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Another packed meeting on our campaign tour today in Whanganui - over 600 people on a public holiday. That’s what you call a crowd. There is real momentum building for NZFirst at the grass roots - talking with the people with full halls across the country. One guess if this makes it on the tv news tonight - or will they show every other political party ice-cream eating, standing by themselves, and kissing babies.

There is only one party who will put commonsense restrictions on mass immigration - and who has the backbone to get it done - that’s NZFirst. Weak imitation for political sound bites from other parties will always lead to failure - and any political party who scraps their immigration policy 12 days out from the election proves it. NZ should let in immigrants who we need, not who need us. We need to train, employ, house, assist, and educate New Zealanders FIRST - above all others. NZFirst will make citizenship mean something - after a short grace period only citizens will be able to vote or collect super. Only citizens will qualify for benefits or social housing - others will have to wait ten years. We will limit migration to 20,000 per year and stop the unmanageable mass migration. We will scrap the Accredited Work Visa that currently brings in low skilled workers who work in retail jobs like Pizza Hut or Dominos or vape shops - taking jobs off kiwis. Migration will be only linked to the high skills we need to fill - and to areas that already have the infrastructure to hold them. We need to get serious about our immigration policies to ensure we keep our kiwi culture and get our young people employed first ahead of low skilled migrants that want to bring their families with them. It’s just commonsense - Party Vote NZFirst and let’s put New Zealanders FIRST!

For weeks NZ First have been packing out halls throughout the country. I have not heard or seen one report of one meeting on MSM. We are supposed to have a fair unbiased media, with journalists giving us the facts of what is happening, not their leftie bias. This is an incredibly important election. But our media just report the scandals. They don't show us the positive stuff that our incredibly hard-working MPs, candidates and volunteers are doing. They are a disgrace.

NZFirst Policy Announcement: 50% Targeted Accelerated Depreciation for Manufacturing and Export Sector. New Zealand’s weak productivity growth and insufficient business investment remain longstanding economic challenges. Businesses need modern machinery, technology and equipment to increase output, reduce costs, and compete internationally. New Zealand First is the only party committed to doubling the New Zealand Economy by 2050, and in order to do that we must have policies focused on lifting productivity and gross domestic product. The Government introduced Investment Boost in Budget 2025, allowing businesses to deduct 20% of the cost of eligible new investment assets upfront, followed by normal depreciation on the remaining 80%. The scheme applies to qualifying assets acquired or brought into use from 22 May 2025. The current scheme is a depreciation uplift across all depreciable property. New Zealand First is supportive of targeted new plant, machinery, and equipment with high productivity returns. Industrial machinery and equipment require substantial upfront capital over long timeframes. This means that large upfront capital outlay is required before equipment is operational and that such equipment typically has long payback periods. International evidence clearly demonstrates that front-loaded depreciation for machinery and equipment accelerates capital investment, lifts productivity, and delivers measurable increases in GDP. Like-minded economies already have such policies in play and we need to ensure that our economy is competitive. NZ First will lift productivity by introducing a targeted accelerated depreciation rate of 50% in the first year for new plant, machinery and equipment for the manufacturing sector and targeted export sectors. The policy is not an expansion to the existing Investment Boost, but increases the first year depreciation rate only on new plant, machinery, and equipment, and only for businesses in the manufacturing and targeted export sectors such as primary production - mining, aquaculture, forestry, farming, and fishing. New Zealand First backs our manufacturing sector and value-added export sectors and this policy is targeted to those sectors. Manufacturers across New Zealand and Primary industry production such as farming, fishing, aquaculture, horticulture, and mining will benefit from this policy. This targeted expansion to investment boost complements other New Zealand First economic policies such as reducing the Company tax rate for SMEs from 28% to 20%, the establishment of a Temasek-model $100 billion New Zealand Future Fund, driving the cost of energy down by splitting the gentailers, target tax incentives for international investment into nationally significant infrastructure, incentivising value added dairy manufacturing, establishing a Special Economic Zone at Marsden Point, returning 50% of mining royalties back to their regions, and backing a New Zealand Owned Bank capable of competing with foreign owned banks.