Victoria University's director of the Institute of Early Childhood Studies, Sue Cherrington, told Breakfast while an extra $75 would be "positive" for families who can get it, the overall process will be "administratively cumbersome to manage".

She said the level of administrative work required to get the rebate would be "more effort than it's worth" for some families.

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The Free Speech Union wants you to know that while they support Drag Queens right to speak, they also want the public to know they think they are perverts as well.

The FSU is, and we've always called it, a right wing psyop that pushes a far right agenda and when they do support what many thinks are a left wing group, they have to make sure the public know the FSU is not supportive of that groups lives.

What this also does is enable right wing bigots to pretend to be pro free-speech can also be bigots to groups as they've been given permission to judge them by the FSU while pretending to be pro free-speech.

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We were begging Chris Hipkins to talk about tax, Capital Gains Tax, Wealth Tax...any tax prior to the election but he wouldn't.

People found a Wealth Tax and CGT to be both popular and a source of income for the government, but Labour refused to look at it...now they say they are going to look at the whole tax system which means that have two and a half years to get their policy and messaging correct around tax.

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Erica Stanford and Willie Jackson responded to Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters comparing a cultural space at Auckland University to apartheid and the KKK.

Chris Bishop and Kieran McAnulty spoke about the upcoming tax cuts, but at what cost?

Oliver 'Karen' Plunket compared dolphins that were "the down syndrome kids of marine mammals, they're cross bred and they deserve to die' then had to come out and apologise...we'll take a look at the fallout in the right-wing space.

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UN Calls for ceasefire in Gaza as the US abstains from voting, or vetoing. Israel is furious and stops talking peace with Hamas and cancels diplomatic meetings with the US

National's Budget Policy Statement delivered today and we speak with Clint Smith about what are the wins and losses being signalled by Nicola Willis

Arrests have been made in Gisborne of Destiny Church members protesting the new rainbow crossing.

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Christopher Luxon has spoken on Breakfast about the Family Boost Rebate and , surprise surprise, lots of unanswered and unanswerable questions. Also on Breakfast and Early Childhood expert share her views on the policy

Destiny Church has filmed themselves committing a crime in Gisborne as they commit the act of vandalism by painting over a rainbow crossing then published the crime to various social medias. Seeing as we're talking about culture war things, we might also check out hypocrisy by ACT again today complaining about Pacific and Māori only spaces, while they fully support female only spaces.

New research is out that says free School Lunches work...they work getting kids to school and they work helping academic achievement. David Seymour, as per usual, discounts and undermines the research that he is looking for...but disagrees with his narrative.

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Simeon Brown made it clear on Q&A this morning that to save 15 seconds an average 20 minute commute in Auckland is worth more dangerous roads and potentially more danger from speed

Christopher Luxon continues to lie about it being Labour's fault for all the public sector job cuts and no one has asked him yet would there be a need for cuts if the Government chose to not give landlords nearly $3b in tax cuts

Chris Hipkins NOW wants tax reform and we have to ask why not before the election?

Russell Coutts has a pity party with Newstalk ZB

What do you do if someone who says you should have the freedom to read stories to children, also thinks, and publicly states, that you're a "pervert"?

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"Sam" messaged us during the week talking about how he voted for ACT at the last election, and he regretted his vote as what he voted for, he didn't get. We said we'd love to talk more to him about it and he chose to jump on Discord tonight to explain more.

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