ACT enters local politics, ACT MP Mark Cameron critiques National and David Seymour fails to inform Education Minister about school lunch liquidation w/ ACT’s Simon Court: 24 March, 2025

Last week the ACT Party announced that they were going to stand candidates in the local elections for the first time. 

The party is calling for a ‘clean out’ of councils, slating them for failing to make change. The claims have been met with backlash from councillors who say David Seymour and the party don’t understand the work that goes into local government. 

For our weekly catch up Producer Evie spoke to the ACT Party’s Simon Court about what decisions lead to the move, and what the party hopes to achieve in local government. 

They also discussed ACT MP Mark Cameron who made headlines last week for saying National was leaving farmers and rural communities worse off than James Shaw did due to their higher emission reduction promises. 

And finally we also discussed David Seymour failing to inform Education Minister Erica Stanford that a key school lunch provider was going into liquidation.