Today ladies and gentlemen we will discuss what we are going to do, but first let's discuss what we have to deal with.
We must not forget what we inherited just three short years ago from an economically destructive and morally bereft Labour government, that left this country in an economic and social mess.
We inherited a broken economy, a fractured society, and a country on a road to social disaster.
New Zealand's debt skyrocketed, there were multiple policies with no allocated funding, racist co-governance and woke ideology had spread into legislation and throughout the public sector, universities, government departments, and schools - and ramraid after ramraid of ordinary shopping centres.
On their own, Labour had simply run roughshod over our country.
Labour left us:
· A crumbling, underfunded, overwhelmed Health System.
An education system that had seen:
- · a record number of children not attending school
- · a record number of children failing basic standards
- · an unmanageable number of schools without adequate classrooms, and
A Defence Force that had lost more than a third of its personnel over Labour's three years.
An undermanned Police Force:
- · haemorrhaging officers to Australia,
- · massive shortages in recruitment,
- · massive increases in crime, and
- · youth ramraids and violence that was simply out of control.
Gang numbers that ballooned over the three years.
A cost-of-living crisis.
A housing crisis with skyrocketing prices and unprecedented numbers living in emergency hotels. Remember the Labour promise 100,000 new Kiwi-Build houses in ten years?
They left us a rate of child poverty even higher than when in 2021 Jacinda Ardern made herself the 'Minister of Child Poverty'.
A mental health system that had seen more and more young people suffering with no help.
Crumbling infrastructure around the country with no plan, no funding, and no idea.
An unprecedented, uncontrollable level of immigration - over 133,000 entering in 2023 alone.
And during Covid, Labour left large numbers of people ostracised, demonised, shutdown and shutout, ignored and cancelled - all because those people fought for their right to say 'no, we disagree.'
And they are hoping we have all forgotten about all of that.
They are now actively banking on working with the wacky Greens and racist mess of the Māori Party. Labour care more about the seats that will give them a road to power, rather than the danger of who it is that will fill those seats.
The Labour Party of just twenty years ago would never entertain working with the likes of those in the current Greens or Māori Party. Those two parties are self-confessed Marxists and separatists, who have unworkable dangerous policies, and care more about globalist woke ideology and geopolitical wars happening ten thousand miles away than understanding the real world here in New Zealand.
A Labour, Greens, Māori Party, Opportunity government would be a total disaster for our country.
The reality is, Labour long ago deserted the traditional blue-collar workers of New Zealand.
The movement of the party to the far left has caused longtime Labour voters to feel abandoned by a party that once stood for the 'ordinary hard-working kiwi'.
Instead, Labour now cares more about 'social justice' issues, socialist economics, and cultural separatism.
That is why we ruled out working with Labour before the last election and why we are again ruling out working with the Labour Party in 2026.
For those voters thinking of changing the government, we suggest they carefully look at the four parties on the left, have a good look at their track record, then view the list of changes they want to make to New Zealand, and then ask this question - are these changes possible without inflicting irreversible harm on New Zealand.
And we mean all four of the parties on the left because they will all be needed to form a government.
It is not just a vote for Labour, or just a vote for the Greens, or just a vote for the Māori Party, or just a vote for the Opportunity Party.
They will all be needed to form a four-headed government combination the type we have never seen in this country's history.
Because within these four groups are communists, separatists and worse still they are all globalists. Which is a sure fire toxic concoction to turn our country into the Venezuela or Myanmar of the South Pacific.
That is not an exaggeration.
We cannot be more serious in our warning that those parties of the left would destroy the New Zealand we know. Our values, our character, our economy, and our society.
In an interview last week, Ryan Bridge asked the Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi why the Māori Seats are needed when this current government has the highest number of Māori in Cabinet on record - that's even more Māori in Cabinet than when Labour and the Greens were in power.
Do you know what Rawiri said?
"They may have whakapapa Māori, but they're not kaupapa Māori based MPs."
You know what that means don't you? That Rawiri thinks that you're the wrong kind of Māori if you don't agree with what Rawiri thinks.
Here is someone leading a party that purports to 'represent Māori interests' in our country, yet only received three percent of the vote - out of a claimed seventeen percent population of Māori in New Zealand. That means less than one in eight Māori even voted for the Māori Party, so who do they represent exactly?
What is worse, is the Māori Party are now actively campaigning against people giving their party vote to the Māori Party.
They are wanting to manipulate the Māori vote by telling people to party vote for some other party on the left.
This is after giving everyone a lecture for decades on the importance of an independent Māori vote, and why other Māori MPs are not Māori enough.
All they have done is treat Māori with disdain, turn up to parliament once a month, and do a haka now and again in the House.
And who wants to sit with them at Cabinet with their extremist views? The Labour Party.
Another party the Labour Party wants to work with is the shiny new Opportunity Party.
The Opportunity Party wants homeowners to pay 1.75% of your home's land value every year, that's on top of your local rates.
Now you will have to pay an annual rent to the government.
And what did the leader of the Opportunity Party say when questioned about a couple on the pension, who worked hard and saved all their lives, bought a house for their future and their children's future, who would now, under Opportunity Party, face a $20k land tax bill every year? She said, yes, they will have to downsize their house to afford it.
This is blisteringly ignorant. But it gets worse.
Because, do you know what that money would be used for?
The $20k for an old couple on the pension? Infrastructure? Health? Education? Fuel security? Or food prices? No.
The $20k of land tax taken from the old couple, will be used to give everyone in New Zealand, working or not, a Universal Basic Income of $19,400 a year - for free, for life, even if you're doing nothing.
Opportunity Party calls this 'fairness'.
New Zealand First calls it 'communism'.
The question is, what are you as the voter, going to call it?
The Opportunity Party also wants to raise the youth court age to twenty-five years of age - however, when they were questioned on that, they quickly deleted the 25 year court age from their website and then said they haven't figured out the new court age yet.
Something Opportunity also changed, only when they were found out, was that their constitution that stated the unelected board could veto caucus decisions. The leader, on television, revealed that she didn't even know there was such a provision.
Their 'redistribution of wealth' and bludging tax policy doesn't stack up, their ridiculous view on law and order doesn't stack up, and their policy to intrench Te Tiriti into law along with a Māori Upper House in parliament is worse than the Māori Party's racist policies.
The mainstream media promoted Opportunity Party campaign is falling apart everyday - just ask the Labour Party leader Helen Clark.
But who wants to sit across from them in Cabinet? The Labour Party.
As for the Green Party, they have proven themselves to be the nutbars they always were.
The Greens want an $88 billion debt increase, and have a new policy bribe to give $2.4 billion to Marae - without any oversight or audit.
If you're a Māori in this room today, tell us honestly, what does that reflect about what they think of you?
This is inverse racism of the worst sort. They think they can use a bribe to get your vote. Does that reflect respect for you or sheer contempt?
The Greens care more about a geopolitical war happening ten thousand miles away that they know nothing about, than they do about what is happening in their own country.
The are obsessed with race, gender, pronouns, and protests, performative politics, virtue signalling, and woke cancel culture, and they have lost sight of what their party once stood for.
They are no longer worried about the environment like Rod Donald and Jeanette Fitzsimons once were - they have turned into a bunch of weirdo globalists who like to sanctimoniously lecture people - while wearing costumes from some other country.
And who wants to sit across the Cabinet table with them? The Labour Party.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the stark truth. The Labour Party that you once knew, perhaps even supported, is no more.
That party is gone. All of these polices and parties they are willing to support are proof of that.
Can you imagine Helen Clark or Michael Cullen, or Bob Tizard or Peter Frazer signing up to this?
These parties on the left are not people who see New Zealand as one people, one country, one flag, one law, or who believe in fundamental kiwi values like hard work, ambition, and personal responsibility.
These are people who believe in a separatist society, and who want to borrow, tax, and spend - but have zero economic credentials, or even vision, to deliver growth.
Chris Hipkins and Labour are willing to work with parties like Opportunity, Greens, and the Māori Party because Labour care more about the number of seats that will give them power, rather than the danger of who it is they will share power with.
Ladies and gentlemen, part of New Zealand First's mission is to keep these dangerous lefties out of power.
New Zealand Needs Bold Policies
A country that does not control its energy, essential infrastructure, banking competition, or strategic supply chains cannot control the cost of living.
There is only one political party in parliament that understands that and that party is New Zealand First.
That's why we have announced practical, logical and workable policies to break up the power companies' monopoly, and drive power prices down.
We have announced practical, logical and workable policies to split the supermarket duopoly, and drive food prices down.
We have announced practical, logical, and workable polices to re-establish a competitive New Zealand owned state bank, to drive banking charges down.
We have announced polices to return mining royalties, created in the regions, back to the regions.
We have announced establishing a proper transparent inquiry into those who were injured by the Covid 19 vaccine - so we can find out exactly what happened, who was responsible, and publicly hold them to account.
And we are going to further inquire into how over 311,000 twelve to seventeen year olds got the second vaccine when the then Prime Minister Ardern, and two Ministers in charge Hipkins and Verrill, were advised not to.
Ladies and gentlemen, the fact that this is not headlining in the mainstream media or in parliament is testimony to how the establishment, media and political, almost completely conformed to the "podium of truth".
The reason why you aren't seeing any headlines is that both the media and politicians are exposed to their wanton compliance and obedience in how they mislead the public of New Zealand - this is a conspiracy.
We are going to expose the cover-up on this issue by the other political parties and the establishment who all signed a document not to talk to the protesters.
KiwiSaver and Future Fund
We announced our KiwiSaver policy of making it compulsory with automatic $1000 sign-up at birth. It means the day a baby is born it gets $1000 in its account to start saving.
We have announced our policy is to establish a $100 billion Future Fund that will invest in a thirty-year infrastructure plan for our country. And that's where we are going to get the money to build the projects that we promise in our country.
Paris Agreement
We have also announced that we will pull out of the failing Paris Agreement that is senselessly hamstringing our economy.
Loose Electoral Laws
New Zealand has one of the loosest electoral laws in the world, and that is why we have announced a policy to ensure that by 2029 only citizens are allowed to vote in our country.
Making NZ Energy Independent
At our Campaign Launch, we announced a policy to invest $1billion to start exploring our gas and oil reserves in our deep-sea basins so we can own and export our own oil and gas - we need to be independent from events like in the Strait of Hormuz.
We have announced the 'Kiwi Kids Grant' that will support New Zealand citizens raising their first three children, through the first three years of their lives - $5000 per child for each of the three years.
We have also announced New Zealand First is proposing changes to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act to incentivise investment in value-added dairy manufacturing in New Zealand.
We are giving certainty for any business willing to manufacture dairy products in New Zealand.
We want industry in New Zealand. If investors want to invest more in higher-value manufacturing, then our economic settings should welcome them.
Build the factories. Build the brands. Take New Zealand dairy products to the world.
Experience Matters Most
New Zealand First started our long campaign in March this year and we have been packing the halls around the country every week delivering the message to thousands of kiwis that we are focussed on two things - bold policies our country needs for a real change, and the fight for ordinary hard working kiwis against the establishment, the elites, and the status quo.
Experience and leadership has never mattered more.
We need leaders of the next government to say the things that people are thinking without fear or favour - even the things that might be unpopular.
New Zealand needs strong leadership who are not afraid to be strong on important issues.
And we don't need weak leaders who don't understand New Zealand values.
We can't go on allowing the two old parties to tinker round the edges of big issues and do nothing but manage the decline of our country.
These two old parties have spent the last forty years arguing over fiscal or spending policy whilst having no economic strategy to grow New Zealand's Gross Domestic Product, to lift your wages and your standard of living.
The old parties' fiscal policies have been devoid of economic strategy.
Only one party has an understanding of the economic strategy that is required, even to the extent to when we criticised the then National Party's spending policy and lack of economic strategy, the New Zealand First leader was expelled from the National Party caucus.
Value of Citizenship
New Zealand needs to start viewing our citizenship as most other countries around the world do - as a privilege that comes with special and unique rights.
This does not take away from migrants the ability to move here and help build our country, from showing total commitment and patriotism for New Zealand by becoming a citizen.
We have massively allowed so many of our standards to drop.
Even the most basic of privileges and rights in any country like voting has in our country become more like an expectation for anyone, rather than a unique right for New Zealanders.
Ladies and gentlemen, why do so many 'apologetic globalists' act shocked and dismayed that a political party is wanting to ensure that citizenship actually mean something?
There is a difference in this election. Kiwis are looking at what parties are offering as their values and principles in these uncertain times.
NZFirst Party of Conservatism, Patriotism, Nationalism
We signed a coalition agreement to govern with stability and experience three years ago - and we have kept our word.
New Zealand First brings what is too often missing in politics - experience and common sense.
New Zealand First brings a commitment to New Zealand industry, to manufacturing, to jobs right here for our own people.
Immigration Policy
New Zealand First brings commonsense to immigration policy - where we allow in people that we need, not people who need us.
We believe in infrastructure before imported population growth, not afterwards, and infrastructure focused on fixing what's broken, not flash upgrades and vanity projects.
And we believe in policies that despite immigration preserve the pre-eminence of our culture - and not the threat that we are seeing overseas of imported cultures taking over New Zealand.
New Zealand First fights for traditional kiwi conservative values - where hard work should be rewarded, where job security and home ownership underpins a stable family life.
We want a country where young people aren't worried about their family's future, or where they see better opportunities overseas.
We in 2023 inherited an economic nightmare. But too few government members understood that.
We knew the economic crisis would take years to fix. Our coalition colleagues said they could fix it in three years - and hence the public's confusion as to what is happening now.
This pivotal election voters want to hear a clear and unified message.
First, to turn the economy around and that we are going to win, and take New Zealand back to being a leading economy again.
Challenging the Status Quo
The greatest threat to this blind ideology, to social elitism, and to the status quo, is New Zealand First.
And the country we are defending is called New Zealand - it's in our party's name.
We are asking you to make a choice with our future generations in mind.
Take back control from the Wellington bubble.
Take back control from those who choose to be CV politicians, where they are here one day, "no more gas in the tank", and are gone the next - taking with them a rolodex of international jobs, speaking circuits, or book tours, looking back over their shoulder at New Zealand's decline - which they caused.
New Zealand First, from our launch thirty-three years ago, has been battling that elitist status quo. No one can deny that. On issue after issue that needed public exposure, the rest remain silent. When others wouldn't raise a finger, we have raised the roof.
Conclusion
Ladies and gentlemen, we are all here because we love our country, and we are proud of it.
True democracy is a rare flower in the history of humanity.
Down thousands of years living in democracy with freedom is not common.
We have inherited a free country that our forebears fought and died for, and it's our job to preserve it.
But only if we are proud of what we have inherited can we come together and move forward to shape the vision of our country's future.
We live in a country that, at its core, traditional New Zealand values once saw us amongst the world's leaders - hard work, fair pay, valuing our citizenship, building a sense of community, and knowing who we are as kiwis.
We must remember, New Zealand is the beneficiary of Western values, democracy, and the rule of law. And the advancement and enhancement of those principles have only occurred in those societies that have united together as one people - and who celebrate their nationhood instead of perpetuating division.
There is a lot of uncertainty around the world and at home, but we must keep hope alive that, with hard work and perseverance, tomorrow will be better.
New Zealand First is nationalist, patriotic, and socially conservative values that we fight for.
It hasn't been easy - but things in life worth doing never are.
We must never forget that challenge.
We must never stop believing in New Zealand.
That is our vision and that is our mission.
To protect, to save, and to restore New Zealand's place at the top of the world.
By putting New Zealand and New Zealanders first.
We are asking you to join us - and Party Vote New Zealand First.
