Welcome to freedom
For 14 years, our journey has been driven by a single, unwavering goal: ensuring that the people of New Zealand have the ultimate say over their lives, their communities, and their future.
Our evolution reflects the changing battles we’ve faced alongside you:
- The Journey Begins: We originally stepped into the political arena 14 years ago as the NZ Outdoors Party, dedicated to defending access to our great kiwi outdoors for recreation and enjoyment, protecting our environment, and standing up for local communities.
- The Movement Expands: As the political landscape shifted, we stepped up to fight the heavy-handed mandates and top-down government overreach that threatened our fundamental liberties, expanding our banner to become the NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party.
- The Mission Today: Now, the battle lines are clearer than ever. We have listened to your feedback that our name needs to be sharp, instant, and unmistakable. To win the challenges ahead, clarity is our greatest weapon. That is why we are streamlining our name to simply: ‘freedom
The last five years exposed a dangerous flaw in New Zealand's political system. We watched in real-time as our fundamental human rights were trampled on, from freedom of speech, movement and the right to peaceful assembly, to bodily autonomy and the right to refuse medical treatment.
Our current NZ Bill of Rights is important, but because it is just ordinary legislation, a temporary majority of politicians in Wellington were able to override it with a simple vote on a Tuesday afternoon. The courts were powerless to stop them, and everyday Kiwis were left with no immediate recourse.
We plan to ensure this can never happen again. Our core platform will permanently enshrine the New Zealand Bill of Rights as supreme law. By elevating it to the absolute constitutional bedrock of the country, no future government or emergency declaration will ever have the legal power to bypass or strip away your individual liberties. The law will firmly protect the people, and the politicians will be forced to obey the law.
As a party, we have consistently spoken out, stood up, and fought hard on your behalf. Over the years, we have mobilised our members and submitted extensive, detailed paperwork to parliamentary Select Committees, loudly opposing bills and laws that Kiwis do not want.
But our experience exposed a harsh truth: the current consultation process is nothing but a toothless illusion. Time and time again, politicians go through the motions of the Select Committee process, completely ignore the thousands of voices crying out for common sense, and push ahead with their pre-determined agendas anyway. They hear us, but they refuse to listen.
Under Direct Democracy, the fake listening stops. Politicians will no longer be allowed to hide behind toothless consultation loops or ignore the public, because they will no longer hold the supreme power. Instead of wasting time writing endless submissions that just get tossed into a Wellington recycling bin while politicians ram through deeply unpopular laws, the power of veto shifts entirely to you. If a law doesn't have the support of the community, citizens can bypass the politicians, trigger an automatic referendum, and kill the legislation at the ballot box.