NZ Outdoors & Freedom
NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party
Not in Parliament Founded 2015
Leader
Sue Grey
Freedom, health, happiness and compassion as our measures of success.
0
Seats
0.0% of 123
Overview
The NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party combines environmental and outdoor-recreation advocacy with a civil-liberties “freedom” platform. It campaigns to keep rivers and lakes clean and publicly accessible and against water privatisation, and states positions opposing 1080 poison, water fluoridation and vaccine mandates while supporting medicinal cannabis. It holds no seats in the current Parliament.
History
Co-founded in 2015 by Alan Simmons and freshwater-angling advocate David Haynes as an environmental and outdoors party, it registered in 2017. Lawyer Sue Grey joined the leadership in 2020 and the party took on anti-1080 and anti-mandate campaigning, was renamed in 2022, and joined the Freedoms NZ umbrella in 2023. It has never won a seat.
Founded in 2015 as the NZ Outdoors Party, registered in 2017, and renamed the NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party in 2022.
Core values
Keep freshwater fresh, and rivers and lakes full and publicly accessible
Water belongs to the public and is not for sale
Protect the natural character of waterways and the conservation estate
Oppose 1080 poison and water fluoridation
Oppose what the party calls vaccine mandates, and support medicinal cannabis
Greater media accountability and restored public trust
Where they stand
Tap an issue to read NZ Outdoors & Freedom’s position on it, in our words with their source. 4 of 11 topics have a recorded position.
NZ Outdoors & Freedom on Health
Against mandates, fluoride; support medicinal cannabis freedom
This party says the government should not force people to have vaccines or medical treatments they do not want. They oppose putting fluoride in drinking water and oppose COVID-19 restrictions. They support people being able to access medicinal cannabis. They believe each person should have the right to make their own health choices without government pressure.
What they say they'll do
- End COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates
- Stop fluoride being added to drinking water
- Protect every person's legal right to refuse medical treatment
- Support access to medicinal cannabis
- Enshrine bodily autonomy as a supreme legal right that no future government can override
Who this affects
People who opposed vaccine or medical mandates
The party would make it a supreme legal right to refuse any medical treatment, meaning no government could legally require vaccinations or other procedures.
People who drink tap water
The party opposes fluoridation, so their policy would mean fluoride would not be added to the public water supply.
Medicinal cannabis patients and users
The party supports medicinal cannabis, indicating they would maintain or expand access to it as a health option.
In their own words
“Opposition to fluoridation of water, COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates, and 5G; support for medicinal cannabis.”
“Permanently enshrine the New Zealand Bill of Rights as supreme law, so no future government or emergency declaration can bypass or strip away individual liberties... bodily autonomy, and the right to refuse medical treatment.”
Summarised neutrally from NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party’s own official policy (as at 2026-07-16) and checked by an editor. Nothing is paraphrased without the source linked. Read the original ↗ Arapono is non-partisan. Compare all parties on Health →
Leadership
Sue Grey
Leader
At a glance
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Founded2015
Sources
Seat counts from the 2023 General Election (Electoral Commission). Party background from parliament.nz and official party records. Leadership verified against the parliament.nz member roster. Leader photo: Sam Hudson (Thisquality), CC BY-SA 4.0 (source ).