The Freedom Party (NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party) is proud to announce the candidacy of Alistair Wait for the Northland electorate & as a list candidate.
Alistair Wait brings a wealth of experience to the campaign, having spent many years researching and teaching constitutional history, common law, equity, and tikanga Māori. His work has focused heavily on the constitutional foundations of Aotearoa New Zealand and the complex relationship between the people and the State.
Throughout his career, Alistair has worked closely with individuals, whānau, and communities as they navigate the challenges of courts, trusts, land ownership, governance and nuanced questions of native sovereignty. He describes his approach as a “bridge walker”, an individual committed to moving between diverse legal, cultural, and political worlds to foster understanding and bring critical, often difficult, conversations into the public sphere.
Alistair was an outspoken advocate of “do not vote” during the last general election, reflecting a deep-seated dissatisfaction with a political system. His decision to stand with the Freedom Party in 2026 is rooted in a new perspective.
“What has changed is the opportunity to campaign openly for direct democracy and meaningful constitutional change,” says Wait.
Alistair holds the firm belief that representative government should not be synonymous with surrendering political power for three-year intervals. He has long advocated for the adoption of systems similar to Switzerland’s, where citizens hold the power to decide significant national & local questions through binding referenda.
For Alistair, this campaign represents more than just a move into electoral politics; it is a vital opportunity to elevate constitutional questions and community experience into decisions. “Political authority ultimately belongs to the people,” says Alistair.
About the Freedom Party
The Freedom Party (New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party) has been a registered party for 11 years and advocates for individual liberty, democratic reform, and the protection of New Zealand’s natural heritage. It recently took the Electoral Commission to the High Court to fight to simplify its name on the ballot to ‘Freedom’ and awaits the outcome of this case. Either way it will be the only political party on the ballot paper with the word ‘Freedom’ in its name www.freedom.kiwi
I was thinking of voting for Freedom.
But not anymore after this news:
“Cannabis use in 20s and 30s linked to earlier onset of psychosis, study finds.”
https://www.noticer.news/cannabis-study-earlier-onset-psychosis/
You cannot condemn the medical damage by the COVID vaccines while at the same time legalise the damage by self administering camnabis.
Mind as well rename it as the Cognitive Dissonance party.
Yes. Lets deny everyone else the beneficial uses of cannabis because of a study, most likely made, to find the results they were looking for.
Vote for someone else then. Weed should be decriminalised for personal use, not legalised for corporate profit.
You obviously haven’t even read the article.
Psychotic much already?
I read the article. I’m not saying that this doesn’t occur. I’m just sceptical of this finding when the article talks about it’s affect on onset of psychosis. So, people that have a family history of psychosis may have onset earlier. Whether the cannabis is causal and to what level is debatable.
Do I need to point you to the mountains of evidence of harm from alcohol?
And yet, no political party is calling for that to be made illegal are they?
As the old saying goes, it’s ok to drink your drugs. innit?
Probably 70% of the people i know have used or do use cannabis. I don’t know a single one that has gone on to have psychosis. The vast majority of them are very successful in their professions.
Birds of a feather eh? You pro cannabis people absolutely crack me up. Zaggaz I have read a lot of your comments and I never would have guessed you’re a stoner…..😂😂😂
There are multiple cases in New Zealand where someone has been murdered by someone who is suffering from cannabis induced psychosis.
Any time I hear people pipe up about medical cannabis etc etc I switch off.
There are so many better natural therapies available that help with all the things that people claim cannabis helps with.
After my close experience with people who have smoked cannabis or consumed it, and how I have witness the change in behaviour, sometimes extremely dangerous, I will NEVER support the use of cannabis. What goes up must come down.
So yah I won’t ever vote for people who want it legalised or support its use.
And anyway a vote for a minor party is a wasted vote sorry to say. Better to join one of the existing partied and influence from within.
Lucky I dont require your permission to use cannabis I get mine on script from my dr
And your cannabanoid system is clearly depleted
It’s just another drug like all the other crap that comes from a script – learn to heal properly with lifestyle, diet and appropriate exercise
Learn how to exist in your pure natural state without being under the influence of something- that’s the most truly powerful thing you can do.
Ride with Larry
Well I haven’t indulged for a while, but I do enjoy it.
Love the judgement though
So brave of you to post a load of shit as anonymous.
Now take your anti-cannabis lies and crawl back under your rock.
Oh retard . You’re lame absolutely lame and pathetic
Cannabis has been used for 3000 years.
Have another beer mate
Alcohol is poison invented to stupify the population and waste their money on purchasing it. Try being high on life – much better than substances that alter your mind and warp your thoughts
Ride with Larry.
You’re willfully ignorant
You obviously don’t understand how Direct Democracy works. The “party” does not dictate the decision – the voters decide via referendum. It would be the end of the current regime where the “party” makes all sorts of promises, doesn’t keep any of them, and passes legislation to benefit a small subset of society.
It would be good if all the minor parties supporting Direct Democracy formed an umbrella organisation to campaign under and to promote Direct Democracy for the next election. They would need to put into place a public information campaign about how Direct Democracy works and try to break down the ignorance, inertia, fear of change and the multigenerational acceptance of the current fake democratic system.
There are alternatives to the fake democracy party political system. Direct Democracy works well in Switzerland, a small multi-cultural society which is very successful. A system based on the Swiss model modificated for New Zealand’s idiosyncrasies would be a great improvement on the Westminster fake democracy model currently running the place.
Maybe the wokesters living in “Aotearoa” who practise tikanga (whatever that is) will vote for them.
I don’t think real New Zealanders will.
Hooch f*cks up your lungs and can make you wheeze horribly at night and make you cough like hell and makes you a muttering talk-to-yourself fool with dim-witted ideas that just don’t make sense when you’re straight. It f*cks up teenagers and twenty-somethings and turns them into dead-beats with no ambitions or any real purpose or planning-ahead mentality. Makes over-fifties depressed and “what’s the point” down for a good two weeks solid if giving it up cold-turkey then gradually you come right and liven-up.. Then get another ounce and you’re back to square one and soon enough annoyingly heading back for another two weeks of cold-turkey sh*t ahead again if you don’t get yourself another ounce. Pro’s are soothed aches and pains with zombied muscle relaxation, off-the planet oragsms and mind-blowing music and mood-lifting appreciation of small everyday things that when straight are just unseen and non-important… It also kills your dreams during sleep. Can make you a dumarsed driver but can on the flip-side make you a safer more cautious driver… Make your choice…
If you want to sooth aches and pains you’re better off sunbathing and taking Epsom salt baths. Cheaper or free and there’s no mood changing behavioural problems
He should have stayed true to “do not vote”.
Let Freedom reign in New Zealand.
Would have to be a better bet than Opportunity
You mean Tax Opportunity Party……?
Looking more and more to me, at least, like the Green Party 2.0. I’m going with the New Conservatives, they have their act together, are not a hippie magnet and don’t want to make the middle class “pay for everything”…..
As for TOP, Nats and Labour, well I’d rather vote for the New Satanists Party……
Wasted vote
If yo vote for more of the same that’s the biggest waste imaginable at this point. Of course, that’s why the 5% threshold exists, its a not only a vote stealing mechanism, it there to shape the attitudes of the sheeple towards change.
So your tiny brain is stuck on the idea of supporting a “party”.
Why not support Direct Democracy – it would be the end of the fake democracy party politics. The voters would decide the outcome, not some “party” members.
And the winner is…. The NZ Company Church (Knights of Malta) Parliament. It’s the system,stupid.