• 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 07 March, 2025

    Chris Hipkins’s deck chair speech

    Responding to Chris Hipkins’s State of the Nation speech, ACT Leader David Seymour says: “It was a deck chair speech. All the changes he’s proposing involve politicians and bureaucrats being reorganised, and will have no effect on actual people.

  • 06 March, 2025

    ‘Need not race’ approach to bowel cancer screening will save lives

    “The move to reduce the eligibility age for free bowel cancer screening to 58 is ‘need, not race’ in action, and will save lives,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.

  • 05 March, 2025

    Patient wellbeing threatened by Treaty ideology

    “Regulatory bodies in the health sector are using the Treaty to justify putting ideology ahead of patient wellbeing and validated science,” says ACT Health spokesperson Todd Stephenson.

  • 04 March, 2025

    The Week the World Changed

    The Trump-Zelensky-Vance conflagration was extraordinary. Trump is elected and the U.S. is a sovereign nation. They can act however they like, so we’re not passing judgement.

  • 04 March, 2025

    Calls to ditch NCEA tests expose a deficit in school leadership

    “We’ve tested literacy and numeracy and discovered big problems. A normal response would be to look at how our schools are equipping kids with these basic skills. Instead, we’ve got principals wanting to hide from reality and ditch the tests that expose the problem.

  • 27 February, 2025

    Four-year term: a chance for a more mature democracy

    ACT Leader David Seymour is welcoming the announcement that legislation enabling a four-year Parliamentary term will advance to select committee.

  • 25 February, 2025

    Pitiful return on govt assets should see a re-think

    Taxpayers are losing money on the government’s asset sheet, and it’s time to ask serious questions about what assets the government actually needs to own,” says ACT Finance spokesperson Todd Stephenson in response to the release of The People’s Portfolio, a New Zealand Initiative report.

  • 25 February, 2025

    The Most Important Fact Schools Don’t Teach

    Schools are teaching children all sorts of things, but so far as we are aware they are not teaching the most important fact of human life. The fact they’re not teaching this fact tells us how mindless education has become, and it limits children’s thinking.

  • 25 February, 2025

    Chinese live fire: a wake-up call for NZ’s investment priorities

    “Chinese war ships engaging in live fire in the Tasman Sea ought to be a wake-up call for our investment priorities,” says ACT Defence spokesperson Mark Cameron.