The parties · 7 of 7, by current seats
Opportunity
At a glance
- Poll average (%)
- 6.2
- Readiness to 2050 /100
- 55 fair
- Voter priorities /100
- 58 fair
- Confidence it happens
- Low
- Fiscal detail
- Tax package
Current settings score 58 on Readiness to 2050 and 55 on Voter priorities. Confidence is shown beside the scores, never added to them.
Grouping scores
| Grouping | Readiness to 2050 /21 | Voter priorities /15 |
|---|---|---|
| Cost of living | 13 | 9 |
| Health | 11 | 8 |
| Economy and jobs | 13 | 10 |
| Housing | 16 | 10 |
| Crime and justice | 8 | 6 |
| Climate and energy | 16 | 10 |
| Education | 11 | 7 |
| Migration | 8 | 6 |
| Tax and retirement | 12 | 8 |
| Infrastructure | 16 | 10 |
| Te Tiriti | 10 | 7 |
| Defence and trade | 0 | 0 |
| Community and culture | 9 | 7 |
| Score | Cost of living | Health | Economy and jobs | Housing | Crime and justice | Climate and energy | Education | Migration | Tax and retirement | Infrastructure | Te Tiriti | Defence and trade | Community and culture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readiness to 2050 /21 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 9 |
| Voter priorities /15 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Select a grouping for the rationale and sources behind each score.
Who
A "blue-green" party founded in 2016, in its fourth election. Wong is a former B Corp movement lead and climate transition adviser.
The pitch
Three-year flip-flops waste money. Fix politics with ten-year cross-party plans and independent institutions, and rebuild the tax system around land rather than work.
Coalition stance and bottom lines
Will work with "either Labour or National" and talks first to the party with most seats. Five bottom lines: lower prices, clean politics, a health plan, ocean health, climate credibility. The land tax is not one.
Five headline policies
- Swaps taxes on work for a 1.75% land tax
- Pays almost every adult a Citizen's Income of up to $370 a week ($19,400 a year), replacing NZ Super with a top-up to current Super rates
- Borrows up to $60b for infrastructure over ten years through a new Infrastructure Fund, keeping interest under 1% of GDP
- Lifts health funding to 9% of GDP over ten years (costed by the party at about $1.3b a year)
- Caps political donations at $30,000 per donor
Who gains / Who pays
| Who gains | Who pays |
|---|---|
| Earners from $20,000 to $120,000 | Owners of high-value land |
| Renters and first-home buyers | Some homeowners |
| People facing steep benefit clawbacks | Future taxpayers, through borrowing |
On the long game
- Builds: productivity, climate, infrastructure
- Borrows: ageing
- Global risks with a concrete plan: 2 of 5 (Climate change and ecological breakdown; Erosion of trust and governance)
- Governing for the long term: Four-year term: Silent · With other parties: Plans · Institutions: Plans · Inheritance: Plans
| Pressure | Effect | Would it last? |
|---|---|---|
| Ageing and the fiscal gap | Borrows | Unlikely |
| Productivity and incomes | Builds | Unlikely |
| Climate and resilience | Builds | Likely |
| The infrastructure deficit | Builds | Partly |
| Risk | At home | With others |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced AI going badly | Acknowledges | Silent |
| Climate change and ecological breakdown | Acknowledges | Plans |
| Engineered pandemics | Acknowledges | Silent |
| Great-power conflict, including nuclear war | Silent | Silent |
| Erosion of trust and governance | Plans | Silent |
Governing for the long term
Opportunity: governing for the long term
Rating on each count, Rated, never added to the scores. Rests on a stated value: long-term plans should survive a change of government.
Rated, never added to the scores. Rests on a stated value: long-term plans should survive a change of government. Opportunity: Four-year term Silent, Plans with other parties Plans, Long-term institutions Plans, Honours what it inherits Plans.
Sources for these ratings
- Opportunity, 10-year plans to strengthen health and education (2 September 2026)
- Opportunity, Bottom Lines (29 September 2026)
- Opportunity, Intergenerational Infrastructure (PDF) (4 September 2026)
- Opportunity, Clean Up Politics (19 August 2026)
- Opportunity, Tax Reset (6 August 2026)
- Opportunity, Climate Action (19 August 2026)
Watch for
Its own infrastructure interest estimate turns a $1.9b surplus into a $0.6b to $1.6b shortfall. If land values fall 21%, the land tax could raise about $5b less. Reviewers are unnamed. It would give the Commerce Commission power to force structural separation. On Te Tiriti: repeal the 2025 customary marine title law; Māori as full partners in marine protection.
Since 19 October (not yet scored)
- Wong says she will call Luxon first and, "if he really wants to be in opposition", speak to Labour next.
Party order is by seats in the current Parliament. 7 parties, the same template each.