The Outdoors & Freedom Party's policy platform includes opposition to fluoridation of water,[7] 1080 poison, vaccines, COVID-19 restrictions, and 5G technology.

[8] These newer policy positions have been added to the party's original platform, which aims to protect the environment and New Zealand's "outdoors heritage".

[5] At its launch the party advocated for clean, full and unmodified rivers, greater protection from development for the conservation estate, large game animals to be managed by all hunters for recreation and conservation benefit, removal of ecologically destructive trawling practices within the inshore fishery and a Futures Commission to determine environmental limits to the growth of population, tourism, economy and infrastructure.

[18][19] By the time of the election, Brown was standing as a candidate for the Billy Te Kahika's New Zealand Public Party (NZPP).

[20] In April 2020 the NZPP, known for its belief in a "plandemic" conspiracy, had approached the Outdoors Party about working together but a personality clash between Te Kahika and Sue Grey prevented this.

[21] Within four months the relationship reached a point where Grey alleged that the Outdoors Party had been the target of a harassment campaign by NZPP supporters (which was now in allied with Advance New Zealand).

[22] In April 2020 the party criticised a nationwide lockdown (a response to the COVID-19 pandemic) as "cruel and unreasonable" as it banned hunting and other outdoor activities.

[2] In June 2020, at a rally in Auckland, Outdoors Party supporters claimed that the September 11 attacks were a false flag operation, promoted flat earth theories, and denounced "mind control" and 5G technology.

[23] They also harassed and threatened a young Asian woman who wiped out chalk slogans saying "it's okay to be white" and "all lives matter".

Party member Tracy Livingston tried to ease tension, saying that the young woman was "not the enemy" and that everybody was "naturally racist".

[49] A few days later Sue Grey said that her party would "review" claims made by Counterspin, a far-right media platform with strong links to the broader "freedom" movement and a history of airing conspiracy theories, in a video that attacked Brian and Hannah Tamaki for profiting as the landlords of a Covid testing site.

Amidst other simultaneous signals of disunity between anti-mandate groups, Grey also suggested that there would be room under the Freedoms NZ umbrella for more parties.