ACT leader David Seymour warns he won't allow National to "lazily roll over Labour's policies" if they form a coalition after the next election.
On Sunday, the same day he addressed his party supporters at their annual conference in Wellington, Seymour announced ACT's plan for the first 100 days of Government - and it includes a "laundry list of reversals".
"Five times National has followed Labour into Government, and five times Labour's policies have comfortably survived the change. It's the corrosive slump of easy options that's given us New Zealand today," Seymour said in a statement.
"ACT is on track to play a powerful role in the next Government. We won't allow National to lazily roll over Labour's policies like it has in Governments gone by. National will need to learn how to share with a larger and more powerful coalition partner than it's had before."
Seymour described New Zealand as a "high-tax, low-growth ethno-state" with poor productivity and one of the largest diasporas of any developed country.
"ACT has a laundry list of reversals we will fight for in Government," he said.
"The list will grow as Labour continues to inflict damage upon New Zealand. But the examples show why we need a strong ACT to ensure we get real change."
In its first 100 days in Government, ACT would:
- Repeal Three Waters, returning ownership to councils
- Repeal the Māori Health Authority
- Reserve Bank Act changes: Giving the Reserve Bank two targets (price stability and employment) with one tool (the Official Cash Rate), was illogical. These changes have let inflation back and should be reversed
- Scrap the 39c tax rate and we should simplify to a two-rate tax system as in ACT's Real Change Budget
- Stop the Public Interest Journalism Fund. At $55 million over two years it's not large enough to help or hinder the media as much as many suspects. However, it is pernicious enough to destroy faith and trust in our institutions
- Repeal the Zero Carbon Act along with it goes the associated ute tax and the Tesla subsidies
- Mortgage interest deductibility, the bright-line test, and Residential Tenancies Act changes would go
- Bring back 90-day trials
- Bring back three strikes
- Bring back charter schools
- Overturn the ban on oil and gas exploration
- Get rid of so-called Fair Pay Agreements
- Get rid of hate speech laws (if introduced before the election)
- Nullify changes to live animal export bans
- Nullify the anti-property right Crown Pastoral Lease reforms
- Oranga Tamariki - Section 7AA, says it's more important a child is placed with its iwi than anything else, it would go.
