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 story right across our economy.
Successive governments have built an economy where large international corporates can flourish, sending immense profits offshore, while small and local businesses fight just to keep the lights on.
The Green Party will reform our economic rules to back local businesses, even the playing field, and support sustainable, low-carbon industries to thrive.
Our plan
- Revitalise ‘Buy Kiwi Made’ and expand country of origin labelling so it’s easier to support local businesses.
- Commit government departments to buying more goods and services from Aotearoa businesses.
- Foster sustainable, low-carbon jobs in the information and communication technology sector by expanding access to grants and rebates for smaller sized firms.
- Continue to invest in community-led regional development with a focus on sustainable building, regenerative agriculture and horticulture, improving low-carbon infrastructure, and iwi- and hapū-led economic activity.
- Reform competition laws to create a fairer playing field for small businesses and to benefit consumers. Increase the resources and powers of regulatory agencies to investigate anti-competitive practice.