Te Pāti Māori policies 2026

Te Pāti Māori on economy, tax & cost of living

• New Zealand should tax the profit people make when they sell an investment property.

  Strongly supports

  Wants the wealthiest to 'pay their fair share', with revenue directed to housing, health, education and whānau support.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• People who own more than $10 million in assets should pay a yearly tax on it.

  Strongly supports

  Supports taxing accumulated wealth. The 2026 platform commits to making the wealthiest 'pay their fair share'; its most recent detailed tax policy proposed 2% on net wealth above $2m rising to 8% above $10m.

  NZ Herald: Te Pāti Māori's wealth tax plan · verified 2026-08-13

• The government should fix its deficit and debt by spending less, not by taxing more.

  Strongly opposes

  Opposed. Wants revenue from taxing wealth directed into housing, health, education and Māori-led institutions.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• The government should buy back a major bank and break up the power companies and supermarkets.

  Supports

  Favours public and Māori-led ownership of key assets and enterprise funds, though has not committed to specific nationalisations.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• The age you can start getting NZ Super should rise above 65.

  Strongly opposes

  Opposes raising the age, noting Māori life expectancy is lower, which makes a higher age fall unevenly.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

Te Pāti Māori on housing & renting

• Annual rent increases should be capped at around 2%, and landlords should not be able to evict without a reason.

  Strongly supports

  Supports strong renter protections and action on property speculation and vacant homes.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• The government should borrow to build tens of thousands of new state and public houses.

  Strongly supports

  Wants a major expansion of public and affordable housing, plus easier home-building on Māori and ancestral land.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Landlords should be able to deduct mortgage interest as a business expense before paying tax on rental income.

  Strongly opposes

  Opposes tax advantages for property investors, arguing they push home ownership further out of reach for whānau.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• It should be quicker and easier to get houses and roads built, even if neighbours get less say and there are fewer environmental checks.

  Strongly opposes

  Opposed, argues fast-track consenting removes the scrutiny and Tiriti consultation that major projects should face.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• There are too many rules on landlords, and the cost ends up in the rent.

  Strongly opposes

  Supports enforceable housing quality standards, citing the health burden of cold, damp housing on whānau.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

Te Pāti Māori on health & education

• Health money should go to medicines and advanced treatment rather than making doctor's visits free.

  Strongly opposes

  Supports free access to primary care, with a focus on prevention and whānau wellness over crisis response.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• There should be a separate Māori-led authority commissioning health services specifically for Māori, in addition to the health system everyone uses.

  Strongly supports

  Core policy, wants a strengthened Māori-led health authority, arguing Māori-designed services close outcome gaps that mainstream services have not.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Schools should focus on the basics with standardised national testing, and NCEA should be replaced.

  Opposes

  Opposes standardised testing regimes that it says disadvantage Māori learners, preferring mātauranga Māori integrated throughout learning.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Parents should be able to choose their child's school, including charter schools that set their own curriculum.

  Supports

  Supports Māori-led educational authority and kaupapa Māori schooling, a form of choice, but grounded in tino rangatiratanga rather than market competition.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Public services like health and education should be expanded, even if that means Kiwis pay more tax.

  Strongly supports

  Wants revenue from the wealthiest directed into housing, health, education and whānau support.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

Te Pāti Māori on climate, energy & environment

• New Zealand should stay in the Paris climate agreement and keep to its emissions targets.

  Strongly supports

  Committed to climate action and resilience for vulnerable communities, framed through kaitiakitanga.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• New Zealand should look for more oil and gas to grow the economy.

  Strongly opposes

  Strongly opposed, would ban extractive industries including seabed mining.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Farmers should not have to pay for the greenhouse gases their animals produce.

  Strongly opposes

  Opposed to exempting the largest emitting sector, favouring regenerative approaches aligned with Māori environmental principles.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• New Zealand should make it easier to mine and develop natural resources to grow the economy.

  Strongly opposes

  Would ban extractive industries including seabed mining outright.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Farm animal numbers should be reduced and synthetic nitrogen fertiliser phased out to clean up rivers.

  Supports

  Supports regenerative land use and restoring waterways as a kaitiakitanga obligation, without a specific stocking-rate cap.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

Te Pāti Māori on law, order & justice

• Jail sentences should be longer, with a minimum term for repeat offenders.

  Strongly opposes

  Strongly opposed, argues mandatory sentencing deepens the over-incarceration of Māori.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Prisons should be phased out by 2040 and replaced with community-led alternatives.

  Strongly supports

  Campaigning to abolish prisons by 2040, replaced with community-led solutions, a Māori Justice Authority, and closing youth residences and bootcamps.

  Te Ao Māori News: Te Pāti Māori on abolishing prisons · verified 2026-08-13

• We should build more prison capacity and put considerably more police on the front line.

  Strongly opposes

  Opposed, argues more prisons entrench the over-incarceration of Māori rather than reducing harm.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• The justice system should spend more on fixing the causes of crime, like poverty and addiction, and less on punishment.

  Strongly supports

  Core policy, would reform laws that criminalise poverty and survival, and move toward transformation rather than incarceration.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Gang patches should stay banned in public and police should have more power to disrupt gangs.

  Strongly opposes

  Opposed, argues the powers are used disproportionately against Māori and do not address underlying harm.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

Te Pāti Māori on te tiriti, rights & immigration

• A commission should be able to block laws it believes breach Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

  Strongly supports

  Campaigning on an independent commission able to stop or suspend government and Cabinet decisions found to seriously breach Te Tiriti, alongside entrenching the Treaty in law and making Waitangi Tribunal findings binding on the Crown.

  NZ Herald: Te Pāti Māori's Treaty commission, and Labour's response · verified 2026-09-17

• There should be a binding nationwide referendum on whether to keep the Māori electorate seats.

  Strongly opposes

  Strongly opposed, actively campaigning to grow the Māori roll and expand Māori representation.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Migration should be cut to take pressure off housing, roads and hospitals.

  Mixed / no clear position

  No headline net-migration target; frames immigration through Tiriti obligations and the rights of tangata whenua rather than numbers.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Non-citizens who commit serious crimes should be deported, and a dedicated unit should track down overstayers.

  Strongly opposes

  Opposed, argues enforcement-led immigration policy targets Pacific and migrant communities disproportionately.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

• Te reo Māori should be actively promoted across government and society, including in the names of public agencies.

  Strongly supports

  Core policy, normalise te reo across society, invest in community-led revitalisation, and hold the state accountable for language protection.

  Te Pāti Māori: Policy · verified 2026-08-13

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