services and systems
Accident Compensation Policy
Our policy builds a holistic system that promotes good health, reduces harm, and improves quality of life.
Services and Systems
Systems that support all of us.
Our vision is simple: communities that flourish because the systems around them work. This means investing in the basics: affordable housing, sustainable transport, universal healthcare, and lifelong learning. By rebuilding public infrastructure and prioritising community wellbeing, we can reduce inequality and unlock opportunity. This is how we create a future where everyone belongs and everyone has the support they need.
Policies
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Drug Policy
Our policy creates an evidence-based legal framework for drug use that promotes and delivers health, wellbeing, and informed choice.
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Education Policy
Our policy supports lifelong learning for all that empowers people to benefit humanity and the planet.
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Energy Policy
Our policy enables everyone to access reliable, affordable, and renewable energy, from a Tiriti-based, democratised energy system that prioritises community wellbeing over private profit.
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Health Policy
Our policy takes a holistic approach to health that supports whānau|family, hinengaro|mind, tinana|body and wairua|spirit.
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Housing Policy
Our policy requires accessible, healthy, secure and sustainable housing in thriving communities.
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Livelihoods Policy
Our policy ensures everyone has enough income and resources to live a fulfilling life with dignity and participate fully in society.
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Transport Policy
Our policy supports everyone to safely, conveniently, and independently move around and connect with their community with minimum harm to the planet.
Latest Services and Systems News
services and systems
Transport plan more pipe dream than pipeline
The Government's Major Transport Projects Pipeline, released today, shows billions of dollars of mega-roads still unfunded with no timeframe for when many will ever be built."After years of pressure to front up on how it would pay for its roading wish list, the Government has released less a pipeline and more a pipe dream with no clear way to fund its mega-projects," says Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter. "Putting projects in the 'slow lane' is an admission that...
services and systems
Private emails with lobbyists in Luxon's Ministerial offices are potentially a systemic problem
The Ombudsman has confirmed the Prime Minister's Office unreasonably withheld secret briefings, and the Green Party has obtained a new OIA showing the same private email problem in other Ministers' offices, suggesting a potentially systemic problem across Government.“New Zealanders have the right to know who is influencing political decision making, and how,” says Green Party Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick. “Regular people do not get to exchange secret emails with the Prime Minister's top officials, getting the law ultimately changed in their favour....
services and systems
Luxon's Government nearly halves food bank funding as demand hits record high
The Green Party says this Government has nearly halved funding for food banks in Budget 2026, extending the $15 million in annual support for just one more year before cutting it to $8 million a year from 2027, at the very moment demand has never been higher.“Food banks are the last lifeline for the people doing it the toughest, and this Government has chosen to nearly halve their funding,” says Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson. “Demand has never been higher. The NZ Food...
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Government clears the way to automate decisions about people's survival
The Green Party is condemning the Government's move to hand decisions on benefits over to automated systems, warning it will leave more people in hardship without the support they are legally entitled to."Handing decisions about people's ability to survive to a machine is a deliberate choice to make it harder for people to get the help they need," says Green Party social development spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March. The Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill will be introduced today for its first...
services and systems
Bill drawn to ensure young people aren't made homeless when leaving Oranga Tamariki
The Green Party bill requiring the government to make sure young people leaving state care have a safe, stable home to move into has been drawn as a member's bill today, the same day the Government begins the process of criminalising homelessness."On the day this Government chooses to punish people for being homeless, we are choosing to make sure no young person leaving state care ends up on the street in the first place," says Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson. ...
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National’s public housing reform ‘cuts costs’ at the expense of our most vulnerable
The Green Party is warning that the Government’s changes to public housing will see more public housing tenants evicted and driven deeper into poverty. “Luxon’s Government has built on their despicable pattern of finding ‘savings’ in their budget from the empty pockets of the poorest people in New Zealand,” says Green Party Housing spokesperson, Tamatha Paul. “They are balancing their budget on the backs of pensioners, beneficiaries and disabled people who rely on public housing.” “Increasing rents by 20% on top of unaffordable food costs, power bills and medical bills is simply cruel.” “Ironically, they say they want to limit time spent in public housing, yet these changes mean that these tenants will never be able to...
services and systems
Luxon’s ‘DOGE style cuts’ will harm New Zealand
Luxon’s cuts to the public service will only put more pressure on frontline workers, meaning New Zealanders miss out on the support they need, says the Green Party.“In 2024, Luxon told New Zealanders that frontline services would be ‘protected,’ which has now been shown to be a sham,” says Green Party Public Services spokesperson, Francisco Hernandez. “These are DOGE style libertarian fantasies right out of Elon Musk’s playbook.” “Nicola Willis is committing New Zealand to arbitrary headcounts which will eat...
services and systems
NCEA changes doom thousands of students to failure
The National Party’s decision to scrap NCEA entirely guarantees many thousands of children will leave school with no qualification, no love of learning, and no preparation for a complex and fast-changing world, the Green Party says.“One thing is clear from the announcement today by Christopher Luxon and Erica Stanford, they want more students to fail rather than more students to succeed. “Education is about encouraging curiosity and nurturing our future generation’s love of learning. NCEA is a world class qualification, one that...
te tiriti o waitangi
Greens call on Luxon to abandon racist education reforms
The Green Party is urging Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to abandon amendments to the Education and Training Act following the Waitangi Tribunal’s scathing report on the proposed changes.“The Waitangi Tribunal has been clear: Luxon’s Government has breached its Tiriti obligations. It can no longer mask the racism in its education reforms,” says Green Party Co-leader, Marama Davidson. “Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a promise to take the best possible care of each other. Its place in the education of our tamariki, our taonga, our...