Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
For all of us
Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick. Tax the wealthy, cheaper groceries, clean rivers, cut power bills.
Left. Environment and a bigger welfare state. A 2.5% tax on net wealth over $10 million, plus a tax on big inheritances. That is a small, rich group, not wage earners. Also 40,000 state houses, rent caps, a public supermarket, and cancelling fast-track mines.
What they want
- Every 16- to 24-year-old out of work for six months gets a pathway into study, training, or a new local job. That job has to be extra, so it does not replace someone already employed.
- Rescope the instant deduction on new gear so it backs productive, lower-carbon investment. Restore science funding that was cut, and aim to lift research spending from about 1.5 percent of the economy to 3 percent. They put that package at about $5.9 billion over four years, and say it adds 64,000 jobs on top of the 220,000 already forecast.
- Set rules so a machine cannot make a big public decision on its own. Protect people's data, and require consent before it is used to train a tool. Workers get a say before a workplace adopts it.
- RNZ put that jobs pathway at $4.9 billion over four years. Most of the money goes through the Mayors' Taskforce, to place 32,000 young people across all 67 councils.
- 2.5% tax on net wealth over $10 million. Family home exempt. Tax gifts and inheritances over $1 million. Company tax 33% for the biggest firms.
- Tax-free under $10,000. Higher income tax over $160,000.
- 40,000 state houses in five years. Cap rent rises at 2% a year.
- Let shop-rent reviews for small businesses fall as well as rise. Councils could auction a lease on a city shop left empty for more than a year.
- A state power company. Pause consents for new large AI data centres for one year.
- Force the two big chains to sell 120 stores and two depots into a public supermarket. Its job is cheaper food. About $2.8 billion.
- Outlaw supermarket price gouging. Proposed fines of up to $10 million. Not law yet. Same ban for power and fuel if those markets stay uncompetitive.
- Bring back the old school-lunch model. About $6.50 a meal, through schools or local kitchens. Then add about 400 schools, about 150,000 more children. Fund it past 2028.
- $150 million a year for community food projects. Lift food-bank money from $8 million to $25 million. Double the Work and Income food-grant cap.
- A $2.4 billion marae trust, run by hapū and iwi, not Wellington.
- Put climate change back in the school curriculum before senior years.
- Keep the courts open for climate cases. They voted against Goldsmith's lawsuit bar.
- Clean up rivers. Protect 30% of the ocean, including 30% of the Hauraki Gulf by 2030. Phase out bottom trawling, starting with the Gulf and seamounts. Cancel fast-track mining consents.
- New workers join a union automatically.
- Put extra money into te reo Māori. More training for teachers. More money for the language commission and the iwi language body. Restore the teacher-training scheme the government cut in 2024.
- Make buses and trains free for children, teenagers, students, apprentices, and people already getting help. Other adults pay at most $2. They put the wider plan, including new city and long-distance trains, at about $23.9 billion. The full fiscal plan is still weeks away.
- Remove level crossings on Auckland's western train line, paid from the existing transport fund, so more trains can run.
- Cap gifts at $30,000 per donor. Only people, not companies or trusts. Publish names from $1,000. A public list of lobbyists. Ministers wait two years before they can lobby.
- Put the old equal-pay rules back. Set aside about $1.1 billion a year so about 65,000 care and support workers can settle. The final amount is bargained with their unions.
Things to watch
- They would close the ring-net carve-out in the Hauraki Gulf's high protection areas straight away, and phase out bottom trawling. National now says it would remove that exemption too, but has not set a date, and would only review trawling.
- Swarbrick will not say how much cheaper a public supermarket would be. She says politicians will not set the price of eggs. That job would sit with the Commerce Commission.
- Davidson called random drug tests cruel. The Greens would instead guarantee a pathway into study or a new local job for 16- to 24-year-olds out of work for six months, which RNZ costed at $4.9 billion over four years.
- Davidson set aside about $1.1 billion a year to settle care and support workers' pay. Labour's plan is an interim $4 an hour from January 2027, about $2.5 billion over four years, and no locked price for the other claims.
- They would rescope the instant deduction on new gear and restore cut science funding, aiming at research spending of 3 percent of the economy. They put that at about $5.9 billion over four years. That is separate from the youth jobs pathway RNZ costed at $4.9 billion.
- Menéndez March and Greenpeace oppose opening conservation land for mines. Jones wants that land, except national parks, in play. Potaka already dropped selling extra hectares.
What they promised, and what happened
They sat with Labour from 2017 to 2023. They did not hold Finance.
- A wealth tax never became law in those six years, first on confidence and supply, then a cooperation deal. They are campaigning on one again.
- James Shaw said Hipkins did not have the authority to rule a wealth tax out before the 2023 vote. It still did not land.
Who pays
Raised $1.8 million in 2025. Named 2026 gifts over $20,000 are from people, not companies. Stephen West $100,000. Robert Morgan $57,000 in July, then $52,000 received 28 September. The Commission amended that second return on 9 October. Phillip Mills $50,000. One Green MP put in $43,000. Karl van Randow $30,000 received 11 October. Penelope Campbell $21,500 received 8 October.