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Self-serving union doesn’t have student interests at heart
Monday, 12 November 2018, 7:12 am | ACT New Zealand
Reports that teachers union NZEI has declined a pay offer from the Government and decided to strike because it already has meeting rooms booked shows it doesn’t have the interests of students or teachers at heart, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Two ways to pay teachers more
Friday, 9 November 2018, 4:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
With about 27,000 overworked and underpaid teachers set to go on strike next week, here’s how ACT would fund pay increases for them, says Leader David Seymour. More >>
RBNZ, FMA break law, waste $2m, find almost nothing
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 12:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Financial Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank have gone rogue with their Bank Conduct and Culture study, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Governor delivers verdict on Government
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 10:32 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Reserve Bank’s decision to leave the Official Cash Rate at 1.75 per cent is good news for mortgagees but a long-term indictment on the Government, showing a soft private sector propped up by Government spending”, says ACT Leader David ... More >>
KiwiBuild capital gains for a lucky few
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 9:07 am | ACT New Zealand
KiwiBuild is now a full-blown middle-class welfare scheme with the Government allowing lottery winners to flip taxpayer-subsidised homes and keep most of the capital gain", says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Petrol prices the result of cosy political duopoly
Thursday, 8 November 2018, 8:58 am | ACT New Zealand
Both major parties are barking up the wrong tree over high petrol prices, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Seymour welcomes Erebus progress
Tuesday, 6 November 2018, 8:59 am | ACT New Zealand
Epsom MP David Seymour has welcomed news that work on a new Erebus National Memorial is underway, with designers and family members of the victims being asked to contribute ideas to the project. More >>
Mallard, Brownlee should repay cost of junket
Monday, 5 November 2018, 12:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour is calling on Speaker Trevor Mallard and National MP Gerry Brownlee to repay the cost of their trip to Japan. More >>
Nanny state policies written by children
Sunday, 4 November 2018, 4:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister today outlined her vision for New Zealand, a country in which the state coddles Kiwis from cradle to grave”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Taxpayers being fleeced in film industry bidding war
Saturday, 3 November 2018, 12:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
Hard up Kiwis taxpayers are being fleeced as Peter Jackson, James Cameron and other Hollywood bigwigs line their pockets with corporate welfare, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Time to legalise assisted dying
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 3:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New research from Otago University shows once again that New Zealanders are overwhelmingly in support of choice and legalising assisted dying,” says ACT Leader David Seymour More >>
Only ACT opposes own-goal child poverty bill
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 11:39 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT continues to provide the only opposition to the Government’s left-wing agenda, with National supporting a meaningless bill that will do nothing to alleviate child poverty, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
State monopoly delivers rampant education inequality
Wednesday, 31 October 2018, 2:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
A government monopoly has created one of the most unequal education systems in the world, according to a new report. More >>
Tax cuts sweep through UK, US and Oz – what about NZ?
Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 10:22 am | ACT New Zealand
Taxes are being slashed by New Zealand’s competitors, while Kiwis are set to be burdened by $860 million more in taxes in 2022, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Free Press, 29 October 2018
Monday, 29 October 2018, 3:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
Francis Fukuyama wrote in 1989 that we’d reached the ‘End of History.’ The communists had lost, we won, and a mutually reinforcing combination of free markets and liberal democracy would end the intrigue, conflict, and sheer barbarism that ... More >>
NZ drifts towards European-style socialism
Monday, 29 October 2018, 9:22 am | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand is now on a path towards tax and spend, European-style socialism, with interest.co.nz ’s analysis that Kiwis will be paying $860 million more in taxes each year in 2022. More >>
One Year On – Sexy PR, Ugly Policies
Friday, 26 October 2018, 12:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
12 months in, the Labour-led government has delivered a combination of slick marketing and some genuinely appalling policies. Here’s the bad, the ugly, and what ACT would do differently, writes ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Teacher crisis fixed by performance pay
Friday, 26 October 2018, 9:02 am | ACT New Zealand
The mounting teacher crisis could be fixed by performance pay, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
More corporate welfare for the big end of town
Thursday, 25 October 2018, 3:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Government is funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars into New Zealand’s largest businesses and ignoring the engine room of our economy", says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Free Press, 23 October 2018
Wednesday, 24 October 2018, 8:21 am | ACT New Zealand
As pornography has distorted a generation’s expectations of sex, a generation of politicians have grown up thinking that political dramas House of Cards, West Wing, In the Thick of It, and Yes, Minister are real. We could say a lot more about National’s ... More >>
