Right now we have the chance to increase protection for our endangered Māui and Hector's dolphins. If we don't show strong support for the Government's plans, the fishing industry's lobby groups could water them down. 

Let the Government know what you think and help us protect these precious taonga. 

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"We're proud of our democratic MMP system, we need to secure equal access to it and protect against corruption"
- Golriz Ghahraman MP, Green Party spokesperson for electoral reform.  

You can find more detail of the changes we're proposing here.

Our oceans are polluted with plastics. 

It’s an issue that needs us all to work together. Government, citizens, and businesses producing throwaway packaging and products that damage our environment.

Do you know products with excessive plastic packaging and businesses that could step up to change their plastic packaging ways? Let them know how could change by filling out this form. We’ll make sure they receive it.

Families are living in poverty thanks to unfair sanctions and low payments.

It’s time to change all that and put aroha and compassion back into how we support our most vulnerable. Are you in?

Here’s what the Green Party is calling for:

1. Increase baseline benefits
Our social support system shouldn’t leave the most vulnerable people living in poverty. No matter who you are in New Zealand, you should have enough to live with dignity.

2. Remove sanctions
Sanctions punish people for being poor. Kiwis know it’s about time we offered support for those trying to find work, rather than making things harder for them.

3. Change the benefit reduction threshold
Right now, benefit reduction thresholds are so low that people are often put a worse financial position than if they didn’t work at all. We want to increase this threshold, so no one is worse off for finding casual or part-time work.

4. Combine the In Work Tax Credit & the Family Tax Credit
Every child deserves a great start in life, but the In-Work Tax Credit only goes to some families – punishing people who can’t work. Let’s combine it with the Family Tax Credit, so all children benefit.

5. Moving towards a just system of individual needs
People are penalised for falling in love. We need to move towards a just system of entitlements based on individual need so that people can be in relationships of mutual support without fear of losing their financial independence.

Show your support and sign on to our plan.

This is how the Green Party is doing it: 

1. Hosting a hui with experts to plan how to implement te Reo Māori as a core curriculum subject in all public primary and secondary schools from Year 1 to Year 10 by 2025.
2. Work with the education and te Reo Māori sectors to create te Reo Māori curriculum guidelines.
3. Develop a targeted strategy with incentives and scholarships to drive teacher recruitment.
4. Increase specialist te Reo Māori teachers and kaiārahi i te reo.
5. Establish formal clusters of te Reo Māori teachers, with facilitation and technical support from Language Advisors.
6. Negotiate to honour the Te Kōhanga Reo settlement claim (WAI 2336), and provide additional resource for kaupapa Māori education.

Despite huge progress over recent decades, the survival of te Reo Māori is still not assured. We have a responsibility to ensure that our indigenous language thrives in Aotearoa, and introducing all children to it at school is the best way to make that happen.

Learning a second language has proven benefits for children, as does Māori students being immersed in their own culture. The Green Party’s plan will ensure that the Crown meets its obligations to protect and revitalise te Reo Māori, and will lift outcomes for all students.

A Warrant of Fitness for rented homes would ensure that New Zealanders living in those homes have confidence that the house is dry, warm and healthy to live in, no matter what. And that if a home cannot pass the standard it cannot be rented out. We have a warrant of fitness for cars, we need them for homes.

Sign on to show your support for an Independent Commissioner for Animals so we can give animals a voice and end cruelty.

Aotearoa New Zealand is one of the few countries in the world to teach so little about its own history in the core curriculum.

Parihaka is just one of many historical events not taught regularly across our education system.

Students in schools around Aotearoa are missing out on the important history of Māori, Pākehā and Te Tiriti - Treaty of Waitangi.

Today’s education needs to include place based education which affirms tangata whenua experience of history, and helps us all understand who we are and where we come from. Learning about colonisation and what happened for Māori is good for all of us. 

We’re living through a climate emergency. What we do to act on climate change is critical – and that starts with the Zero Carbon Bill (ZCB)* which will set the path to a net zero carbon future.