Thriving tamariki and rangatahi. The Green Party will work to build a system that puts tamariki, rangatahi and whānau first. Our tamariki and rangatahi deserve to be loved, nurtured and safe. They should be connected with their whānau, cared for and free to express their authentic selves, no matter where they live. We know we have enough to ensure tamariki are free from poverty and supported through every step of their unique journey. Supporting tamariki means ensuring whānau and communities...
Bold action and solutions that hold polluters to account The Green Party will drive meaningful action, cutting climate pollution and making big polluters pay. We will ensure that polluting corporations pay for Aotearoa to electrify our economy. By rapidly phasing out fossil fuels, we can ease cost of living pressures and decrease our vulnerability to global price shocks. Under the leadership of a Green Minister for Climate Change, emissions began to drop. But now, the current Government is deliberately making...
Keeping Aotearoa safe and prepared The Green Party will prepare all New Zealanders for the impacts of climate change. We will ensure that everyone is comprehensively supported through both the transition to a zero emissions economy and increasingly severe weather events like cyclones. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Across Aotearoa, we are already feeling the impacts of more intense and frequent storms, flooding and drought with devastating consequences. Marae and community groups are often...
Protecting and restoring plants, animals and ecosystems. The Green Party will protect our precious whenua, moana and taonga species from corporate exploitation. Aotearoa is home to natural taonga found nowhere else in the world. Our ngahere (forests), awa (rivers) and moana are central to our national identity and way of life. The Luxon Government has made it easier for corporations to plunder and tear up te taiao (nature), putting private profits ahead of our treasured native wildlife. Meanwhile, many of...
An Aotearoa that values artists. The Green Party will invest in the arts, creativity and culture that makes Aotearoa vibrant and unique. Our art, artists and creatives tell the stories of our communities and help make sense of the world around us. This government has starved the sector of support. Too many of our creatives are working without the certainty of a stable income, and many lack access to the training and education needed to foster their skills and talents....
Politics for people, not big money. The Green Party will ensure that our democracy represents the people, not wealthy corporate interests. Our democracy should work for everyone, not just the wealthy few. Around the world, democracy is under threat by would-be dictators and corporate power. Successive governments have meddled with our electoral rules for their own self-interest and failed to curb the influence of big corporate interests in politics.. This government has actively invited those big corporates in to write...
Technology helping, not harming. The Green Party will hold digital platforms accountable to protect us and our information. Digital environments should support our wellbeing, connect our communities, protect our privacy and respect our sovereignty and nature’s limits. The choices we make on how to deploy and use technology should be under democratic control, not defined for us by overseas corporations who prioritise shareholders over citizens. All of us have been exposed to harmful and toxic content that damages our mental...
An accessible Aotearoa for all. The Green Party will build an Aotearoa where disabled people are valued and they and their whānau live with dignity and autonomy. An Aotearoa where disabled people and whānau have access to the services they need — like transport and good quality housing — means everyone can thrive in caring communities. Our current laws, policies and social norms mean disabled people are often denied the same rights as others and are excluded from places and...
Putting health first to keep people safe. The Green Party will take an evidenced, health-based approach to alcohol and other drugs to reduce harm in our communities. Successive governments have tinkered around the edges of our drug laws but largely left them unchanged from the ‘war on drugs’ approach of 50 years ago. Newsflash: they’re losing the war on drugs. This approach has been punitive and has not reduced harm or demand. Instead, it fills our courts and prisons, diverts...
An Aotearoa where everyone can reach their full potential. The Green Party will support an inclusive education system that uplifts everyone. Education is a public good and a lifelong right, not a commodity. The Green Party believes education must foster curiosity, creativity and confidence. Education should support every person to discover who they are and how they can contribute to a just, sustainable world. Education plays a vital role in building social cohesion and democratic life, and should be planned...
Powering Aotearoa with affordable renewable energy. The Green Party will fix our broken power system so that people, not profits, come first. Aotearoa can be a nation with energy independence, where everyone has access to affordable, reliable, clean renewable energy. The Green Party will ensure our energy system prioritises public good, so the benefits of our renewable resources stay with people, rather than driving corporate profit. Our reliance on both fossil fuels and a profit-driven market exposes households to global...
Protecting and restoring nature. The Green Party stands for a healthy environment as the foundation of healthy communities. In Aotearoa, our environment is the foundation of our communities and our identity. We all rely on clean rivers for safe drinking water. Our native forests and wetlands help reduce flooding. Healthy soils and abundant oceans provide kai. When our freshwater, native bush and moana thrive, we thrive too. Luxon’s coalition Government has been the most environmentally damaging in a generation, prioritising...
A regenerative approach that puts people and nature first. The Green Party will support sustainable farming and forestry that protects our environment, communities and livelihoods. We can have a thriving, sustainable food and fibre sector that prioritises mātauranga food production, creates food security, keeps our waterways healthy and provides good jobs for our rural communities. But for decades, successive governments have encouraged increasingly intensive farming and forestry, prioritising short-term profits over long-term wellbeing. Industrial dairying is our biggest climate polluter...
Healthy water for drinking, swimming and gathering kai. The Green Party will put the health of freshwater and communities first. Our rivers and lakes should be clean and teeming with life. Everyone should be able to turn on their tap knowing their water is safe to drink, swim in their local awa (river) without getting sick and fish or gather kai from waterways. Clean, healthy freshwater is the foundation of the health of our people and our environment. Aotearoa has...
For a more equal Aotearoa. The Green Party will take action to advance gender equality and ensure women and gender minorities are respected and treated fairly. Aotearoa has made decent progress to make this reality come to fruition, but we have a way to go before women and gender minorities can be truly equal in this country. Life is unfair and unsafe for too many – single mothers are vulnerable to hardship and homelessness, gender-based violence is increasing, and women...
A safer, greener, fairer future for people and planet. The Green Party will ensure that Aotearoa always stands up for what’s right on the world stage. Aotearoa can be a global voice for peace, freedom, democracy, justice, global solidarity and collective action on climate change. Unfortunately, every corner of our planet is threatened by war, the climate crisis and the rise of authoritarian regimes. Aotearoa was once an independent voice against nuclear weapons and American militarism. But the Luxon Government...
Accessible care to support everyone’s good health. The Green Party will ensure our health care system is equitable, accessible and properly supported. Aotearoa has enough to ensure that everyone, everywhere can access timely health care from a supported workforce. But for years successive governments have underinvested in health services, leading to lengthy wait times and unsafe conditions for the health workers who look after us. Hospitals are understaffed, and GP clinics — important for helping people stay well, not just...
Safe, warm, affordable homes for everyone. The Green Party is the only party with a credible plan to ensure everyone can afford a warm and safe place to call home. We all need somewhere to call home — a place to rest, to share with our loved ones, to make a life or to watch our kids grow up. A warm, safe home is a basic right. But successive governments have allowed housing to become a get-rich scheme for a...
Welcoming, safe and fair pathways to make Aotearoa home. The Green Party will make sure that everyone who comes to Aotearoa is treated with respect and dignity. Migrant workers are not disposable, and deserve a fair go to settle in Aotearoa. If any one of us feared for our life or our family or strived for a better life, we’d hope that we’d be supported to take that big step. But because of the rules put in place by successive...
Liveable incomes made possible through a fair tax system. The Green Party will guarantee a decent income for all and pay for it with a fair tax system. No matter what we do or where we live, everyone should have enough to put food on the table, a safe place to call home and the ability to live a good life. There is enough for everyone to be well, but right now, thousands of children are going to bed hungry....
Keeping communities safe through prevention and rehabilitation. The Green Party will make our communities safer by addressing the drivers of crime. Our approach is to prevent harm happening in the first place. We will reform the justice system to make it fair, just and equitable. The current Government’s approach of packing prisons, restricting what judges can decide and neglecting much-needed rehabilitation only causes more harm and hardship. Our communities are safer when everyone, especially young people, have access to the...
Empowering local democracy. The Green Party will back local government to deliver community wellbeing. Local government plays a vital role in shaping everyday life. When local democracy is strong, communities are stronger too. Unfortunately, local government is under strain. Councils face growing financial pressure. Democratic engagement is declining and tino rangatiratanga is often sidelined in community decision-making. At the same time, councils are the frontline of many challenges we face, from climate change to a lack of affordable homes. They...
By Māori, for Māori. The Green Party will support Māori to make decisions about the destiny of their own whānau, hapū and iwi. Tangata whenua lived undisturbed for centuries as hapū, creating tikanga unique to the whenua and focusing on the health and sustainability of their whakapapa. When tangata whenua thrive, so does everyone who lives in Aotearoa. Supporting ongoing kaupapa Māori approaches for Māori to fulfil their aspirations was affirmed and guaranteed by Te Tiriti o Waitangi. When Te...
A safe, supportive and accessible care system. The Green Party will work to address the drivers of poor mental health, and ensure everyone can get safe, culturally relevant care when they need it. Aotearoa should be a place where anyone in distress can access support, no matter where they are. But right now, demand is skyrocketing, services are fragmented and workforce shortages are leading to long wait times and staff burnout. Prioritising private care in the mental health sector has...
Abundant oceans teeming with kaimoana. The Green Party will restore the mauri (life force) of our moana through bold marine protection initiatives. The vast moana surrounding Aotearoa is a taonga. New Zealanders deserve to have healthy and thriving oceans, with abundant marine life that provides sustainable kaimoana. Right now, our oceans are under severe stress. Overfishing, destructive bottom trawling, plastic pollution and climate change have driven marine ecosystems towards collapse. Iconic species like tipa (scallops) and koura (crayfish) are now...
Cultivating Kiwi connections around the world. The Green Party will ensure all New Zealanders living overseas can feel connected to home. More and more New Zealanders are leaving for overseas, particularly as a result of the current Government’s choices. The Luxon Government has forgotten that they are supposed to represent the 15% of New Zealanders who live overseas too. While the cost of living has hit hard around the world, they decided to increase interest rates on student loans for...
Deepening connections and uplifting communities. The Green Party will strengthen the relationship between Aotearoa and the Pacific through partnership grounded in respect, reciprocity and shared prosperity. Aotearoa stands as a Pacific nation, grounded in deep and enduring whakapapa connections with Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. Pacific Peoples are central to our shared future. Their innovation, leadership and cultural intelligence will help shape a sustainable, inclusive and thriving Aotearoa. Pacific Peoples are one of our most youthful and fastest-growing communities, yet systemic barriers mean...
Strong essential services accessible to everyone. The Green Party will make sure that public services support the public good. Investing in public services means investing in all of us. Public services are the way we make sure every person, whānau and community can live with dignity, security and real opportunity — not just those who can afford to pay. For too long, underinvestment and privatisation have left essential systems stretched, fragmented and harder to access. Public services should be treated...
Rainbow communities thriving with freedom, equality and respect. The Green Party will nurture an Aotearoa where everyone belongs and enjoys a safe, healthy and happy life. All New Zealanders deserve to live with dignity, safety and the freedom to be themselves in a community where they belong. For takatāpui, rainbow, MVPFAFF+ and Pacific LGBTQI+, trans, non-binary and intersex people, this means more than symbolic support. It means celebrating the joy of rainbow communities as well as addressing the inequities many...
Happy, healthy and supported. The Green Party will uphold the mana of seniors by prioritising the support that enables equitable and fulfilling lives. Seniors have cared for us and served their communities. Many continue to do so during retirement. Every senior should be valued, connected and able to live with dignity. However, the Luxon Government has sidelined the needs of seniors, meaning many find themselves without the care and support they need. Some have no one to turn to. Guided...
Championing small, local enterprise. The Green Party will back local businesses, support sustainable industries and ensure small businesses have a fair shot. When wealth is kept in local communities, we all benefit. But too often, small businesses face an economy that is stacked against them. In the last year, we saw the highest number of business liquidations in almost 15 years. Local suppliers are being squeezed by the supermarket duopoly, while factories are closing and costing jobs. This is the...
Advancing an Aotearoa that embraces Te Tiriti. The Green Party will put Te Tiriti o Waitangi at the heart of a modern Aotearoa founded on real partnership. We envision an Aotearoa where our governing structures uphold the rangatiratanga of iwi and hapū, providing dignity for all. We can achieve this by demonstrating true partnership between tangata whenua and the Crown as intended by Te Tiriti. Successive governments have consistently breached Te Tiriti. The resulting harm, lack of accountability and denial...
Opportunities for everyone to learn and grow. The Green Party will support student success by overhauling tertiary education. We all benefit when somebody takes on tertiary study, contributing original thought and their skills to our communities, hapori (community), country and the world. Unfortunately, successive governments have forced universities and polytechs to make deep cuts to the courses and services students need to succeed. At the same time, they have normalised student poverty, leaving students struggling to pay the rent and...
Easy, sustainable ways to get around. The Green Party will invest in modern, sustainable, and affordable transport options. This will make it easier and cheaper for people to safely get around our cities and regions. Aotearoa was once joined up by buses and a reliable passenger rail system. Fast, frequent and reliable public transport ran throughout our cities and towns. After our rail network was sold off for private profit, it was returned to the people in disarray. Successive governments...
Keeping whānau and communities safe. The Green Party will make sure everyone can live a life free from violence and heal from trauma. Our homes, whānau and communities should be places of aroha, care and safety — free from fear and harm. Aotearoa has among the highest rates of intimate partner violence, sexual violence and child abuse. This disproportionately harms people in vulnerable professions and communities, and can have long-lasting impacts that are passed down through families. The current Government...
Caring for all animals that call Aotearoa home. The Green Party will keep animals safe from cruelty and suffering. Animals should live a happy, comfortable life free from suffering. Unfortunately, the Luxon Government has let big industry players write our animal welfare laws, putting corporate greed ahead of the wellbeing of animals. Thousands of farmed animals are suffering unnecessarily because the standards that are meant to protect their safety aren’t being upheld. Cruel and harmful practices are allowed to continue....
Employment protections and decent pay for all workers. The Green Party will protect rights, improve conditions and make things fairer for workers. Work should provide dignity, security and a fair share in the prosperity we create together. Strong employment rights, decent pay and collective voice are essential for a thriving economy and a healthy democracy. Workers should be valued for their contribution, protected from exploitation and supported to live well — not just survive. Right now, too many people are...
Building a sustainable circular economy. The Green Party will take action to reduce waste and protect the environment from pollution. In a truly sustainable system, nature is protected rather than treated as a dumping ground. We can build a circular economy where waste is designed out and resources are valued and reused. Under the current Government, progress towards our zero-waste future has stalled. Action on plastic pollution has ground to a halt, and funding for solutions has dried up. Corporations...
