Dear Daniel

For 15 years ACT’s annual conference was confined to Auckland. This year it is coming to you. We’ll be gathering in Christchurch at the Piano from 1pm on July 23 (doors at noon).

If you’d like to RSVP now, please do so here.

The theme is Real Change. It’s not enough to change the Government, we need to change our country’s direction.  It builds on the success of our Dare to be Different and Honest Conversations events of previous years.

The keynote is Elizabeth Rata, one of the bravest academics in New Zealand, and one of the ‘magnificent seven’ who signed the controversial (well, I didn’t think so) letter to the Listener last year. Elizabeth is an Education Professor and her keynote address will build on her decades of work on education policy, and her writings about whether New Zealand should be a nation state or the ‘ethno-state’ that some would like to make it.

We’ll also hear from ACT’s MPs. Deputy Leader Brooke van Velden on getting economic growth back, Nicole McKee on thriving communities, and Karen Chhour on our Kiwi Identity. When these three spoke as candidates in 2020, people started to say, ‘ACT is on to something.’ Having worked with them for nearly two years now, I think you’re going to be impressed again.

And, the organisers are letting me give another speech! We will be well past half way towards next year’s election. I’ll be setting out our path to saving what’s left of New Zealand after Labour, and making this country humm with the classical liberal values at ACT’s heart.

If you support our cause, this is the time of year we need you to show your support. Please rally and be counted, make this event a success.

I hope you can join with us in the movement for Real Change.

Yours sincerely,

David Seymour

MP for Epsom, ACT Leader