The NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party (“Freedom”) is proud to announce that prominent whistleblower and transparency advocate Barry Young will stand as a candidate for the party in the 2026 General Election.
Barry Young was the database administrator who developed the “pay-per-dose” system for Health NZ. He is better known for whistleblowing when the data showed unexpectedly high post-vax deaths. He was subsequently raided by armed police and charged after speaking out publicly about his concerns.
Barry Young brings decades of specialised technical expertise to his public stance on accountability. Well-known nationally and internationally for his courageous stand, Mr. Young remains locked in an ongoing legal battle through the courts to formally uphold and defend his whistleblower status following his public release of anonymised official health data.
His candidacy comes as the party campaigns for an historic constitutional change to introduce Direct Democracy into New Zealand. This will empower citizens to reclaim their power over government with Citizens Assemblies, Citizens’ Veto on unwanted laws and Citizen-Initiated Lawmaking.
Direct Democracy will strip absolute power away from centralised political elites and put it back in the hands of the public.
In accepting the candidacy, whistleblower Barry Young emphasised the urgent need to overhaul the political machinery anchored in the capital, drawing on his professional background, personal experience from abroad, and his own battles for transparency:
“I was the Oracle database administrator who developed the pay-per-dose system for Health NZ. I saw corruption first hand when I tried to show what I had found in the data, with deaths after the vaccine and how those that I worked for wanted to bury the truth. Data doesn’t lie, it’s just data,” said Mr. Young.
“I lived in Switzerland for a short while and saw how well Direct Democracy worked for Swiss communities. It would fix a lot of issues to have our own version here in New Zealand. Wellington is the center of top-down decision-making, where everyday New Zealanders increasingly feel ignored, over-regulated, and shut out by centralised bureaucracy. We need a radical shift toward direct democracy, true freedom of speech, and uncompromising transparency in our public institutions. I am standing to give a voice to those who refuse to be silenced and to fight for a system that truly serves the people.”
The party’s platform centers heavily on localism, decentralisation, bodily autonomy, and rebuilding public services to prioritise community well-being. Party leader Sue Grey welcomed Mr. Young to the 2026 campaign team, noting that his dedication to public truth makes him an exceptional champion for New Zealand and for the party.
As the campaign builds momentum, whistleblower Barry Young will be focusing his outreach on systemic government accountability, economic relief for everyday families, and championing the constitutional shift to direct democracy.
Great!!! Minister of Health would be perfect for him
He would need a protection squad
But I suppose if he kept away from open air motor cavalcades he would be ok
Good news and well done Freedom Party.
NZ political corruption is gathering pace stealing more of your wealth.
Bryce Edwards reports politicians are illegally using whatsapp and gmail to hide their communication. Erica Stanford was caught using gmail.
Edwards also exposes the link between politicians and supermarkets.
Edwards rightfully calls the NZ Government corrupt!
So when will Freedom increase their exposure and popularity by creating and promoting policies to investigate, publicize, prosecute, and stamp out NZ parliamentarians corruption?
https://youtu.be/fOIuyTRGxxI?si=Ga6XIIVRz9VwNqMl
Wow, well done Barry.
I didn’t even bother reading the article. As soon as I saw this headline, I thought YAHOOOO, YEEEHAAA I can’t believe how happy I am. I’ll definitely vote for the Freedom party.
And now,….. I’ll scroll back up to the top and read through every line and rekindle my admiration for my hero Barry Young
I didn’t even bother reading the article. As soon as I saw this headline, I thought YAHOOOO, YEEEHAAA I can’t believe how happy I am. I’ll definitely vote for the Freedom party.
And now,….. I’ll scroll back up to the top and read through every line and rekindle my admiration for my hero Barry Young
And I’ve read through the whole article. What a great guy. If anybody believes in reincarnation, Barry Young is the reincarnation of Mahatma Gandhi. Barry Young is the hero of our time today
The PHONY nasty smirking weasel-faced RABID-ZIONIST COWARD sack-of-excrement FILTHY LYING SNAKE punk plunket on the bullsh*t “platform” who screamed for the PROSECTION AND JAILING of Barry Young for daring to expose the truth of the dirty criminal globalist band of arsehole big-pharma and establishment government CRIMINALS – will lay low in slimy slippery evasiveness as the two-faced hypocrite he and his cowardly FAKE-ARSED PHONY “platform” cohorts truly are…
Why don’t you tell us what you really think.
I think sor’s lyrics augment perfectly the discourse.
They are gnarly and hilarious.
Your problem if u can’t get the drift.
Is Barry also a stoner?
You seriously are a bell end.
Yes..a very immature bell end. What a useless comment.
It is a real question.
As the rest of the candidates are.
If you di mot jnow the answer stop being a pest.
Maybe there is an argument for under 16’s social media ban.
If he is, then he’s a high functioning stoner.
I’m picking you live in the world where piss-heads are good and people who smoke weed are bad.
A very simple, and simply wrong assumption.
Is Elon Musk a stoner? Would he achieve more if he didn’t smoke weed and take acid?
Was Steve Jobs a stoner? Would he have achieved more if he didn’t smoke weed and take acid?
He’s suffered, endured, still standing. A man of integrity…Integrity is missing in so many of the political players. Seymour for one is desperately trying to jump on the side that is increasingly winning, David wrote a letter to me as I’d supported ACT in the past, such is my disgust with that man i didn’t even read it and threw it in fire. If Barry were in my region I’d vote for him.
Never mind the region, just give NZOFP your party vote
Well done Barry you will definitely get my vote.
Well done 👍. This has secured my vote This man is a patriot.
What a shame that Barry is associating himself with mariguana addicts.
It’s actually tarnishing his reputaruon.
Who are you trying to convince here? The status quo are ruining this country, and all you have is a lame effort at negative connotation.
This is the sort of psychological bs Ardern and her DPMC used on the populace. The problem you have is most people on this site saw through it.
No comment from you on direct democracy and how that could influence the direction New Zealand takes, just personal attacks.
Ain’t voting for stoners.
Got it?
Or do i need to explain to you the psychological amd physical damage of cannabis?
Freedom’s legalize marijuana policy is madness.
Freedom’s leaders need to research the awful health outcomes from legal marijuana in Canada and US. Then delete their legalize policy.
“Empirical and clinical studies clearly demonstrate significant adverse effects of cannabis smoking on physical and mental health as well as its interference with social and occupational functioning.
These negative data far outweigh a few documented benefits for a limited set of medical indications, for which safe and effective alternative treatments are readily available.
If there is any medical role for cannabinoid drugs, it lies with chemically defined compounds, not with unprocessed cannabis plant.
Legalization or medical use of smoked cannabis is likely to impose significant public health risks, including an increased risk of schizophrenia, psychosis, and other forms of substance use disorders.”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6181739/
What an absolute dickhead comment. You obviously have investment in pharmaceuticals. Any sane person will tell you that a naturally grown plant. grown outdoors and in organic matter is a calming, realistic connection to the earth.. Plant grow indoors under lights which pulse at high frequency produce psychosis.
Thanks for your schizophrenic / psychotic reply!
So you’re in favour of the current system where lots of people who smoke weed often buy it from the black market which is largely controlled by the gangs and therefore supports a large, rampant and quite dangerous sub-culture.
Prohibition has never worked. All it does is create a ripe environment for organised crime.
Many of the social issues you include in your argument are not solely the result of cannabis but are the result of a range of issues from poor education, poor nutrition, prescription medications, media influences, poor lifestyle choices and a lack of meaningful purpose in many peoples live.
Cannabis users can and do live very productive lives.
You need to get out more often.
Isn’t it interesting the dope smoking enthusiasts and perhaps profiteers criticize 1 of many studies, and produce a list of line blurring excuses, but NONE of them produce a credible study showing marijuana isn’t devastatingly harmful for those who smoke it regularly.
Personal insults is another favorite of the “nothing to back up their argument’ marijuana supporting brigade.
DIDN’T LIKE THE 1ST STUDY, HERE IS ANOTHER ONE FOR YOU.
Science Health
The effect of recreational cannabis legalization and commercialization on substance use, mental health, and injury: a systematic review:
After screening and risk of bias assessment, 29 studies were included which examined ED visits or hospitalizations for cannabis use or alcohol (N = 10), opioid mortality (N = 3), motor vehicle fatalities or injury (N = 11), and intentional injury/mental health (N = 5). Rates or number of cannabis-related hospitalizations increased after RCL in Canada and the USA. Immediate increases in rates of cannabis-related ED visits were found after both RCL and RCC in Canada. Rates of traffic fatalities increased after RCL and RCC in certain jurisdictions in the USA.
Conclusions
RCL was associated with increased rates of cannabis-related hospitalizations. RCL and/or RCC was associated with increased rates of cannabis-related ED visits, consistently shown across sex and age groups. The effect on fatal motor vehicle incidents was mixed, with observed increases found after RCL and/or RCC. The effect of RCL or RCC on opioids, alcohol, intentional injury, and mental health is not clear. These results inform population health initiatives and international jurisdictions considering RCL implementation.
You’re study is from 2012 before it was legalized in some states.
It says it is not legal in any state in the study.
So why have states in the US moved to legalization?
In any case, I’m sure you must rage against the status quo political parties too, that allow the anti-social behaviour, domestic abuse, driving fatalities, liver problems, health effects, etc that come with the legal sale of alcohol!
Or would that be a case of a minority spoiling it for the rest of the imbibing public?
GREAT ARGUMENT. existing social harms legitimize creating more social harm.
Especially as the new social harm disproportionately affects the undeveloped brains of our youth.
From the conclusion of your study. A definate nod to pharma wanting to control the supply and use of cannabinoids.
Also, the NIH, that back this study are an embarrassment, especially ainve 2020. The USA health system profits off sickness. A healthy person makes no money for the drug companies.
“It appears therefore that it is not the benefit of active cannabis ingredients, but the route of administration, a wider set of indications, and the ritual of use that’s being advocated. Based on the empirical and clinical evidence reviewed here, it seems safe to conclude that, if there is any medical role for cannabinoid drugs, it lies with chemically modified extracts, not with unprocessed cannabis plant.”
The study states “These negative data far outweigh a few documented benefits for a limited set of medical indications, for which safe and effective alternative treatments are readily available. ”
Not sure how that supports big pharma supplying unproved and unapproved cannabis treatments/
Perhaps you could post the FDA testing and approval for marijuana treatment for anything!
But tobacco which kills people is okay? Do you see any of the mainstream parties banning it?
I posted my response above to a similar ridiculous argument.
I’m 66, been growing, smoking and occasionally eating cannabis since 1978, worked my whole life, never been on the benefit, don’t take any pharmaceuticals and avoid the mindless rantings of authoritarian anti-cannabis experts that have never tried it.
Great choice Freedom NZ. Someone who has been at the sharp end of what mainstream politics have done to this country.
Oh and if you have seen the latest think twice about trying to ask Green party candidates questions…..
Barry Young – a man of principle. Exactly the kind of thing that is missing in the current fake democracy party politics political system which is long over-due for change. Direct Democracy is a viable, and necessary alternative to the current model which has become so atrophied, self-centred, ritualised and detached from the people it purports to represent (but never has and never will) that it’s only claim to being a “democracy” is that people get a meaningless vote every now and then.
Alcohol (LEGALISED VIOLENCE, AGGRESSION AND DEATH) and cigarettes(LEGALISED SICKNESS AND DEATH) are fine and dandy apparently! But hey, weed will destroy the world! So lets lock -up these ILLEGAL REEFER ADDICTS up and start some more wars instead… YAY! That’ll show them!
Has anyone bothered to look at what Kelvyn Alp of the NZ Loyal Party has had to endure?… much worse than Barry Young???
https://nzloyal.com/truth-on-trial-forensic-video-analysis-report/
The Mosque Video was fake, but the Mossad murder ops was not!
https://nzloyal.com/press-conference-announcement/
(Note- the below article title was suspected as having been removed by the NZDNS)
https://counterspinmedia.com/blog/gun-control-political-freedom/?no-play=1
Kelvyn Alp- founder of Counterspin media & now the leader of the NZ Loyal Party
https://www.tiktok.com/@nzloyalfor2026/video/7560934797397265684
Very proud of you Barry! You are a hero to us all … New Zealand’s whistle blower – ‘Speaks truth to Power’