ACT believes the Race Relations Commissioner should go - calling it a political role masquerading as an apolitical, taxpayer-funded public service role.
Commissioner Meng Foon has resigned after he didn't declare that a company he directed received more than $2 million for the provision of emergency housing.
In April it was revealed he and his family made donations to Labour MP Kiri Allan and a National candidate.
ACT Leader David Seymour says this is a huge conflict of interest- but it's impossible for anyone in the Race Relations Commissioner role to be politically neutral.
"The whole idea of a taxpayer funded, supposedly politically neutral agency that acts in a very political sphere inevitably is going to fail at that job, because all people are political."
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