Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand

Sixth Labour Government
Ministry of New Zealand
2017–present
New Zealand executive, pictured after their swearing-in
Date formed 26 October 2017
People and organisations
Monarch Elizabeth II
Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters
Member parties Labour Party
NZ First
Greens
Opposition party National Party
Opposition leader
History
Election(s) 2017 general election
Legislature term(s) 52nd Parliament
Predecessor Fifth National Government of New Zealand

The Sixth Labour Government has governed New Zealand since 26 October 2017. It is headed by Labour Party leader and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

Following the 2017 general election held on 23 September 2017, the New Zealand First party held the balance of power between the sitting centre-right National Party government, and the left bloc of the Labour and Green parties. Following negotiations with the two major parties, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters announced on 19 October 2017 that his party would form a coalition government with Labour.[1] That same day, Green Party leader James Shaw announced that his party would give confidence and supply to the 55 seat Labour–NZ First government.[2] The Greens' support, plus the coalition, resulted in 63 seats to National's 56—enough to ensure that Ardern maintained the confidence of the House.

History

Formation

The 2017 general election saw the New Zealand First party hold the balance of power between National and the centre-left bloc of Labour and the Green Party. Following several weeks of negotiations with both National and Labour, New Zealand First announced on 19 October 2017 it would seek to form a minority coalition government with Labour. Confidence-and-supply support from the Greens, negotiated separately with Labour, enables the Government to have a majority in the House of Representatives.[1][2] During the coalition-forming negotiations, Labour agreed to drop its proposed water tax on farmers as part of its agreement with New Zealand First.[3] In return, NZ First agreed to drop their demand for referenda on overturning New Zealand's anti-smacking ban and abolishing the Māori electorates.[4][5] The Greens consented to a confidence and supply agreement with Labour and New Zealand First in return for several concessions, including: a referendum on legalising cannabis, treating alcohol and drugs as a health issue, and various policies to combat climate change.[6][7]

First term (October 2017—present)

In November 2017, Prime Minister Ardern and Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker announced that their government would continue participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations despite opposition from the Green Party.[8][9] That same month, Ardern offered to resettle 150 of the asylum seekers from the former Manus Regional Processing Centre in New Zealand, but was rebuffed by the Turnbull Government in Australia.[10][11] On 20 November, Ardern reaffirmed the Coalition government's commitment to re-enter Pike River Mine with the goal of completing mine recovery by March 2019.[12] Minister for Pike River Re-Entry Andrew Little also announced the creation of the Pike River Recovery Agency.[13]

On 12 December, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced that the Government would be ending National Standards in schools. This decision was welcomed by the teachers' and principals' unions but opposed by the opposition National and ACT parties.[14][15] On 20 December, the Government established a Tax Working Group consisting of several academics, businesspeople, and senior civil servants under the leadership of former Finance Minister Michael Cullen with the goal of reforming the taxation system and alleviating the country's housing crisis.[16] On 22 December, Prime Minister Ardern and Foreign Minister Winston Peters opposed US President Donald Trump's move to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel at the United Nations General Assembly and reiterated New Zealand's support for the Two State Solution.[17]

On 19 January 2018, Ardern revealed that she was expecting her first child in June, and that Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters would serve as Acting Prime Minister while she took maternity leave for a period of six weeks.[18][19] In mid-February 2018, the Government introduced legislation to stop the creation of new charter schools but to allow the 11 existing schools to continue operating while they negotiated options with the Ministry of Education; with Prime Minister Ardern suggesting that the existing schools could convert to "special character" schools.[20][21] In early-March 2018, during a state visit to Samoa, Ardern stated that New Zealand would be seeking to shift away from a 'donor, recipient relationship' with Pacific Islands nations in favour of forming partnerships with these states and introduced a NZ$10 million aid package to Samoa with NZ$3 million going to disaster relief following Cyclone Gita and the rest being allocated to social developmental and education projects.[22][23][24]

On 8 March, 2018, Trade Minister Parker stated her government's intention of ratifying the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, an amended version of the TPP, in Chile.[25] On 3 April 2018, Ardern and Transport Minister Phil Twyford introduced the Government's ten-year draft land transport plan which included a proposed 9-12% a litre fuel tax hike, a proposed 20% fuel tax hike in Auckland, boosting public transport funding by 46%, cutting state highway funding by 11%, and allocating $4 billion over the next ten years to establish rapid transit including light rail with an initial focus on Auckland.[26][27] On 11 April 2018, Attorney General David Parker announced a government inquiry into allegations that the New Zealand Special Air Service had committed war crimes against Afghan civilians during Operation Burnham while stationed in Afghanistan.[28][29]

On 11 April, Attorney-General David Parker announced a government inquiry into the New Zealand Special Air Service's actions during Operation Burnham in Afghanistan in August 2010.[30][31] On 12 April, the government banned future offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand. In addition, Energy Minister Megan Woods clarified that the thirty existing exploration permits would still continue and be unaffected by the ban. New Zealand has 27 oil fields with most being located in the Taranaki Basin. The ban on future oil and gas exploration was part of a coalition agreement between the Labour and Green parties. The decision was welcomed by Greens Co-Leader James Shaw, Greenpeace and Forest & Bird but was criticised by the Mayor of New Plymouth Neil Holdom, and the opposition National and ACT parties.[32][33][34]

On 19 April, Little entered the Pike River Mine portal with two Pike Family representatives to demonstrate that a safe re-entry was possible. He reiterated the Government's promise to re-enter the drift in order to recover evidence and the remains of the deceased miners.[35] On 4 May, Ardern and Housing Minister Phil Twyford stated that the Government would be investing NZ$100 million into combating homelessness. This initiative included investing NZ$37 million into building 1,500 shorter term-homes and NZ$63 million into the Housing First programme; which involves finding permanent homes for vulnerable families and treating addiction and mental health issues.[36][37]

[38] On 11 June, the Labour-led coalition government had abandoned efforts to appeal the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act 2010 (the so-called three-strikes law) due to internal opposition from NZ First.[39][40][41] Ardern confirmed that she would temporarily relinquish her duties to Winston Peters, following the birth of her child, for a period of six weeks. Peters became Acting Prime Minister on 20 June 2018, when Ardern went into labour. Her six-week maternity leave concluded on 2 August 2018.[42][43]

On 1 July 2018, the government announced that it would be implementing its Families Package, which had been signed into law on 15 December 2017.[44][45] The Families Package would increase paid parental leave by 22 weeks and 26 weeks from July 2020; introduce a Winter Energy Payment for beneficiaries and pensioners; paying $60-a-week to low and middle-income families with babies and toddlers; reinstating the Independent Earner Tax Credit; and increasing benefit allowances for orphans, unsupported children, and foster carers.[44][46] The Families Package was criticised by the opposition National finance spokesperson Amy Adams for increasing taxation. In response, Finance Minister Grant Robertson countered that the Government was investing in low and middle-income New Zealanders rather than the "top 10% of earners." Meanwhile, Child Poverty Action Group Susan St John said that "the changes were long overdue but did not go far enough."[44][47]

On 3 July, the New Zealand Educational Institute, the national trade union body for primary teachers, announced that teachers and principals would go on strike on 15 August after the Ministry of Education rejected their demand for a 16% pay rise.[48][49] On 12 July 2018, 30,000 nurses went on strike for 24 hours; the first such nationwide strike in thirty years. The industrial action came after the New Zealand Nurses Organisation rejected the government's offer of a 12.5% pay rise.[50] A few days earlier, 4,000 workers at Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment stopped work for two hours to protest their salaries, their first industrial action in 22 years.[51] On 7 August, nurses voted to accept an offer by DHBs that included pay rises between 12% and 16%, an earlier new pay step for senior nurses, the implementation of Capacity Demand Management (CCDM); and a commitment to pay equity by the end of next year.[52][53][54]

On 14 August, the Government passed the Overseas Investment Amendment Act 2018 which bans the sale of existing homes to non-residents as a means of easing the housing shortage in New Zealand. Australians and Singaporean nationals were made exempt from this ban due to free trade rules. The Bill was supported by Labour and its coalition partners New Zealand First and the Greens but was opposed by the opposition National and ACT parties. It passed its third reading on 14 August by 63 votes to 57 votes.[55][56]

On 30 August 2018, Civil Defence Minister Kris Faafoi announced that the Government was investing into supporting "rapid response teams" in emergencies following a critical Ministerial Technical Advisory Group's (TAG) review of the Government's unsatisfactory responses to the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake and the 2017 Port Hills fires.[57][58]

Election results

The following table shows the total votes* for Labour, plus parties supporting the Labour-led government. For more details of election results, see the relevant election articles.

Election Parliament Seats* Total votes* Percentage Gain (loss) Seats won* Change Majority
2017 52nd 120 1,305,333 50.36% — 63 — 6*

* 'Votes' means party votes only. 'Seats' means both list and electorate seats.

Notes

Significant policies and initiatives

Economic Development, Science and Innovation

  • Established a $1 billion Regional Development Fund.[7]

Education and Workforce

  • Made the first year of tertiary education or training free from 1 January 2018.[59][60]
  • Increased student allowances and living costs loans by $50 a week effective 1 January 2018.[59]
  • Scrapped both National Standards for literacy and numeracy and primary school league tables.[61]
  • Free driver training for all secondary school students[7]
  • Raise the minimum wage to $16.50 an hour in 2018 and $20.00 in 2020[59]
  • Establish the Pike River Recovery Agency with an accompanying ministerial portofolio[59] plus a commitment by minister Andrew Little to re-enter Pike River Mine.[7]
  • New Mana in Mahi program introduced to encourage employers, through wage subsidies, to take on young beneficiaries.[62]
  • Signed a pay equity deal with education support workers to increase pay by 30%.[63]

Environment

  • Hold a Clean Waters Summit to examine water and lake pollution.[59]
  • Introduce a Zero-Carbon Act with the goal of zero emissions by 2050.[7]
  • Establish an independent Climate Commission.[59][7][64]
  • Set a target of planting one billion trees over the next ten years.[65]
  • Re-established the New Zealand Forest Service.[7]
  • Ceased any new oil and gas exploration permits.[32][33][34]
  • Phasing out single-use plastic bags within a year of August 2018.[66]

Finance and Expenditure

Proposed
  • Lower tax rate for small-to-medium businesses to mitigate the effects of raising the minimum wage.[59]
  • Repeal and reform the Reserve Bank Act[7]

Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade

Governance and Administration

  • Establish and Appoint a person to the Governments new Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
  • Submit an electoral bill to parliament to overturn the amount of MP's and remove Maori Seats from Parliament

Health

  • Establish a ministerial inquiry into mental health.[59]
  • Introduce legislation to legalize medical cannabis.[59]
  • Free doctors' visits for all under-14 year olds.[7]
  • Re-establish the Mental Health Commission.[7]
  • Rebuilding the Dunedin Public Hospital by 2026.[72][73]
  • Announced a pilot programme for free counseling for young adults.
  • Signed a pay equity deal for mental health and addiction support workers.

Housing

Immigration

Justice

Māori Affairs

  • Committ to a target that by 2025 that every student from ECE, Primary, Intermediate and Secondary has Te Reo Maori be integrated into their learning.
  • Secondary schools give students the chance to choose Te Reo Maori as a main subject.
  • Ensure that all early childhood, primary school, and intermediate school teachers are provided with an opportunity to undertake lessons in Te Reo Māori.
  • Provide dedicated scholarships to increase the number of Te Reo Maori teachers and ensure that Te Reo Maori is available as an option in all secondary schools.

Primary Production

  • A royalty on exports of bottled waters.[7]
  • Divide the Ministry for Primary Industries into separate agriculture, forestry, and fishing departments.[83]
  • Reducing public funding for irrigation projects while subsidizing existing projects in early April 2018.[84][85][86]

Social Services and Community

Transport and Infrastructure

  • Re-allocate spending towards rail and cycling infrastructure, as well as road safety improvements.[7]
  • Establish light rail to Auckland Airport and to West Auckland.[87][88]
  • Commuter rail in 18 months to Hamilton[89]
  • Commuter rail to Hamilton and Tauranga[90]
  • Commuter rail for Christchurch[91]
  • Retain the Capital Connection from Palmerston North to Wellington .[92]
  • Reduce funding for irrigation projects[7]
  • Feasibility study of moving the Port of Auckland to Northport, Whangarei, and upgrades of road and rail to Northport; as part of Labour–NZ First agreement.[93][94]

Controversies

On March 12, 2018 allegations of multiple sexual assaults at the Young Labour Summer School at Waitawheta Camp in Waihi emerged. It was alleged that a 20-year-old man put his hands down the pants of four sixteen-year-olds on the second night of the camp, which occurred a month earlier. It was reported that there were "mountains of alcohol" present at the camp, and that people under the legal drinking age of eighteen were consuming alcohol. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was not informed of the allegations by party leadership, despite them knowing a month earlier. Support had not been offered to the victims, something Ardern said she was "deeply sorry" for. Ardern did not fire any of her party staffers who failed to act on information of the allegations and inform her. Former Prime Minister of the Fifth Labour Government Helen Clark criticised this response, saying "heads would have rolled" if she was at the helm.

On May 24, 2018, Transport Minister Phil Twyford resigned from his Civil Aviation portfolio after making an unauthorised phone call on a domestic flight as the plane was taking off; a violation of civil aviation laws. The matter had been raised by Opposition Transport spokesperson Judith Collins.[95]

On 24 August, Ardern announced the removal of Clare Curran from Cabinet, and stripped her of her Open Government and Government Digital Services porfolios. These were reassigned to Education Minister Chris Hipkins and Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods respectively. Curran's sacking was the result of her failure to disclose that she had held informal meetings with entrepreneur Derek Handley in November 2017 and February 2018, which could have created potential conflicts of interest. After a poor performance during Question Time during a question from National's Spokesperson for Broadcasting Melissa Lee, Curran announced she was stepping down as Minister for Broadcasting. She was to remain as MP for Dunedin-South, and Kris Faafoi resumed her Broadcasting portfolio.

On 30 August 2018, Customs Minister Meka Whaitiri “stood aside” from her ministerial portfolios as part of an investigation into an allegation that she assaulted a staff member in her ministerial office. Jacinda Ardern announced that Ministerial Services was investigating the allegations. Fellow Labour MP Kris Faafoi assumed the role of Acting Minister of Customs while her associate ministerial portfolios were assumed by their lead ministers. On 20 September 2018, Jacinda Ardern announced that she had fired Whaitiri from all of her ministerial portfolios. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that while aspects of the incident were disputed by Whaitiri, an incident involving Whaitiri manhandling and bullying a new staff member "undoubtedly took place". Kris Faafoi would take over her portfolio of Customs. Whaitiri is to remain as the MP for Ikaroa-Rawhiti.

List of executive members

On 20 October, Jacinda Ardern announced that the Cabinet would consist of 20 members, of which 16 would be from the Labour Party and 4 from New Zealand First. A further five Labour MPs would sit outside of Cabinet, along with three Green MPs.

Ministers

Portfolio Minister Party Start End
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters NZ First 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Agriculture Damien O'Connor Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Attorney-General David Parker Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for Building and Construction Jenny Salesa Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media Clare Curran Labour 26 October 2017 7 September 2018
Kris Faafoi Labour 7 September 2018 Incumbent
Minister for Civil Defence Kris Faafoi Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for Climate Change James Shaw Green 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage Green 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Corrections Kelvin Davis Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Customs Meka Whaitiri Labour 26 October 2017 20 September 2018
Kris Faafoi Labour 20 September 2018 Incumbent
Minister of Defence Ron Mark NZ First 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control Winston Peters NZ First 27 February 2018 Incumbent
Minister of Economic Development David Parker Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Education Chris Hipkins Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for the Environment David Parker Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Finance Grant Robertson Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Fisheries Stuart Nash Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters NZ First 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Health David Clark Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Immigration Iain Lees-Galloway Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Infrastructure Shane Jones NZ First 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Internal Affairs Tracey Martin NZ First 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Justice Andrew Little Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Leader of the House Chris Hipkins Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for Pacific Peoples William Sio Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for Māori Development Nanaia Mahuta Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of National Security and Intelligence Jacinda Ardern Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Police Stuart Nash Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for Racing Winston Peters NZ First 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Revenue Stuart Nash Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Science and Innovation Megan Woods Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of State Owned Enterprises Winston Peters NZ First 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for State Services Chris Hipkins Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Statistics James Shaw Green 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Tourism Kelvin Davis Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Trade David Parker Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister of Transport Phil Twyford Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for Whānau Ora Peeni Henare Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Minister for Women Julie Anne Genter Green 26 October 2017 Incumbent

Under-Secretaries

Ministry Under-Secretary Party Start End
Disarmament and Arms Control Fletcher Tabuteau NZ First 27 February 2018 Incumbent
Ethnic Communities Michael Wood Labour 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Foreign Affairs Fletcher Tabuteau NZ First 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Justice (Domestic and Sexual Violence Issues) Jan Logie Green 26 October 2017 Incumbent
Regional Economic Development Fletcher Tabuteau NZ First 26 October 2017 Incumbent

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