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Covicrat Civil War Means Time For A Reset
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 6:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Thanks to Labour’s bungling bureaucracy, hardworking New Zealanders are locked down with their livelihoods threatened, and the Prime Minister still isn’t telling the truth. It is time for a reset. We need a purpose built, Taiwan-style, Epidemic ... More >>
Gas Barbecued Chickens Coming Home To Roost
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 12:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government was warned its hasty virtue signalling policy of banning new oil and gas exploration would have the opposite of its intended impact on the domestic economy and the global environment, and so it looks set to play out with New Zealand’s ... More >>
Other Prime Ministers Have Apologised
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 10:27 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealand Prime Ministers have on a number of occasions realised their comments or behaviour were ill-judged, gotten over their own egos and apologised to people for doing them wrong,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Prime Minister Jacinda ... More >>
Vaccination Rollout An Insulting Lottery
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 2:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Chris Hipkins is performing an absurd dance of the seven veils, announcing today the Government intends to reveal group by group to an expectant public who will get access to COVID-19 vaccine next,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “On Monday the ... More >>
What Today’s Vaccine Announcement Must Include
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 8:45 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government outlining further plans for the country’s COVID-19 vaccination programme today – 16 days after the vaccine arrived in New Zealand – is far from ideal but it must be meaningful for all New Zealanders,” says ACT Leader David ... More >>
Now We’re Getting Somewhere
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 8:42 am | ACT New Zealand
“In the words of Neil Finn, ‘now we’re getting somewhere,’” says ACT Leader David Seymour, after the Government considered using Datamine’s ëlarm technology in Managed Isolation and Quarantine . “ACT first advocated that the Government ... More >>
Please Explain, PM
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 6:04 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister has some serious explaining to do after her Government's Official COVID-19 Facebook Page contradicted her claim that Case J (Kmart worker) and Case L (KFC worker) were told to isolate. The Page replied to a member of the public saying ... More >>
Director General Say What?
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 4:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield gave a simply astonishing explanation this afternoon of why community contact tracing performance might be so far below the at least 80 percent of contacts within four days of exposure to a source case, ... More >>
There Is No Long Term COVID-19 Strategy
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 12:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT applauds and endorses the business people who have written to the Government today asking what its longer term COVID-19 strategy is,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We’d all like to know, but at the moment we have the blind leading ... More >>
PHARMAC Review A Victory For ACT
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 11:07 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT was the first to call for a review into PHARMAC, it then became Government policy during the election campaign and today we welcome the scale and scope of the review,” says ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “ACT began calling for ... More >>
Contact Tracing Data Missing; Past Performance Terrible
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 10:18 am | ACT New Zealand
“Where is the Ministry of Health’s contact tracing performance results for February, and did they achieve the ‘gold standard’ of 80 per cent of community contacts isolated or in quarantine within four days from exposure, based on Dr Ayesha Verrall’s ... More >>
Govt Must Release Contact Tracing Evidence
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 10:10 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government needs to release full details of the contacts made with the family of cases L, M, N and O at the centre of the South Auckland cluster,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister is fighting an asymmetrical information war, ... More >>
Why Are Police Stopping People Entering Auckland?
Monday, 1 March 2021, 7:04 am | ACT New Zealand
28 February “The Government needs to explain why people are being blocked from going IN to Auckland,” says ACT Leader David Seymour "People are beside themselves and ambulances have been reported rescuing people caught in a monumental traffic ... More >>
Ardern Finds Missing Link, And Contact Tracing Failure
Sunday, 28 February 2021, 4:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Suggestion by the Prime Minister that Cases M and N transmitted to one another by being in the same place shows there was a chain of transmission to be traced all along, but the Government did not find it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour "The ... More >>
April Minimum Wage Increase Must Be Delayed
Sunday, 28 February 2021, 10:51 am | ACT New Zealand
“Having previously ignored advice and failed to take account of economic conditions, this year the Government must delay the 1 April increase to the minimum wage,” says ACT Small Business and Workplace Relations spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Last ... More >>
The Cost Of The Government’s Attitude Problem
Sunday, 28 February 2021, 7:09 am | ACT New Zealand
27 February “Unfortunately ACT predicted tonight’s plunge back into Level 3 lockdown for Auckland and the rest of New Zealand into Level 2,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ I said yesterday the South Auckland cluster wasn’t under control ... More >>
Be Kind, Don’t Invest In Houses
Saturday, 27 February 2021, 4:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
“After the median house price rose $200,000 and with no reason to believe the rise will stop, the Government has resorted to asking people not to invest in housing,” says ACT Housing Spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “This morning, the Prime Minister ... More >>
Case L Concerning And Raises Many Questions
Friday, 26 February 2021, 4:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Today’s KFC COVID case in the community is incredibly concerning and begs the question whether the Ministry of Health really has the South Auckland cluster under control,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We are seeing a rolling maul of cases ... More >>
“Woke-gate” Misses The Point On Gangs
Friday, 26 February 2021, 10:47 am | ACT New Zealand
“The debate over whether a senior civil servant is ‘woke’ or if gang numbers are statistically reliable completely misses the point – we know more and more New Zealanders are being victimised by violent thugs, and it stands to reason that ... More >>
There Is No Plan For Fortress New Zealand
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 3:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Every day we get more evidence that this Government is reluctant to even explore taking a proportionate risk-weighted approach to managing COVID-19,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “When I asked COVID-19 Response Minister in Parliament this afternoon ... More >>
