The Green Party will continue pushing for change to ensure people don’t need to access emergency housing in the first place. 

The Green Party is welcoming changes to the immigration system, but calls on the Government to offer equitable pathways to residency for workers not covered by today’s announcement.

The Green Party is once again calling on the Government to grant visa waivers to all Pacific countries. 

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

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 is welcoming the modest support for families announced by the Labour Government but calling for more urgent action to ease the pressure on households.

The Government needs to clear the debt that MSD has forced hundreds of thousands of low income people to take on and immediately lift benefits, says the Green Party.

The tools exist to lift every family out of poverty – and as costs continue to rise it is more urgent than ever that we use them, the Green Party says.