1. We’ll have ONE LAW FOR ALL.
   
   Which means:
   
   • We all own our foreshore and seabed
   • We fly one flag
   • We have one court system
   • We follow one set of laws
   • We have one social welfare system
   • A NZ health system
   • A NZ education system
2. We will rebuild our failing economy with
   
   • Export plans to treble returns
   • Savings plans for economic freedom
   • NZ currency for NZ not Wall ST
   • Tax breaks for real wealth creators
   • Real research and development incentives
   • Rewards for the nation’s builders
3. We stand for a fair tax system, where everyone pays a fair share.
   
   So we are going to rewrite and simplify NZ’s mangle of tax laws so that they are understandable, unavoidable, and fair.
   
   Everyone will pay their fair taxes.
   
   That means:
   • Less personal tax
   • Less company tax
   • Less GST at 12.5 not 15%
   • Removing double tax on savings
   • Removing GST on rates
   • Removing secondary tax
4. Exporters create our real wealth. We have a plan to help them.
   
   New Zealand First will keep our currency pegged to that of our main trading partners.
   
   That way the exporters will be able to expand, increase exports and create new jobs, new wealth for the Family New Zealand
   
   We will stop the sale of state owned assets, and the control of our power stations and the lakes and rivers that feed them.
   Will stop the sale of our prime farmland to foreign interests.
5. We need to support our young people to stay, live and work in New Zealand. Here are just some of our policies:
   
   1) More trade training for our young people
   
   2) We will help pay the wages for apprentices using dole money and an employer top up
   
   3) We will help students pay their loans as long as they qualify and stay here
   
   4) And we’ll throw out fictitious national standards in early education opposed by 90% of the teachers

1. Building a stronger economy
   • Balance the books sooner.
   • Borrow less so we can have lower interest rates for longer.
   • Keep personal taxes lower to encourage hard work.
   • Make New Zealand more competitive so our exporters can sell more overseas and create more real jobs.
   • Encourage savings and investments.
   • Use the mixed-Ownership model to fund infrastructure to help us grow faster.
   • Invest in skills training and tertiary education that gets results.
   
2. Building world-class infrastructure
   • Ultra-fast broadband for greater innovation.
   • More, and better, roads to ease congestion.
   • Investing in more rail and public transport.
   
3. Building a safer New Zealand
   • Staying strong on crime – tougher sentencing, stronger bail laws, and a focus on victims.
   • Keep working to lower the crime rate further so our families are safer.
   • Making our roads safer, so we can keep the road toll lower.
   
4. Rebuilding Christchurch
   • $5.5 billion recovery fund
   • Re-establishing essential infrastructure
   • More construction-related training
   
5. Building better public services
   • Better Schools – identifying and helping children falling behind, school reports in plain English.
   • World-class healthcare –more doctors and nurses, more operations, shorter waiting times.
   • Effective welfare- more people back into work, more incentives to work, payment cards for teens on benefits.
   

No issues on file for Patrick Brown.

No issues on file for Julie Anne Genter.

No issues on file for Phil Goff.

No issues on file for Jasmin Hewlett.

1. - Crown ownership of Foreshore & Seabed.
2. - Repeal of the Emissions Trading Scheme.
3. - Removal of the ban on light smacking.
4. - Alcohol reform - including the drinking age back to 21.
5. - Making referenda binding.

1. Income Sharing for parents when assessing tax. This bill proposed by United Future, which is now with a Select Committee in Parliament, will benefit over 300,000 families who currently miss out on Working For Families Tax Credits. By splitting their taxable income evenly, families can gain $6,000 to $9,000 per annum if the parents income is now very uneven. Besides helping with the high costs of raising children, this will assist either parent to spend much more time with children while young. This measure will be very important to United Future in coalition negotiations.
2. Superannuation flexible qualifying age from 60 to 70, with level paid dependent on retirement age. United Future proposes that individuals can choose to start receiving the pension anytime between 60 and 70, but the amount paid will rise year by year as the start is deferred, i.e. same as current pension if start at 65, less for each year earlier and more each year later.
   The scheme is financially neutral for the government, but allows people to tailor their retirement to individual circumstances.
3. Oppose the decriminalisation of cannabis for recreational use. United Future successfully blocked the Greens from introducing legislation to decriminalise cannabis in the early 2000s. Genetic enhancement of local cannabis makes it much more dangerous than 50 years ago, and the evidence now available shows -
   1. Cannabis is the top factor in under-30 year old drivers killed on the roads (2004-06 ESR Census of NZ road deaths)
   2. Cannabis is the top factor in youth with mental health issues
   3. Compulsory Employee Drug Testing has dropped the staff turnover rate by more than half in forestry firms, with great benefit to families of employees who now remain regular jobs.
4. Support the Seabed and Foreshore remaining as Public Domain.
   This measure that guarantees ongoing public access has been United Future policy for 3 elections, and was agreed by National and the Maori Party as the solution to this icontentious issue that had bitterly split New Zealanders. Public Domain is superior to State Ownership as it prevents sale or long-term exclusive leases of sections of the Seabed & Foreshore. The extreme minor parties still want to overturn Public Domain in order to impose alternatives beneficial to their vested interests.
5. Drug and alcohol rehabilitation courses for all prison inmates with addictions, that.continue up to 2 years beyond release. This measure has the abiliy to reduce crime more than any other measure, but will take at least five years to produce significant resulrs. About two thitds of NZ prisoners re-offend, compared to one-third for many other developed countries. 85% of prisoners have addictions, but only 15% get courses while in prison, so the rest soon re-offend. The majority will participate in rehabilitation courses, especially if parole become conditional on testing as drug free. The support must continue for up to 2 years after release to ensure re-integration as a law-abiding contributor to society.

No issues on file for Pratima Nand.