Mark Cameron ACT Climate Change spokesperson It’s promising that the Government has adopted ACT’s long-held policy of recognising on-farm sequestration for climate change. They should adopt the rest of our climate policy and take a practical approach to emissions that doesn’t hammer our agriculture sector. ACT has
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson A Federated Farmers poll released today shows what ACT already knew, New Zealanders back our farmers and reject Labour’s farming tax. The poll conducted by Curia shows that an overwhelming majority of New Zealanders are opposed to New Zealand taking on a farm
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson New research shows that Kiwis are open-minded to the use of genetic engineering advancements to progress our agriculture sector. A survey conducted by Research First showed that those opposed to gene-editing for improved results on-farm are now a small minority, with only 15-19 per
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson The Minister isn’t even interested in the alternatives to lumping farmers into the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which is proven by the Government’s lack of engagement with He Waka Eke Noa. Written Parliamentary Questions show the Minister hasn’t even bothered to
Mark Cameron Dairy farmer ACT Primary Industries spokesperson The ACT Party is today providing some facts for Stuart Nash about rural New Zealand following his disgraceful comments in Parliament yesterday. Nash claimed in Question Time while filling in for Rural Communities Minister Damien O’Connor that Groundswell is a mixture
Mark Cameron Ruawai Dairy Farmer ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson All 10 ACT MPs will be out in support of rural New Zealand at Groundswell events around the country this weekend. We were hopeful after the last Groundswell protest that the Government might finally start listening. But Jacinda Ardern and
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Production spokesperson The Government needs to answer how it’s going to meet its pledge to cut biogenic methane emissions. The Government has pledged to cut biogenic methane by 10 per cent on 2017 levels by 2030, and by between 24 to 47 per cent lower
Mark Cameron ACT Rural Affairs spokesperson and Ruawai Dairy Farmer A positive proposal from the ACT Party to ensure environmental regulations are managed by regional councils and taken out of the hands of Wellington bureaucrats will today be voted down by the Government. As the only person in Parliament who
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson. The ACT Party is today challenging Associate Environment Minister James Shaw to show some transparency around the work he is doing on Significant Natural Areas. ACT asked Shaw through Parliamentary Written Questions what briefings he’s had over the past six months by name
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Ruawai Dairy Farmer Labour’s live export ban was purely an emotive and ideological decision, instead of one based on sound advice. ACT has obtained the Regulatory Impact Statement from MPI which shows the ban would hurt our rural communities economically, damage New Zealand’
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Ruawai Dairy Farmer ACT welcomes the Far North Council doing the right thing and dropping the plans to confiscate land from farmers and iwi. Private property rights are under threat thanks to the Government’s directive to councils to identify and manage Significant Natural
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Dr James McDowall ACT Immigration spokesperson ACT would dump Labour’s ‘once in a generation’ immigration reset. Immigration reform may be needed in the future, but right now we need certainty. ACT would signal a return to the pre-COVID immigration settings as soon as
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has spent almost three times as much on an unnecessary rebrand as it did on a support package for under pressure fruit growers. The ACT Party can reveal through Written Parliamentary Questions that MPI splashed out a million
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson and Ruawai Dairy Farmer All 10 ACT MPs will be out in support of rural New Zealand at the Groundswell events around the country this Friday. Rural New Zealand has become a punching bag for the Government. They’ve taken blow after blow as
Mark Cameron ACT Primary Industries spokesperson The Government is unwilling and unable to say how many people it’s employing full time in the Jobs for Nature programme. This programme is costing taxpayers $1.2 billion dollars. The intent of the programme is good, but like most things with this
Mark Cameron ACT Rural Affairs spokesperson A new Bill from the ACT Party drawn today will ensure the baton of environmental regulations is given to regional councils and taken out of the hands of Wellington bureaucrats. In recent years farmers have been hammered by regulations put in place by Government
