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Govt Must Reverse Green School Handout
Saturday, 29 August 2020, 11:32 am | ACT New Zealand
“The $12 million hand out to a ‘Green’ private school shows the Green Party doesn’t follow its principles, but the deal must now be reversed just as Labour brutally crushed the hopes of charter schools for disadvantaged students,” says ... More >>
The Positive, Practical Solution For Tiwai Point
Friday, 28 August 2020, 12:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Reports that Rio Tinto is open to delaying the closure of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter opens the door for the next government to take a positive, practical approach on the issue,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT has a solution that will save ... More >>
Gold Standard Contact Tracing A Myth
Friday, 28 August 2020, 10:03 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government is falling short of its own targets around contact tracing proving its so-called ‘gold standard’ is a myth,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has spent months doing victory laps and assuring New Zealanders its contact ... More >>
Govt Contact Tracing Fails To Meet Verrall Recommendations
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 3:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government sat on a damning contact tracing report for six weeks and cynically dumped on the same day New Zealanders were getting closure on our nation’s tragedy in Christchurch,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Contact Tracing Assurance ... More >>
Smart Phone App Not Smart Enough
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 2:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A report into the Government’s contact tracing app has echoed ACT’s concerns that it’s not smart enough,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “A report by the Contact Tracing Assurance Committee describes the uptake of the NZ COVID Tracer app ... More >>
Greens’ School Choice Support Welcome, But It Shouldn’t Be Political
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 5:08 am | ACT New Zealand
“After voting to end the opportunities provided by Partnership Schools, the Greens’ financial support for a green private school is deeply hypocritical,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “If the Greens have seen the light on educational ... More >>
Freshwater Reforms Should Be Gone By Lunchtime
Wednesday, 26 August 2020, 5:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
“National had it right the first time: the Government’s freshwater reforms should be gone by lunchtime,” says Ruawai dairy farmer and ACT’s rural spokesperson Mark Cameron. “Farmers got us through lockdown. The Government is now repaying ... More >>
ACT Biggest Gainer With Chinese Voters
Wednesday, 26 August 2020, 4:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ New research shows ACT is the biggest gainer among Chinese voters with support up 340 percent on the same time three years ago,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. If the General Election were held tomorrow, 8.8 percent of Chinese New Zealanders ... More >>
Ministry’s Opaque Travel Exemption Process Suffocating Businesses
Wednesday, 26 August 2020, 12:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Ministry of Health’s opaque process for Auckland travel exemptions is suffocating local businesses,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government needs to be open and transparent about how efficiently the process is working. “How many applications ... More >>
Unprecedented Drop In Incomes Shows Lockdowns Unsustainable
Wednesday, 26 August 2020, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand
“ Today’s unprecedented fall in earnings shows that the Government’s strategy of locking the country down while it fumbles at the border and with contact tracing is totally unsustainable,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. Median weekly incomes ... More >>
Mental Health Breaches Unacceptable
Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 4:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“News today that Wellington’s mental health inpatient unit Te Whare o Matairangi is in breach of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is hugely disappointing and points to wide systemic ... More >>
Minister Can’t Confirm A Single Contact With Covid Tracing App
Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 3:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Minister of Health is unable to say whether any contacts have been traced though the Government’s Covid-19 app – proving what a failure the Government has been at contact tracing”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today in Parliament ... More >>
Just A Gas Case, Prime Minister?
Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 9:15 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealand cannot get its economy off the ground and offer opportunity to the next generation if the Prime Minister constantly undermines the rule of law,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “When the Prime Minister walked into a press conference ... More >>
Government Loses Control Of Auckland Cluster
Monday, 24 August 2020, 2:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders will pay the price for the Government losing control of the Auckland Covid-19 cluster,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “With eight new cases today, contact tracing has failed to find the perimeter in time, despite Aucklanders dutifully ... More >>
Continued Restrictions Will Be A Government Failure
Monday, 24 August 2020, 10:38 am | ACT New Zealand
“While Jacinda Ardern has been using the Ministry of Health’s contact tracing centre to film election ads, the Government has failed to stamp out a single outbreak of Covid-19,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government set itself a three-day ... More >>
Regulatory Constitution Would Have Prevented Oil And Gas Ban
Monday, 24 August 2020, 10:20 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government wouldn’t be in court today defending its oil and gas ban if it had followed ACT’s Regulatory Constitution,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This Government has been a shocker when it comes to defining the problem it wants ... More >>
Health Bureaucracy Strangling Businesses
Sunday, 23 August 2020, 4:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Ministry of Health’s bureaucratic exemption process for travelling in and out of Auckland is strangling local businesses,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Businesses in Warkworth and Pukekohe, which are located just inside Auckland, ... More >>
Prime Minister Politicising The Public Service
Saturday, 22 August 2020, 5:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister is politicising the public service by making Labour Party campaign videos featuring public servants,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s completely unacceptable for campaign videos to be filmed inside the Ministry of Health ... More >>
WHO Director-General: Lockdowns Unsustainable
Saturday, 22 August 2020, 2:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A consensus is growing for a Wellbeing Approach to tackling COVID-19 with the Director-General of the World Health Organisation calling lockdowns unsustainable,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. Yesterday, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said : ‘We ... More >>
It Didn't Have To Be Like This
Friday, 21 August 2020, 2:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The continuation of Auckland’s lockdown is a costly disappointment that could have been avoided with ACT’s wellbeing approach,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If the wellbeing lens had been applied, the Government would have spent the past ... More >>
