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Voter S02 · one of 23 households

Student renting and working part time

“I'm a tertiary student renting a room, working part time and using a student loan. I am struggling to fit paid work around study.”

questions written for them
5
answers collected
20
AI assistants
4
asked nationally
NZ
01 · What they asked

5 questions, each written as this voter would ask it

The issue each question is about, and how much it matters to this voter. Open any question to read the assistants' answers in full.

  • PF006

    Education and childcare

    I'm a tertiary student renting a room, working part time and using a student loan. I am struggling to fit paid work around study. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on student allowances, living-cost support and student loans?

    4 answers
  • PF007

    Housing

    I'm a tertiary student renting a room, working part time and using a student loan. I am struggling to fit paid work around study. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which parties are offering meaningful changes for renters, and how would their plans affect rent costs, healthy homes and tenancy security?

    4 answers
  • PF008

    Cost of living

    I'm a tertiary student renting a room, working part time and using a student loan. I am struggling to fit paid work around study. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What would parties do about food and transport costs for someone studying on a tight budget?

    4 answers
  • PF009

    Jobs and unemployment

    I'm a tertiary student renting a room, working part time and using a student loan. I am struggling to fit paid work around study. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What are parties proposing about graduate jobs and the rights of people doing part-time work?

    4 answers
  • PF010

    Mental health and addiction

    I'm a tertiary student renting a room, working part time and using a student loan. I am struggling to fit paid work around study. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What differences are there in parties' plans for affordable mental health support for students?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 20 answers this voter received, 10 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. NZ First was named least often, in 11 of 20.

Answers naming each party, out of 20

  • National20 of 20 answers
  • Labour20 of 20 answers
  • Greens20 of 20 answers
  • ACT19 of 20 answers
  • NZ First11 of 20 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori15 of 20 answers
  • Opportunity5 of 20 answers
  • ChatGPT

    5 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • Gemini

    2 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • Google AI Mode

    3 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • Te Pāti Māori
  • AI Overviews

    0 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First (never named)
    • Te Pāti Māori
03 · Issue by issue

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues

Each row is one of this voter's issues. Each column is a party. The number shows how often the party came up in the answers to this voter. The coloured line under it shows whether what the AI said about the party was positive, neutral or negative.

Toggle assistants on or off to compare them, and click any number to see more detail about the responses.

Showing all four assistants · 20 answers

What AI said about each party on this voter's issues: for each topic and party, the share of answers naming the party and how the claims about it split, across all four assistants.
TopicNationalLabourGreensACTNZ FirstTe Pāti MāoriOpportunity
Education and childcare
Housing
Cost of living
Jobs and unemployment
Mental health and addiction
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

The student case makes the difference between immediate cash flow and eventual debt reduction visible. ChatGPT's PF006 opening restates the problem as having enough money to study without working excessive hours or deepening debt; it explicitly says it is using current commitments rather than carrying older promises forward. That is a useful organising test, although the statement is a claim about its method and not proof that every policy was checked correctly.

AI Overviews describes the divide as reducing costs during study versus increasing take-home pay after graduation. Gemini's closing question asks the student to choose between money now and long-term loan relief. Both formulations make the policy choice easier to understand, while potentially narrowing a complex package into a two-way preference. The student may need both, and housing costs can overwhelm either measure.

ChatGPT asks for age, earnings, loan balance and allowance status before a personalised calculation. That recognises missing eligibility information. The next useful distinction is between a guaranteed entitlement, a policy proposal and a modelled saving; the archive does not contain the follow-up financial information or a completed calculation.

From the study's case study of this voter. Each extract opens the full answer with the passage highlighted.

05 · Sources

Where the answers to this voter came from

The websites each assistant drew on when it answered this voter, and what kind of publisher they are. Pick an issue to see the websites for that question.

ChatGPT

31%party websites

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link5of 5

  1. 1salient.org.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7partymap.co.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8reuters.com, news, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  10. 101news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

30%advocacy groups

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link0of 5

  1. 1facebook.com, social media, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  3. 3greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  4. 4kiwicoaches.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6ranzcp.org, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7retail.kiwi, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8tenancy.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9thefinders.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

50%news

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link1of 5

  1. 1labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  2. 2policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  3. 3rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  4. 41news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6interest.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7mentalhealth.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9pwc.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10salient.org.nz, news, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

30%news

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link1of 5

  1. 1facebook.com, social media, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8salient.org.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9stories.theconversation.com, news, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10thespinoff.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  • Party websites
  • Government
  • News
  • Comparison sites
  • Advocacy groups
  • Businesses
  • Social media
  • Other

A website counts once per answer, however many times the answer used it. Counts come from the sources the scan attached to each answer: 20 of this voter's 20 answers have at least one. We assigned a publisher type by hand to every website in a top-ten list; any other website counts as Other.