New Zealand Needs Mature Conversation on Asset Sales, Luxon Says

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has called for a “mature conversation” about ownership of government assets, in a hint of a key policy platform his National Party intends to take to the 2026 election.

“We need a more mature conversation than what we’ve historically had in this country about assets, because owning everything we own forever isn’t the right thing to do,” Luxon told Radio NZ Monday in Wellington. “Being able to sell an asset in order to create and build a new asset is actually probably a good thing. So we will think about that over the course of the coming year.”