New Zealand prime minister-elect Jacinda Ardern says homelessness, child poverty and having wages that match inflation would be some of the new measures for the new government.
Speaking in her first sit-down interview, on TV3's The Nation, Ms Ardern says New Zealanders are not feeling the benefits of prosperity and the biggest difference between National and the incoming coalition government will be change.
She said the Labour-NZ First-Greens coalition will be active and "won't leave anything to chance".
"Wages are not keeping up with inflation (and) and how can you claim you've been successful when you have growth at roughly 3 per cent, but you have the worst homelessness in the developed world?"
Real measures that the public can rate the government on are important, Ms Ardern said, citing improved waterways, child poverty, homelessness and building 10,000 new homes every year to judge them on.
She also said there would be compromise on Labour's desire for the minimum wage to be raised to $16.50 and New Zealand's First to have it at $20.
"We have common ground and you will see change in this area."
Ms Ardern said despite there being three parties in a coalition, things have come a long way since MMP began in 1996, and there was confidence this would be an "effective and efficient" government.
