ACT
Based only on formal party votes, not personal (conscience) votes, since there's no single party line on those. "Mixed" means ACT came down on both sides of the same policy within that term - e.g. voting for a bill, then later for its repeal.
54th Parliament — Dec 2023 to Sep 2026
Supported
- Reducing regulatory barriers for agricultural chemical and veterinary medicine approvals
- Replacing the Resource Management Act
- Expanding police surveillance and recording powers
- Segregation of high-risk prisoners
- Refocusing councils on core services (removing the "four well-beings")
- Police power to issue move-on orders for begging and rough sleeping
- Lowering tariffs
- Free trade agreements
- Free trade agreement with India
- Faster compulsory land acquisition for public works
- Youth justice military-style academies ("boot camps")
- Family carers as unpaid support rather than paid employees
- Reducing the accommodation supplement for homeowners
- Parental income test for young people on the unemployment benefit
- Blocking tort lawsuits against climate emitters
- Citizen's arrest powers
- Coward-punch is an offence
- English as an official language
- Easing firearms licensing and dealership rules
- Banning gang members from firearms licences
- Fast-track approvals for infrastructure and mining projects
- Expanding charter schools
- Tightening immigration settings
- Regulatory Standards Bill (regulatory quality requirements)
- Less red tape for mining industry
- Looser broadcasting advertising rules
- Making access to sickness/incapacity benefits harder
- Tightening welfare benefit obligations and sanctions
- Streamlined shooting club and range regulation
- Three strikes mandatory sentencing
- Loosening freshwater rules under the RMA
- Extending firearms prohibition order powers
- Expanded firearms prohibition orders (warrantless search powers)
- Gang patch bans and dispersal powers
- Lowering taxes
- Lowering income tax rates
- Group detention powers for mass arrivals
- Extending 90-day trial periods to all employers
Opposed
- Treaty of Waitangi references in legislation
- Three Waters
- Collective bargaining rights
- Crackdown on loan sharks and predatory lenders
- Equal pay for women
- Treaty of Waitangi principles in legislation
- Māori local government wards
- Removing/exempting GST from food
- Regional fuel tax (Auckland)
- Smokefree generation (never legally sell tobacco to)
- Increasing benefit payments
- Fair Pay Agreements (sectoral bargaining)
- Subsidising EV and low-emission vehicle purchases
Mixed
None tagged
53rd Parliament — Nov 2020 to Aug 2023
Supported
- Less red tape for mining industry
- Sharing GST revenue with councils to fund housing infrastructure
- Group detention powers for mass arrivals
- Three strikes mandatory sentencing
- Looser shop trading hours
- Equal pay for women
- Abortion rights
- Conversion therapy ban
- Expanded firearms prohibition orders (warrantless search powers)
- Lowering taxes
- Lowering income tax rates
Opposed
- Limiting appeals against Local Alcohol Policies (community control)
- Three Waters
- Smokefree generation (never legally sell tobacco to)
- COVID-19 emergency and lockdown powers
- Subsidising EV and low-emission vehicle purchases
- Fair Pay Agreements (sectoral bargaining)
- Bank and insurer conduct regulation (fair treatment of consumers)
- Māori local government wards
- Doubling minimum paid sick leave
- Raising taxes
- Raising income tax rates
52nd Parliament — Nov 2017 to Sep 2020
Supported
Opposed
- Tightening firearms licensing, registration and club/range rules (post-Christchurch reforms)
- Bank and insurer conduct regulation (fair treatment of consumers)
- Zero Carbon Act (net zero by 2050 target)
- Increasing benefit payments
- Semi-automatic firearms ban
- Collective bargaining rights
- Regional fuel tax (Auckland)
- Raising taxes
51st Parliament — Oct 2014 to Aug 2017
50th Parliament — Dec 2011 to Jul 2014
Supported
- Crackdown on loan sharks and predatory lenders
- Regulating how shares, bonds and managed funds are sold
- Group detention powers for mass arrivals
- Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims)
- Introducing a sub-minimum youth "starting-out wage"
- Alcohol law reform (Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012)
- Making access to sickness/incapacity benefits harder
- Expanding police surveillance and recording powers
Opposed
Mixed
None tagged
49th Parliament — Dec 2008 to Oct 2011
Supported
- Expanding police surveillance and recording powers
- Raising taxes
- Raising GST rates
- Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims)
- Emissions Trading Scheme (carbon pricing on emissions)
- Immigration Act 2009 (visa, entry and deportation framework)
- Extended supervision for sex offenders
Opposed
Mixed
None tagged
48th Parliament — Nov 2005 to Sep 2008
Supported
Opposed
- Emissions Trading Scheme (carbon pricing on emissions)
- Minimum wage increases
- Election spending restrictions
- Flexible working arrangements rights
- Lowering company tax rate
- Lowering taxes
- Banning corporal punishment of children
- Employment rights for disabled workers (sheltered workshops)
- Treaty of Waitangi principles in legislation
- Māori-specific provisions exemption (Human Rights Act)
- Marriage equality
Mixed
None tagged
47th Parliament — Feb 2003 to Aug 2005
Supported
Opposed
- Nuclear-free zone (ship visits)
- Banning corporal punishment of children
- Restricting prisoner compensation payouts (redirect to victims)
- Flexible working arrangements rights
- Genetic modification moratorium
- Extended paid parental leave
- Restricting non-therapeutic tail docking of dogs
- Collective bargaining rights
- Extended supervision for sex offenders
- Working for Families assistance
- Employment rights for disabled workers (sheltered workshops)
- Clean slate for old convictions
- Smokefree workplaces
- Gambling regulation
- Minimum wage increases
- Increased minimum annual leave (four weeks)
Mixed
None tagged