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ACT will open electricity networks to competition, give New Zealanders more freedom to generate and sell power, and make monopoly lines companies prove consumers are getting value before loading more costs onto their power bills, says ACT spokesperson for Energy and Resources Simon Court.

“Victoria University has been caught taking compulsory fees from students and handing $1,700 to the university branch of the Labour Party. This is exactly why ACT will make Student Services Fees voluntary,” says ACT Tertiary Education spokesperson Dr Parmjeet Parmar.

“GDP figures showing the economy grew 0.2 per cent in the June quarter are good, but we need to go further and faster if we are going to balance the books and secure Kiwi households’ prosperity,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.

"Te Pāti Māori has promised a $1 billion energy fund without identifying a dollar of savings to pay for it. Unless it can explain what it would cut, that means another billion dollars borrowed and another bill left for the next generation,” says ACT Energy and Resources spokesperson Simon Court.

“Today’s release of Green-Party style policies from parties to break up supermarkets and ‘ban price-gouging’ shows desperate and visionless campaigning driven more by focus group than economic policy,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.

Commentators are already calling this a tax election. As the OG No New Taxes Party, ACT, the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, we would welcome such an election.