ACT New Zealand
Libertarian party focused on free markets, personal freedom, and reducing government size.
Policy Positions
ACT's Cost of Living Policy
ACT proposes tax cuts funded by reducing government spending, removing regulations that inflate the cost of goods and services, and allowing more competition in markets like groceries. They support repealing the Grocery Industry (Improving Competition) Act and instead enforcing existing commerce law.
ACT's Housing Policy
ACT proposes to dramatically liberalise planning rules to allow building anywhere, remove density restrictions, abolish the RMA, and use infrastructure levies to fund growth. ACT also supports removing First Home Grants, arguing they inflate prices.
ACT's Health Policy
ACT proposes to introduce competition into healthcare through a mixed public-private model, give patients more choice through health vouchers, publish hospital performance data, and reduce health bureaucracy to redirect funding to frontline services.
ACT's Education Policy
ACT's flagship education policy is charter schools (now called partnership schools), where private operators can run publicly funded schools with more flexibility. They support school choice, merit pay for teachers, publishing school performance data, and reducing the curriculum to core subjects.
ACT's Taxation Policy
ACT proposes significant income tax cuts funded by reducing government spending, a flat tax of 17.5% for income under $70,000, and abolishing inheritance tax. They oppose all new taxes including capital gains and wealth taxes, and want to simplify the tax system.
ACT's Economic Policy
ACT advocates for a smaller state, lower taxes, deregulation, and free markets as the path to economic growth. They propose significant cuts to public spending, privatisation of state-owned enterprises, and removing barriers to business and investment.
ACT's Immigration Policy
ACT supports more open immigration for skilled workers, removing barriers to immigration that the market needs, and a merit-based system focused on economic contribution. They oppose refugee quotas and support faster processing of visas to reduce business uncertainty.
ACT's Climate Policy
ACT accepts that climate change is occurring but argues New Zealand's contribution to global emissions is too small to justify costly domestic action. They propose scaling back climate regulations, exiting the ETS or fundamentally reforming it, and opposing binding international climate commitments.
ACT's Environment Policy
ACT supports property rights-based approaches to environmental management, voluntary conservation, reforming the RMA to reduce compliance costs, and opposing what they call 'extreme' environmental regulations. They want environment rules based on sound science, not precaution.
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ACT's Crime & Justice Policy
ACT supports three strikes sentencing, keeping serious criminals in prison longer, opposing early parole, enforcing gang patch bans, increasing the number of police, and focusing criminal justice on punishment and victim rights rather than offender rehabilitation.
ACT's Transport Policy
ACT strongly supports road investment funded by road user charges, opposes subsidised public transport, supports highway expansions and new motorways, and argues the market should determine transport choices without government favouring one mode over another.
ACT's Infrastructure Policy
ACT supports infrastructure funded by the users who benefit through road user charges, water user charges, and public-private partnerships. They oppose government borrowing for infrastructure and support removing consenting barriers that delay private infrastructure investment.
ACT's Employment Policy
ACT strongly supports flexible labour markets, opposes minimum wage increases above market rates, supports 90-day trials for all employers, opposes Fair Pay Agreements, and advocates for reducing employment relations compliance to make it easier for businesses to hire.
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ACT's Small Business Policy
ACT's small business policy centres on reducing the regulatory burden, cutting ACC levies, simplifying employment law, reducing minimum wage mandates, and allowing 90-day trials. They argue small businesses are harmed most by overregulation and compliance costs.
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ACT's Agriculture Policy
ACT strongly opposes agricultural emissions pricing, freshwater regulations it deems excessive, Three Waters reform, and what it describes as anti-farming bureaucracy. They support deregulation, voluntary environmental standards, and protecting farm property rights.
ACT's Māori Affairs Policy
ACT's Treaty Principles Bill proposes to redefine the Treaty of Waitangi principles to mean equal rights for all citizens regardless of ethnicity. They oppose co-governance, race-based policy, Māori wards, and argue for a single standard of citizenship.
ACT's Foreign Policy
ACT supports deeper integration with Five Eyes partners, stronger defence spending to meet NATO-equivalent targets, more assertive support for democratic allies against authoritarian states, and exploring AUKUS participation. They are critical of China's influence in the region.
ACT's Energy Policy
ACT supports all forms of energy generation including fossil fuels, opposes politically mandated renewable targets, wants to remove regulatory barriers to new energy investment, and supports nuclear energy exploration for New Zealand. They prioritise energy security and low prices.
ACT's Social Welfare Policy
ACT supports stronger work obligations, reducing benefit rates over time to incentivise work, time-limiting benefits for able-bodied recipients, community and charity-based welfare over state welfare, and maintaining NZ Superannuation while considering future sustainability.