ACT New Zealand

We are asking New Zealanders to give their Party Vote to ACT to Lock Labour Out and Unlock New Zealand’s potential. We will unlock New Zealand’s potential through a smaller, more effective Government, less red tape, better public services and equal rights. We will cut the waste and grow the country in order to balance the books with no new taxes.

We would begin implementing our plan to simplify central government, consolidating overlapping departments and portfolios and making Ministers more clearly accountable for spending and results.

We would continue replacing the RMA with a property-rights-based planning system that makes it easier to build homes, infrastructure and businesses while protecting people from genuine harm.

Other priorities include welfare reform that strengthens expectations on people who can work; continuing the successful roll-out of charter schools; increasing medicines funding every year to close the gap with Australia; expanding the role of community pharmacies to take pressure of GPs; and further reducing unnecessary regulation on businesses.

We would also legislate for equal rights and stronger property rights through our One Law for All programme.

Alliance

New Zealanders desperately need assistance with the current cost of living crisis and the Alliance’s legislative priority will address that by legislation geared towards easing the cost of living for the majority of earners including a tax revenue for Government from sectors not currently contributing to a fair progressive tax system, thereby giving cost of living relief where needed.

The Alliance will legislate for the formation of an Aotearoa Investment Bank, consolidating existing Crown investment functions into a single mission-aligned (i.e. having economic, social and environmental benefit) lender for clean manufacturing, regional industry and cooperatives.

Together with the above, a legislative programme designed to return previously State-owned assets to public ownership and control, thereby providing an increased revenue stream for Government and decreased costs to the public of essential services (e.g. power).

The Alliance will review all legislation passed by the current Government under urgency with a view to, where practicable, enable public input for necessary changes arising from the democratic process.

Review of all legislation that has negated positive honouring of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Animal Justice Party Aotearoa New Zealand

Our first-year legislative priorities focus on strengthening animal protection while improving environmental sustainability, public health and community wellbeing.

We will strengthen the Animal Welfare Act to better recognise animal sentience, establish an independent Commissioner for Animals, and strengthen compliance, monitoring and enforcement.

We will also begin the process of removing the legal classification of animals as property and establishing a consistent legal framework that recognises animals as sentient beings entitled to legal protection.

As part of reforming animal welfare legislation, we will work to remove exemptions, inconsistencies and ambiguities that allow harmful practices to continue, while strengthening compliance monitoring, penalties and enforcement.

We will also advance responsible companion animal management and national no-kill standards for council pounds, alongside stronger biodiversity protection, freshwater restoration and a fair transition towards sustainable plant-based food systems.

We will consider measures to prevent the import or sale of animal products produced to standards below those required of New Zealand producers.

These priorities reflect the growing recognition that the wellbeing of people, animals and the environment is interconnected. Better animal protection delivers broader benefits for biodiversity, public health, biosecurity and resilient communities.

Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party

The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party’s key legislative priorities are to legalise Cannabis for R18 Recreational, grow your own, affordable medicinal access and abolishing the outdated, expensive, not fit for purpose, Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. Our policy also advocates to expunge all cannabis convictions like The Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical homosexual Offenses) Act 2018.

Our policy will end the current regime wasting millions of dollars in futile pursuit of ordinary citizens – 80% who have tried cannabis. The Party promotes saving taxpayer dollars by ending prohibition, along with the economic development of the three sustainable cannabis industries of Recreational, Medicinal and Industrial Hemp, delivering untapped wealth to the New Zealand economy, while contributing to saving the environment.

Free Palestine

We would introduce legislation to support the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. We would commit to an independent foreign policy by withdrawing from all formal security alliances with the U.S. and by distancing our foreign policy from the orbit of Anglo-U.S. economic hegemony and military interventionism. We would close the Israeli Embassy and expel the Israeli Ambassador. We would recognise a Palestinian State from the river to the sea.

Greens

Our manifesto for this year’s election represents our priorities; this includes prevention of family and sexual violence, drug law reform, as well as our specific policies relating to justice, courts, corrections and Police. Our manifesto also contains commitments to address the root causes of crime; ensuring everyone has liveable incomes, access to healthcare, mental healthcare and addiction support, and somewhere warm and safe to call home. You can access our manifesto here.

Labour

For Labour, victims and survivors are the priority for our justice system. We will work to increase support for victims and tackle the drivers of crime and violence with evidence-based policies. Labour is committed to significantly reducing domestic and sexual violence statistics and the level of reoffending by people who have previously been dealt with by the justice system. Our justice system should protect and support victims of crime and provide access to justice for all. Labour knows that a fair and just society is critical to a democracy.

National

If re-elected, National will continuing our sensible management of the economy to lift wages, create jobs and invest more in public services. Introducing no new taxes, capping council rates, and reducing student loan repayments are all policies that will help Kiwis with the cost of living.

National will also secure New Zealand’s financial future by reforming Kiwisaver by making it compulsory and raising Kiwisaver contributions to 12%, so that Kiwis will have more money to buy their first home or retire. New Zealanders who do the right thing by working hard, saving up and investing deserve a Government that backs them. With National, they will get that backing as part of our wider plan to fix the basics and build the future for all New Zealanders.

New Zealand First

New Zealand First’s priorities include restoring economic productivity, reducing unnecessary regulation, strengthening infrastructure and public services, improving health and education outcomes, supporting regional New Zealand and maintaining controlled, sustainable immigration.

We also prioritise strengthening democratic accountability, protecting New Zealand’s national interests and ensuring government policy delivers practical benefits for New Zealand citizens and communities.

New Zealand First will drive a cohesive government response to disrupt organised crime ensuring New Zealand’s national interests are protected and that New Zealand is the hardest country in the world for organised criminal cartels to operate.

NZ Loyal

Outside justice and the courts, NZ Loyal’s first-year legislative programme would be guided by one test: does the change improve New Zealand’s long-term sovereignty, resilience, productive capacity and prosperity?

A central priority is replacing the existing tax structure with our proposed 1% transaction tax, substantially reducing tax complexity and compliance costs while the wider monetary framework continues to be carefully reviewed.

We would begin rebuilding national resilience across the essential systems on which an independent country depends, including energy, water, transport, communications, food production and financial infrastructure. Domestic productive capacity and infrastructure investment should be assessed over decades, not electoral cycles.

International agreements and institutional commitments would be reviewed against New Zealand’s long-term national interest. We support voluntary international trade and cooperation, but not unnecessary transfers of decision-making authority away from New Zealand.

Immigration settings should reflect infrastructure capacity, genuine skills requirements and the long-term interests of existing New Zealand communities.

We would also strengthen domestic defence, civil-defence capability and protection of territorial waters, critical infrastructure and natural resources.

The common principle is long-term stewardship. Government should stop optimising for the next election and start building institutional, economic and physical resilience for future generations.

NZ Outdoors and Freedom Party

To enhance fundamental rights and democracy by educating on opportunities for direct democracy so local communities can create their own laws to enhance the rights and lives of local people, the environment and our future.

Opportunity

Opportunity’s priorities are to fix politics, build the next economy and restore nature. All of these will involve legislative change. Read more about our detailed policy positions at opportunity.org.nz/policy.

Te Tai Tokerau Party

Our direction is guided by the voice of our community. We have organised these around three Pou: Whare, Whānau and Whenua. That means housing security, meaningful employment for our rangatahi, accessible health services, reducing the pressure of the cost of living and improving our regions resilience against climate change.

All policies give practical effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi while bringing decision making closer to the people most affected by it. Under a government that has prioritised economic growth, our position is that this must be measured against whether it delivers secure housing, stable employment, and opportunity for the next generation.

Vision New Zealand

A Stronger, Safer and More Prosperous New Zealand.

In the first year of the parliamentary term, Vision NZ will focus on practical legislation that strengthens New Zealand’s families, economy, communities, national resilience and national identity.

• Entrench the Bill of Rights into Supreme Law.
• India Free Trade Agreement Legislation Repeal Bill.
• Legislate the transition from the minimum wage to an annually adjusted living wage to protect working families from inflation.
• Legally define and protect biological sex strictly as male and female based on objective scientific reality.
• Introduce a Parental Rights Bill to fully restore parental authority over the health and wellbeing of children up to the age of 16 years.
• Review and repeal aspects of the Birth, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021 that undermine biological definitions.
• Prohibit all medical interventions for gender transition in minors.
• Protect fairness in women’s sport by restricting participation to biological categories.
• Review and reform existing legislation that endangers the lives of unborn children.
• Remove the MMP system and reduce the number of MPS in Parliament.