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Bernard Long
Artist, activist and former financial-planning business owner with strong interests in economics, social work and politics.
Stated priorities: Social justice, reversing environmental degradation and poverty, reducing wealth concentration and protecting the taiao.
Party candidate list
Latest party-vote polling
Polls measure nationwide support for Green, not this candidate or this electorate — no electorate-level figures are published in these releases.
Latest poll
10.2%
RNZ–Reid Research, 21 Aug 2026
Average, last 3 months
10.8%
10 polls
Change on previous poll
-1.8
Percentage points
Green manifesto promises
65 policy commitments on file for the party this candidate stands for.
Economy & Cost of Living
- • Create a $10,000 income-tax-free threshold, giving 96% of New Zealanders an income-tax cutgreens.org.nz
- • Offer zero-interest clean-energy loans to eligible homeowners and expand support for warm, energy-efficient homesgreens.org.nz
- • [1News source] Propose fines for supermarkets charging prices deemed excessive relative to supply costs and a reasonable profit margin1news.co.nz
- • Raise an estimated $5.15 billion in 2027/28 through the announced tax package to fund services and reduce inequalitygreens.org.nz
- • Establish publicly owned Kiwipower to invest in renewable generation and backup capacitygreens.org.nz
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Tax & Fiscal Policy
- • Reverse the Government’s changes to the bright-line test and landlord tax cuts; this is not a comprehensive capital gains taxgreens.org.nz
- • Introduce a 2.5% tax on net assets above $10 million, excluding the family homegreens.org.nz
- • Introduce a Capital Acquisitions Tax on gifts and inheritances above $1 million, excluding family homes and family farmsgreens.org.nz
- • Raise the corporate tax rate to 33% for the largest 0.7% of corporations while keeping it at 28% for small and medium enterprisesgreens.org.nz
- • Introduce a 0.06% levy on the liabilities of the four largest banksgreens.org.nz
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Education & Children
- • Ensure children have adequate household income, housing and food, and restore and expand free nutritious school lunchesgreens.org.nz
- • Ensure children have a joyful childhood and the best possible start, supported by adequate household income, housing and foodgreens.org.nz
- • Provide inclusive lifelong learning and education that prepares people for a just, sustainable futuregreens.org.nz
- • Restore the Ka Ora, Ka Ako programme with lunches delivered through schools or local providersgreens.org.nz
- • Expand free nutritious lunches to approximately 400 more schools, reaching 150,000 additional children each daygreens.org.nz
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Employment, Welfare & Retirement
- • Guarantee a decent income for all through a fair tax system, ensuring people have enough for food, housing and a dignified lifegreens.org.nz
- • Prioritise secure, meaningful work in socially responsible and environmentally sustainable workplacesgreens.org.nz
- • [Stuff news source] Extend the living wage to all state-sector workers, covering an estimated 20,000 peoplestuff.co.nz
- • [PMN news source] Automatically enrol new employees into unions where a collective agreement applies, while retaining the right to opt outpmn.co.nz
- • Reverse the 2025 pay-equity changes and restore stronger claim rights for women and workersrnz.co.nz
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Energy, Climate & Environment
- • Cut climate pollution, make major polluters pay for electrification and rapidly phase out fossil fuelsgreens.org.nz
- • Prepare communities for climate impacts and support people through the transition to a zero-emissions economy and increasingly severe weathergreens.org.nz
- • Establish publicly owned Kiwipower and invest $200 million in community energy projectsgreens.org.nz
- • Provide zero-interest clean-energy loans, fair payment for exported rooftop solar, and solar on more than half of public homes within four yearsgreens.org.nz
- • Establish publicly owned Kiwipower, invest $200 million in community energy, provide zero-interest clean-energy loans and install solar on more than half of public homes within four yearsgreens.org.nz
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Housing
- • Treat a warm, safe home as a basic right and make housing accessible, healthy, secure and sustainablegreens.org.nz
- • Treat a warm, safe home as a basic right and make housing accessible, healthy, secure and sustainablegreens.org.nz
- • Reverse restored landlord interest deductibility and extend the bright-line settings, reducing tax advantages for property investmentgreens.org.nz
- • [Stuff news source] The effect on property values would depend on implementation, alongside the Greens’ wealth and inheritance taxesstuff.co.nz
- • Establish a renters’ right to solar as part of the Power for All of Us packagegreens.org.nz
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Speeches and coverage
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Recent Green speeches and statements
- 27 Aug 2026Official party siteParty releaseGovernment failing to reduce child poverty
Green Party response to child-poverty data and government policy.
- 20 Aug 2026Official party sitePolicy releaseFree and nutritious school lunches
Policy to restore, expand and permanently fund Ka Ora, Ka Ako.
- 9 Aug 2026Official party sitePolicy releaseTe Waonui a Tāne marae funding policy
Green Party policy for protected restoration and intergenerational funding for marae and communities.
- 21 Jun 2026Official party sitePolicy releaseTax the super-rich and cut income tax for 96%
Green Party's announced 2026 tax package.
- 15 May 2026Official party sitePolitical releaseGovernment announces Treaty Principles Bill by stealth
Green response to proposed changes to Te Tiriti references in legislation.
- 9 Aug 2025RNZParty conferenceGreens focus annual meeting on building voter trust
The co-leaders promoted the Green Budget, nationwide organising and plans to negotiate a future government.
- Date not exposed (indexed)FacebookSocial media — campaign launchHūhana Lyndon — Te Tai Tokerau campaign
Hūhana Lyndon promoted a regional Green campaign launch and community mobilisation in Te Tai Tokerau.
- Date not exposed (indexed)FacebookSocial media — Campaign launchGreen Party: Campaign launch — Our Green Vision for Aotearoa
Official party campaign video presented a Green vision focused on people, nature and a future for all.