We have everything we need in Aotearoa to rebuild our country 🌱 We CAN lower the cost of living. We CAN build a country where everyone has enough to live the life they deserve. There are just 20 days left to enrol to vote. Make sure your voice is heard, because your vote matters.

It doesn't have to be this way. The Greens are working every single day to ensure New Zealanders have affordable lives, healthy nature, and honest politics.

Let's be clear: good climate policy reduces the cost of living, supports jobs and builds our country's resilience. The Luxon Government has managed to both tank the economy and undermine climate commitments.

Peters is officially responsible for our international climate negotiations and managing our trade agreements. He hasn't asked for advice because he either isn't serious about the dangerous proposals he's long argued for, or he doesn't care about the consequences to our country and economy.

Meeting our Paris commitments is written into our Free Trade Agreements with the European Union and the United Kingdom. Farmers and exporters rely on that market access, and they deserve a Foreign Minister who checks what withdrawal would put at risk before he promises it.

The Greens will unlock the resources necessary to fix what’s broken, lower the cost of living and climate changing emissions to improve everyone’s quality of life. That’s what responsible government looks like.

Right now, the richest pay $9 in tax for every $100 they make, while a teacher pays $22. The Greens would give 96% of earners an income tax cut, paid for not by cuts to public services, but ensuring the super wealthy pay their fair share.

Nearly half of the coalition's own voters support a wealth tax. Luxon, Seymour and Peters are standing in the way of a policy their own supporters want. That tells you everything about who they serve.

The latest Ipsos Issues Monitor surveyed 1,003 people between 3 & 11 September. It found 64% support a 2.5% tax on net assets above $10 million, with the family home exempt, while only 26% oppose it.

New Zealanders know our infrastructure is falling apart and they know that the super wealthy are not paying their fair share. They want a country that works for all of us, which is why they want a wealth tax.

Politics should work for all of us, not the just the wealthy few.

Government Ministers must be held accountable for whose interests they are serving. Aotearoa has one chance, on November the 7th, to stop these dystopian laws from becoming reality. Now is the time to believe in a better way, to enrol by October the 25th, and then vote this government out.

Agri-lobby groups went as far as to question “whether protecting ‘life-supporting capacity’ sets too high a bar… when determining a limit”. This is how extreme these industries are - that life itself is deemed inconvenient.

These documents show that while the public, NGOs and independent experts were largely limited to ordinary select committee processes, agri-businesses were being hosted in a closed door ‘workshop’ by Minister Chris Bishop, Under-Secretary Simon Court, and Minister Todd McClay.

This week, Luxon’s Government will grant a polluter’s wish list, embedding climate denial and an open invitation to destroy nature into law. Critical protections at the heart of our planning and environmental laws will be deleted or replaced according to industry wish lists.

Let there be no mistake. This government has gutted critical environmental safeguards as dictated by powerful, polluting lobbyists who will make huge profits as a result.

From lobbying wish lists to New Zealand law: The Luxon Government is ramming through its last attack on nature this term.

Ake, Ake, Ake: A Forever Language. For our forever language to flourish, it must be properly funded to do so. A Green Party in Government will proudly fund te reo Māori to thrive for generations to come.

The Green Party stands with Palestine 🇵🇸

Poverty is a political choice. Louise Upston and National can’t keep avoiding responsibility for their decisions to wrongfully decline support, and their failure to take action to create jobs and lift people out of poverty.