United Future New Zealand   Guiding Principles

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  GENETIC MODIFICATION

  1. General Principles
  2. Family
  3. Education
  4. Health
  5. Finding Futures
  6. Economy
  7. Law & Order
  8. Immigration
  9. Electoral System
10. New Zealand Superannuation
11. Drug Abuse & Dependency
12. Golden Plan for Positive Ageing
13. Treaty Issues
14. Caring for Kids
15. Young New Zealanders
16. Information Technology
17. Environment
18. Transport
19. Arts & Culture
20. Local Government
21. Emergency Services
22. Foreign Affairs & Defence
23. Government that Works
 
 

immigration

A strategically balanced immigration policy offers an opportunity to not only provide New Zealanders with a sound immigration plan, but to also integrate the policy with other strands of economic and social policy.

United Future will:

  • develop a 10 year population policy to provide a blueprint for developing and enhancing a modern multi-cultural New Zealand. The key themes will be:

    • promoting inclusiveness
    • encouraging migration
    • providing support for migrants through integrated migration settlement programmes
    • ensuring population requirements are met through appropriate immigration approval numbers.

  • set a minimum of 60,000 immigration approvals per annum to achieve a net immigration gain of 10,000 per annum

  • encourage more foreign students to undertake study in New Zealand, and enable them to gain permanent residence once they have graduated and found permanent employment in New Zealand.

  • remove the present restrictive and discriminatory English language test and replace it with a standard English test specified by their employer

  • make additional English as a Second Language (ESL) resource available for schools on the basis of need

  • devise new, comprehensive immigrant settlement programmes, in consultation with the Federation of Ethnic Councils.


If you require more information about this or other United Future policies, please contact the United Future NZ Parliamentary Unit, Parliament Buildings, Wellington; email ; telephone (04) 471 9041.