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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 >>
Four Horsemen Of The Regulatory Apocalypse
Monday, 26 July 2021, 10:04 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT would cut through the red tape that pushes costs and compliance on to hardworking New Zealanders by tackling the four horsemen of bad regulation,” says ACT’s Small Business spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Successive governments have allowed the bureaucracy ... More >>
Resetting The Immigration Reset
Monday, 26 July 2021, 10:01 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT would dump Labour’s ‘once in a generation’ immigration reset. Immigration reform may be needed in the future, but right now we need certainty,” say ACT’s Immigration spokesperson Dr James McDowall and Primary Industries spokesperson Mark ... More >>
Honest Conversations About The Economy
Monday, 26 July 2021, 10:00 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT has today released the third in our series of Honest Conversations documents, this one about the economy. “Kiwis want a fair go. If you work hard, you should be rewarded, but under the Labour Government it feels like people are rewarded for ... More >>
Curriculum Advisory Group Excludes Almost All Of Society
Saturday, 24 July 2021, 4:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s newly-announced Curriculum Advisory Group boasts that it ‘represents the interests of all parts of the education system,’ but they forgot the rest of society,” according to ACT Education spokesperson Chris Baillie. “The Group has ... More >>
White Privilege Training Should Be Rejected
Friday, 23 July 2021, 10:36 am | ACT New Zealand
“The ACT Party is calling on teachers and Ministry of Education staff who feel uncomfortable being forced into Critical Race Theory training to reject it,” says ACT’s Education spokesperson Chris Baillie. “ACT revealed yesterday that more ... More >>
Guilt And Shame Taught In “White Privilege” Courses For Education Ministry Staff
Thursday, 22 July 2021, 5:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
“It is entirely inappropriate that the people who set the policy for our schools are undertaking courses that teach them “guilt and shame” are natural responses to so-called “white privilege,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “After ACT revealed ... More >>
Second Motel Being Purchased In Rotorua
Thursday, 22 July 2021, 5:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour MP Tamati Coffey has told media a second motel is being purchased for emergency accommodation in Rotorua,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. "$8.1 million was spent on the Boulevard Motel. That’s about double the CV, real estate ... More >>
Jacinda Ardern Owes New Zealand An Apology
Thursday, 22 July 2021, 4:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Jacinda Ardern owes New Zealanders an apology for the slow vaccine rollout that has New Zealand at the bottom of the OECD,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has today stood in front of media and apologised for ... More >>
What Happened To Following The Science?
Wednesday, 21 July 2021, 6:31 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government has spent a quarter of a million dollars on focus groups and polls to test whether its COVID-19 advertising was popular,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “In an answer to Written Parliamentary Questions from the ACT Party, Jacinda Ardern ... More >>
The Curious Case Of The SIS Rebrand
Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 5:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Taxpayers will be scratching their heads about why we’ve paid tens of thousands of dollars to rebrand our secret service,” says ACT’s Justice spokesperson Nicole McKee. “ACT has revealed that the SIS spent $45,163 on a rebrand in the 2018-2019 ... More >>
