Press Releases

"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.

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

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.