ACT Party
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ACT New Zealand
Rōpū ACT |
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| Leader | David Seymour |
| President | John Thompson |
| Deputy Leader | Kenneth Wang |
| Founder | Roger Douglas and Derek Quigley |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters |
27 Gillies Avenue, Newmarket, Auckland |
| Student wing | Young ACT |
| Ideology |
Classical liberalism Right-libertarianism Conservatism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Yellow and blue |
| MPs in the House of Representatives |
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| Website | |
| www.act.org.nz | |
ACT New Zealand is a free market political party in New Zealand. The party's current leader is David Seymour. It was briefly led by former[update]National Party leader and Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash for the 2011 New Zealand general election. According to the former[update] party leader Rodney Hide, the party stands for "individual freedom, personal responsibility, doing the best for our natural environment and for smaller, smarter government in its goals of a prosperous economy, a strong society, and a quality of life that is the envy of the world".
The name comes from the initials of the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, founded in 1993 by Roger Douglas and Derek Quigley, from which the party grew in 1994. The party is commonly known by the acronym "ACT" and pronounced as a word rather than as initials.
ACT bases its philosophy on individual freedom and on personal responsibility. ACT states its principles as:
Former leader Don Brash promised to focus the party on controlling government debt, equality among all New Zealanders, and rethinking the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. Under previous leader Rodney Hide, ACT New Zealand had primarily focused on two main policy areas: taxation and crime.
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