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ACT Welcomes Investigation Of Banking Cabal
Friday, 21 March 2025, 3:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
The banking alliance is a woke cabal. It co-ordinates banks into aligning lending practices with net-zero emissions goals, and this affects local lending practices, especially in the rural sector. More >>
Efforts Pay Off With Economic Growth
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 12:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
Firms, farms, and families have made tough sacrifices in a cost-of-living crisis, but now they're starting to see the fruits of their efforts. Inflation is under control, interest rates are getting lower. More >>
Is Police Abolition Official Green Party Policy?
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 3:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
At best, Tamatha Paul has deluded herself. At worst, she is using her platform to actively misinform her followers and make them more likely to support radically pro-crime policies like police abolition, ACT Justice spokesperson Todd Stephenson said. More >>
Newmarket And Parnell Safety Bolstered With Proceeds Of Crime
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 9:31 am | ACT New Zealand
Hon Nicole McKee and Hon Simeon Brown have announced that $1.3 million from the Proceeds of Crime Fund will advance anti-crime measures across central Auckland, including lighting, CCTV, and increased security patrols. More >>
ACT Looks To Stand Candidates In Local Council Elections
Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 3:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
Today ACT Leader David Seymour announced the Party is seeking expressions of interest from New Zealanders to stand for their local council under the ACT banner. More >>
ACT In The Engine Room Behind New Infrastructure Projects
Friday, 14 March 2025, 1:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The private sector brings innovation, expertise and capital – both domestic and international – that drives faster delivery of better infrastructure that stands the test of time." More >>
International Students Forced To Pay Up To $5,730 For Compulsory Treaty Course
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 3:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
Auckland University should be focused on academic excellence, not ideological box-ticking. It’s time to let students decide what’s best for their education, ACT’s Tertiary Education spokesperson Dr Parmjeet Parmar said. More >>
Banking Inquiry Exposes $600 Million Rural Lending Squeeze
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 2:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
“BNZ’s CEO understated the cost of these rules by a factor of nine due to a calculation error. He told the Select Committee the cost was around $200 million, but the real figure is closer to $1.8 billion – with $600 million of that burden falling on ... More >>
Councils Need To Follow Govt’s Lead On Procurement
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand
“It’s absurd that councils are forcing traffic management operators and pipeline technicians to explain their commitment to Te Tiriti, or their approach to climate change, or their recycling practices." More >>
Chris Hipkins’s Deck Chair Speech
Friday, 7 March 2025, 1:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A new ‘economic team’ of Labour MPs, a new ‘jobs and incomes’ portfolio for Ginny Anderson, talking to ‘experts’ and ‘unions’ – none of this is real change. More >>
‘Need Not Race’ Approach To Bowel Cancer Screening Will Save Lives
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 9:26 am | ACT New Zealand
“It was true that a higher proportion of bowel cancers occur in Māori and Pacific peoples at a younger age, but that is because the overall demographics of those groups are younger. It has always been age that determines bowel cancer risk, not race,” ... More >>
Patient Wellbeing Threatened By Treaty Ideology
Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 12:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT is optimistic that in Simeon Brown, we have a Minister with the guts to get the Treaty ideology and wokeism out of the health system and restore focus to the needs of the patient. More >>
Calls To Ditch NCEA Tests Expose A Deficit In School Leadership
Monday, 3 March 2025, 11:26 am | ACT New Zealand
NCEA exists to offer real knowledge and skills, and set real standards – not to give qualifications to everyone. Testing against real standards makes the system accountable, ACT Education spokesperson Laura McClure says. More >>
Four-Year Term: A Chance For A More Mature Democracy
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 10:49 am | ACT New Zealand
The legislation is modelled on a draft Bill produced by ACT, and a commitment to advance it to select committee was secured in ACT’s coalition agreement. More >>
Pitiful Return On Govt Assets Should See A Re-think
Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 4:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
The government owns $571 billion in assets and nets just $2.2 billion in dividends and rents. That pitiful return becomes a loss once you consider the interest cost of borrowing to fund those assets, CT Finance spokesperson Todd Stephenson said. More >>
Chinese Live Fire: A Wake-Up Call For NZ’s Investment Priorities
Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 11:14 am | ACT New Zealand
“Australia’s defence spending has already surged above 2%, heading to 2.4% by the end of the decade. We need to do our part and work with our friends to effectively direct our investment, so that we can be taken seriously as an ally worth defending”, ... More >>
ACT Welcomes Further Debate On Banking Wokery
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 4:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
“In the meantime, ACT will continue to make the case for tackling woke banking practices at the cause. That includes the Net Zero Banking Alliance, which major banks in the United States, Canada, and Australia are rightly fleeing." More >>
ACT MP Congratulates Labour MP For Pro-Freedom Bill
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 1:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
A Labour bill I can get behind! It would give us a little more freedom over the Easter Weekend, allowing pubs and supermarkets to sell beer and wine without the current nanny state restrictions. Adults will be treated like adults, capable of making their ... More >>
Government Must Keep Cutting To Keep Interest Rate Relief Coming
Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 2:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Households who’ve done it tough through a cost-of-living crisis are seeing their sacrifices pay off. Today’s good news can be credited in part to New Zealanders’ financial discipline, which has eased inflation and made mortgage relief possible," ... More >>
Real Change Boosts Farmer Confidence, But Paris Commitments Still Cause Concern
Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 12:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Finally, we’ve got a Government committed to letting farmers farm, and it’s clear the real change ACT's delivering is resonating with rural New Zealand,” says Mr Cameron. More >>
