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ACT’s Protect Free Speech Petition Reaches 10,000 Signatures
Saturday, 24 April 2021, 4:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT’s petition to protect the free speech of New Zealanders and oppose the Government’s proposed hate speech laws has today reached 10,000 signatures,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “Our ACT caucus has been travelling the country with ... More >>
ACT’s Risk Based COVID Approach Finally Adopted
Friday, 23 April 2021, 12:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A risk-based approach for overseas arrivals is what ACT has been calling for since August last year”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “In ACT’s Response Plan we call for ‘Risk management: it should aim to be a world leader on risk management, ... More >>
Local Government Needs To Get Back To Basics
Friday, 23 April 2021, 11:24 am | ACT New Zealand
“The review from Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta completely misses the mark of what is important to ratepayers,” says ACT’s Local Government spokesperson Simon Court. “Our communities want their councils to get back to the basics. Water, ... More >>
Deposit Insurance Is Moral Hazard Madness
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 12:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s deposit insurance scheme is the kind of moral hazard madness that led to the GFC,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is the socialisation of banking. “The Minister of Finance is saying 93 percent of bank customers don’t ... More >>
Time To Decolonise The Cook Islands, Jacinda
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 10:01 am | ACT New Zealand
“Jacinda Ardern’s paternalism and colonialism of the Cook Islands has gone too far as she’s stopped it from unilaterally being able to open its border,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “There is no threat to New Zealand, there is no entry ... More >>
Communist Dictatorship's Praise For Mahuta Concerning
Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 2:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Praise for New Zealand’s Foreign Minister from a communist dictatorship is deeply concerning and shows the Government should be more focussed on building stronger ties with our traditional allies,” says ACT’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Brooke ... More >>
Radical Govt Continues Push For Co-governance
Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 1:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The creation of a Māori Health Authority with a veto over national health plans shows Jacinda Ardern’s Government is much more radical than Helen Clark’s was,” says ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “ The Government’s health review ... More >>
Treaty Not The Biggest Healthcare Issue
Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 11:39 am | ACT New Zealand
“Today’s health review announcement from the Government has failed to address the real issues facing New Zealanders,” says ACT’s Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Amalgamating the DHBs into one organisation is a positive step forward, ... More >>
Major Missed Opportunity On Pharmac Reform
Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 11:35 am | ACT New Zealand
“Pharmaceutical funding was totally absent from today’s health review, and that’s about where it is in this Government’s priorities,” according to ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “The Government will, of course, point to the Pharmac review ... More >>
Finance Minister Knowingly And Illegally Misspent Taxpayers’ Money
Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 3:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ Information uncovered by the ACT Party has led the Auditor-General to deem the Government's Ihumātao purchase 'unlawful,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Grant Robertson illegally spent taxpayer money to solve a political problem created by ... More >>
ACT ‘disheartened’ By PM’s Misleading Statement
Monday, 19 April 2021, 4:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister today told her weekly press conference she was “disheartened” the ACT Party doesn’t want to engage with the Government over its proposed Hate Speech Laws, despite ACT writing to the Justice Minister and agreeing for the caucus ... More >>
1500 Empty Rooms In MIQ Shows Government’s Poor Planning
Monday, 19 April 2021, 10:12 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT welcomes the news that migrant families who have been cruelly separated for far too long will be reunited, but 1500 empty MIQ rooms shows there’s no reason both them and desperately needed workers can’t be here now,” says ACT Leader ... More >>
Hate Speech Sentence Longer Than Male Assaults Female
Sunday, 18 April 2021, 1:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s proposed Hate Speech Laws mean someone could spend longer in jail for having an unpopular opinion than assaulting a child, male assaults female, participating in a riot and common assault," says ACT Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
Graph Illustrates Government's Failures
Saturday, 17 April 2021, 1:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ A Ministry of Health graph drawn by a graphic designer with no data to inform it is the perfect metaphor for this Government, all spin and no substance,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Like most things with this government, they present ... More >>
Robertson's Growing Megalomania
Friday, 16 April 2021, 2:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Grant Robertson’s growing megalomania will be sending shockwaves through boardrooms across the country,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Fresh from directing Air New Zealand where to fly, he’s now lecturing ACC to get out of fossil fuels. “According ... More >>
Minister Must Tell Us If He's Parked Hate Speech Laws, Or Not
Friday, 16 April 2021, 8:55 am | ACT New Zealand
“Introducing hate speech laws, as described in a Cabinet Paper reported by Newsroom, would take human rights and our ability to problem solve as a country backwards,” says ACT Leader David Seymour After saying the laws are not currently a priority ... More >>
Does She Know She's PM?
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 5:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister should take some personal responsibility when things go wrong, instead of throwing members of the public under a bus." says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has extreme powers to keep us safe from COVID, but the ... More >>
Low Nicotine Ciggies Will Drive Up Poverty
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 9:37 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealand smokers will who can least afford it will spend more on their habit and in turn do harm to those around them if the Government mandates lower nicotine in tobacco,” says ACT Social Development and Children spokesperson Karen Chhour. ... More >>
Ëlarm Trial Shouldn't Have Taken Ten Months
Thursday, 15 April 2021, 6:00 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour has welcomed the Government’s decision to trial Datamine’s ëlarm with border workers. “ We’ve been urging the Government to adopt ëlarm for 314 days now ,” says Mr Seymour. “It shouldn’t have taken ten months for ... More >>
Robertson Should Rescind Letter To Air New Zealand
Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 4:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Parliament is quite rightly this afternoon urgently debating a letter from Finance Minister Grant Robertson to the chair of Air New Zealand that has more than the whiff of Rob Muldoon about it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I requested this debate ... More >>
