News & Achievements

Since coming into Government, we’ve worked hard to lift family incomes and make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. While long term challenges like inequality and child poverty will take time to fix, we’ve made good progress over the past five years.

Over the past year, our Government has worked hard to support families in the face of global cost of living challenges. At the same time, we’ve continued to tackle the long-standing issues facing New Zealand, like housing affordability, climate change and child poverty – and we’re making good progress.

Since coming into Government, we’ve made record investments in health to ensure more people can get quality care when and where they need it – and our efforts are making a difference.

Following President Zelensky’s address to Parliament this week, we announced more humanitarian aid to support the people of Ukraine.

Every community in New Zealand should be a safe place to live, work and raise a family. To make sure this is a reality, our Government is focused on addressing the complex issues that cause crime while also making sure that appropriate consequences are in place.

As countries around the world continue to face economic challenges, there is real reason for New Zealand to be optimistic about the future – and our primary sector is at the heart of that.

Since taking office in 2017, our Government has worked hard to lift wages and make life more affordable for New Zealanders, as we move forward with our plan to create economic security for all. 

Our Government has put the wellbeing of children at the heart of everything we do.

As we celebrate World Children’s Day, we’re taking a look at some of the ways Labour is working to make New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child.

Our Government is delivering a new resource management system that will better protect the environment while cutting red tape, lowering costs and speeding up the time it takes to approve new homes and infrastructure projects.