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National and Labour agree to cross party support on superannuation

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Andrew Dickens ,
Publish Date
Mon, 12 Oct 2026, 6:28am
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A view it's clearly time our political parties come together to tackle the issue of superannuation.

National and Labour have agreed they'll support a cross-party political accord on the retirement system.

Act and National are both campaigning on gradually raising the super age to 67.

Labour and New Zealand First are both campaigning to keep it at 65.

Superannuation expert Jonathan Eriksen told Andrew Dickens some cross-party consensus on this is overdue.

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