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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 >>
Government Insults Public And Erodes Democracy
Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 6:46 am | ACT New Zealand
"As protestors held vigil for Myanmar's democracy outside Parliament, inside the Labour Party rushed to remove New Zealanders' democratic rights," says ACT Leader David Seymour "The Local Electoral (Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) ... More >>
There Is No Greatness In Our Lateness
Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 1:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
“When I asked less than a month ago whether New Zealand would be in the second 50 countries to begin vaccinating its citizens against Covid-19 or the third , I was half joking, not really thinking 100 countries could start before us,” says ... More >>
Reserve Bank Patch-up Effort Inevitable
Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 11:31 am | ACT New Zealand
“Reintroducing loan-to-value ratios (LVR) was as inevitable a move from the Reserve Bank as night following day, but it won’t make much difference to the fundamental reasons house prices continue to rise disproportionately to other asset classes,” ... More >>
Māori Ward Urgency Erodes Democracy
Monday, 8 February 2021, 4:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s decision to legislate away democratic rights under urgency does damage far beyond the question of Māori wards,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “If the Government thinks it is important to change how people elect their local ... More >>
Sick Leave Bribe Had Nothing To Do With Covid-19
Monday, 8 February 2021, 4:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s new Covid-19 payment allowing workers to isolate at home is a welcome development,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT said last year that the Government should consider something similar. It is important that workers isolate ... More >>
Real Crises This Government Isn’t Addressing
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 11:19 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is a thinking person’s party and this Government is the polar opposite, coloured by marketing and vanity,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Only ACT is offering real solutions to the hard, grown-up problems. That is what I told a packed ... More >>
State Of The Nation Address: The Emergencies Labour Should Have Declared
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 11:17 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour Introduction Thank you very much to everyone who’s here this morning and watching online. Happy Waitangi Day. It’s a good day for New Zealand. We alone celebrate a country founded by a voluntary agreement. A Treaty that guarantees ... More >>
What Did Covax Say Minister?
Thursday, 4 February 2021, 2:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
“It’s been almost 20 days since Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins revealed the Government had made a plea to Covax to release some early doses of the Pfizer vaccine so frontline workers could be treated sooner than originally scheduled,” ... More >>
Glaring Lack Of Urgency Revealed
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 2:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The enormity of New Zealand’s soft approach to negotiating Covid-19 vaccines on New Zealanders’ behalf is being laid bare, and no amount of faux self-congratulation for finally approving the safety of Pfizer’s vaccine will change that,” says ... More >>
100 Million Milestone Leaves NZ Increasingly Isolated
Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 2:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Data collected by Bloomberg shows the milestone of 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine administered worldwide has been passed , leaving big questions for the Government about where New Zealand will stand relative to other countries as the worldwide programme ... More >>
