Te Pāti Māori
Māori-focused party advocating for Treaty rights, indigenous sovereignty, and Māori wellbeing.
Policy Positions
Te Pāti Māori's Cost of Living Policy
Te Pāti Māori proposes a universal basic income, removal of GST from food and basic necessities, free healthcare and education, and progressive wealth taxes. They argue Māori are disproportionately affected by cost of living pressures and that structural economic change is needed.
Government Using Outdated Fuel Data While Diesel Likely Below Emergency Levels
<p>Te Pāti Māori is calling for the immediate release of real-time fuel data, as the Government continues to rely on figures already six days old.</p> <p>The last published data from 8 April showed onshore diesel at just 21.7 days of cover, sitting on the international emergency threshold. Today is the 14th.</p> <p>“At the rate diesel has been dropping, we are likely already below 20 days, and the Government still doesn’t have real-time visibility,” said Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.</p>
MP Govt Floats Nuclear Jones Must Front Up
<p>Te Pāti Māori is demanding answers after Shane Jones casually floated nuclear fission in the House today.</p> <p>Co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said, “Aotearoa is not neutral on nuclear. We are proudly anti-nuclear. That position was fought for, defended, and embedded in who we are as a nation.”</p> <p>“Is this Government marching us away from our nuclear-free legacy?
Te Pāti Māori's Housing Policy
Te Pāti Māori calls for urgent investment in papakāinga (Māori land) housing, addressing the disproportionate representation of Māori in housing need, Treaty-based housing solutions, and community-led housing on Māori land.
Te Pāti Māori's Health Policy
Te Pāti Māori advocates for a Māori Health Authority with genuine decision-making power, kaupapa Māori health services, addressing the significant life expectancy gap between Māori and non-Māori, and decolonising health care delivery.
Te Pāti Māori's Education Policy
Te Pāti Māori calls for fully funded kura kaupapa Māori (Māori language immersion schools) and kōhanga reo (Māori language nests), compulsory te reo Māori in all schools, free tertiary education, cancellation of student debt, and a decolonised curriculum.
Te Pāti Māori Announces Lisa Marie Murch as Te Tai Tonga Candidate for 2026
<p>Te Pāti Māori is proud to announce Lisa Marie Murch as its candidate for Te Tai Tonga in the 2026 General Election.</p> <p>Born and raised in Murihiku, Lisa brings lived experience, education, service, and a deep commitment to whānau Māori across Te Waipounamu.</p> <p>A young Māori mother at sixteen, Lisa knows firsthand the realities many whānau face. Her journey from cleaning and baking, to becoming a head baker, bilingual primary teacher, kaupapa Māori educator, and specialist across Murih
Te Pāti Māori's Taxation Policy
Te Pāti Māori supports a comprehensive capital gains tax, a wealth tax on high net worth individuals, removing GST from food and basic necessities, and using revenue to fund universal basic income and free public services. They argue the current tax system perpetuates inequality.
Government Hid Its Own Evidence on LNG
<p><span>Te Pāti Māori is calling on the Government to release all remaining redacted advice on the proposed Taranaki LNG import terminal and halt the contract process until full public disclosure has occurred.</span></p> <p><span>This week RNZ revealed that officials redacted modelling commissioned by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment showing low need for LNG imports. In some scenarios, no need at all. That information was only made public after RNZ lodged a complaint with the
Te Pāti Māori's Economic Policy
Te Pāti Māori advocates for a Māori economy framework that recognises the $70 billion Māori asset base, Treaty-based economic partnerships, investment in Māori enterprises, and redistribution through progressive taxation. They support economic decolonisation and Māori control of their resources.
Te Pāti Māori's Immigration Policy
Te Pāti Māori supports strong Pacific connections through immigration, recognises the Treaty relationship with all who come to Aotearoa, supports pathways for undocumented long-term residents, and a more compassionate approach to refugees and asylum seekers.
Te Pāti Māori's Climate Policy
Te Pāti Māori frames climate change as an issue of intergenerational and indigenous justice. They call for rapid decarbonisation, protecting Māori lands and coastlines from climate impacts, Treaty-based climate governance, and ensuring Māori communities lead their own climate adaptation.
Te Pāti Māori's Environment Policy
Te Pāti Māori advocates for kaitiakitanga (guardianship) of the environment as a Treaty obligation, legal personhood for rivers and natural features, Māori co-governance of conservation estates, restoring native biodiversity, and phasing out all single-use plastics.
Te Pāti Māori's Crime & Justice Policy
Te Pāti Māori advocates for addressing Māori over-imprisonment as a Treaty obligation, kaupapa Māori justice models, Rangatahi Courts, repealing three strikes legislation, addressing systemic racism, and investing in communities to prevent crime rather than increasing incarceration.
Te Pāti Māori rejects move-on orders: “We will not police our way out of homeles
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span>Te Pāti Māori has denounced the Government’s plan to increase police powers to issue ‘move-on’ orders banning homeless people from public spaces, across Aotearoa.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><span>Housing and Homelessness spokesperson Oriini Kaipara warns the move will deepen harm for the most vulnerable, while allowing the system to continue profiting from their exclusion.</span></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><span>“It is not about public safety
Te Pāti Māori's Transport Policy
Te Pāti Māori supports free public transport, investing in active transport in urban Māori communities, ensuring rural Māori communities have adequate transport access, and a Treaty-based approach to roading projects that affect Māori land.
Te Pāti Māori's Infrastructure Policy
Te Pāti Māori advocates for investment in infrastructure on Māori land, Three Waters reform that recognises Māori rights to freshwater, broadband access for rural Māori communities, and a Treaty-based approach to all infrastructure decisions affecting Māori interests.
Te Pāti Māori's Employment Policy
Te Pāti Māori supports a $25 minimum wage, a universal basic income, addressing the higher unemployment rates among Māori, investment in Māori enterprises, strong union rights, and employment programmes targeted at Māori communities and rangatahi (youth).
Te Pāti Māori's Small Business Policy
Te Pāti Māori supports investment in the Māori economy and Māori-owned small businesses, preferential government procurement from Māori enterprises, access to capital for Māori entrepreneurs, and removing barriers to business on Māori land.
Te Pāti Māori's Agriculture Policy
Te Pāti Māori supports Māori farming and whenua Māori (Māori land) development, investment in papakainga (Māori community farming), fair water rights for Māori land holders, and transitioning to sustainable Māori-led agricultural practices that align with kaitiakitanga.
Maipi-Clarke Backs Tribunal Scrutiny of Education Reform
<p>MP for Hauraki-Waikato and Te Pāti Māori Education Spokesperson, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, stands in support of the urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearings taking place this week into Wai 3553.</p> <p>The claim, brought forward by Northland iwi and hapū Ngāti Hine and Te Kapotai alongside NZEI Te Riu Roa and education advocates, raises serious concerns that education reforms will impact how schools uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and weaken support for Māori learners, language, and culture.</p> <p>“T
Te Pāti Māori's Māori Affairs Policy
Te Pāti Māori's entire platform is built on tino rangatiratanga — full Māori self-determination. They advocate for Māori co-governance, Treaty-based constitutional change, full implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Māori language revival, and addressing systemic inequities.
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Te Pāti Māori's Foreign Policy
Te Pāti Māori advocates for an indigenous foreign policy framework recognising New Zealand's Pacific identity, solidarity with indigenous peoples globally, opposition to nuclear weapons and military alliances, stronger Pacific climate finance, and a more independent stance from Western military networks.
Te Pāti Māori's Energy Policy
Te Pāti Māori supports rapid decarbonisation of the energy sector, community and hapū ownership of renewable energy, ensuring Māori share in renewable energy revenues, and addressing energy poverty in Māori communities through subsidised clean energy.
Te Pāti Māori's Social Welfare Policy
Te Pāti Māori supports a universal basic income of $385 per week, removal of all benefit sanctions, addressing the over-representation of Māori in poverty and welfare dependency, a disability support system based on mana (dignity), and free healthcare and childcare to reduce cost pressures.