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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.
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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
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Government making life harder for young people with ill mental health and cancer patients
The Green Party says the Government’s changes to Jobseeker benefit eligibility for young people will cut support for thousands of disabled, injured and sick young people.This follows Louise Upston today revealing that almost 70% of young people on Jobseeker Support (Health Condition, Injury or Disability) have a psychiatric or psychological condition. “This Government is making it harder for thousands of disabled and sick people to get the support they need. You don’t make mental health better by taking away income,”...
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Financial mentoring report demands immediate action on New Zealand’s spiralling debts
The Green Party commits to regulating debt collection and banning attachment orders against beneficiaries, following FinCap’s finding that their clients’ debt has surged to almost a billion dollars.“Families are increasingly under pressure from the rising cost of living and the growing burden of difficult debt. Poorly regulated debt collectors are deepening the crisis for too many families,” says Green Party Social Development spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March. “An attachment order mandates the Ministry of Social Development to deduct up to 40%...
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Fossil fuel inflation drives up cost of living, Luxon rests assured
Exposure to volatile fossil fuels has driven inflation to its highest level in two years, piling more pressure on New Zealanders' cost of living, says the Green Party. "Stats NZ has today confirmed what every New Zealander already feels at the checkout. Almost everything is more expensive. That is because our economy is wired up to fossil fuels," says Green Party Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick. "Inflation has hit 4.1 per cent in the year to June, up from 3.1 per cent in...
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Green Party launches plan to cut power bills and take power back from the big energy companies
The Green Party has today launched its election energy policy, a plan to cut household power bills and establish Kiwipower, a publicly owned company to deliver the affordable, secure, renewable power the market has failed to build.“The Greens will lower bills, cut emissions and put power back in the hands of New Zealanders. That means Warmer Kiwi Homes, community-owned power, solar on rooftops and a new generation company, designed to solve our dry-year problem, owned by New Zealanders: Kiwipower," says...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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. ...