NZ Observer

18/09/2026

ECONOMICS 101
NZ's ideal population size for a first-world standard of living and a first-world welfare system, and to protect our environment which is crucial to our 'real' economy is LESS than 1 million people.

NZ media is owned by bankers, big business, and political interests who are making billions from the immigration industry while taxpayers are left with the multi-billion dollar bill to upgrade infrastructure.

18/09/2026

3/8/2023

IS HE SERIOUS?
CHRIS HIPKINS CELEBRATES LABOURS DISASTROUS IMPACT ON NZ.

Chris Hipkins and Megan Woods have opened a major social housing development in central Auckland today.
Without a trace of guilt, Hipkins and Woods, who have made more Kiwis homeless, as part of the Jacinda Ardern political era, tried to turn their disastrous social impact on NZ into political capital.

Mainstream media who were at the opening refused to report that no government in history has made more Kiwis homeless than the Ardern, Hipkins, and Woods political disaster.

The government-controlled RNZ and TVNZ, who are both politically corrupt, (last month RNZ was found to be altering stories on the Ukraine-Russia war) celebrated New Zealand's largest social housing project, and a monument to government-induced homelessness, as something of a political achievement!

Ex-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, an outspoken globalist, is responsible for more Kiwis being made homeless than any Prime Minister in history.
When Ardern entered politics in 2017 she took over from John Key. Key had used mass immigration to make millions of dollars for himself and his cronies from their property investments and speculation. Key's banking friends made billions. (Key was rewarded with the chairmanship of ANZ bank when he retired from politics)
When Ardern came to power taxpayers were being forced to pay for Key's immigration agenda and borrow $100 million dollars a year to hide homeless Kiwis in motels.
Ardern, a devout supporter of the UN, signed the UN migration pact, doubled refugee numbers (at a cost of tens of millions of dollars), and increased immigration above National's disastrous numbers. In 2023 taxpayers are being forced to pay nearly $1 million dollars every day to hide homeless Kiwis in motels!

Catastrophic immigration and population growth exploded under Jacinda Ardern. NZ's population is now over 5.1 million people and Kiwis are the most indebted, polluted, and homeless in history. While mainstream media continue to lie to New Zealanders calling disastrous 'population growth', economic growth, Kiwis are watching their economy, welfare system, and environment be destroyed while banks make billions funding immigration.

In 2023 mortgage debt and rents from the manipulated housing bubble, caused by the demand from immigration, is the number one driver of poverty in New Zealand.

Hipkins and Woods, who should have been hiding in shame, opened the Te Mātāwai complex of 276 apartment units on Greys Avenue in Auckland's C*D.
The $140 million development replaces a seven-story building with 87 units that was demolished in 2019.
While Hipkins painted a glowing picture of social housing the old complex in Greys Ave was a hub for drug users, alcoholics, and a dumping ground for those with mental health issues.

At today's gloating ceremony, another fact conveniently overlooked by Hipkins and Woods was government debt. Labour has borrowed and printed more money than any government in history. Total government debt is now around $200 billion dollars and growing by the day. Hipkins, Woods and the NZ taxpayer cannot afford social housing. We cannot afford the level of welfare or government services we are consuming. There is NO money.

Kiwis are now paying for John Key and Jacinda Ardern and the catastrophic cost of using immigration to manipulate NZ's economy, so they could keep Kiwis employed building houses - funded with hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgage debt - so they could lie about employment numbers.

Faced with historic government, council, and personal debt, the debt-induced poverty on the horizon for Kiwis is like nothing anyone in this country has ever seen, it is well underway and symbolised today by the monument to homelessness and poverty Hipkins and Woods gloated at.

18/09/2026

18/11/2023

''White people are stupid'' - Green Party candidate Sapna Samant.

The Green Party of New Zealand is known for its misandry and racism with members like Marama Davidson, Sapna Samant, and others often degrading those who oppose their opinions.

But Ms Samant, who has criticised the intelligence of white people on Twitter, might have a point when it comes to the leadership of the Labour Party plus others in her own party, who have for years ( mistakenly or purposely) equated population growth with economic growth.

In the latest figures, New Zealand's population has climbed past 5.2 million people and correspondingly government debt has for the first time ever surpassed $200 billion dollars driven by the catastrophic cost of immigration and the globalist agenda of both Labour and the Greens.

As Councils around NZ join the government in posting historic debt levels on their balance sheets, ( the debt is coming from the cost of upgrading infrastructure to handle the hundreds of thousands of migrants being given NZ citizenship by both Labour and National ) it comes as no surprise to any economist who understands the disastrous effects of population growth on a resource-based economy like NZ's.

The Greens Chloe Swarbrick, Golriz Ghahraman, and Ricardo Menendez, who have spent years campaigning for more immigration, along with former PM Jacinda Ardern, and Chris Hipkins, who wrote policy allowing some of the highest levels of immigration in history, are now seeing the effects of their time in politics with record levels of debt, homelessness, pollution, congestion and poverty, the exact outcomes of catastrophic population growth.

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More reading on NZ's economy-
(article thanks to NZ News)
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=672245826542798&id=522251814875534

18/09/2026

2/12/2023

NZ MEDIA REFUSE TO EXPLAIN THE ECONOMICS OF POPULATION GROWTH.
(Kiwis are not returning to the standard of living we once enjoyed.)

When Jacinda Ardern's daughter starts working she will join the most indebted generation in history.
She will inherit government debt that no other generation has had to deal with.
If she stays in Auckland she will inherit record Council debt and fewer council income-producing assets than any other generation.
If she buys a house in Auckland (presuming prices don't increase above 2023 valuations) she will have the largest mortgage of any generation in history. (based on an average mortgage without a handout from her parents)

The sad irony is that her mother will have paid a large part in the debt mountain her generation is facing.

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( The following article is kindly reprinted thanks to NZNews)

1/12/2023
GRANT ROBERTSON, DESTROYING NZ'S WELFARE SYSTEM.

The most indebted finance minister in New Zealand history has shouted himself one last treat after billing the taxpayer $39,605 for a holiday to the rugby World Cup in France. The cost included more than $32,000 in business class flights and more than $5000 in accommodation costs for the Minister and his staffer.

During his 6 years as finance minister Grant Robertson made political history. He not only borrowed more money than any other finance minister ever, but his excessive spending (and alleged coercion) forced the Reserve Bank to print a record (and currency-destroying) $55 billion dollars.

When Grant Robertson took over as Labour Party Finance minister in 2017 government debt was around $59 billion, in six short years Robertson, Ardern, and Chris Hipkins borrowed another 145 billion dollars, more than any other political party in history and the previous 3 governments combined.

More than anything, Robertson's time as Finance Minister was marked by his effortless ability to mislead journalists and the public regarding the state of the NZ economy. In virtually every press interview as finance minister, Grant Robertson continued to parrot the lie that NZ had strong economic growth, while at the same time borrowing historic amounts of debt.
(NZ hasn't had economic growth for over 15 years. All we have had is catastrophic population growth while bank economists and politicians quote the meaningless and irrelevant GDP numbers that are distorted from massive immigration)

Most of the record borrowing was used in 4 ways.
1. It was wasted - including $97 million paid to lawyers and consultants to 'legally' steal water infrastructure from ratepayers so it could be given to interests associated with Labour.

2. It was used as political bribes including payments like $328,405.00 to develop a Pokemon-go-style reality game, based on To Ao Maori.
$2,110,000.00 for live music venues to increase diversity. $585,000.00 to develop a Te Reo Maori virtual reality game, and tens of millions more spent on projects and people aligned to the Labour Party.

3. It was used to pay for COVID-19.
When the global pandemic hit, something called the Covid Relief Fund was established. The fund doesn’t exist in any real way, it is just an accounting allocation within the government’s books which gives the impression that somehow there is free money that can be spent. Around $70b in total has so far been 'spent'. Additionally, much of this money has been spent on Labour's pet projects that have nothing whatsoever to do with Covid, but it has been a useful tool for shielding payments from scrutiny.

4. Lastly, most of the $145 billion in borrowing has been used to pay for catastrophic immigration.

Labour and the previous National Party have been using ruinous immigration to keep Kiwis employed building houses to keep the politically crucial unemployment number low.
Both parties (along with most NZ media) are calling disastrous population growth (immigration) economic growth, which is completely untrue.

Immigration is a multi-billion dollar industry for a few bankers, property speculators, large businesses, and politicians who own lots of homes. But it is disastrous for ratepayers, taxpayers, homebuyers, the environment, the economy, the homeless and our welfare system.

Population growth (immigration) for a resourced-based economy like NZ's is catastrophic.

Unlike the misinformation spread by politicians and media who have a vested interest ($) in immigration, there is an inverse correlation between economic growth and population growth, as can be seen in all the data as our population grows.

The ruinous financial burden of giving millions of migrants access to infrastructure - that has taken generations of taxes to pay for - is correlated to the historic debt, councils, (ratepayers) and government, (taxpayers) find themselves buried under, as they try to rebuild NZ's infrastructure to the standard we had when the population was 3 million.
(NZ's population is now 5.2 million people. The ideal population size for our economy, and to have a first-world standard of living is LESS than one million people.)

A historic $55 billion was also printed to pay for COVID-19.
It has been unofficially stated that Ardern and Robertson spent more money on their Covid response - on a per capita basis, than any other country in the world. This included payments to migrants with NZ citizenship who were living outside New Zealand while the country was shut down!

It doesn't matter what is said about Grant Robertson by his political friends or friends in the media. His legacy is entrenched in the financial and economic data available from Treasury.

Like his comrades Ardern and Hipkins, they have done more to destroy the affordability of NZ's welfare system than any political party in history.
Never before has our welfare system been more unaffordable, due to the debt on government books - and the money printing that is debasing the NZ dollar - than it is today.

The contempt for voters displayed by Robertson, Ardern, and Hipkins, when it came to telling the truth about our economy, was on another level, even by political standards.

18/09/2026

18/09/2026

THE 'COST OF LIVING LIE'

Between 2008 and 2016 John Key flooded NZ with migrants to manipulate employment numbers and make record profits on his, and his cronies', property investments.
Key's banking friends funded everything and in 2024 are making the largest profits in their history. ( correspondingly Kiwis now owe close to $1 trillion in bank debt! A staggering number that is having a dramatic effect on NZ society and will eventually, and inevitably, become our greatest financial disaster.)

In 2017 the globalist Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister. She increased immigration numbers and became the most indebted PM in history. (on top of the $205 billion taxpayers owed when Ardern abandoned parliament she also printed $50 billion dollars. Another record for a NZ government that barely gets mentioned by mainstream media.)

Media in NZ, who receive enormous amounts of money from banks, property companies and companies associated with the housing industry, or media run by the government, have lied for over a decade about NZ's rockstar economy, homeless crisis, (it's always been an immigration crisis) and now the fictitious cost of living crisis.

Since 2008 building houses ( some have been referred to as slums) has been the biggest industry in NZ.
It eclipsed tourism and farming in the number of people employed directly, and indirectly. Revenue from building houses is around $60 billion a year directly and $120 billion a year indirectly. No other sector turns over as much money and no other sector employs more people.
Nearly everything is being paid for with catastrophic debt.

As NZ media continues to lie to Kiwis referring to the disastrous 'cost of immigration crisis ' as a fictitious 'cost of living crisis' the billions of dollars needed to upgrade infrastructure and services - to cater for millions of migrants never planned or costed before John Key and Jacinda Ardern - is bankrupting councils and destroying our welfare system.

Neither John Key nor Jacinda Ardern have stuck around to help out, and neither Key nor Ardern is suffering from the catastrophic cost of immigration crisis.

18/09/2026

28/5/2024
THE GIRL WHO KNEW NOTHING.

Last year faced with the greatest housing crisis in NZ history, and borrowing more than 1 million dollars every day to pay motels to house homeless Kiwis - caused by the catastrophic immigration agendas of John Key and Jacinda Ardern - the Labour Party gave away another 208,000 NZ visas to migrants. A record by any government ever.

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Prefabricated units from China have been placed onto a section owned by Kāinga Ora in Sandringham, Auckland to house Kiwis made homeless by the immigration policies of John Key and Jacinda Ardern.
The new container home units craned onto the Sandringham site have shocked locals.

The six new containers in two blocks, each of three levels, are at 15 Kingsway Ave and locals said they were amazed that it took only a day for them to be craned into place.

But many are scathing too: "We're starting to look like ghetto cities that we see in other countries," said one.

'' We are witnessing the destruction of Auckland City and we have the last two governments to blame" said one woman.

"Containers seem to be the new norm for Kāinga Ora," said another. "They look like those storage containers put on top of each other," said one.

As the government struggles with record debt levels left by Grant Robertson, the funding of homeless Kiwis is becoming a dire threat to NZ's economy.

Patrick Dougherty, Kāinga Ora's general manager of construction and innovation, has defended the result, saying the Crown entity was developing its land using offsite manufacturing.

Buying the units from China for that Sandringham site had cost savings, he indicated.

(The Irony is that it was John Key who took millions of dollars in donations from wealthy Chinese when he was in government while at the same time displacing thousands of Kiwis from homes as migrants bought up NZ's limited housing stock.)

Such methods can reduce material waste and construction time, providing quality, warm homes at a faster pace than traditional builds.

As the multi-billion dollar cost of NZ's worst housing crisis, plus the multi-billion dollar cost to infrastructure caused by immigration, continues to impact NZ's economy and devistate our welfare system Kiwis are going to continue to see their standard of living destroyed, socially, economically and environmentally. When John Key and Jacinda Ardern walked out on New Zealand politics, they understood their policies' ruinous impact on New Zealand.
Now Kiwis are paying for what they knew was coming.