The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand unveiled its 2026 election manifesto at the party's annual general meeting, held at Auckland University of Technology's Manukau campus in south Auckland on 26 July 2026.

The 43-page document was developed by party members and sets out the Greens' priorities for the 2026 general election. It covers climate action, democracy, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, incomes, and digital technology.

Co-leader Marama Davidson told the AGM the manifesto contains issues needing attention "now and over the next three years." She said the party would "make sure that people have affordable lives, that we protect nature to be healthy, [and] that we return politics to being honest to make decisions for all of us."

Davidson also outlined the party's fiscal pitch. "We will tax the super-rich and address corporate greed so that we can invest that back into the services that people rely on," she said. She described the manifesto as covering "broad issues" while signalling some longer-term ambitions.

The party's 2026 campaign slogan is "For All of Us." Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick told the AGM the slogan was intended for both supporters and "people we don't know and even those we don't like."

"What we believe, very fundamentally, is that we are not just here to fight for the basic human rights to access food and healthcare and shelter and education and job opportunities for the people that we know and like, but also for the people we don't know and even those we don't like," Swarbrick said.

The manifesto launch followed the Green Party's earlier call for a one-year pause on new AI data centre consents until stricter national rules are in place. Swarbrick used her AGM speech to press the case, telling attendees that AI data centres do not offer long-term employment.

"Experience overseas has shown AI data centres extract local water supplies and give back sludge. They extract an enormous toll on the power grid, driving up electricity prices for regular people and local industry," Swarbrick said. She summarised the party's position bluntly: "They extract power, they extract water, and they extract profit."

Swarbrick took aim at "powerful men" who she said made decisions to increase profits for the few, and told the AGM she could not think of a "better metaphor" for the "current economic insanity" than AI data centres.

The party's website is already directing supporters to its candidate lineup, featuring the call to action "Meet our candidates for the 2026 election!" (greens.org.nz).

The broader context here is a manifesto that threads together several distinct policy strands the Greens have been building over the term. The AI data centre pause proposal, raised before the AGM, has now been folded into a manifesto chapter on digital technology alongside the party's more familiar ground on climate, Te Tiriti, and income redistribution. That gives the Greens a single document to point to when those individual policies come up during the campaign.

The "For All of Us" framing is worth noting for what it signals about the party's positioning. Swarbrick's emphasis on fighting for "people we don't know and even those we don't like" reads as a deliberate counter to any perception that the Greens campaign only for their own base. Whether that message lands with voters outside the party's core support is a question the campaign itself will answer.

The choice of venue also carries its own signal. South Auckland is not traditional Green territory in the way inner-city Wellington or Auckland central electorates tend to be. Holding the AGM at AUT's Manukau campus puts the party's launch in a community where cost-of-living pressures and access to services are felt acutely, which aligns with Davidson's framing around affordable lives and taxing the super-rich to fund public services.