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Australians Treated Like Adults, Get Better Results
Tuesday, 14 April 2020, 11:13 am | ACT New Zealand
“Australians are being treated like adults by their Government and are achieving better COVID-19 results”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The New Zealand Government should be looking to Australia’s common sense COVID-19 rules as a way to fight ... More >>
Businesses Need Guidance Now, Not With Two Days’ Notice
Thursday, 9 April 2020, 2:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The private sector needs clear guidance from the Government now about what life will look like at lower alert levels”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Jacinda Ardern said this afternoon that Cabinet would make a decision about lowering the ... More >>
Govt’s Politics During Crisis An Affront To Democracy
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 8:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
“That the Government is still pursuing its political agenda under the cover of a national crisis is an affront to democracy”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government’s prisoner voting, urban development, and vaping legislation ... More >>
Govt Must Stop Dictating And Start Listening To Business
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 3:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Today’s Epidemic Response Committee hearing revealed that businesses want the Government to start listening to them, provide clear guidance about the rules at lower Alert Levels, and hit pause on new regulations”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
Industry Leaders Endorse ACT’s Position On “essential Business”
Wednesday, 8 April 2020, 2:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Former chief executive of BusinessNZ Phil O’Reilly and industry leaders have endorsed ACT’s view that the Government should be taking a ‘safety’ rather than an ‘essential’ approach to businesses opening”, says ACT Leader David ... More >>
Government Should Come Clean On PPE
Tuesday, 7 April 2020, 1:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government needs to come clean on the reason why many frontline health workers can't get PPE”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I am hearing many stories from health workers about a lack of PPE on the frontline. “That clearly signals there’s ... More >>
Govt Must Cease Non-essential Legislation Immediately
Monday, 6 April 2020, 9:26 am | ACT New Zealand
“While New Zealanders are distracted by the greatest public health emergency of our lives, the Government is sneaking its political agenda through Parliament”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has given the Justice Committee ... More >>
Police Using Official Documents For Propaganda
Saturday, 4 April 2020, 1:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Police are using new guidelines for frontline officers for propaganda instead of being open and transparent with the public about their new powers”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “On Thursday, the Epidemic Response Committee requested ... More >>
Common Sense Needed On Essential Business
Saturday, 4 April 2020, 1:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Preventing golf course maintenance during lockdown is a perfect example of why we need a common sense approach to what activities can be undertaken”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ As ACT wrote at the beginning of the week , the Government ... More >>
Move To Allow Butchers To Process Pork Illogical
Thursday, 2 April 2020, 8:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s latest move to allow butchers to process pork for supermarkets, but not sell it themselves, is illogical,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “It appears that animal welfare concerns have pushed the Government to move on ... More >>
Police Should Release Legal Advice On How It Will Use Powers
Thursday, 2 April 2020, 1:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Police have an opportunity to encourage respect for the law by being open and transparent about how its officers will use their new powers”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Police Commissioner Mike Bush told the Epidemic Response Committee ... More >>
Economic Recovery Must Not Be Ideological
Wednesday, 1 April 2020, 1:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Finance Minister must commit, as far as is possible, to returning New Zealand to pre-COVID-19 economic settings, rather than using the current crisis to make permanent ideological changes”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Grant Robertson told the ... More >>
Does Finance Minister Have Enough Information To Lift Lockdown?
Wednesday, 1 April 2020, 11:42 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour is questioning whether the Finance Minister has enough information about COVID-19 to know when New Zealand should come out of lockdown. “Every day of this lockdown is costing a fortune. Livelihoods are being lost as ... More >>
Gap Between Testing And Capacity A Major Concern
Tuesday, 31 March 2020, 4:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The gap between the number of COVID-19 tests being performed and our capacity to test is a major concern”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Director-General of Health yesterday said that over the past week an average of 1,728 tests had been ... More >>
COVID-19 Committee Produces New Information On Govt Response
Tuesday, 31 March 2020, 3:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The first sitting of the Epidemic Response Committee, held today, produced a number pieces of new information”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Director-General of Health and the Minister of Health, under questioning, made a ... More >>
To Restrain Supermarket Prices, Let Butchers, Bakers And Fruit And Vege Stores Open
Monday, 30 March 2020, 9:46 am | ACT New Zealand
“As the COVID-19 lockdown evolves, the Government must walk back its restriction on bakeries, butchers and fruit and vegetable stores”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has effectively given supermarkets a monopoly on food, but it seems ... More >>
ACT Crowdsources COVID-19 Committee Questions
Sunday, 29 March 2020, 4:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour is asking the public to submit and vote on the questions it would like answered by the Government on its response to COVID-19. “Keeping our democracy strong through the COVID-19 crisis will be vital”, says Mr Seymour. ... More >>
COVID-19: Suspending Parliament Misguided
Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 3:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s move to adjourn Parliament while assuming extraordinary new powers is misguided”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Although the Business Committee today came to a compromise that will allow the Opposition to continue to ... More >>
ACT Welcomes Government's Measures To Fight COVID-19
Monday, 23 March 2020, 2:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government has made the right call by moving New Zealand to Alert Level 3 immediately and to Alert Level 4 in 48 hours”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Now is the time for all New Zealanders to support the measures announced by the Prime ... More >>
Free Press, 23 March 2020
Monday, 23 March 2020, 8:21 am | ACT New Zealand
In Last Week’s Free Press We outlined three possible options for COVID-19: (1) Let it burn through the population until we have herd immunity, (2) Lock everything down until there is a vaccine, or (3) Tread the middle path of flattening the curve ... More >>
