NZ First
Nationalist party focused on New Zealand sovereignty, controlled immigration, and regional development.
Policy Positions
NZ First's Cost of Living Policy
NZ First focuses on reducing fuel taxes, limiting immigration to ease wage competition, supporting NZ-made products, and opposing policies that increase energy costs. They also support superannuation increases tied to wages and oppose any changes to NZ Super eligibility.
NZ First's Housing Policy
NZ First advocates for prioritising New Zealanders in social housing allocation, reducing immigration to ease housing pressure, supporting regional housing development, and investigating foreign property ownership restrictions.
NZ First's Health Policy
NZ First focuses on fixing rural health access, supporting the New Zealand health workforce over overseas recruitment, addressing elder care capacity, and ensuring veterans receive priority health treatment.
NZ First's Education Policy
NZ First supports a back-to-basics approach in primary education, trade and vocational education investment, limiting cell phone use in schools, and ensuring schools teach New Zealand history and civics. They also support rural school funding and oppose rapid curriculum changes.
NZ First's Taxation Policy
NZ First opposes capital gains and wealth taxes, supports adjusting income tax thresholds to offset inflation, advocates for superannuation to be tax-free, and wants to remove GST from rates and insurance. They also support tax incentives for regional businesses.
NZ First's Economic Policy
NZ First focuses on economic sovereignty, supporting New Zealand-owned businesses, controlling strategic assets, limiting foreign ownership of land and businesses, and using the New Zealand Superannuation Fund as a sovereign wealth vehicle for local investment.
Winston Peters - “The Labour Party You Once Knew, Is No More”
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Introduction</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Good afternoon.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">You may have noticed there was a slight distraction that happened in a flurry in Wellington earlier this week.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style
NZ First's Immigration Policy
NZ First advocates for significantly reduced immigration levels to ease pressure on housing, infrastructure, and wages. They support prioritising New Zealand citizens for jobs, stricter visa enforcement, and a focus on migrants who genuinely contribute to regions outside of Auckland.
NZ First's Climate Policy
NZ First supports balanced climate action that does not harm New Zealand's economy, particularly the agricultural sector. They oppose policies they view as ideologically driven, support the ETS in principle but with agricultural exemptions, and emphasise technology-led solutions.
NZ First's Environment Policy
NZ First supports a balanced approach to conservation, protecting New Zealand's clean green brand for tourism and exports, controlled use of natural resources, and opposing extreme conservation measures that harm farming and regional economies.
NZ First's Crime & Justice Policy
NZ First supports tougher sentences for violent offenders, gang suppression, more police in rural areas, prioritising New Zealand citizens for corrections staff, and opposing early parole. They have historically supported three strikes and opposing name suppression for serious offenders.
NZ First's Transport Policy
NZ First supports regional roading investment, rail freight (particularly for Northland), maintaining regional airports, and ensuring rural communities have adequate transport links. They oppose cuts to regional transport infrastructure and support the free public transport for SuperGold card holders.
NZFirst Announces Next Tranche of Candidates
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">NZFirst Announces Next Tranche of Candidates</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">New Zealand First is today announcing our next set of confirmed candidates to stand in the general election.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;" lang="EN-US"> </span></
NZ First's Infrastructure Policy
NZ First strongly supports regional infrastructure investment, particularly in Northland, the East Coast, and provincial New Zealand. They have secured significant regional funding commitments through coalition agreements, including the Regional Growth Programme and specific roading projects.
Establishing an Accessible New Zealand for everyone
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;">New Zealand First has </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">today <span style="color: black;">introduced </span>the <span style="color: black;">Accessibility Standards Bill, a Member’s Bill</span> <span style="color: black;">which creates an opportunity to establish practical standards to address avoidable barriers that limit participation, opportunit
NZ First's Employment Policy
NZ First supports New Zealand workers having first access to jobs, limiting immigration to protect wages, apprenticeship programmes for young New Zealanders, and maintaining strong workplace safety standards. They have historically supported the minimum wage but oppose excessive regulation.
NZ First's Small Business Policy
NZ First supports local businesses over large multinational chains, buy-NZ campaigns, reducing compliance for regional businesses, and maintaining competitive power prices for manufacturing. They also support the Callaghan Innovation fund for business R&D.
NZ First's Agriculture Policy
NZ First is a strong defender of the farming sector, opposing agricultural emissions pricing, protecting farmland from foreign ownership, supporting the primary industries as the backbone of the economy, and opposing what they see as urban-centric environmental regulations.
NZ First will not let Waikato farmers be buried by Plan Change 1
<p class="MsoNormal" style=" background: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; ">New Zealand First says Waikato Regional Council’s Plan Change 1 must be paused before it becomes a bureaucratic death sentence for farmers and growers across the region.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=" background: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; ">“Plan Change 1 is a 14-year-old regulatory taniwha, dragged out of the swamp by the old RMA, and
NZ First's Māori Affairs Policy
NZ First has historically opposed separatist race-based policy, co-governance, the He Puapua framework, and Māori wards. They support Treaty settlements on a case-by-case basis but oppose ongoing co-governance arrangements and what they see as preferential treatment based on ethnicity.
NZ First's Foreign Policy
NZ First prioritises New Zealand sovereignty in foreign policy, scepticism of multilateral institutions that erode national decision-making, maintaining the nuclear-free policy, controlling foreign investment in NZ assets, and prioritising Pacific relationships while being cautious about China.
NZ First's Energy Policy
NZ First supports maintaining New Zealand's energy sovereignty, opposes closing down existing gas and coal capacity before alternatives are ready, supports the offshore oil and gas sector, and is cautious about renewable targets that risk energy security or high electricity prices.
NZ First's Social Welfare Policy
NZ First's priority is superannuation — they strongly oppose any increase in the retirement age and have secured commitments to maintain NZ Super at 65 in coalition agreements. They also support war veterans' entitlements, the SuperGold Card, and oppose welfare for non-citizens.