National Party leader Christopher Luxon at the party's conference last year. Photo: RNZ / Craig McCulloch
The National Party's caucus and members are gathering in Auckland for its annual general meeting.
It is the party's first big conference since they formed a government with ACT and New Zealand First after last year's election.
Since then, the coalition has progressed a suite of policies in health, housing, education and law and order.
It has scrapped a lot of work the former Labour government started, and tax cuts - the centrepiece of National's election campaign - kicked in this week.
The most recent 1News Verian poll, out in late June, had National as the highest polling party at 38 percent of the general vote.
Its coalition partners ACT and New Zealand First came in on 7 and 6 percent respectively; numbers that would see the coalition re-elected.
National's AGM this weekend will be hosted at the Due Drop Events Centre in Manukau; ticketed at $350 per person and $175 for Young Nats members.
Attendees will hear speeches on Saturday from National Party leader Christopher Luxon, deputy leader Nicola Willis and party president Sylvia Wood.
An economic panel discussion with National Ministers, board elections and 'a conversation' with Luxon and a surprise special guest will follow.
The three-year terms of National Party board members Jannita Pilisi, David Ryan, Stefan Sunde and Sylvia Wood come to an end this year.
The Board Appointments Committee has approved Pilisi, Ryan, Sunde, Wood and Grant Knight as the five candidates for these four positions.
The weekend's programme will also feature panel discussions on health, education, justice, agriculture and infrastructure, housing, building and construction.
It will be Luxon's first annual general meeting as prime minister and his third AGM since becoming National Party leader in November 2021.
He was asked what his message to National Party members would be this weekend at Monday's weekly post-Cabinet media conference.
"Look, it's a government focused on action and delivery. That's what New Zealanders put us in government to do and that's what we're continuing to do.
"We've done a lot in a short period of time. We've got a lot more to do but again, the mantra and the message will remain unchanged: we are here to turn the country around."
