Thanks to Green Party pressure, visitors from Samoa can soon travel to Aotearoa without a visa – a right that should be extended to every Pacific country.

The Government has missed a crucial opportunity to redesign the resource management system with climate and nature at its heart. 

The resumption today of the parent visa category needs to be followed by an end to the Government’s unfair salary based family reunification policy.

The four big electricity companies should be required to reinvest massive profits into cutting both household bills and climate pollution, the Green Party says.  

The Minister for Transport can show climate leadership and consider only the lowest carbon ways of crossing Waitematā harbour.

Greater local oversight and control, seven instead of four entities, stormwater staying with councils, and stronger safeguards against privatisation are among the changes the Green Party wants to three waters legislation.  

Supermarkets are profiteering from families struggling to put food on the table.

Open banking is fine but the simplest and most effective way to address record bank profits is to tax them fairly to provide relief to families struggling to get by.

The Green Party welcomes the Rainbow report released by Stats NZ today and calls for better support for takatāpui and Rainbow people, particularly our trans and non-binary whānau.

The Green Party is once again calling on the Minister of Education to bring union, government officials and sector leaders together to urgently improve the pay and condition of tertiary education staff.