaStanfordMP's inspiration.

Stanford's Orwellian censorship programme is entirely modelled around the eKaren.

[The Salty One @the_salty_one_]

God bless the patriots.

[Barry Young @BarryYoungNZ]

Hey @nzpolice it appears that you guys don't need any identification and can wear anything you want.
Good to know. This is the response I have received....

Thank you for raising your concern. The Authority receives over 5000 complaints a year and has limited resources with which to investigate complaints about Police. The issues you raised do not meet our threshold for investigation, and the Authority will take no action on your complaint.

That's it!
NZ police don't have to wear uniform identifying them as police. This is a dangerous precedent.