Tania Waikato
Ngāti Awa, Tūwharetoa, Tūhoe, Te Whakatōhea and Ngāti Hine lawyer and kairongoā with more than 20 years across civil litigation, Māori business, resource management, employment law and Te Tiriti.
Stated priorities: Food, healthcare, housing and education as basic dignity; protection of te taiao and Te Tiriti; opposition to the Treaty Principles and Regulatory Standards bills, school-lunch cuts and weakened school-board Treaty duties.
Latest party-vote polling
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Green manifesto promises
65 policy commitments on file for the party this candidate stands for.
- • 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
- • 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
- • 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
- • 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
- • 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
- • 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
Speeches and coverage
Stories and statements that name Tania Waikato, updated automatically as they are published.
- 16 Apr 2026The SpinoffCandidate profilesTaine Randell and three other candidates profiled
Profiles Taine Randell, Tania Waikato, James Christmas and Sophie Handford.
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.