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
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 answersPF007
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 answersPF008
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 answersPF009
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 answersPF010
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
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 answersLabour20 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
NationalLabour
Greens
ACT
NZ First
Te Pāti Māori
Gemini
2 of 5 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
NationalLabour
Greens
ACT
NZ First
Te Pāti Māori
Google AI Mode
3 of 5 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
NationalLabour
Greens
ACT
NZ First
Te Pāti Māori
AI Overviews
0 of 5 answers
named all six parties in Parliament
NationalLabour
Greens
ACT
NZ First (never named)
Te Pāti Māori
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.
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Showing all four assistants · 20 answers
| Topic | |||||||
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| Education and childcare | |||||||
| Housing | |||||||
| Cost of living | |||||||
| Jobs and unemployment | |||||||
| Mental health and addiction |
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.
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
- 1salient.org.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
- 2
national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers - 3
policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers - 4
act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 5
greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 6
labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 7
partymap.co.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers - 8
reuters.com, news, cited in 2 answers - 9
whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers - 10
1news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
Gemini
30%advocacy groups
Had sources5of 5
Showed you a link0of 5
- 1
facebook.com, social media, cited in 2 answers - 2
apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers - 3
greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers - 4
kiwicoaches.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers - 5
policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 1 answers - 6ranzcp.org, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
- 7retail.kiwi, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
- 8tenancy.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
- 9
thefinders.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
Google AI Mode
50%news
Had sources5of 5
Showed you a link1of 5
- 1
labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 2
policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers - 3
rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers - 4
1news.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers - 5
facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers - 6
interest.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers - 7
mentalhealth.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers - 8
nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 1 answers - 9
pwc.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers - 10salient.org.nz, news, cited in 1 answers
AI Overviews
30%news
Had sources5of 5
Showed you a link1of 5
- 1
facebook.com, social media, cited in 3 answers - 2
rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers - 3
whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers - 4
greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 5
labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 6
national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers - 7
nzherald.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers - 8salient.org.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
- 9
stories.theconversation.com, news, cited in 2 answers - 10
thespinoff.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.