First Term Action Plan
We will hit the ground running in government, with a programme of work across housing, health, education, families, the environment and other priority areas.
- Introduce the Creditors Exchange to the World by word-of-mouth.
- Encourage Marae to an open-door policy for community activity and a more active role in whare wananga of arts, crafts, carving, boat building, communal living accommodation, organic produce and fruit tree orchards, profit-share live-in workforce, community horticulture, agriculture, aquaculture to rebuild trade resources.
- To establish crowd-funded alternative funding sources for business start-ups, first home property purchases and retirement planning.
- To encourage segregated profit-share farm-stay live-in workforces for foreign overseas travellers, homeless and low-risk prison detainees.
- Add to children’s curriculum self-sustainability, horticulture to produce seedlings, home economics, cooking and cleaning that teaches self-discipline.
- Introduce compulsory enlisting to armed forces protectorate from 18 year born date, if not permanently employed or self-employed.
- Make the first year of tertiary education or training fees free from January 1, 2020.
- Increase student allowances and living cost loans by $50 a week from January 1, 2020.
- Enforce school fees with family concessions to cover addition school expenses.
- Pass the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill, requiring all rentals to be warm and dry with insulation, ventilation and a heating source.
- Ban overseas speculators from buying existing houses and land. Ownership must be New Zealand citizens or partnered to New Zealand citizens or will be forced to sell. As a remedy we will encourage business ownership in New Zealand of produce growers, manufacturers and trade resource suppliers not to buildings or lease land unless the purchase is with a New Zealand citizen.
- Issue an instruction to Housing New Zealand to stop the state house sell-off
- Begin work to establish the Affordable Housing Authority and begin the KiwiBuild programme.
- Build high-rise apartment communal living space by refurbishment of high-rise office building blocks, industrial and commercial buildings.
- Legislate to pass the Families Package, including the Winter Fuel Payment, Best Start and increases to Paid Parental Leave, to take effect from 1 July 2018
- Set up a Ministerial Inquiry in order to fix our mental health crisis
- Introduce legislation to make medicinal cannabis available for people with terminal illnesses or in chronic pain
- Resume contributions to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to help safeguard the provision of universal superannuation at age 65
- Introduce legislation to set a child poverty reduction target and to change the Public Finance Act so the Budget reports progress on reducing child poverty
- Increase the minimum wage to $17.50 an hour, to take effect from 1 April 2019, and introduce legislation to improve fairness in the workplace.
- Establish the Tax Working Group
- Establish the Pike River Recovery Agency and assign a responsible Minister
- Set up an inquiry into the abuse of children in state care
- Hold a Clean Waters Summit on cleaning up our rivers and lakes
- Set the zero carbon emissions goal and begin setting up the independent Climate Commission
