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Corruption perception slide due to Provincial Growth Fund
Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 8:47 am | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand has lost its top spot in Transparency International’s 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index after a drop of two points since 2017. More >>
Ardern’s silence on Venezuela telling
Wednesday, 30 January 2019, 8:40 am | ACT New Zealand
The Prime Minister’s failure to take a position on the political crisis engulfing Venezuela is telling, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Govt responsible for KiwiBuild now lecturing private sector
Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 4:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
After days of negative media coverage on KiwiBuild, the Government has attempted to regain control of the political narrative by launching a scathing attack on the insurance industry. More >>
Govt moves towards sugar tax
Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 8:25 am | ACT New Zealand
The Government is moving closer towards the idea of a sugar tax with documents revealing that health officials are actively investigating it. This is despite Health Minister David Clark categorically stating he wasn’t working on a tax. More >>
Good Teacher Grants would ease teaching crisis
Monday, 28 January 2019, 11:33 am | ACT New Zealand
With hundreds of teaching vacancies causing disruption as children return to school, it’s time we allowed schools to ditch union contracts and pay the best teachers what they are worth, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Ardern tries to sell warm, fuzzy Wellbeing Budget
Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 9:36 am | ACT New Zealand
New Zealanders will be none the wiser about the Government’s Wellbeing Budget as Jacinda Ardern tries to sell it on the world stage, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
New report exposes KiwiBuild’s failings
Tuesday, 22 January 2019, 3:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
A new report by the New Zealand Initiative’s Dr Bryce Wilkinson comprehensively exposes KiwiBuild as an incoherent mess, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Labour now owns National-created housing crisis
Monday, 21 January 2019, 11:05 am | ACT New Zealand
Fifteen months into government, Labour now owns the housing crisis that was created through years of denial by National, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
KiwiBuild in crisis with CEO’s resignation
Friday, 18 January 2019, 2:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government’s flagship KiwiBuild programme is in crisis with head Stephen Barclay today resigning, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Welfare rolls swell with 1 in 10 on benefits
Thursday, 17 January 2019, 12:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
The number of New Zealanders on welfare continues to swell under the Labour Government with one in ten working-age people on a main benefit, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
New survey shows firms gloomy about government
Tuesday, 15 January 2019, 3:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
The latest NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion shows New Zealand businesses are gloomy about the Government’s economic management, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Higher taxes on 1 January will punish poor
Thursday, 20 December 2018, 3:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government’s decision to raise tobacco taxes on 1 January will punish the poorest New Zealanders, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Economic slowdown must prompt change in direction
Thursday, 20 December 2018, 1:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
Economic slowdown must prompt change in direction The latest quarterly gross domestic product figures should give the Government pause on its economic direction, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
PM’s child poverty bill will fail
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 7:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Prime Minister’s well-intentioned Child Poverty Reduction Bill will do nothing to solve child neglect, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
State spying a serious test for PM
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 12:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
Revelations that government agencies used spy firm Thompson and Clarke to monitor political parties, iwi and activists present a serious test for the Prime Minister, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
ACT welcomes cannabis referendum
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 12:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour has welcomed the Government’s announcement that a binding referendum on the recreational use of cannabis will take place at the 2020 general election. More >>
Free Press, 17 December 2018 - 12 Months of Freedom Fighting
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 10:52 am | ACT New Zealand
Rear View Mirror It’s been quite a year, but next year will be bigger. Free Press predicts that the Government is not as listless and incompetent as we hoped. The various working groups will come back and trigger ideological battles over everything ... More >>
Govt should come clean on $1m for investigated trust
Monday, 17 December 2018, 11:53 am | ACT New Zealand
The decision by Shane Jones to give almost $1 million from the Provincial Growth Fund to an organisation that was recently investigated by the Government is being questioned by ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Govt trashes NZ’s foreign investment reputation
Friday, 14 December 2018, 4:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
A new global survey of the oil and gas industry shows the Government has trashed New Zealand’s reputation as a destination for foreign investment with its reckless oil and gas ban, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
1st Anniversary of the End of Life Choice Bill
Thursday, 13 December 2018, 7:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
“One year on from the first reading of the End of Life Choice Bill in Parliament, I have released a Sponsor’s Report outlining recommendations on how the Bill might be improved,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
