• 28 March, 2025

    ACT welcomes moves to take ideology out of healthcare, recognise overseas qualifications

    ACT Health spokesperson Todd Stephenson is welcoming a review of health workforce regulations, including 1) a review of complex cultural requirements, and 2) the progress of an ACT coalition commitment to better recognise people with overseas medical qualifications and experience for accreditation in New Zealand.

  • 27 March, 2025

    Teaching Council shouldn't be policing political speech

    “The Teaching Council should throw out a vexatious complaint against a teacher who expressed a political opinion online”, says ACT Education spokesperson Laura McClure.

  • 26 March, 2025

    Cuddles for crims out, rights for victims in

    Welcoming the third-reading passage of sentencing reforms today, ACT Justice spokesperson Todd Stephenson says:

  • 26 March, 2025

    Tauranga City Council spends $180,000 on a film that no-one's watched

    "Finally, Tauranga ratepayers can watch the $180,000 documentary the Council produced to promote its $306 million redevelopment of the civic centre," says Tauranga-based ACT MP Cameron Luxton.

  • 26 March, 2025

    Tamatha Paul needs to talk to normal people

    ACT Police spokesperson Todd Stephenson is calling on Green MP Tamatha Paul to host a public meeting on law and order in her electorate to find out what normal people think about the Police.

  • 24 March, 2025

    This might be the most important thing the Government does

    Welcoming Cabinet’s agreement on the shape of laws to replace the Resource Management Act, ACT Leader David Seymour says:

  • 24 March, 2025

    The most important thing the Government will do

  • 23 March, 2025

    KO needs more powers to evict unruly tenants

    “It’s totally unacceptable that a Kāinga Ora tenant with 25 complaints of anti-social behaviour, six formal warnings, and police callouts has retained their taxpayer-funded tenancy”, says ACT’s Housing spokesperson Cameron Luxton.

  • 21 March, 2025

    ACT welcomes investigation of banking cabal

    Welcoming news that the Commerce Commission is launching an investigation into the influence of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance on New Zealand’s banking sector, ACT Rural Communities spokesperson Mark Cameron says:

  • 20 March, 2025

    Efforts pay off with economic growth

    "It's official: the economy is growing," says ACT Leader David Seymour in response to new gross domestic product figures from Stats NZ showing 0.7 percent growth in the three months to December.

  • 19 March, 2025

    Is police abolition official Green Party policy?

    ACT Justice spokesperson Todd Stephenson is calling on the Green Party to confirm it does not support police abolition.

  • 19 March, 2025

    The Oppression the Left Forgot

    Free Press regrets to inform you that the DEI brigade missed a large oppressed group. This group has disastrous education statistics, lives years less than the national average, in part because of their high suicide rates, and is far more likely to be arrested, charged, sentenced, and imprisoned.