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Where Are The ICU Beds, Damien?
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 12:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Senior Cabinet Minister Damien O’Connor has today claimed that the number of ICU beds has doubled – so where are they?” Asks ACT Leader David Seymour. “Appearing on Newstalk ZB’s ‘The Country’ with Jamie MacKay, O’Connor claimed “ensuring ... More >>
Events Industry Might As Well Be At Level 4
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 11:43 am | ACT New Zealand
“The shift to red settings, restricting gatherings to 100 people, is the same as Alert Level four for the events sector, and they should be given the wage subsidy to compensate,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I have heard constantly in recent ... More >>
Government Confiscates Rapid Antigen Tests
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 10:41 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s control-freak instincts are on full display, telling people that if you try to do the right thing we will confiscate your property,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “After Grant Robertson astonishingly told Newstalk ZB last ... More >>
Prime Minister Treats Us Like Kids
Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 5:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister is treating New Zealanders like kids. If you want a Rapid Antigen Test, you have to be a ‘critical worker,’ otherwise you have to stay in isolation for 14 days,“ says ACT Leader David Seymour. “All over the world, ... More >>
Govt Should Go Further On Rapid Antigen Test
Monday, 24 January 2022, 11:53 am | ACT New Zealand
“ A gazette notice allowing more Rapid Antigen Tests (point of care tests) is a step in the right direction but doesn’t go far enough,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.r “ACT first called for these tests to be more widely available back in ... More >>
Govt Goes On Holiday – Literally
Sunday, 23 January 2022, 8:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government will have to hope that the virus observes Wellington Anniversary Day tomorrow while Ministers take a break,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We joke about the Government taking its mind off COVID-19 over summer, but 48 hours ... More >>
Delay In Border Opening Was Futile
Sunday, 23 January 2022, 8:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s postponement of home isolation for Kiwis arriving from Australia proved futile, with Omicron circulating before 17 January when they would have been allowed to come home without MIQ,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “My email inbox ... More >>
Locked Out Kiwis Deserve The Right To Vote And Come Home
Sunday, 23 January 2022, 8:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The ACT Party has today launched a petition to give overseas New Zealanders the right to vote in their own country and to end MIQ for those who are fully vaccinated,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Overseas New Zealanders are only able to vote if ... More >>
Unprepared Government Caught On The Hop
Sunday, 23 January 2022, 2:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Jacinda’s ‘Stage 1’ is just Delta 2, with any real response to Omicron yet to be announced, that will be called Stage 2, and Stage 3,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “As with Delta, Jacinda Ardern’s Government has required actual ... More >>
24 Day Isolation Rule Non-announcement Unprofessional And Unworkable
Saturday, 22 January 2022, 6:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
COVID isolation rules unprofessional and unworkable “New COVID isolation rules for Omicron are unworkable, and the way they were dumped on the Ministry of Health website on a Friday afternoon is unprofessional,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
The True Cost Of Delta Lockdowns Revealed
Saturday, 22 January 2022, 8:03 am | ACT New Zealand
“We now know the real cost of being unprepared for Delta was $8 billion,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Comments from Treasury in a Cabinet paper that was quietly put online over the summer holidays shows that the estimated cost of the Delta lockdowns ... More >>
Move Tamaki To Springhill, Let Pilgrims Protest In A Field
Saturday, 22 January 2022, 6:26 am | ACT New Zealand
“Brian Tamaki should be held at Springhill Prison, which is in a large field, so his protestors stop disturbing my constituents in their homes,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I visited the site today, Hannah Tamaki told me it was all under ... More >>
WHO: End Travel Bans
Friday, 21 January 2022, 9:23 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government should end its effective ban on travel to New Zealand now that even the World Health Organisation has advised against it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “WHO recently released advice for international travel in relation to ... More >>
No Plan For Omicron – Just Crickets
Thursday, 20 January 2022, 2:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Back from a long holiday the Government has finally fronted about the imminent arrival of Omicron – only to admit what we suspected all along, there is no plan,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Fresh from making announcements about announcements, ... More >>
Labour Party Puts The Treaty At The Heart Of Everything But The Labour Party
Thursday, 20 January 2022, 8:02 am | ACT New Zealand
“Labour is putting the Treaty at the centre of everything, but is the Treaty at the heart of Labour? The Labour Party constitution is 113 pages, but it mentions treaty only three times. It says that the Treaty should be honoured, but it doesn’t ... More >>
Four Weeks And Nothing To Show On Omicron Response
Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 3:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Four weeks since Chris Hipkins last fronted on the COVID-19 response, he couldn’t tell New Zealanders anything new about how the Government will confront the imminent landfall of Omicron,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “There are two possible ... More >>
No Accountability In Jacinda Ardern’s Hermit Kingdom
Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 10:38 am | ACT New Zealand
“The most visible Prime Minister in New Zealand political history was nowhere to be seen as the border was effectively closed to overseas Kiwis last night,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Covid-19 Ministers met yesterday. Did they make ... More >>
Another MIQ Lottery Postponed- Time For Honestly And Certainty With The Border
Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 8:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s decision to yet again cancel the MIQ lottery will be devastating for Kiwis abroad and it’s time for a solution,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We can’t go on like this, families have been torn apart and businesses can’t ... More >>
Car-hating, Tax-loving Government Drives Distributors Out Of The Country
Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 3:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Distributors are being driven out of the country by a government that hates cars and loves tax”, says ACT’s Transport spokesperson Simon Court. “The Clean Car Standard has been labelled ‘counter-productive nonsense’, and both Isuzu Utes ... More >>
Kiwis Need Relief From Cost Of Living Crisis
Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 11:49 am | ACT New Zealand
“Kiwis need tax relief and businesses need workers as Labour’s cost of living crisis continues to bite,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ NZIER’s Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion reveals more than half of businesses increased their prices ... More >>
