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Thank you Bjorn Lomborg for your insights - how to get the most benefit by investing in Best Things First. ACT was chuffed to host Bjorn and Roland from Copenhagen Consensus Centre at Parliament this week, to present to around 80 guests. BCR key to good decision making!
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“While other political parties have spent this campaign living in a gangsta’s paradise, ACT has released a law and order policy package that promises tougher consequences, stronger protections, and practical tools to keep New Zealanders safe in their homes and businesses,” says ACT Deputy Leader Nicole McKee.
“ACT has spent the past term restoring consequences for criminal behaviour. We've brought back Three Strikes, scrapped the prisoner reduction target and ended taxpayer funding for culural reports. We’re campaigning to make the next government go further and faster.
“We’ll target repeat offending before more victims are created. ACT will introduce Three Strikes for Burglary, ensuring offenders convicted of a third burglary offence face at least three years in prison without parole. This builds on my work re-introducing Three Strikes for violent offenders.
“I've heard from countless exasperated business owners who are forced to watch criminals walk out the door with their stock, knowing there's little they can do to stop them. They feel like the criminals have more rights than they do to protect their livelihood.
“ACT would change that. Our policy would create a new class of Accredited Security Operators with the power to remove people threatening safety, require identification and detain people in certain circumstances until Police arrive, and issue exclusion notices lasting up to three years across multiple premises.
“The most isolated parts of rural New Zealand will benefit from an additional 100,000 Police patrol hours every year, establishment of a dedicated rural crime unit, and a crackdown on livestock theft and poaching with stronger penalties. We’ll also expand Text 111 coverage to areas where unreliable mobile service can make it difficult to contact emergency services.
“The introduction of a national Working with Children Card will keep children safer and give parents peace of mind when leaving their children in the care of other adults by ensuring vetting and safety checks are kept constantly up to date.
“On top of all that, ACT will protect victims by criminalising coercion through animal abuse in family violence situations, outlaw non-consensual deepfake pornography, end ‘good character’ sentence reductions for child sex offenders. Relocatable noise cameras will help tackle anti-social vehicle noise, while illegal dumping fines will increase to $1,000, or $2,000 for repeat offenders.
“Alongside these measures, ACT will continue reforms aimed at improving court timeliness so victims see justice delivered more quickly and offenders face consequences sooner.
“ACT has spent the last three years restoring consequences for crime. Our policy package will build on that work to make New Zealand a safer place to live, work, do business, and raise a family.”
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ACT will make the Hauraki Gulf a recreational fishing reserve so more families can head out and catch a feed.
Great chat and good company.
Thank you @Pillar_NZ Nathan and Nick for asking great questions about how we got here, the problems we face and how to unlock New Zealand's potential.
Simon Court on Cutting Red Tape, Getting Tough on Crime & Rebuilding New Zealand | EP 055
Is government the biggest roadblock to New Zealand's success?
ACT MP Simon Court joins PILLAR for a conversation on red tape, property rights, crime, welfare reform, and what's holding New Zealand's economy back.
From the RMA and infrastructure to civil liberties, homelessness, and ACT's vision for the country, we get into the policies, the politics, and what's at stake this election.
Less red tape. More freedom. What's the plan?
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Cut the Waste, Grow the Country.
ACT's Fiscal Plan is an honest, credible pathway to less debt, with targeted tax relief.
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ACT Ministers cut $14 billion in wasteful spending, because your money should be treated with respect.
We dig minerals out of the ground overseas, ship them halfway around the world, then use them to build things here.
But try digging them up in NZ and Wellington throws the rulebook at you.
That's bloody nuts.
Today I announced ACT's plan to:
⛏️ Scrap duplicate mining consents
⚡ Keep oil and gas exploration open.
🏗️ Protect property rights and investment from political U-turns.
🌲 Set clear environmental standards and make operators pay for their impacts.
Let's get drilling and digging
Young New Zealanders look across the Tasman and ask, "Why stay here when I can earn so much more over there?"
Australian wages are higher for a few reasons, but a big one is that they're allowed to dig for their wealth.
Today @actparty releases its policy to unlock New Zealand's mineral and energy potential. It's a pathway to higher-paying jobs.
We would make it easier to responsibly develop resources by cutting duplicated approval processes, keeping New Zealand open for exploration, strengthening property rights and investment certainty, and setting clear environmental standards that operators, not taxpayers, are responsible for meeting.
New Zealand has minerals needed for roads, homes, power lines, phones, batteries and modern technology. There is huge demand for them.
If we do not allow Kiwis to meet that demand, other countries will. And they will happily snatch some of our brightest young workers to do the work.
Unlocking New Zealand’s mineral wealth is really about unlocking reasons to stay in New Zealand.
It means restoring hope for people looking to build livelihoods and families here, in a country that says yes to wealth-generating projects and creates jobs that pay accordingly.
Three years ago today, Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel and murdered, raped and kidnapped innocent civilians.
October 7 was not legitimate resistance. It was a terrorist massacre.
Today Labour’s Vanushi Walters chooses to promote recognising Palestine and sanctioning Israel.
Making Israel the target of your political message on the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is extraordinarily callous.
Charity unlocked.
.@actparty will remove the $33,333 cap on tax refunds for charitable donations. New Zealanders who want to give generously to good causes should be encouraged, not held back by the tax system.
ACT will stop spiritual claims stopping homes and infrastructure.
ACT is pledging to ban religious or spiritual observances from resource consent conditions, arguing New Zealand’s planning system should deal with measurable effects rather than spiritual beliefs. chrislynchmedia.com/news-ite…
















