New Act leader Jamie Whyte will today announce that Act wants the entire 826-page Resource Management Act to be dumped.

Prime Minister says Act Leader and potential parliamentary ally Jamie Whyte’s incest comments are "stupid’’ and a distraction from important issues.

New Act leader Jamie Whyte has back-tracked on comments that incestuous relationships between consenting adults should not be illegal.

Act's leader is standing by his comments that incestuous relationships between consenting adults should not be illegal, even though he is "very opposed" to it.

Editorial: For Act to make a fresh start it needs to come up with new and innovative policies. Reviving its flat-tax policy doesn't fit that bill.

Who better than Prebble to spot a potential wedge between National and Act and create a groundswell in favour of raising the superannuation age, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Former Act leader Richard Prebble says the party will have to raise well over $1 million to fight the 2014 election campaign that he has been appointed to direct.

A bunch of colleagues from the Press Gallery yesterday were showered with a suite of insults by NZ First leader Winston Peters on his way into Parliament, writes Audrey Young.

Surely the scandal of school donations should have been Ms Parata's focus this week, rather than a bloated taskforce set up to appease the ideological sensibilities of Act, writes Brian Rudman.

Editorial: Act's new leader could do worse than look across the House to the Greens, polar opposites in political philosophy but occupying a similar tactical position.

Young Epsom candidate says party bent on putting internal wrangling in past.

New Act leader Jamie Whyte says he has had no shortage of advice - it's often conflicting - about what sort of leader he should be.

In electing Jamie Whyte as the party's new leader, Act's governing board has made the right choice, writes John Armstrong. Realistically, he was the only choice.

Jamie Whyte is Act's new leader and David Seymour will be the party's candidate in Epsom at this year's election while John Boscawen has resigned as Act president.

Writer Jamie Whyte looks set to become the new Act leader tomorrow.

John Boscawen took a risk in holding the meeting, writes Audrey Young. It might have been a miserable turnout but it was a respectable 100. It could have been disrupted by enemies outside the party, or even inside but it wasn't.

The Act board has lost control of the party leadership contest with the decision by contender John Boscawen to hold a public meeting in Epsom and to challenge other candidates to attend.

Act leadership contender and former MP John Boscawen says he will spend the next week trying to highlight the risks of picking someone without his political and parliamentary experience, and highlighting his own experience.

Business people are more accustomed to putting sentiment aside for important decisions, writes John Roughan.

Former National Party President Michelle Boag is the latest figure on the political right to rule herself out of seeking Act's nomination to represent Epsom in this year's election.

John Key's right-hand man made a secret visit to former Act leader Rodney Hide in a desperate search to shore up a coalition partner for the National Party at this year's election.

The tussle to replace John Banks as Act's Epsom candidate is heating up ahead of the party's decision early next month.

Act Party founder Sir Roger Douglas has sounded a warning against former MP Rodney Hide returning to the party leadership.

Don Brash, the man who forced Rodney Hide out of his job as Act leader, approached him recently to urge him to return to the party leadership.

The man who took a successful private prosecution against John Banks has threatened to take one over Labour leader David Cunliffe's by-election tweet.

Ex-Act leader Rodney Hide is being courted by supporters in the party to make a comeback in Epsom to replace outgoing leader John Banks, the Herald understands.

Act Leader John Banks' decision to leave Parliament at the next election under the cloud of electoral fraud charges is not the end of the party, its president John Boscawen says.