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Jones must release Westland loan details
Sunday, 2 December 2018, 4:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
Jones must release Westland loan details Shane Jones should immediately divulge the details of a government loan to private company Westland Milk Products, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
PM backs rogue Minister
Friday, 30 November 2018, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Prime Minister appears either unwilling or unable to tell Shane Jones to pull his head in on the issue of agricultural subsidies, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Speech: ACT - The World’s First Woolbeing Budget
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 8:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
Speech: The World’s First Woolbeing Budget – Forget Modelling our Wellbeing, Just Run Government Properly More >>
Gas price drop means market study wastes $3m
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 4:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
The recent fall in petrol prices means the Government’s heavy-handed investigation into fuel companies will waste $1.5m of taxpayer money and will place similar compliance costs on the companies themselves, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
PGF now providing banking services to struggling firms
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 1:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
PGF now providing banking services to struggling firms The Provincial Growth Fund’s move to hand out loans to struggling New Zealand firms should scare the daylights out of taxpayers, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Shane Jones thumbs nose at WTO
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 4:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones today confirmed that some Provincial Growth Fund expenditure may qualify as agricultural subsidies, meaning it would need to be reported to the World Trade Organisation, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Free Press, 26 November 2018 – Unintended Consequences
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 9:20 am | ACT New Zealand
It’s a truism to say that government action often produces perverse side-effects. But why does this occur? One source of unintended consequences, according to economist Robert K. Merton, is the “imperious immediacy of interest”. That is, politicians ... More >>
Good intentions won’t solve child neglect
Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 9:05 am | ACT New Zealand
The Prime Minister’s Child Poverty Reduction Bill – set to pass into law this week with the support of every party except ACT – will do nothing to solve child neglect, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
ACT will hold Nats to ‘no new taxes’
Monday, 26 November 2018, 1:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour has welcomed Simon Bridges’ commitment to introducing no new taxes in the first term of a National-led government and to repealing any capital gains tax. More >>
Vaping red tape protects tobacco revenue
Friday, 23 November 2018, 3:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
Regulating vaping in the same way as tobacco will kill off new innovations, meaning less incentive for people to quit cigarettes, but more revenue for the government, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
How many jobs will a capital gains tax destroy?
Friday, 23 November 2018, 9:34 am | ACT New Zealand
A valuation day approach to measuring capital gains will ensure that thousands fewer jobs are created, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Provincial Growth Fund: $120,000 a job
Tuesday, 20 November 2018, 10:08 am | ACT New Zealand
Each job being created through the Government’s Provincial Growth Fund comes with an eye-watering price tag of more than $120,000, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Free Press - Rhetoric and reality
Tuesday, 20 November 2018, 8:21 am | ACT New Zealand
We are by now used to the soaring oratory of our Prime Minister. She is a world-class communicator. But her government’s results tell a very different story. The gap between the coalition government’s rhetoric and reality has been stark. More >>
Less corporate welfare, more money for court workers
Monday, 19 November 2018, 1:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
Continuing industrial action by Ministry of Justice staff means New Zealanders are being held in jail cells because courts are not open long enough to hear their bail applications, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
PM pretends climate change isn’t a global issue
Sunday, 18 November 2018, 4:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
In helping to roll electricity out in a country that is overwhelmingly reliant on fossil fuels, the Prime Minister has conveniently ignored her commitment to fighting climate change, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Western Australia to Introduce Assisted Dying Law
Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 3:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Yet again our friends around the world have shown us that it’s possible to design perfectly safe assisted dying laws,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Peters’ ‘first to enter’ commitment another broken promise
Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 11:44 am | ACT New Zealand
Winston Peters’ commitment to be the first to enter the Pike River mine was nowhere to be seen in the Government’s announcement this morning, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Twyford finally gets it right, makes KiwiBuild redundant
Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 11:30 am | ACT New Zealand
Phil Twyford’s housing and infrastructure announcement this morning is a positive step and shows just how redundant KiwiBuild is, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Cabinet rubber-stamps withdrawals from Jones’ slush fund
Tuesday, 13 November 2018, 9:21 am | ACT New Zealand
The Cabinet is now acting as a rubber-stamp for Shane Jones’ withdrawals from his Provincial Growth Fund, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
ACT: Free Press, 12 November - Rubbing Up Against Reality
Monday, 12 November 2018, 8:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
Rubbing Up Against Reality I Any of Australia’s last five Prime Ministers can tell you what happens when energy prices rise and people are hit hard in the hip pocket. Our Prime Minister knows this. She got elected saying that climate change ... More >>
