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09 April, 2025
Government restraint offers hope to firms, farms, and families
“Spending restraint is paying off. The Reserve Bank has just delivered its fifth interest rate cut running, and households will start to see mortgage rates beginning with a four."
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08 April, 2025
Waking up from a greenwashed corporate welfare nightmare
ACT is celebrating the Government's decision to wind down New Zealand Green Investment Finance.
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08 April, 2025
Public sector should embrace 90-day trials
ACT is encouraging public sector organisations to make use of 90-day employment trials, once a law change announced today allows for it.
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08 April, 2025
Treaty Principles Select Committee
The truth is Select Committee submissions almost never reflect reality anyway. People are far more likely to submit in opposition to a bill than for it. Submissions on David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill were ninety per cent opposed, but it passed a referendum by two million votes to one million. A similar story played out with abortion law reform.
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07 April, 2025
Finally, NZ can be taken seriously on defence
“This is a major win for New Zealand’s security and a testament to ACT’s push for a robust defence posture. We’ve campaigned for two percent of GDP on defence for years, and today’s plan finally delivers.
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07 April, 2025
ACT continues to drive real change in the latest quarterly plan
“ACT’s contribution to the Coalition Government’s Quarter Two Plan shows ACT’s continued outsized role in delivering real change,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
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05 April, 2025
'Decolonising' deadlines: Waikato law faculty undermines excellence with automatic extension policy
ACT can reveal that Waikato University’s law faculty is giving students an automatic 10-day extension for assessments submitted past deadline.
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04 April, 2025
Over 300,000 Treaty Principles Submissions, and not a glove laid on Equal Rights
“The Treaty Principles Bill Select Committee report confirms what ACT has long said. There are no good arguments against people being equal, and more people making bad arguments does not improve them,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
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03 April, 2025
ACT welcomes wider ANZAC Day recognition of service
ACT’s Defence Spokesperson Mark Cameron is welcoming the first reading passage of the ANZAC Day Amendment Bill, which expands recognition to New Zealanders who served in conflicts and peacekeeping operations after the Vietnam War, saying it reflects how many Kiwis already commemorate the day.
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03 April, 2025
ACT celebrates law change to liberate builders and embrace international materials
ACT is welcoming the passage of the Building (Overseas Building Products, Standards, and Certification Schemes) Amendment Bill, which delivers on ideas ACT campaigned on in 2023.
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01 April, 2025
Moves to rein in public sector bloat welcomed
“Too many government agencies are trying to do too many things. Bureaucratic mission creep sees taxpayer money wasted on nice-to-haves, duplicated across different departments. Basic services are neglected even while headcounts balloon.
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01 April, 2025
If it Pleases the Gods
The Greens have gone (more) insane. Last week one Green MP effectively said police patrols are worthless. The Press Gallery finally rounded on them, because young people in Central Wellington know the world can be a dangerous place and a few coppers are a welcome sight at night.