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Voter S15 · one of 23 households

Unpaid carer juggling work and care

“I work part time and provide unpaid care for an older family member who needs help every day. Getting reliable support is difficult.”

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.

  • PF078

    Retirement and aged care

    I work part time and provide unpaid care for an older family member who needs help every day. Getting reliable support is difficult. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. How do parties compare on home-based care, aged care and respite services?

    4 answers

  • PF079

    Poverty and welfare

    I work part time and provide unpaid care for an older family member who needs help every day. Getting reliable support is difficult. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What financial recognition or support do parties propose for unpaid family carers?

    4 answers

  • PF080

    Healthcare

    I work part time and provide unpaid care for an older family member who needs help every day. Getting reliable support is difficult. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose about coordinating healthcare and support for families caring for someone at home?

    4 answers

  • PF081

    Jobs and unemployment

    I work part time and provide unpaid care for an older family member who needs help every day. Getting reliable support is difficult. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. Which parties address flexible work and leave for people with substantial caring responsibilities?

    4 answers

  • PF082

    Mental health and addiction

    I work part time and provide unpaid care for an older family member who needs help every day. Getting reliable support is difficult. I am considering my vote in the 2026 New Zealand general election. What do parties propose about mental health and practical support for family carers?

    4 answers
02 · Parties named

Which parties AI put in front of this voter

Of the 20 answers this voter received, 16 left out at least one of the six parties in Parliament. Te Pāti Māori was named least often, in 7 of 20.

Answers naming each party, out of 20

  • National20 of 20 answers
  • Labour20 of 20 answers
  • Greens19 of 20 answers
  • ACT17 of 20 answers
  • NZ First15 of 20 answers
  • Te Pāti Māori7 of 20 answers
  • Opportunity8 of 20 answers

  • ChatGPT

    1 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Gemini

    0 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • Google AI Mode

    1 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

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

  • AI Overviews

    2 of 5 answers

    named all six parties in Parliament

    • National
    • Labour
    • Greens
    • ACT
    • NZ First
    • 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
Retirement and aged care
Poverty and welfare
Healthcare
Jobs and unemployment
Mental health and addiction
04 · What they were told

How the assistants handled this voter's main question

PF078 ChatGPT makes a useful three-way distinction: support for the older person at home, respite for the unpaid carer, and residential care if home care becomes unworkable. A policy could improve one while leaving another unchanged. The distinction follows directly from a person trying to sustain paid work while providing daily care.

Gemini foregrounds the care workforce and pay; AI Mode's National discussion begins with senior household costs and mainstream health services. AI Overviews invokes sector reform and funding. All are potentially related, but an answer about rates or prescriptions does not itself tell the carer whether someone can provide reliable respite on Tuesday afternoon.

The response offers to use a needs assessment and care hours to make the comparison more concrete. That is an appropriate next step, provided current support routes are distinguished from future election commitments. The dossier links welfare, healthcare, employment and mental-health questions so the carer's own income and wellbeing are not lost behind the older person's services.

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

56%party websites

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link5of 5

  1. 1greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  2. 2labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  3. 3national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  4. 4nzfirst.nz, party websites, cited in 5 answers
  5. 5act.org.nz, party websites, cited in 4 answers
  6. 6disabilitysupport.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  7. 7healthnz.govt.nz, government, cited in 3 answers
  8. 8health.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9msd.govt.nz, government, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10beehive.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Gemini

67%advocacy groups

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link0of 5

  1. 1apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  2. 2greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3inclusiveworld.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 3 answers
  5. 5ccsdisabilityaction.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6alzheimers.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9msd.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers

Google AI Mode

39%news

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link3of 5

  1. 1rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3thespinoff.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  4. 4drnz.co.nz, businesses, cited in 1 answers
  5. 5employment.govt.nz, government, cited in 1 answers
  6. 6facebook.com, social media, cited in 1 answers
  7. 7greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  8. 8inclusiveworld.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 answers
  9. 9labour.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers
  10. 10national.org.nz, party websites, cited in 1 answers

AI Overviews

20%advocacy groups

Had sources5of 5

Showed you a link0of 5

  1. 1facebook.com, social media, cited in 4 answers
  2. 2rnz.co.nz, news, cited in 3 answers
  3. 3whichparty.nz, comparison sites, cited in 3 answers
  4. 4etu.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  5. 5greens.org.nz, party websites, cited in 2 answers
  6. 6greypowermag.co.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  7. 7inclusiveworld.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 2 answers
  8. 8policy.nz, comparison sites, cited in 2 answers
  9. 9thespinoff.co.nz, news, cited in 2 answers
  10. 10apex.org.nz, advocacy groups, cited in 1 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.