The Action Party Less talk. More action.

The register, edition one

Less talk. More action.

We are a party built around a register, not a manifesto. Every commitment is written down, priced, given a date, and published here, including the ones we miss.

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Every promise here carries a clause number, a cost and a date.

If we cannot show you all three, we will not ask for your vote.

Contents

Six doors into the register

Pick a page. Nothing here is more than one click from the working, the number or the name behind it.

  1. 01 Our Plan to Take Action Five areas. Each one names the deadline and the price. 31 clauses
  2. 02 The Finances Where the money moves, and what pays for it. Four years
  3. 03 How Your Vote Counts MMP in plain numbers, with the seat map to prove it. 120 seats
  4. 04 The Front Bench Three of thirty-one, and the vote that chose them. 3 of 31
  5. 05 The Record, Corrections Included Everything we publish, and every time we got it wrong. Updated
  6. 06 Put Your Name Down Membership, volunteering and donations, in one place. $10 a year

01 Our plan

31 clauses

Drafted, costed and dated before the election, not after it.

Our plan to take action

Five areas, thirty-one clauses. Each one names its deadline and its trade-off, so you can decide whether the price is worth paying. Swipe the deck sideways, or open the clause you came for.

  1. I Clause

    7 clauses

    Health

    Care within the week, not the year

    Nobody waits twelve months for an operation they were told they needed in March. We will fund the public system to a guaranteed treatment time of seven days for urgent care and ninety for planned care, and publish the waiting list every fortnight.

    • Reopen 1,200 beds closed since 2019.
    • Move private patients out of public theatres by 2028, and say how.
    • Pay student nurses while they train, in exchange for four years of public service.
    Deadline
    First hundred days
    Price
    2.7% of public spending

  2. II Clause

    8 clauses

    Housing

    Build where the transport already is

    Land held vacant inside existing town boundaries will be released for housing within twelve months, with one condition: the first home on every site must be affordable, and it must be finished before the last market home is sold.

    • No greenfield release while serviced infill land sits idle.
    • Five-year build deadlines written into every title.
    • Rent assistance indexed to actual rents, not a national average.
    Deadline
    Within twelve months
    Price
    2.2% of public spending

  3. III Clause

    6 clauses

    Work

    A wage nobody has to fall through

    The minimum wage should be a floor, not a negotiation. We will set it at 60% of the median wage, index it annually, and stop exempting the industries that lobby hardest against it.

    • Portable leave entitlements for casual and contract workers.
    • Wage theft enforced as a criminal offence, not a civil dispute.
    • Forty thousand training places funded in the first hundred days.
    Deadline
    1 April 2027
    Price
    1.2% of public spending

  4. IV Clause

    5 clauses

    Transport

    Fix what exists before breaking ground

    Before a new line is announced, every existing line gets a published reliability figure and a funded maintenance plan. New projects are approved only against a completed business case, published in full, in advance.

    • Two-year maintenance guarantee before any new corridor.
    • Bus networks re-tendered on frequency, not on cost alone.
    • Every project over $200 million goes to independent cost review.
    Deadline
    July 2027
    Price
    0.2% of public spending

  5. V Clause

    5 clauses

    Integrity

    Open books, closed revolving door

    Ministers' diaries, meetings and contracts will be published monthly. Former ministers will wait three years before lobbying the portfolio they ran, and donations will be disclosed in real time above a low threshold.

    • Live donation register, updated within seven days.
    • Three-year cooling-off period for ministers and senior staff.
    • A parliamentary budget office that answers to parliament, not the executive.
    Deadline
    First sitting day
    Price
    A rule, not a spend

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02 The finances

Four years

Measured against published forward estimates. Nothing is funded by growth we cannot name.

The finances, in the open

Where the budget moves over a full term, as a share of total public spending. The cuts sit on the same page as the spending, because that is how a budget actually works.

Area Now Year four Change Paid for by
Health 24.1% 26.8% +2.7 Defence equipment deferral
Housing and land 3.2% 5.4% +2.2 Vendor tax concessions
Education and training 16.7% 17.9% +1.2 Consultancy cap
Transport 8.9% 9.1% +0.2 Reallocated capital
Defence 11.4% 9.9% −1.5 Deferred to year five
Consultants and contracts 4.6% 2.8% −1.8 Returned to departments

Net movement

0.0%

Every dollar moved is moved twice: once out of something, once into something. The totals balance, because a budget that does not balance is a promise with a hole in it.

Costed by the party's own budget office. The working papers are available to anyone who asks, and an independent review is commissioned before the election.

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03 The system

How your vote actually counts

New Zealand runs on MMP: two votes, 120 seats, one threshold. It is the most consequential arithmetic in the country, and almost nobody explains it at the door. So here it is, in the order it happens on election night.

01

Your party vote builds the House

The party vote decides how many of the 120 seats each party gets. Not the local race, not the leader, not the last three weeks of advertising. The party vote, on its own, sets the shape of Parliament.

02

Your electorate vote picks a local MP

Your second vote chooses the person who holds your electorate seat. Win an electorate and you are in Parliament even if your party falls under five percent. That single rule has decided governments.

03

Five percent, or one seat

A party needs five percent of the party vote, or one electorate seat, to be in the room at all. Below both lines every vote cast for it is worth nothing when the seats are allocated.

04

Sixty-one seats to govern

A majority is 61 of 120. Under MMP that majority is almost never held by one party, which is why the real contest is the negotiation that starts the morning after the count.

Test the arithmetic

Give us a number and we will show you the seats

Move the slider, or type a party vote. The seat map runs on the real rule: 120 seats, five percent to enter, 61 to govern.

12%

14/ 120

Seat map of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 120 seats

12 percent is 14 seats. That leaves 47 short of the 61 needed to govern, so the next question is who we govern with.

04 The front bench

3 of 31

Candidates are ranked by local members, not by head office.

The three who would hold the front bench

Under MMP you vote for a party, and the party hands you a list. So the list matters. These three would sit in Cabinet on the first day. The other twenty-eight are on the candidates page, each with the vote that selected them.

  1. 01 of 03

    Health

    Amara Rivera

    Leader, and Minister of Health

    Emergency physician for fourteen years, then ran a district hospital through a merger she publicly opposed. Wrote the waiting list clause herself, and has already published the number she will be judged against.

    List place
    1
    Selected by
    Auckland Central members, 14 March
    Clause
    I, Health

  2. 02 of 03

    Housing and land

    Tomas Oyelaran

    Deputy Leader, and Minister of Housing

    Former council planner who resigned over a land reclassification. Spent three years building the vacant land register this platform is costed against, postcode by postcode, and published it before he asked for anything.

    List place
    2
    Selected by
    Wellington members, 21 March
    Clause
    II, Housing

  3. 03 of 03

    Finance and integrity

    Sofia Kwan

    Finance spokesperson, and Minister of Revenue

    Budget analyst in the finance department for eleven years. Left to publish the costing model the last government declined to release, and now keeps the register's numbers, including the ones that make us look worse.

    List place
    3
    Selected by
    Christchurch members, 28 March
    Clause
    V, Integrity

05 The record

Updated

When we get something wrong, the original stays up and the correction is dated.

The record, corrections included

Everything we publish, in the order we published it. A correction is not a quiet edit. It is a new line in the record, dated, and it stays.

  1. 12 October Correction Clause 14 was costed wrong. Here is the corrected figure. We had the health line at plus 2.4 percent. The true figure is plus 2.7, and the difference is $310 million over four years. The working paper is linked, with our error visible in the revision history.
  2. 4 October Research We asked 900 nurses what would actually keep them in the job Pay came third. Rosters came first, by a wide margin. Clause 6 was rewritten the week the results landed.
  3. 27 September Release The vacant land register is now public, postcode by postcode Four thousand parcels, their owners, and how long each has sat empty. This is the dataset our housing numbers are built on.

06 Membership

$10 a year

The only money we ask for. Members choose candidates and can vote to remove a leader.

Put your name in the register

Membership is open to anyone on the electoral roll. Ten dollars a year, one member one vote, and a leader who can be removed by the people who put them there. We do not sell or swap member data, and you can leave in one click.