The Labour website policy page lists only what they've announced as flagship election policies
https://www.labour.org.nz/our-policies/
I had to dig around the site to find their full policy platform, via a link half way down their party information page;
https://www.labour.org.nz/party_info
... which links to a PDF in a Goggle Drive;
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1grZhXiJNoRyoatvp2IOtnU2bu33UyvgK/view
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To say this is embarrassingly amateurish would be unfair to embarrassing amateurs (like me). They could at least host the PDF on their own site, under their own domain name.
In contrast, the Greens website has their full policy platform as a set of proper webpages;
https://www.greens.org.nz/policy_complete_party
Linked from the primary policy page linked from their landing page;
https://www.greens.org.nz/policy
But that site too is shot through with dependencies on US technofascists (see screenshot for examples).
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I'm using Labour and Greens as examples because I lean left, so using the Nat/ ACT/ First websites would be easy to dismiss as partisan sniping.
What I'm point ourt here is that NZ political parties - even the more progressive ones - are still not taking digital sovereignty seriously. Even with everything we've seen over the last 20 years, from Snowden, to collaboration with Orange Stalin and ICE, to the tech billionaires exposed in the Epstein Files.
This needs to change, and *fast*.
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