"Labour had campaigned on covering two years of academic study in 2021 and three by 2024. But in 2020, the planned expansion of the scheme was paused indefinitely.
Then-education spokesperson Chris Hipkins said additional funding would be spent in areas 'critical for the country's economic recovery in the post-Covid environment'."
#KatieKenny, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/508677/the-new-government-is-scrapping-first-year-fees-free-what-you-need-to-know
In hindsight, Hipkins' centre-right politics were obvious long before the 2023 election.
#NZPolitics
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