New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been criticised for her 'wellness budget' and 'unrealistic' climate change targets. The new budget will see her lavish $26.5 billion over the next four years on tackling suicide rates, child poverty, homelessness and domestic violence - a plan Ms Ardern said was focused on 'wellbeing'. Radio host Steve Price was speaking to conservative commentator Rita Panahi on his 2GB show on Tuesday night when he mentioned living in New Zealand under Ms Ardern's leadership. Price said Ms Ardern was planning to deliver her 'wellness budget' to the New Zealand public on Thursday, and slammed the direction she was taking the country. 'She said it's about embedding kindness and empathy, legislating those things,' Price said. 'This sort of silliness impresses some of the people sometimes for a little period but you eventually get found out and I think she's going to get found out,' Panahi said. 'It's just going to be very ugly at the next election.' New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been criticised for her 'wellness budget' and 'unrealistic' climate change targets Radio host Steve Price was speaking to conservative commentator Rita Panahi on his 2GB show on Tuesday night when he mentioned living in New Zealand under Ms Ardern's leadership Price said Ms Ardern had reversed a policy where people in social housing had to leave when they improved their personal circumstances, a direction Panahi disagreed with. 'If you're earning a decent salary then you've got other options, that government-subsidised housing should be for those who can't care for themselves,' Panahi said. 'Some of the stuff they're talking about is just kooky... when you look at the substance often there's not much there.' Caller Glen said he was in New Zealand during the Australian election, and sat in during a meeting of Parliament for a reading of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill - an ambitious plan to eliminate carbon by 2050. 'How are they going to do that?' Price asked. 'One of the most bizarre things about this zero carbon is they're going to cut methane...' Glen said. 'The opposition pointed out they're going to have to cull half of their (cow) herds by 2050 to make this. 'Half of the money New Zealand makes comes from exported food... you cut back half of your herds, New Zealand will be importing food by that time. 'As people flee, New Zealand will end up like Venezuela.' Price said New Zealanders will end up in Australia, while Panahi said there would be an 'influx' of Kiwis moving across the Tasman Sea. 'Build a wall,' Panahi said. New Zealand conservative commentator Mike Hosking said the Labour government's budget was a 'marketing exercise that no one has fallen for'. New Zealand conservative commentator Mike Hosking said the Labour government's budget was a 'marketing exercise that no one has fallen for'. Pictured: New Zealand Finance Minister Grant Robertson 'One thing I always look for... is how much of other people's money is being used to prop up the lot of others. In other words, how many New Zealanders are beholden to the state,' he wrote in the New Zealand Herald. 'Here's your truth: it is an increasing and alarmingly large number. 'Put as much kumbaya, flowery BS around it as you want, but the growth targets, the debt targets, the surplus numbers, the income, and revenue are all that matters.' Radio host Tom Elliott said Australians who said they would move to New Zealand after the Coalition's shock election victory should stop gushing over Ms Ardern. 'I just want to put a few facts out there for everybody who thinks Jacinda Ardern is God's gift to government,' he said on his 3AW show. 'New Zealand takes far fewer refugees per head of population than what Australia does. We are the nice country to refugees, New Zealand is not. 'They don't want immigration, or certainly not as much as they used to have. New Zealand is not the open and welcoming country it used to be. 'Teachers in New Zealand are complaining the government isn't paying them enough and they've gone on a mass strike. So while we sit there praising Jacinda Ardern to the high heavens, New Zealanders see things differently. Just think about that.' Jacinda Ardern's 'Wellbeing Budget' Total spend of $25.6billion over four years. Spending $1.9billion over five years on mental health, including $455million for mental health workers at doctors' clinics. Schools will receive a $150 payout per student if they get rid of voluntary donations, at a cost of $265.6million over four years. Beneficiaries to receive $47 more per week by 2023, costing $320.2million over four years. Spend of almost $1billion on child wellbeing. All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility