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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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19 March, 2025
Newmarket and Parnell safety bolstered with proceeds of crime
"Some good news for Auckland this week. We’re using the proceeds of crime to make the city’s business districts safer," says MP for Epsom David Seymour.
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18 March, 2025
ACT looks to stand candidates in local council elections
Today ACT Leader David Seymour announced the Party is seeking expressions of interest from New Zealanders to stand for their local council under the ACT banner.
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14 March, 2025
ACT in the engine room behind new infrastructure projects
ACT MP and former civil engineer Simon Court is welcoming the suite of projects announced at the Investment Summit set to capitalise on new and improved private infrastructure delivery pathways.
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13 March, 2025
International students forced to pay up to $5,730 for compulsory Treaty course
ACT’s Tertiary Education spokesperson Dr Parmjeet Parmar is calling on Auckland University to scrap its compulsory ‘Waipapa Taumata Rau’ course, covering the Treaty of Waitangi and traditional Māori knowledge systems, after discovering that international students are being forced to pay thousands of dollars for it.
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12 March, 2025
Banking Inquiry exposes $600 million rural lending squeeze
ACT’s Rural Communities spokesperson Mark Cameron is calling on the Reserve Bank to scrap its restrictive banking capital requirements, after banking bosses admitted these rules have added billions in extra costs to borrowers – hitting farmers the hardest.
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12 March, 2025
Councils need to follow Govt’s lead on procurement
ACT Leader David Seymour is calling on local councils to ditch complex procurement rules, in line with today’s announcement for central government from the Economic Growth Minister.
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10 March, 2025
Can your efforts make a difference?
For many people, the ACT Party began with them reading Richard Prebble’s excellent classic I’ve Been Thinking. The book is nearly thirty years old but the heart of the party is summed up as the line ‘this is not like bad weather’; you can change your future.