NZ First
Based only on formal party votes, not personal (conscience) votes, since there's no single party line on those. "Mixed" means NZ First came down on both sides of the same policy within that term - e.g. voting for a bill, then later for its repeal.
54th Parliament — Dec 2023 to Sep 2026
Supported
- Reducing regulatory barriers for agricultural chemical and veterinary medicine approvals
- Replacing the Resource Management Act
- Expanding police surveillance and recording powers
- Segregation of high-risk prisoners
- Refocusing councils on core services (removing the "four well-beings")
- Police power to issue move-on orders for begging and rough sleeping
- Faster compulsory land acquisition for public works
- Youth justice military-style academies ("boot camps")
- Family carers as unpaid support rather than paid employees
- Reducing the accommodation supplement for homeowners
- Parental income test for young people on the unemployment benefit
- Blocking tort lawsuits against climate emitters
- Citizen's arrest powers
- Coward-punch is an offence
- English as an official language
- Easing firearms licensing and dealership rules
- Banning gang members from firearms licences
- Fast-track approvals for infrastructure and mining projects
- Expanding charter schools
- Tightening immigration settings
- Regulatory Standards Bill (regulatory quality requirements)
- Less red tape for mining industry
- Making access to sickness/incapacity benefits harder
- Tightening welfare benefit obligations and sanctions
- Streamlined shooting club and range regulation
- Three strikes mandatory sentencing
- Loosening freshwater rules under the RMA
- Extending firearms prohibition order powers
- Expanded firearms prohibition orders (warrantless search powers)
- Gang patch bans and dispersal powers
- Lowering taxes
- Lowering income tax rates
- Group detention powers for mass arrivals
- Extending 90-day trial periods to all employers
Opposed
- Treaty of Waitangi references in legislation
- Lowering tariffs
- Free trade agreements
- Free trade agreement with India
- Three Waters
- Looser broadcasting advertising rules
- Collective bargaining rights
- Crackdown on loan sharks and predatory lenders
- Equal pay for women
- Māori local government wards
- Removing/exempting GST from food
- Regional fuel tax (Auckland)
- Smokefree generation (never legally sell tobacco to)
- Increasing benefit payments
- Fair Pay Agreements (sectoral bargaining)
- Subsidising EV and low-emission vehicle purchases
52nd Parliament — Nov 2017 to Sep 2020
Supported
- Tightening firearms licensing, registration and club/range rules (post-Christchurch reforms)
- COVID-19 emergency and lockdown powers
- Bank and insurer conduct regulation (fair treatment of consumers)
- Zero Carbon Act (net zero by 2050 target)
- Increasing benefit payments
- Semi-automatic firearms ban
- Collective bargaining rights
- Equal pay for women
- Regional fuel tax (Auckland)
- Raising taxes
51st Parliament — Oct 2014 to Aug 2017
50th Parliament — Dec 2011 to Jul 2014
Supported
Opposed
- Crackdown on loan sharks and predatory lenders
- Introducing a sub-minimum youth "starting-out wage"
- Alcohol law reform (Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012)
- Tightening military-style semi-automatic firearm import controls
- Treaty of Waitangi reference in the MPs' oath
- Making access to sickness/incapacity benefits harder
- Expanding police surveillance and recording powers
48th Parliament — Nov 2005 to Sep 2008
Supported
- Emissions Trading Scheme (carbon pricing on emissions)
- Conflict of interest rules for Waitangi Tribunal members
- Election spending restrictions
- Flexible working arrangements rights
- Private property rights in Bill of Rights
- Immigration Act 2009 (visa, entry and deportation framework)
- Lowering company tax rate
- Lowering taxes
- Employment rights for disabled workers (sheltered workshops)
- Māori-specific provisions exemption (Human Rights Act)
- Reducing the number of MPs
Opposed
47th Parliament — Feb 2003 to Aug 2005
Supported
- Nuclear-free zone (ship visits)
- Private property rights in Bill of Rights
- Judicial discretion in community sentencing
- Genetic modification moratorium
- Restricting non-therapeutic tail docking of dogs
- Final settlement date for historical Treaty of Waitangi claims
- Family Court proceedings openness
- Working for Families assistance
- Employment rights for disabled workers (sheltered workshops)
- Capping local government rate increases
- Minimum wage increases
- Increased minimum annual leave (four weeks)
Opposed