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Calls For Compulsion Become Compelling
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 3:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
“It was a huge reveal in Parliament today when the Prime Minister admitted that none of the three community cases that led to the latest Auckland lockdown had been using the official NZ Covid Tracer app at all,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
Prime Minister All At Sea On Saliva
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 3:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Seldom has the Prime Minister shown up to Parliament and given a poorer performance than she did at Question Time today on the issue of PCR testing, which is all the more surprising given what a specialist topic COVID-19 has become for her over the ... More >>
Saliva Testing Rollout Disappointing
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 6:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The revelation that saliva testing at dual use MIQ facilities has resulted in just 140 tests, or six tests a day since starting almost a month ago is disappointing,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Saliva testing was announced by COVID Response ... More >>
Coal The Latest Consequence Of Bad Policy
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 1:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT feels genuinely sorry for the Prime Minister every time the market she’s tampered with proves her nuclear free moment was just a line in a speech, not the harbinger of reductions in New Zealand’s climate change emissions,” says ACT ... More >>
Government Must Open Up About What Next
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 1:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
“As the World starts to get on top of COVID-19, New Zealand’s focus must turn to how the country will move from the emergency measures of closed borders and rolling lockdowns that come with an elimination strategy to preparing our systems for safely ... More >>
PM’s Performance Spin Over Substance
Monday, 15 February 2021, 4:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister’s post-Cabinet press conference today was a nauseating stream of self-congratulation when what she should have been doing was apologise,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Make no mistake, our biggest city is in a three day ... More >>
Is Hone Harawira More Competent At Setting Up Checkpoints?
Monday, 15 February 2021, 3:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government needs to front up and reveal why Police have set up a key checkpoint between Auckland and Northland at Brynderwyn, which is in the Kaipara District, outside of Auckland’s level 3 boundary, and why,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Schedules ... More >>
Epidemic Response Committee Needed Now More Than Ever
Monday, 15 February 2021, 10:26 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government has shown it is not open to being thoroughly scrutinised on how it is handling the response to COVID-19, despite regular claims to the contrary,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Yesterday I wrote to the Speaker as chair of the ... More >>
Daily Saliva Tests Should Be Mandatory, Starting Now
Monday, 15 February 2021, 9:45 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s failure to roll out regular saliva testing for border and managed isolation workers highlights the problem with its centralised control-all response to COVID-19,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Rather than a voluntary ... More >>
Govt Must Learn And Bolster Testing Orders
Monday, 15 February 2021, 9:36 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government must learn from the latest Covid-19 outbreak and bolster its border testing orders so that further lockdowns don’t damage livelihoods,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “These cases have potentially exposed further holes in our ... More >>
Govt Must Learn From Latest Outbreak
Monday, 15 February 2021, 6:05 am | ACT New Zealand
“We must hope that the Government’s testing and tracing can isolate this outbreak before a damaging extended lockdown harms livelihoods,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT’s primary concern is for all those businesses, workers and households who ... More >>
NZ: A Sitting Duck Hoping For Luck
Sunday, 14 February 2021, 4:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
“News of new COVID-19 community cases show New Zealand is a sitting duck, hoping for luck. The Government should have been hardening our defences with better contact tracing, testing, and vaccination over the past year. "It hasn’t and we are ... More >>
Operation NOTUS A Blueprint For New Zealand
Sunday, 14 February 2021, 4:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Police operation NOTUS, which brought down a devastating Mongrel Mob meth network in Kawerau, should be a blueprint for tackling gang crime, but these operations can only be seriously effective with law changes like those the ACT Party is advocating ... More >>
Journalists Must Be Free To Bite The Hand That Feeds
Friday, 12 February 2021, 2:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government must ensure that journalists can remain independent of the state despite the $55 million of taxpayer money it’s just given to media companies,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Journalists must be more than free to bite the ... More >>
Pfizer Arrival Great News
Friday, 12 February 2021, 11:10 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government should be congratulated for getting some Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 confirmed for rollout from next week,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This has been a triumph of constructive opposition, with ACT putting pressure on since early ... More >>
Is The Economic Recovery Real?
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 3:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
“On Tuesday the country was invited in a speech by Finance Minister Grant Robertson to believe a ‘better than expected recovery’ had given the Government room to address longstanding challenges,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Two days later ... More >>
Kafka Would Be Proud Of The EPA
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 12:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s supposedly fast-track consenting process is proving to be anything but, with the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) a clear hindrance to progress rather than a facilitator,” says ACT Environment spokesperson Simon ... More >>
New Rules Terrible For Renters
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 10:18 am | ACT New Zealand
“For three and a half years the Labour Government has been pushing housing further away from those who most need it, and from today that challenge will be amplified,” says ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Warnings that increased business ... More >>
Picker Debacle Will Leave A Rotten Stench
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 9:57 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s dismal failure to be flexible and pragmatic about immigration to support the primary sector means hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for apple, wine and other growers is a near certainty,” says ACT Primary Industries ... More >>
New RMA A Three Headed Hydra
Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 11:38 am | ACT New Zealand
“RMA reform must uphold the rights of property owners while freeing up land for development and making it easier to develop, a balance which is completely missing from today’s announced repeal and replacement of New Zealand’s consenting system,” ... More >>
