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RSE Scheme Rotten
Friday, 21 August 2020, 9:21 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s RSE (Recognised Season Employer) scheme is wrongheaded and ineffective and in need of a major overhaul, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I have repeatedly raised concerns with the Government, in particular former Immigration ... More >>
Consensus Grows For A Wellbeing Approach To COVID-19
Friday, 21 August 2020, 9:16 am | ACT New Zealand
“Consensus is growing for a Wellbeing Approach to tackling COVID-19 with two prominent New Zealanders writing in the New Zealand Medical Journal this morning that ‘there’s got to be a better way,’” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The University of ... More >>
ACT’s Wellbeing Response To Covid-19
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 4:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT has today announced its Covid-19 Response Policy which has a focus on wellbeing”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has had a strategy for dealing with Covid-19 under its nose all along. A wellbeing approach weighs up all of the costs ... More >>
Govt Didn’t Read Testing Strategy Or Lied About It
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 6:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Either the Government didn’t know what was in its national testing strategy, or it lied to New Zealanders about the extent of border testing,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister and the Health Minister have insisted ... More >>
Govt Believes It Is Above The Law
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 5:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s response to a ruling on the Level 4 lockdown suggests that it believes it’s above the law,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. The High Court has ruled that the first nine days of the Level 4 lockdown wasn’t mandated by law ... More >>
Winston Peters A Day Late And A Dollar Short On Protecting Our Borders
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 4:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Winston Peters is headline hunting and grandstanding after doing nothing in Cabinet for the past six months," according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “If a new border protection force is 'a major priority' for Mr Peters, he should have said ... More >>
PM Sat On Critical Information For Nine Days
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 2:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister has today admitted that she sat on information for nine days from health officials that people working at the border didn’t want to be tested,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I asked Jacinda Ardern in Parliament today when ... More >>
Skills Shortage In Labour Cabinet
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 12:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A skills shortage in the Labour Cabinet has resulted in part-time Ministers making catastrophic mistakes,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “We have a part time Health Minister who’s allowed Covid-19 to breach the border. He can’t give ... More >>
Government’s Border Testing A Circus
Tuesday, 18 August 2020, 12:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s border testing regime is a complete circus,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. Mr Seymour was responding to the news that a maintenance worker at the Rydges Hotel managed isolation facility has tested positive for Covid-19 ... More >>
Principals Should Open Schools To Year 12 & 13
Tuesday, 18 August 2020, 9:12 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour is calling on Auckland principals to do the right thing and open their schools to senior high school students. “Since Auckland went into lockdown I have said that students from years 12 and 13 should be allowed back to ... More >>
Wage Subsidy Shouldn’t Create False Economy
Monday, 17 August 2020, 2:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s announcement on the wage subsidy today must help businesses on the edge, but investing in better public health would have been ten times cheaper,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The latest lockdown is the result of the Government’s ... More >>
Right Decision To Delay The Election
Monday, 17 August 2020, 10:35 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister has done the right thing by delaying the election and allowing voters to properly participate in the election,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT believes a free and fair contest requires that we have four weeks at Level ... More >>
New Zealanders Deserve A Free And Fair Election
Sunday, 16 August 2020, 3:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders deserve four straight weeks at Level 1, so that voters can get out and meet the candidates,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “We can’t have a free and fair election while candidates and voters in our largest city are ... More >>
Stakes Higher, Restrictions Tighter For Senior High School Students
Sunday, 16 August 2020, 7:10 am | ACT New Zealand
"The Government needs to explain why it’s changed Level 3 lockdown rules for high school students at the most important time of the school year," says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Exams are enormously important to senior high school ... More >>
MP For Epsom Cancels This Weekend’s Street Corner Meetings
Sunday, 16 August 2020, 7:08 am | ACT New Zealand
Epsom MP David Seymour is regretfully cancelling Street Corner Meetings in the Epsom Electorate this weekend. “Over the last two weekends I’ve met hundreds of Epsom Electorate residents at 21 Street Corner Meetings. They have been high quality conversations ... More >>
Unfair, Arbitrary L3 Rules Destroying Local Businesses
Saturday, 15 August 2020, 11:05 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s Level 3 rules are arbitrary and unfair and it must allow butchers, bakers and greengrocers to open their doors if restrictions continue,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. Schedule 2 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Alert Levels ... More >>
Unfair, Arbitrary L3 Rules Destroying Local Businesses
Saturday, 15 August 2020, 11:05 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s Level 3 rules are arbitrary and unfair and it must allow butchers, bakers and greengrocers to open their doors if restrictions continue,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. Schedule 2 of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Alert Levels ... More >>
Auckland Year 11-13s Must Be Exempt From Level 3
Saturday, 15 August 2020, 10:19 am | ACT New Zealand
“There is no logic in senior students with high stakes exams staying home if Year 1-10 students can attend school, as they could last time,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The purpose of schools is learning rather than warehousing students. ... More >>
The Government Had One Job – It Failed
Friday, 14 August 2020, 5:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government set itself one job – test, trace and isolate the virus in three days – but it has failed, at a cost to all of us,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If the strategy was always for restrictions to last one incubation cycle of 14 ... More >>
A Big Lever To Pull?
Friday, 14 August 2020, 1:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Chris Hipkins’ statement that compulsory testing for border, isolation and quarantine staff is ‘a big lever to pull,’ is untrue and out of touch,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Testing government employees who are obviously at ... More >>
