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Government Needs To Deliver Certainty For Skilled Migrants
Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 2:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour's inaction on immigration is creating a humanitarian and economic crisis,” says ACT’s Immigration spokesperson Dr James McDowall. “Families are being split at the border and being forced to choose between working in New Zealand to support ... More >>
Two Million COVID Doses A Pathetic Milestone
Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 11:51 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government will today give itself a big pat on the back for delivering two million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, but it should hold off on its self-congratulations,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “To put this into perspective, that’s 40 doses ... More >>
Treasury’s Fantasy Forecasts Have Already Flopped
Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 10:29 am | ACT New Zealand
“Treasury's fantasy forecast of flatlining house prices are already out of date. In fact, house prices reached levels Treasury predicted in three years after just three months,” says ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. The CoreLogic House ... More >>
Government Oversteps On Wood Exports
Wednesday, 4 August 2021, 9:12 am | ACT New Zealand
“Comments this morning from Building and Construction Minister Poto Williams that the Government is considering limiting wood exports to keep construction materials from going offshore, will send a shiver down the spine of many businesses,” says ... More >>
No Extra Precautions To Prepare Against Delta
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 2:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Australian Prime Minister has called the Delta variant a game-changer. Chris Hipkins agrees and told Parliament today that contact tracing wouldn't be able to contain it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. "But what sort of rethink has ... More >>
ACT Welcomes SCENZ Group Establishment
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 2:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden has welcomed the establishment of the Support and Consultation for End of Life in New Zealand (SCENZ) group. “ACT is encouraged by the establishment of SCENZ, the calibre of its 11 members and their ... More >>
Time To Back-pedal On Cycle Bridge
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 12:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Grant Robertson is right to have second thoughts about the Auckland Cycle Bridge. He should listen to New Zealanders and scrap the idea,” says ACT’s Transport spokesperson Simon Court. “This is what happens when you go cycling, you get cold ... More >>
ACT Will Support Conversion Practices Bill At First Reading
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 12:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The ACT caucus has today agreed to support the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill at first reading, but we have serious concerns about the current state of the Bill,” says ACT’s Justice spokesperson Nicole McKee. “ACT agrees ... More >>
Why Does Labour Always Wait Until It’s A Crisis?
Monday, 2 August 2021, 4:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Labour Party has left business owners in a state of distress for far longer than was necessary with some going to the wall or suffering from mental health problems as a result of the Government preventing workers from coming here,” says ACT’s ... More >>
Prime Minister’s Hypocrisy On Immigration
Sunday, 1 August 2021, 4:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
“At the same time as the Prime Minister is apologising for the Dawn Raids in the 1970s, Labour is completely ignoring the struggles being faced by migrants today,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “MPs from every party except Labour and the Māori ... More >>
Faafoi Must Urgently Clarify Hormone Blocker Comments
Friday, 30 July 2021, 6:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Kris Faafoi needs to urgently clarify the comments he made on Newstalk ZB this evening about parents being unable to deny their children hormone blockers,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “In an interview that can only be described as a train ... More >>
Livestock Export Ban Doesn’t Add Up
Friday, 30 July 2021, 9:15 am | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s live export ban was purely an emotive and ideological decision, instead of one based on sound advice,” says ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson and Ruawai Dairy Farmer Mark Cameron. “ACT has obtained the Regulatory Impact Statement ... More >>
It's Not A Vaccine Roll Out, It's A Vaccine Stroll Out
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 12:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The total lack of preparation for Medsafe’s approval of the AstraZenica vaccine is another example of a Government that is always reactive, never proactive in relation to COVID,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The approval was easy to anticipate, ... More >>
Commerce Commission Spends Millions Finding Out What We Already Knew
Thursday, 29 July 2021, 9:43 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Commerce Commission, through the misguided policy of ‘market studies’ has just spent millions finding what we already knew,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “There is little real competition in the grocery duopoly, suppliers are treated ... More >>
The Column Stuff Wouldn't Publish
Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 4:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
Stuff.co.nz was happy to run a column from John Tamihere accusing David Seymour of an “insidious, sophisticated and covert form of race-based politics” but they wouldn’t publish David's below response because they didn’t like the “tone” ... More >>
PHARMAC's Priority List Lacks Transparency
Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 2:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The ACT Party welcomes PHARMAC recognising New Zealanders are asking for more transparency on which medicines it fund but today's announcement falls short of providing the information needed,” says ACT’s Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Brooke ... More >>
SNA? No Way
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 5:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT welcomes the Far North Council doing the right thing and dropping the plans to confiscate land from farmers and iwi,” says ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson and Ruawai Dairy Farmer Mark Cameron. “Private property rights are under threat ... More >>
Growing Gang Numbers Will Be Labour’s Legacy
Monday, 26 July 2021, 11:32 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT would take back control of our streets from organised crime,” says ACT Justice spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Gang numbers have grown to more than 8,000, up 50 percent since the Government came to office. Growing gang numbers will be Labour’s ... More >>
ACT’s Private MIQ Would Be Safer Than Government MIQ
Monday, 26 July 2021, 10:12 am | ACT New Zealand
“MIQ is the bottleneck starving the New Zealand economy of the skilled people businesses need to grow and compete,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT has a plan to expand MIQ places and make it safer than what the Government is doing now. ... More >>
ACT Questions Anti-money Laundering Legislation
Monday, 26 July 2021, 10:07 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is today asking for feedback about the anti-money laundering legislation passed by the National Government in 2009,” says ACT’s Associate Finance spokesperson Damien Smith. “We understand the need to protect New Zealand from criminal activity ... More >>
