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Ministry For Pacific Peoples Ineffective At Everything But Spending
Wednesday, 9 August 2023, 3:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Ministry for Pacific Peoples seems to have no outputs except gross expenditure, and would be gone under ACT,” says ACT leader David Seymour. “Today the Public Service Commissioner condemned MPP’s spending $39,262 on a farewell for its former ... More >>
Energy Minister Forgets She Owns Electricity Generators
Wednesday, 9 August 2023, 11:56 am | ACT New Zealand
“Megan Woods has been Energy Minister for almost six years, but she still hasn’t figured out that the Government owns majority shares in electricity generators. This is the sort of incompetence New Zealand taxpayers have been shelling out for over ... More >>
Jackson Should Deny Meeting With Media On Treaty Principles
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 1:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson should come out and deny that he is meeting with journalists this week to discuss how they should report on the Treaty”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We are hearing reports of a meeting held by Stuff with ... More >>
Cutting Red Tape To Ease The Health Workforce Crisis
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 12:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is proposing to cut red tape to ease our health workforce crisis,” says ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “New Zealand’s health system is in crisis. Emergency departments are overflowing, patients languish on ... More >>
NZers Don't Want 'world First' Climate Experiment
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 12:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders don’t want to be subject to a ‘world first’ climate change experiment that will mean the government micromanages their lives”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is an issue of values. Labour says we want to control your ... More >>
PM Has Lost Control Of Divided Health System
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 11:47 am | ACT New Zealand
“Prime Minister Chris Hipkins told Mike Hosking this morning that “the healthcare system should be treating people equally,” but examples of race-based healthcare appear everywhere you look. If the Prime Minister was being honest when he said he ... More >>
Another Firearms Privacy Breach Shows Register Dangerous
Monday, 7 August 2023, 11:13 am | ACT New Zealand
“How many privacy breaches will it take for the Government to admit that a firearms register is going to put firearms owners in danger?," asks ACT’s firearms spokesperson Nicole McKee. “After the Firearms Safety Authority accidentally released ... More >>
Time To End Failed Māori Health Authority Experiment
Monday, 7 August 2023, 11:06 am | ACT New Zealand
“Just as ACT predicted, the Māori Health Authority experiment has been disastrous, and that’s why we will end it. The Māori Health Authority has sacked half its board, failed to hire critical skills because it’s too focused on hiring based ... More >>
‘Stop Work Notices’ Will Cut $1 Billion Of Waste On Day One
Sunday, 6 August 2023, 2:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour has increased government spending by $56 billion over six budgets and some of the spending is so damaging it must be stopped on day one of the next Government,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT will defund failing and wasteful projects by ... More >>
Grant ‘Contortionist’ Robertson Says Boondoggles Are Good
Sunday, 6 August 2023, 2:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Boondoggles can be worked through” says the contortionist Finance Minister of a cynical government on its last legs. How can New Zealanders trust a government that doesn’t believe in its own policy?” Asks ACT Leader David Seymour. "Besides ... More >>
New Zealand Can’t Afford To Chase Wealth Away
Saturday, 5 August 2023, 1:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The constant focus on the wealth gap in New Zealand betrays the biggest problem with New Zealand’s economy – Everyone is getting poorer, and until we have a Government focussed on attracting wealth and growing the economy then New Zealand ... More >>
Government Quietly Withdraws Flawed Bill
Friday, 4 August 2023, 4:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Disabilities Minister Priyanca Radhakrishnan has quietly withdrawn the Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill from Parliament because it doesn’t meet the disabled community’s standards. This is what we’ve been trying to tell her from the start,” says ACT’s ... More >>
Auckland Council Is Right About ‘bombing Run’
Friday, 4 August 2023, 1:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Megan Woods needs to recall her instructions to Kainga Ora that would turn a massive strip through the centre of Auckland into a project. The way she treated Auckland Council disrespected local people, and it’s time to get a Government that ... More >>
Minister Corrects The Record – Admits To Race-based Prezzy Cards
Thursday, 3 August 2023, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand
“Associate Health Minister Willow-Jean Prime was blissfully unaware of her own policy when I asked her about it in Parliament yesterday. Today she has corrected her answers and admitted that pregnant mothers are receiving $50 prezzy cards purely ... More >>
It’s Not One Meeting, It’s Two, And It’s Not $20 Billion, It’s $30 Billion
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 6:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Grant Robertson’s reported meeting where bureaucrats were asked to save 10 per cent of their spending just 73 days from an election was the second of two, and the fiscal hole is closer to $30 billion”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT ... More >>
ACT Will Put An End To Race-based Healthcare
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 2:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour wants to end unfair differences in access to healthcare, it should start with the racial lottery it is deliberately creating,” says ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Today in Parliament I revealed that pregnant ... More >>
Royal Commission Report Drives Home Need For Real Change In The Way We Care For Children
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 1:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Today’s report from the Abuse in Care Royal Commission is difficult reading, but it highlights the importance of fixing the institutions that care for our young people,” says ACT’s Spokesperson for Children Karen Chhour. “Reading these ... More >>
Underutilisation Rate The Telling Figure
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 12:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“As inflation gobbles up more of their income and it becomes harder to find work, Stats NZ data shows that more and more New Zealanders are unable to gain meaningful work,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The underutilisation rate has increased ... More >>
LGWM Captured By Co-governance
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 11:35 am | ACT New Zealand
“Let's Get Wellington Moving is the latest public sector project to become captured by co-governance and ACT will end the Treaty consulting industry that has grown under Labour,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s no wonder projects like Let’s ... More >>
ACT Would Prevent NZ Joining Belt And Road Initiative
Wednesday, 2 August 2023, 10:26 am | ACT New Zealand
“If National’s Transport policy leaves the door open for the Chinese Government to build New Zealand roads, ACT’s well thought out Transport policy shuts it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “New Zealand desperately needs more foreign investment ... More >>
