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Policies
Compare the parties’ positions on the key issues this election. Explore their policies and see how closely they align with your own views and priorities.
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Economy
New Zealand’s economy weathered the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath better than most, but that success came at the cost of higher inflation, exacerbated by global supply shortages and other factors. The Reserve Bank has tightened monetary policy in a bid to restrain spending and price rises, pushing the economy into recession for the first time since 2010, excluding the Covid-19 lockdown period. While both major parties agree on the need for restraint, who should bear the burden of recovery? And in what direction should the economy grow?
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Prioritise investment in infrastructure, science and innovation
Continue pursuing new trade deals
Encourage oil and gas exploration
Oppose all new taxes
Reduce government spending by 10 percent
End various business support and R&D programmes
Abolish fair pay agreements
Reform resource management laws to reduce restrictions on private property
Introduce tax on foreign companies
Ban the use of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser by 2025
Phase out industrial coal burning by 2030
Create a 30-year infrastructure plan
Remove the requirement for the Reserve Bank to focus on maximising employment
Increase tax credits for research and development
Establish a national infrastructure agency
Allow more genetic editing and genetic modification
Introduce a pricing system for agricultural emissions by 2030
Make Northport a key port of entry for Auckland
Consider reopening the oil refinery at Marsden Point
Exempt aquaculture from coastal management policy
Introduce a price on agricultural emissions
Ban synthetic nitrogen fertilisers over time
Transform Rau Paenga into the Ministry of Green Works
Get across the policies, candidates and parties
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Things to know...
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