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Vaccine Sequencing Framework Terribly Lacking
Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 2:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Today’s vaccine sequencing framework announcement by COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins had this Government’s hallmark shocking lack of detail front and centre,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The two most frequent responses Chris ... More >>
ACT: Preparing New Zealand For A Post-vaccine World
Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 12:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The ACT Party has done what the Government hasn’t but the business community and others have been crying out for – develop a plan for the immediate next steps of New Zealand’s response to COVID-19 and a longer term strategy for living in ... More >>
ETS Stealth Tax Passed Under Urgency
Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 6:13 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s rushed and flawed Climate Change (Auction Price) Amendment Bill passed under urgency this evening should be called out for what it really is, a stealth tax that will impose higher costs on New Zealanders. “The reason for ... More >>
Megan Woods In Hiding On Housing
Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 1:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
“This Government’s practice of blather and flannel when asked specific questions about its performance is running its usual evasive course in respect of how many new houses it will build this year,” says ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. ... More >>
Government Adopts ACT Language – Should Adopt ACT Policy
Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 10:42 am | ACT New Zealand
“Chris Hipkins’ adoption of ACT’s language of continuous improvement in announcing his latest COVID-19 review shows the impact of effective opposition,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government should go one better and adopt ACT’s sensible ... More >>
Government’s Super-majority Creating Extreme Arrogance
Monday, 8 March 2021, 1:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT says you can’t deliver better public policy if you don’t show humility, and this Government’s arrogance is getting in the way of solving problems and helping people,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We’re seeing it in the response to ... More >>
No Rhyme Nor Reason For Level 3 Saturday
Friday, 5 March 2021, 5:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
"There is no rhyme nor reason for spending an additional day at Alert Level 3 in Auckland, but the cost is estimated at $45 million," according to ACT Leader David Seymour "Normally a $45 million dollar decision to keep Auckland closed ... More >>
New Health Order Issue Admits Earlier Failure
Friday, 5 March 2021, 4:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The making of a new Health Act order shows that the Government didn’t have the rules straight before,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “The Prime Minister spent most of the week attacking citizens for breaking rules that didn’t exist, ... More >>
Cabinet’s Simplest Ever Decision – But Prepare To Be Spun
Friday, 5 March 2021, 2:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
“It is inevitable the Government will announce Auckland is coming out of lockdown this afternoon – it has to – and they will portray the lockdown as having saved Aucklanders, when it hasn’t, it’s cost them dearly,” says ACT Leader David ... More >>
Contact Tracing Review Must Be Thorough And Published
Friday, 5 March 2021, 10:27 am | ACT New Zealand
“Is the latest example of dissonance in the COVID-19 response the disconnect between how Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield describes his team of contact tracers and their actual performance,” asks ACT Leader David Seymour. “Regardless, ... More >>
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 >>
