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$600 Billion In Assets, $200 Billion In Debt, $0 In Sense
Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 10:40 am | ACT New Zealand
Altogether the Budget was best summed up by Damien Grant as ‘minding the welfare state.’ The last Government spent a fortune but most results got worse. Some like ACT would rather cut the spending back, but the Government is a coalition. More >>
Benefit Exploitation Just Got A Lot Harder
Monday, 26 May 2025, 7:07 am | ACT New Zealand
Today marks the launch of new benefit sanctions, including electronic money management. This has been an ACT policy since 2017, and in 2023 National agreed to include it in our coalition agreement. More >>
David Seymour: Budget Day Speech 2025
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
Government spending has a diabolical power: Time travel. The Government can spend money now and put the debt in a fiscal Tardis. Into the future, goes the debt, one day landing on taxpayers who might just be starting on their ABCs this afternoon. More >>
Budget 2025 Saves To Invest In What Matters
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 2:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Regulatory Standards Bill is part of the Budget package. It will make government justify regulating the use and exchange of your property, or be called out. It means Kiwis spend less time on paperwork and are freed up to innovate, hire, and generate ... More >>
ACT Welcomes Authorisation For Inquiry Into Social Media Harm, Urges Caution On Blanket Ban
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 4:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
"Any inquiry should examine lessons from other countries enforcement attempts, such as Australia with its planned ban. Online safety is important, but so is workability, privacy, and avoiding unintended consequences.” More >>
ACT Welcomes Urgent Care Boost Made Possible By Savings Across Government
Sunday, 18 May 2025, 2:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
Expanding urgent and after-hours care means better access for patients, less pressure on emergency departments, and more choice – especially in rural and regional areas. More >>
Public Sector Union Out Of Touch With The Reality Of Real Work
Friday, 16 May 2025, 3:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
The idea that Wellington bureaucrats should be entitled to stay home in their pyjamas while the taxpayers funding their inflated salaries head into work each day is frankly insulting. More >>
ACT Welcomes Law Change To Tackle Benefit Dependency And Restore Accountability
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 4:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
The law introduces new non-financial sanctions within the existing Traffic Light System, targeting a persistent minority who are capable of working but refuse to engage. More >>
Young Tradie To Take ACT MP’s Seat In Youth Parliament
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 1:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
Fletcher is currently training through MITO, with a focus on agricultural and horticultural equipment – work that keeps the region’s farms and orchards running smoothly. More >>
ACT Leader David Seymour: Address To Craigs Investment Partners
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 1:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
Inflation and interest rates have been beaten back. Government doesn’t control every factor influencing them, but we can control our own spending. The Government’s commitment to spend less and maintaining that discipline over four years has helped ... More >>
Greens Launch Reckless Attack On Family Farming
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 6:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
Either the Greens just dislike farmers, or they forgot about us when scribbling new taxes on the napkin. They've decided anyone who owns a decent slice of land is a rich prick, says ACT MP and dairy farmer Andrew Hoggard. More >>
Greens Want To Fund Their Socialist Wishlist By Letting Criminals Walk Free
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 1:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
“I’m disappointed, but not surprised, that this is the latest wacky idea from the Greens. This is the same party that fundraises for prison and police abolition groups, criticises increased beat patrols and lies about how many people are in prison ... More >>
Fiscal Fantasyland: Greens' Budget Shows Why We Need Financial Literacy In Schools
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 12:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
"Anyone with a mortgage understands that when you're deep in debt, you end up spending so much on the interest that you can't cover the essentials. We’re already burning through nearly $9 billion a year just to pay the interest on Government debt." More >>
ACT Backs Legal Certainty For Fiordland’s Successful Hunter-led Conservation
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 12:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Fiordland Wapiti Foundation has spent years doing what government departments struggle to do. They manage the herd, trap pests, maintain huts, and protect native species like the blue duck/whio. And they do it all without asking taxpayers for ... More >>
ACT Backs End To Corrosive Public Sector DEI Appointments
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 10:34 am | ACT New Zealand
"If you're vying to become a public service boss, it shouldn't matter whether you're brown, white, or blue. What matters is whether you are competent to deliver the services we expect for our taxes," says ACT Public Service spokesperson Todd Stephenson. More >>
ACT Invokes "Agree To Disagree" On Firearms Registry Review
Sunday, 11 May 2025, 1:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
"As we push ahead with that process public safety remains at the heart of what we are doing,” Nicole McKee says. More >>
New Bill Targets Sexually Explicit Deepfakes
Sunday, 11 May 2025, 1:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
It amends the Crimes Act 1961 and the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 to expand the definition of 'intimate visual recording' to explicitly include images or videos that are created, synthesised, or altered to depict a person’s likeness ... More >>
ACT Welcomes Review To Rein In Activist Waitangi Tribunal
Friday, 9 May 2025, 2:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Tribunal's recent conduct is one reason why we need the Treaty Principles Bill. While some politicians weren’t ready for that debate, ACT will continue pushing for all New Zealanders to be equal before the law, not a partnership between races.” More >>
Whanganui’s ‘Citizens' Assembly’ Is A $20,000 Dodge Of Democratic Duty
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 12:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
The council has outsourced its job to 40 unelected, unaccountable anonymous individuals, to do what elected councillors are already paid to do. More >>
ACT Welcomes ACC's Change To Race-Based Targets
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 7:04 am | ACT New Zealand
"ACT takes 'need, not race' seriously. We negotiated this approach as a coalition commitment, and we expect to see our coalition commitments delivered”, Welcoming ACC’s move, ACT MP Laura McClure says. More >>
