Green Party
Left-wing party focused on environmental sustainability, social justice, and wellbeing economics.
Policy Positions
Green Party's Cost of Living Policy
The Green Party proposes a Super-Wealth Tax on individuals with net assets over $10 million (excluding the family home) to fund a guaranteed minimum income, free public transport, free school lunches, and free GP visits. They argue addressing inequality is the key to reducing cost of living pressure.
Luxon’s Government commits to billion-dollar gas terminal with no plan to pay fo
<p><span>Luxon’s Government has committed to building a billion-dollar LNG import terminal without knowing how to pay for it.</span></p>
Green Party's Housing Policy
The Green Party proposes a large-scale public housing build programme, implementing a capital gains tax on investment properties, strengthening rental regulations, and a warrant of fitness for rental homes. They also support community land trusts to create permanently affordable housing.
Green Party's Health Policy
The Green Party supports universal free primary healthcare, significant Pharmac funding increases to match Australia's pharmaceutical spending, mental health investment including free counselling, and tackling health inequities affecting Māori and Pacific peoples.
Green Party's Education Policy
The Green Party supports free education from early childhood through tertiary, cancelling student debt, reducing class sizes, better pay and conditions for teachers, and a wellbeing-focused curriculum. They also support fully funded bilingual education and te reo Māori in schools.
Greens commit to tax the super-rich and large corporates fairly, cut income tax
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The Green Party has announced their 2026 tax policy ‘a tax system for all of us’ today.
Green Party's Taxation Policy
The Green Party proposes a Super-Wealth Tax of 2.5% on net assets over $10 million (excluding the family home), a capital gains tax on investment properties, a corporate tax rate increase to 33%, removing GST from fresh food, and using revenue to fund public services and income support.
Green Party's Economic Policy
The Green Party advocates for a wellbeing economy model, measuring success beyond GDP. Proposals include a universal basic income, public investment in green industries, stronger worker rights, and progressive taxation to reduce inequality and fund public services.
Green Party's Immigration Policy
The Green Party supports a more compassionate immigration system with easier pathways for refugees and asylum seekers, family reunification, removing the character requirement for long-term residents, and ensuring migrant workers have full labour rights.
Green Party's Climate Policy
The Green Party advocates for a faster transition, targeting net-zero by 2035. Policy includes a wealth tax to fund climate action, ending all new fossil fuel exploration, a Just Transition Fund for affected workers, rapid expansion of renewable energy, and free public transport.
Treasury confirms $5 billion bill for Luxon's climate inaction
<p><span>Treasury has put a price tag on Luxon's Government's climate inaction, with new analysis showing it could cost up to $5 billion to buy the offshore carbon credits needed to meet New Zealand's 2030 climate target.</span></p>
People and nature first in Greens’ rivers and oceans policy
<p><span lang="en-GB">The Green Party is calling foul on the Luxon Government’s dismantling of environmental protection, announcing a policy programme to deliver clean drinking water, swimmable rivers and beaches, and healthy oceans for all New Zealanders.</span></p>
Green Party's Environment Policy
The Green Party proposes tripling the conservation estate, establishing a Nature Fund for biodiversity, restoring freshwater ecosystems, phasing out single-use plastics, and banning deep sea mining. They support a rights of nature framework and indigenous-led conservation.
Green Party's Crime & Justice Policy
The Green Party supports a restorative justice model, reducing the prison population, ending the remand prison crisis, drug law reform including cannabis decriminalisation, addressing systemic racism in the justice system, and reinvesting in community-based alternatives.
Green Party's Transport Policy
The Green Party supports free public transport, rapid decarbonisation of the vehicle fleet, investing in cycling and walking infrastructure, cancelling new road projects in favour of public transport, and transitioning freight to rail.
Green Party's Infrastructure Policy
The Green Party prioritises investment in renewable energy infrastructure, public transport, water infrastructure, and broadband in underserved communities. They support a Green New Deal-style public investment programme funded through borrowing and progressive taxation.
$30m for school drinking water safety is a start but pollution keeps flowing
<p>The Green Party is welcoming Government investment of $30m into school drinking water following their questions on the issue, but warns rural communities will continue to get sick until broader pollution problems are addressed.</p>
Green Party's Employment Policy
The Green Party supports a $25 minimum wage, a four-day working week, universal basic income, strong union rights, banning zero-hours contracts, 26 weeks paid parental leave, and a just transition for workers in fossil fuel industries.
Calls for Government to scrap family violence agency cuts
<p><span>The Green Party is calling on the Government to abandon their proposal to cut a third of the workforce at the Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention.</span></p>
Green Party's Small Business Policy
The Green Party supports local and community enterprises, co-operatives, and social enterprises. They propose procurement policies favouring local businesses, support for businesses transitioning to sustainable practices, and using the tax system to level the playing field against large corporations.
Green Party's Agriculture Policy
The Green Party supports transitioning farming to lower-emission practices, pricing agricultural methane emissions, reducing intensive dairy farming on environmentally sensitive land, supporting organic and regenerative agriculture, and paying farmers for environmental services.
Green Party's Māori Affairs Policy
The Green Party supports tino rangatiratanga (Māori self-determination), full implementation of the Treaty of Waitangi, co-governance of all natural resources, restoring te reo Māori as a thriving language, addressing systemic racism, and Māori-led solutions to Māori issues.
Green Party's Foreign Policy
The Green Party advocates for a genuinely independent foreign policy, stronger multilateralism through the UN, nuclear disarmament advocacy, opposition to AUKUS involvement, a more critical stance on Israel-Palestine, and increased Pacific aid and climate support.
Green Party's Energy Policy
The Green Party supports 100% renewable energy by 2030, community energy ownership, eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, building new wind, solar and geothermal capacity, and ensuring all homes have access to affordable, clean energy.
Green Party's Social Welfare Policy
The Green Party supports a universal basic income as a replacement for the current welfare system, ensuring no one lives in poverty, a disability support system based on human rights, removing sanctions from the welfare system, and significantly increased benefit rates.