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Government begins killing 3000 jobs this weekend
Wednesday, 28 March 2018, 11:03 am | ACT New Zealand
“By increasing the minimum wage to $16.50 an hour, the Government is condemning 3000 young, unskilled workers to the scrapheap”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. Official analysis by the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment shows the ... More >>
Capital Gains Tax in all but name
Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 8:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Tonight, we have a capital gains tax in all but name, and the National Party is as responsible as the Government,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Poor hit from all angles with regional fuel tax
Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 10:59 am | ACT New Zealand
“The poorest Aucklanders will be in hit in at least three different ways with Phil Twyford’s new regional fuel tax”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
America’s Cup: great theatre, poor deal
Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 9:53 am | ACT New Zealand
“The America’s Cup is a fantastic event, but David Parker and Phil Goff have negotiated an incompetent deal on behalf of New Zealanders”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Free Press ACT’s regular bulletin
Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 9:14 am | ACT New Zealand
TAX, TAX, TAX The Labour Government's legislation of a fuel tax in Auckland continues its weird habit of punishing the poorest New Zealanders. Just like Tobacco Taxes and Fees Free tertiary education, this policy steals from the poor and gives to the ... More >>
Hipkins tries to bully schools while suppressing success
Monday, 26 March 2018, 5:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Government has utterly failed in its attempts to bully fledgling charter schools into accepting a different educational model", says ACT Leader David Seymour. "A month and a half after introducing a Bill to scrap charter schools, ... More >>
Printing money doesn’t create jobs
Monday, 26 March 2018, 2:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Directing the Reserve Bank to focus on employment ignores the basic fact that printing money doesn’t create jobs”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
NZers deserve honest appraisal of Government housing failure
Sunday, 25 March 2018, 12:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders deserve better than Phil Twyford’s ideological comments this morning on Q+A about a ‘market failure’ in housing”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Middlemore a prime example of public sector incompetence
Friday, 23 March 2018, 3:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
“So far, $11 million of operations, doctor’s appointments, and prescriptions have been lost thanks to incompetent government management by National and Labour”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
National Party infighting costs households $1200
Friday, 23 March 2018, 11:14 am | ACT New Zealand
"Comments by former Health Minister Jonathan Coleman show that National cannot be trusted to cut taxes when it returns to Government”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Partnership Schools outperform state schools on attendance
Thursday, 22 March 2018, 1:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
"New data on school attendance shows Partnership Schools outperform state schools”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Polling shows Kiwis support charter schools
Wednesday, 21 March 2018, 2:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Polling conducted by Curia Market Research shows New Zealanders support charter schools remaining open and disapprove of the Government’s handling of the issue”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Career bureaucrat/politician Jones should back off
Wednesday, 21 March 2018, 10:17 am | ACT New Zealand
“Shane Jones has never spent a day of his life in the private sector and should stop telling Air New Zealand how to run its operations”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
A Case Study in Government Waste from ACT’s regular bulletin
Tuesday, 20 March 2018, 8:22 am | ACT New Zealand
We were amazed to learn of a Government report on New Zealanders’ attitudes to sport. No private household or business would have paid for this truly asinine report, but the Government made sure every single one of you did. Since you paid for it (the ... More >>
Tax on ciggies is ‘blood money’
Monday, 19 March 2018, 1:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
“After two violent dairy robberies in the past week, it is only a matter of time before someone is killed, and both Labour and National will be responsible”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Greenpeace ban would be lose-lose
Monday, 19 March 2018, 1:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A ban on oil and gas exploration as proposed by Greenpeace would put 11,000 jobs at risk and could harm the environment”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
How Much Was Spent Telling Us We Enjoy Sport?
Saturday, 17 March 2018, 3:53 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Sport Minister Grant Robertson needs to reveal how much taxpayer money was spent on research that shows Kiwis ‘value’ sport”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Why is Hipkins Hiding the Final Charter Schools Report?
Friday, 16 March 2018, 11:50 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour is questioning why Education Minister Chris Hipkins is suppressing the final Martin Jenkins evaluation of charter schools. More >>
Police Commissioner Must Resign
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 3:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Police Commissioner had a chance to take responsibility for his officers breaking the law and, having ducked the issue, is not fit for office,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. More >>
Seymour Welcomes Operation Painter Findings
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 1:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader David Seymour has welcomed the findings of the Privacy Commissioner’s investigation into Operation Painter. More >>
