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When Will Tourism’s Long Hibernation Be Over?
Friday, 19 March 2021, 4:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
“What the tourism industry is facing is all about a policy choice from Government, how and when to open the border to Australia and then other relatively safe countries – one it isn’t yet able to have a grown up conversation about,” says ACT Tourism ... More >>
Hort Industry Wants Workers Not Workshops
Friday, 19 March 2021, 2:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“What a slap in the face to the horticulture and viticulture sectors today’s $350,000 ‘wellbeing support package’ is as they face losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” says ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron and ... More >>
Statement On Epsom Stabbings
Friday, 19 March 2021, 12:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
Epsom MP David Seymour has expressed shock and sadness at news of a fatal stabbing incident in Epsom. “This is shocking and tragic for our community. It is important that the police are able to do their job and the privacy of people connected with ... More >>
Speech To The Business New Zealand Major Companies Group CEO Forum
Friday, 19 March 2021, 11:07 am | ACT New Zealand
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I thought this was a great chance for you to meet ACT’s Deputy Leader, Brooke van Velden, and see that ACT is no longer ‘just David.’ In psychology they talk a lot about anchoring. You ... More >>
Will The Police Enforce The Law At Shelly Bay?
Friday, 19 March 2021, 10:30 am | ACT New Zealand
“When protestors occupied privately owned where 480 homes were planned at Ihumātao in Auckland the Police did nothing to protect the owner’s property rights and did everything they could to pander to the protestors, so is that how events will play ... More >>
Stand By For More Dumb, Ineffectual Taxes
Friday, 19 March 2021, 10:10 am | ACT New Zealand
“No amount of sensible advice to the contrary will stand in the way of Labour’s dogma that there isn’t a problem you can’t tax your way out of,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s clear that a big part of Labour’s upcoming series of silver ... More >>
Productive Kiwis Bled Dry By Labour
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 4:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Even a record fall in GDP hasn’t been enough to wake Labour up to the concerns of small businesses,” says ACT’s Associate Small Business spokesperson Toni Severin. “Small businesses are being bled dry with a higher minimum wage, more sick leave, ... More >>
GDP: Covid Chickens Come Home To Roost
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 11:18 am | ACT New Zealand
“Today’s disappointing GDP figures show the Government’s Covid chickens have come home to roost,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s only due to the hard work of New Zealanders that today’s GDP figures aren’t worse. “GDP has declined ... More >>
An April Bubble Will Be Six Months Late
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 11:08 am | ACT New Zealand
“If there is a trans-Tasman travel bubble in place by April New Zealand will still have badly missed the lay line,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Australia rounded the mark on 23 October last year when it launched a ‘ Framework for National Reopening ... More >>
Govt Knows MIQ Network Could Be Bigger, But Won’t Act
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 7:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government knows the Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) network could be 23 hotels bigger – it commissioned work on it and was told so – but has done nothing about it, leaving thousands of Kiwis stranded overseas unable to get a place ... More >>
There May Never Be A House Built At Ihumātao
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 3:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government can’t escape the fact that the agreement it signed on the future of land at Ihumātao only says houses ‘may’ be built there and since the agreement was announced there hasn’t been any commitment that a single house will actually ... More >>
Surprise, Vaccine Rollout Stuck In First Gear
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 11:35 am | ACT New Zealand
“When vaccines hit our shores earlier than Ministers expected last month and our first vaccinations started a day ahead of Australia, there was much glee among some in the commentariat that New Zealand might catch up with the rest of the world,” ... More >>
Pausing Climate Commission’s Work More Urgent
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 10:53 am | ACT New Zealand
“One of New Zealand’s most eminent economists has busted open the sketchy basis for many of the Climate Commission’s draft recommendations to the Government, concluding they regularly misrepresented evidence to support their positions,” says ACT Climate ... More >>
ACT Requests Auditor-General Inquiry Into Ihumātao
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 4:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
“I have today written to the Auditor-General asking him to investigate the circumstances surrounding the agreement reached by the Government on the future of Ihumātao, announced on December 17,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “At issue is the use of $29.9 ... More >>
Govt Tried To Hide Ihumātao Link To Treaty Settlements
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 2:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Jacinda Ardern’s Government has been caught red-handed, saying one thing about potential Treaty of Waitangi implications of spending $30 million of taxpayers’ money to buy its way out of Ihumātao and trying to cover up the truth,” says ACT ... More >>
Lion King Wiggles In While Kiwis Wait
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 10:42 am | ACT New Zealand
“There is no rhyme nor reason to who gets into the country under the critical worker category and New Zealanders here and overseas have plenty of reasons to be unhappy about it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “First it was special treatment ... More >>
Ihumātao: Serious Questions After Treasury Opposed Deal
Monday, 15 March 2021, 6:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders will be demanding answers after learning that the Government’s chief economic adviser opposed its efforts to solve the dispute at Ihumātao”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government purchased the land at Ihumātao ... More >>
Time To Tell Us What Vaccine Will Mean
Monday, 15 March 2021, 3:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister must come to this afternoon’s post-Cabinet press conference with much more information on the impact of New Zealand’s vaccine rollout than her last two previous efforts,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Last week we ... More >>
Time’s Up For Softly, Softly Approach To Gun Crime
Monday, 15 March 2021, 10:27 am | ACT New Zealand
“A concerted effort involving law changes and far greater resources is needed to turn soaring levels of gun crime around,” says ACT Party Firearms Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Some of the unintended consequences of the Government’s two pieces ... More >>
Coal Imports Up Again, Govt Must Reverse Gas Exploration Ban
Monday, 15 March 2021, 6:45 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s marketing-led environmentalism has been mugged by scientific reality”, says ACT’s Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court. “The result of the ban on exploration for natural gas will be that New Zealanders import more coal. ... More >>
