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Easter Trading Bill: Poll Shows Broad Support For Freedom To Trade
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 10:31 am | ACT New Zealand
The scientific poll suggests 64% of New Zealanders support allowing shops to trade on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, compared to 27% opposed and 9% who are unsure. More >>
Farmers And Miners Deserve Credit For Wafer-thin Growth
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 12:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
This long winter will make way for spring. Inflation, while still high, is tracking down. And so long as we stay the course together, interest rates will come down too. More >>
Occupation Of Tōwai School Site Erodes Property Rights
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 5:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Private property rights warrant protection, yet again we see their flagrant erosion,” says Northland-based ACT MP Mark Cameron in response to the occupation of the Tōwai School site. More >>
Rural NZ Empowered By ACT With Week Of Wins
Saturday, 15 June 2024, 1:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT is celebrating a series of announcements to empower rural New Zealand. More >>
Statement On Rural Banking Inquiry
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 12:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP and Primary Production Committee Chairperson Mark Cameron is acknowledging the Government’s request that the Committee open an inquiry into rural bank lending practices. More >>
ACT Team Fronts Up At Mystery Creek To Hear From Rural New Zealand
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 9:17 am | ACT New Zealand
“When rural New Zealand is free to flourish, all New Zealanders are better off. So this week, the ACT team will be at Fieldays hearing from the growers and innovators who get up at crack of dawn each day to keep our bellies full and our economy humming. More >>
Farmers Now Valued, Not Sacrificed To Climate Gods
Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 11:35 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT is welcoming the announcement of legislation to keep agriculture out of the emissions trading scheme. More >>
Brooke van Velden's Speech At ACT's 'Change Makers' Rally
Sunday, 9 June 2024, 7:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
This speech was delivered at Change Makers, ACT's 2024 rally at the Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland, on 9 June. More >>
Andrew Hoggard's Speech At ACT's 'Change Makers' Rally
Sunday, 9 June 2024, 7:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
This speech was delivered at Change Makers, ACT's 2024 rally at the Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland, on 9 June. More >>
Karen Chhour's Speech At ACT's 'Change Makers' Rally
Sunday, 9 June 2024, 7:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
This speech was delivered at Change Makers, ACT's 2024 rally at the Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland, on 9 June. More >>
Nicole McKee's Speech At ACT's 'Change Makers' Rally
Sunday, 9 June 2024, 7:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
This speech was delivered at Change Makers, ACT's 2024 rally at the Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland, on 9 June. More >>
Freedom To Flourish - David Seymour's Speech at ACT's 'Change Makers' Rally
Sunday, 9 June 2024, 7:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
This speech was delivered at Change Makers, ACT's 2024 rally at the Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland, on 9 June. More >>
Oil And Gas Ban Goes Up In Smoke
Sunday, 9 June 2024, 12:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Taking full advantage of the resources at our disposal will allow us to get electricity prices under control, ease the cost-of-living crisis for the families who are struggling most, and grow the economy with international investment.” More >>
Adrian Orr’s Browbeating Is Out Of Line
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 4:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Adrian Orr's job is to tackle inflation and regulate for financial stability, not to browbeat banks for supporting a thinktank he disagrees with,” says ACT Finance spokesperson Todd Stephenson. More >>
Feilding School Using Children As Political Pawns
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 3:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Here we have school administrators using their publicly-funded position to push other people’s kids into anti-Government activism,” responds ACT Education spokesperson Laura Trask. More >>
Karen Chhour Responds To Te Pāti Māori
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 1:53 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Rawiri Waititi and the Māori Party’s regular divisive outbursts are incredibly disappointing – they’ve permanently lowered the standards of debate in our Parliament, and I feel sorry for them”, says ACT MP Karen Chhour. “It is deeply disappointing ... More >>
Easter Trading Debacle As Local Policies Lapse
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 9:17 am | ACT New Zealand
"A law change in 2016 gave local councils the option to set their own Easter Sunday trading policies, on the condition that they must review those rules within five years of implementation," explains Mr Luxton. "Failing that, the policies are revoked ... More >>
Paul Henry To Address New Zealanders At ACT Rally
Friday, 24 May 2024, 4:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT's 2024 rally, Change Makers, will take place at Auckland's Viaduct Events Centre at 12:30pm on 9 June. More >>
ACT Welcomes Plans To Drill, Baby, Drill
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 4:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT’s Energy and Resources spokesperson Simon Court is welcoming the Coalition Government’s draft minerals strategy, which includes the following commitments made in the National-ACT coalition agreement: Updating the Crown Minerals Act 1991 ... More >>
Activist Mayors On A Hiding To Nothing Over Māori Wards
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 1:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
A group of mayors have written to the government claiming that reintroducing referendums for Māori wards is an 'overreach on local decision-making'. More >>
