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Carbon Auction Farce Why ACT Will Cut The Carbon Tax
Monday, 7 September 2026, 5:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
Sensible climate policy should preserve jobs and an affordable life while ensuring New Zealand does no more than the countries we trade and compete with. More >>
Scrap Net Zero, Cut The Carbon Tax
Sunday, 6 September 2026, 1:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court says New Zealand’s climate policy should reward efficient Kiwi businesses rather than push production offshore. More >>
Keep New Zealand Moving
Friday, 4 September 2026, 12:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT believes government should focus transport spending on movement, safety and resilience, demand value for every project, and then get out of the way of the people who build, drive and invest." More >>
Labour Promises To Protect The Bureaucracy, Whatever The Cost
Wednesday, 2 September 2026, 4:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand does not need more bureaucracy to decide whether the bureaucracy should be smaller. We need parties prepared to cut the waste and grow the country. More >>
OCR Hike Should Kill Wellington Complacency
Wednesday, 2 September 2026, 3:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s $10.4 billion budget hole would set off inflation and interest rates like a rocket. Hello again, 2022, with a Labour Government pouring fuel on the fire, inflation and interest rates would be much higher. More >>
Parties Urged To Back Small Businesses
Wednesday, 2 September 2026, 1:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
“My Bill would introduce protected negotiations, allowing an employer and employee to discuss ending an employment relationship by mutual agreement, including an agreed compensation payment." More >>
No New Taxes Doesn't Mean No New Solutions
Tuesday, 1 September 2026, 8:50 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders do not want and cannot afford new taxes, that’s why the bed tax is now ruled out not only by ACT, but lately by National, too,” says ACT leader David Seymour. More >>
ACT’s New Immigration Policy To Put ‘Reside’ Back In ‘Resident’
Tuesday, 1 September 2026, 8:23 am | ACT New Zealand
"New Zealand is, and should be, a welcoming country for migrants, but the privileges of permanent residence must reflect a real and lasting connection to our nation,” says ACT’s Immigration spokesperson Dr Parmjeet Parmar. More >>
Even The Public Service Knows Government Is Too Big
Tuesday, 1 September 2026, 7:56 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government is too big and too complicated for a country of our size. It costs too much and delivers too little, leaving people angry," says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Plenty Is Possible: ACT To Bring Abundance To Our Fisheries
Sunday, 30 August 2026, 2:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
We live in a bloody paradise & we need to look after it. ACT will unlock the potential of our fisheries so our oceans support more fish, more opportunity and better fishing for generations to come, says ACT’s Conservation spokesperson Cameron Luxton. More >>
Qiulae Wong Shows How Chris Hipkins Will Fill His $10.4 Billion Hole
Friday, 28 August 2026, 11:53 am | ACT New Zealand
“A Party Vote for ACT isn’t just a vote to lock Labour out. It’s a vote to lock out their tax-hungry coalition partners too." More >>
Upper Hutt Council Should Let The People Decide On Māori Ward
Thursday, 27 August 2026, 2:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
“We’ll only move forward as a country when we stop obsessing over the race of the person solving the problem – and instead focus on solving the problem itself,” says ACT Candidate for Remutaka and regional councillor Nigel Elder. More >>
Landmark Social Media Settlement Shows Better Way Forward
Thursday, 27 August 2026, 2:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Protecting children online is a serious problem, that’s why ACT pushed for Parliament to investigate the issue. We are now seeing a genuine, realistic solution take shape," says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Unlocking New Zealand's Digital Economy
Thursday, 27 August 2026, 12:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
New technology is changing how businesses raise capital, how people invest, and how money moves around the world. Tokenised assets can open up new sources of investment. More >>
ACT To Scrap Costly Climate Bureaucracy, Abolish The Climate Change Commission
Wednesday, 26 August 2026, 12:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT will put an end to this duplication and fold the responsibility to assess New Zealand’s progress towards emissions targets into MCERT." More >>
The Case For A Cancer Hospital
Tuesday, 25 August 2026, 9:43 am | ACT New Zealand
Healthcare spending is already staggering. At $34 billion this year, it dwarfs Education ($20 billion) and Superannuation ($25 billion). There will 30,000 cancer diagnoses in New Zealand this year, 45,000 in 15 years’ time. More >>
An Unserious Solution To A Serious Problem
Monday, 24 August 2026, 3:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
Protecting children online is a serious problem. Unfortunately, the National Party have hitched their wagon to a terrible solution. The ban they propose won’t work, and the side effects will leave us worse off. More >>
Association Of Consumers And Taxpayers Strikes Again
Sunday, 23 August 2026, 5:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The National Party has seen the light , and adopted the sensible position of no new taxes. While we welcome this development, we know that were it not for ACT, both a bed tax and a bank tax would have been put in place last Budget," says ... More >>
One Law For All With One Future Together
Sunday, 23 August 2026, 1:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
One law for all means the same rights, the same duties, and the same protection under the law. That is how we build One Law for All with One Future Together. More >>
Back To The Future, With A CGT To Boot
Sunday, 23 August 2026, 12:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
If we want New Zealand to be the best little country in the world, we need a smaller, more efficient government that focuses every dollar on results, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
