Parents will be able to spend a month off together with their newborns if Labour is re-elected with the party pledging to introduce paid leave for partners.
Partners will be entitled to take four weeks paid leave under the scheme but if you're currently expecting, don't celebrate too soon.
It will be phased in with partners able to take two weeks paid from July next year. That'll expand to three weeks the following year, finally getting to four weeks in 2026.
It can be taken at the same time as the stay-at-home parent - or added to the 26 weeks paid parental leave already available.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins has been reading the room after the party voted down National's Bill to allow parents more flexible parental leave.
He's now eyeing up a slice of the parenting pie.
"We know that it's a really important time for families when they've just had a new baby and partners do want to be involved," Hipkins said.
Currently, paid parental leave is 26 weeks and you can share that between parents but can only make the switchover once and you can't take it together.
"When you've got a newborn in the house it's emotionally exhausting so you want that clear air to be able to focus on your babies but you also need a bit of financial support during that time," Hipkins said.
Partners are currently entitled to two weeks' leave, but it's unpaid.
Labour's proposal is an extra four weeks paid that can be taken at the same time or added to the 26 weeks.
But Daisy's mum Zee - present for the PM's big pitch on Tuesday - was underwhelmed.
"Everything is going up, rates are going up, rentals are going up, how is that little bit going to help that much," she said.
This is the latest in a long line of Labour policies aimed at the parents of these little ones.
An aim to share the load of the household - something one National MP seems to struggle with.
"At least once a month I get out there and take the shopping list off my wife and go out there and fill up the trolley," Sam Uffindell said earlier this year in the House.
"Not only is it an excellent way to get a bit of publicity with a National Party jacket on my back, looking like the everyday man, it gives my wife a break."
Asked about the comment at Parliament on Tuesday, National deputy leader Nicola Willis said: "He's going to have um… a conversation with his wife"
Uffindell said he when he got home after making that speech, his wife "did give me a bit of stick about that, so yeah, I know my place now".
Asked if she winced when she heard the comment, Willis said: "I'll say this to you. I'm definitely a feminist".
Uffindell said it's "just the nature of the role here and it's probably something that all 120 MPs will tell ya".
Asked if he was too busy to go to the supermarket, the Prime Minister said he had been there on Saturday.
He may possibly have been checking out food prices ahead of his GST-free fruit and vege policy.
His money man, Grant Robertson, in a grump about the Opposition's suppositions about how Labour made a $250 million mistake in its GST policy.
"I think what could have gone on here is that Grant Robertson, when asked to put this policy together, said 'There's no way we can make this work by April, Prime Minister' and Chris Hipkins said, just as he said with the policy on a whole, 'Look, I don't care'," Willis said on Monday.
Robertson let rip about that.
"That is a complete lie, Heather," he said on NewstalkZB on Monday night. "Why would you repeat a lie?... Nicola Willis' lie. That's what you've just repeated."
Asked if she lied, Willis replied: "Absolutely not."
Robertson stood by it on Tuesday.
"Yeah that's what I said."
Willis said Robertson is "clearly under a lot of pressure".
"He's had a tough start to the year, he's clearly had to swallow a lot of rats."
It's getting tense, nothing a sausage roll can't fix. Perhaps a cup of tea and a lie down too.
