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Government adopts ACT vape policy
Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 1:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour has welcomed the Government’s decision to legalise nicotine e-liquid without excise tax. More >>
Productivity Commission endorses ACT’s plan to build houses
Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 12:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Productivity Commission has endorsed housing affordability policies ACT outlined in January , says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Productivity Commission endorses ACT’s plan for housing
Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 11:12 am | ACT New Zealand
The Productivity Commission has endorsed housing affordability policies ACT outlined in January , says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Free Press: ACT’s regular bulletin
Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 9:56 am | ACT New Zealand
David Seymour spoke at ACT’s Lower North Island conference in Palmerston North this weekend. His message? Intergenerational politics is not about proving one generation is more thrifty/hard done by/has a better work ethic than the other, but a question ... More >>
Free Press:ACT’s regular bulletin
Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 10:23 am | ACT New Zealand
David Seymour spoke at ACT’s Lower North Island conference in Palmerston North this weekend. His message? Intergenerational politics is not about proving one generation is more thrifty/hard done by/has a better work ethic than the other, but a question ... More >>
Why is National increasing taxes?
Monday, 27 March 2017, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand
Forget Bill English’s tax cut tease: National continues to raise tax by stealth using bracket creep, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
National betrays supporters by letting Māori Party rewrite RMA
Friday, 24 March 2017, 1:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
National Party supporters will be incensed to see how Nick Smith’s deal with the Māori Party grants iwi new rights to interfere with resource consent applications. More >>
National says ‘NO’ to effective RMA reform
Thursday, 23 March 2017, 3:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
Just hours after ACT and UnitedFuture offered the government a way out of the Māori Party’s chokehold, National has rushed into ill-advised and unpopular changes to the RMA. More >>
Green Party practical joke on millennials voted down
Wednesday, 22 March 2017, 5:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is glad to see a stunt bill by the Green Party rejected by parliament,” says ACT Leader David Seymour, “Perhaps now we can focus on the real issues that have put housing out of reach for young New Zealanders.” More >>
ACT pays tribute to John Key
Wednesday, 22 March 2017, 3:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour has paid tribute to former Prime Minister John Key on the day he is set to deliver his valedictory speech. More >>
National, NZ First crush FinTech innovation
Wednesday, 22 March 2017, 2:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
National is suffocating the emergence of a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry in New Zealand, says ACT Leader David Seymour. National last night voted to continue treating P2P lending platforms as though they are traditional lenders. More >>
Free Press: ACT’s regular bulletin
Tuesday, 21 March 2017, 10:27 am | ACT New Zealand
RMA Schemozzle Continues The Resource Management Legislation has hit the wall, with the Māori Party severely overplaying their hand. More >>
Fix the RMA, fix the housing crisis
Friday, 17 March 2017, 9:49 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour has today revealed amendments [attached] that will vastly improve the latest round of Resource Management Act reforms. More >>
ACT calls time on the National-Maori Party fling
Wednesday, 15 March 2017, 3:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT will seek to remove onerous iwi consultation requirements from proposed RMA reforms. ACT Leader David Seymour has drafted a Supplementary Order Paper [attached] to make these changes. More >>
ACT will end traffic congestion
Wednesday, 15 March 2017, 11:04 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT is the only party with a plan to end traffic congestion, says ACT Leader David Seymour. The TomTom Traffic Index 2017 has revealed the country's traffic is now worse than Hong Kong. More >>
And you thought RMA reform couldn’t get any worse
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 3:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
The latest Resource Management Act reform won’t be any more effective than the previous 18 reforms to the Act, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Seymour challenges Parliament on abortion law reform
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 11:20 am | ACT New Zealand
“I have always believed in personal choice, and that extends to the issue of abortion,” says Seymour. “Morally, abortion is about a woman’s body and her choice. Practically, prohibitions on this choice have had horrible consequences such as child neglect ... More >>
Getting councils to focus on their core business
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 11:16 am | ACT New Zealand
Auckland Council must focus on its core business after the water crisis highlighted Auckland’s failing water infrastructure, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
ACT Sets the Agenda
Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 8:06 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Sets the Agenda ACT set the Superannuation agenda this week. The news from Tuesday seized on our message of intergenerational fairness, specifically the observation that National’s delay in raising the age of entitlement to 67 would cost $58 billion, ... More >>
National must cut taxes before, not after, the election
Monday, 13 March 2017, 12:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
The government cannot put tax cuts at risk by delaying them until after the election, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
