1. Who are you and what do you want?
 I’m Grant Robertson, MP for Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral. I want a bet­ter New Zea­l­and- and your Party Vote for Labour, and elect­or­ate vote to carry on work­ing for our com­munity.

2. What makes you dif­fer­ent?
In terms of being MP my point of dif­fer­ence is that I’m already doing the job, and I would love to take what I’ve learned and do more for our city.

3. What do you love or hate most about Wel­ling­ton
 Love, as the Mut­ton­birds say, the music and the theatre, the cafes and the bars and you can walk every­where cos nowhere’s very far. Hate- that home­less­ness is grow­ing.

4. What are you going to do about rent­al prop­er­ties and the state they’re in? “ – Amy, Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral (via @Political_Cuts)
We will intro­duce a Healthy Homes Guar­an­tee, enforced by Ten­ancy Tribunal that every rent­al must be warm, dry+safe with insu­la­tion and adequate heat­ing.

5. “If you could re-ima­gine the eco­nomy what would it look like?” – Emma, Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral (via @Political_Cuts)
Where the eco­nomy is a means to liv­ing lives of ful­fil­ment and dig­nity, where we meas­ure suc­cess not on GDP, but on our well-being and hap­pi­ness being enhanced.

6. “How would you improve work­ers’ rights in the elect­or­ate and ensure that young people enter into secure, long-term con­tracts?” – Brit­tany, Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral (via @Political_Cuts)
 Scrap 90 Day Fire At Will legis­la­tion and also Youth Rates, review employ­ment rules with view to strength­en­ing col­lect­ive bar­gain­ing and sup­port role of uni­ons.

7. “What are you going to do to make NZ more egal­it­ari­an?” – Mike, Ron­go­tai (via @Political_Cuts)
Lift min­im­um wage by $2 per hour and work towards a Liv­ing Wage, make tax sys­tem fair through Cap­it­al Gains Tax, lift­ing top rate and crack­ing down on tax avoiders

8. “What are the key things you will do to make things bet­ter for vul­ner­able chil­dren?” – Alis­on, Ron­go­tai (via @Political_Cuts)
Pay­ment of $60 per week for chil­dren up to age of 3, free health­care for kids, preg­nant Mums, legis­lated tar­gets for end­ing child poverty and a Min­is­ter for Chil­dren.

9. How do you plan to keep premi­er artists and busi­nesses from flee­ing the Cap­it­al? – @OrchestraWLG Region­al Eco­nom­ic Plan that has arts and cre­at­ive sec­tor as one of core pil­lars, along with invest­ment in cre­at­ing the jobs that will keep people here- eg ICT, research and sci­ence.

10. What do you wish your 17 year old self knew about fem­in­ism? @zenpeacekeeper That I under­stood what it meant and how gender inequal­ity was a real thing in the world around me.

11. “What would you do to fur­ther improve the electoral/Parliamentary sys­tem in NZ, and to encour­age par­ti­cip­a­tion? – Sam, Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral (via @Political_Cuts)
Open up our demo­cracy through reform of OIA and Par­lia­ment, more and bet­ter teach­ing of civics in schools and a strong pub­lic broad­cast­ing sys­tem.

12. Will you sup­port a full enquiry into #Dir­ty­Po­lit­ics? Will they prac­tice clean polit­ics for them­selves and their parties? – Bevan­M­c­Cabe
Yes, full inquiry with power to sub­poena wit­nesses.  I would nev­er be part of abuse of power and know­ledge that is in Dirty Polit­ics. It is wrong and uneth­ic­al.

13. What’s your per­son­al his­tory of liv­ing in Wel­ling­ton?
Arrived Novem­ber 1994 to do stu­dent polit­ic­al things, became dip­lo­mat, went over­seas 1999, came back 2001- here ever since. Live on bound­ary of Wilton/Northland since 2003.

14. What policy of your party do you think will have the most impact on Wel­ling­ton?
Eco­nom­ic Upgrade to cre­ate decent jobs with high­er wages- espe­cially in ICT. Includes $10,000 gar­age grants to entre­pren­eurs to start up busi­nesses.

15. Do you genu­inely believe you have a chance at win­ning the seat you’re con­test­ing, or is this more of a party cam­paign?
Yep, I would be hon­oured to carry on as MP for Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral.  But Party Vote is vital. Chan­ging gov­ern­ment starts with a Party Vote for Labour.