We all deserve the opportunity to build a life that works for us and our families, no matter who we are or where we live.
To make this possible, we need public services that put people first—services that meet our basic needs and contribute to our shared well-being. This includes secure and decent homes, well-supported schools and early childhood education, accessible healthcare, reliable public transport, and a commitment to restoring and protecting our environment.
Right now we are going in the wrong direction.
The Coalition Government is currently starving our public services of funding, and cancelling or pulling back from building key infrastructure. They’ve given tax cuts to landlords, whilst cancelling hundreds of state housing builds and selling off public land to private developers. They’ve canned pay equity agreements, stalled funding to education and healthcare, and abandoned plans to make tech giants like Facebook and Google pay their fair share of tax.
Multinational corporations and the super wealthy are making huge profits in Aotearoa.
To fill the gap in public infrastructure due to underresourcing by successive Governments, this Government is opening the door to multinational corporations - for privatisation and asset sales. They’ve already directed Health NZ to sign ten year contracts with private hospitals to outsource elective surgeries, further gutting resources from our public healthcare system and directing money into private pockets.
PM Christopher Luxon’s ‘Investment Summit’ in March 2025 openly invited multinational companies to tender on key public services like education, healthcare and transport. Which is why we decided to meet him there - making a racket during his opening address, and sending a clear message that people are not going to sit by while our future is sold out from under us.
You can watch our campaign manager Grace speak at the demo here.
Following the summit where Health Minister Simeon Brown presented ‘opportunities for investment’ in health, in November 2025, it became public that Serco, the private prison operator, met with Minister for Health Simeon Brown to “build on the discussions we commenced earlier this year.”
Alongside leading health advocates and unions we are coming together to lead a strong campaign in 2026 against the privatisation of health care and to improve and expand support for a fully staffed, accessible and equitable public health system.
We’ve also continued to work with the Better Taxes for a Better Future coalition. Together we are demanding a redesigned tax system to make certain that big corporations and the super wealthy contribute their fair share to our collective resources. The coalition's work included the release of the Big Tech, Little Tax report. This highlights how the largest multi-national tech companies - like Facebook, Amazon, Google and Microsoft (owned by some of the richest men on the planet, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos) are making billions of dollars in NZ, but pay little to no tax by using tax minimisation practices.
Expect to hear more about both of these campaigns this year!