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Kids The Real Losers In Sorry Tinetti Saga
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 2:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The real losers in the sorry saga of Jan Tinetti are the kids, says ACT Education Spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Jan Tinetti was effectively found not guilty of contempt of Parliament because she had no idea what she was doing. She apparently didn’t ... More >>
Robertson, Woods, Must Front Massive Auckland Planning Power Grab
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 1:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Without any announcement on the Beehive website, Ministers Robertson and Wood have written to Kainga Ora and asked them to commence a Specified Development Project to rezone an enormous area of the Auckland isthmus between Mt Eden Rd and Sandringham ... More >>
Will Mauri Make Our Water Safe To Drink
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 1:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Labour Government’s obsession with adding race-based hierarchy to every piece of legislation has come to Three Waters,” says ACT’s Infrastructure Spokesperson Simon Court, “but will it fix our broken pipes and make our water safe to drink?” ... More >>
Why Wouldn’t Hipkins Release Kiri Allan’s RNZ Transcript Earlier
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 11:49 am | ACT New Zealand
“Recent revelations about bad working relationships with Minister Kiri Allan raise questions about why Prime Minister Chris Hipkins wouldn’t release the transcript of her controversial speech to Radio New Zealand earlier this year,” said ACT Leader ... More >>
Let’s Get Wellington Moving Absolutely Positively Must Go
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 11:13 am | ACT New Zealand
“If Wellington City Council’s (WCC) faction of clueless left-wing councillors try and condemn the city to Let’s Get Wellington Moving today, Central Government should at least do the right thing and pull its funding out of it,” says ACT’s ... More >>
Kids Get KFC For Breaking Someone’s Wrist? That’s A Dying Nation
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 10:24 am | ACT New Zealand
“Five youths who attempted to escape a youth facility, damaged taxpayer property, and broke a person’s wrist in the process were rewarded with KFC? These are Labour’s values in action and they will doom a nation. It also shows why youth imprisonment ... More >>
OT Staff Responsible For Increasing Harm
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 7:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Even though the number of children in Oranga Tamariki care is decreasing, the number of incidents where Oranga Tamariki staff are causing harm to them is increasing. Something is rotten in Oranga Tamariki and needs to change,” says ACT’s Children ... More >>
Govt Must Explain $10k A Day COVID Storage
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 3:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The same Government that banned private companies from importing rapid antigen tests now admits it’s spent $45 million in 14 months on storage for expired and expiring rapid antigen tests (RATs) and PPE that will likely never be used,” says ... More >>
Covid-19 Inquiry Needs Broader Public Input
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 11:39 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is concerned that the Royal Commission into Covid-19 Lessons Learned is unnecessarily restricting the public’s ability to make submissions, which will defeat their stated aim of getting a wide variety of viewpoints and experiences,” says ACT Leader David ... More >>
Tough On Crime Tradies Trump Police
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 11:37 am | ACT New Zealand
“You know there is something wrong when local tradies are keener to arrest criminals than the police are,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The NZ Herald has reported that four tradies and a local man performed a citizen’s arrest on a criminal who ... More >>
Verrall Can’t Find Her Ghost RATs
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 3:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
“How is it possible to lose enough Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) to stretch from Auckland to Wellington and back? Minister Verrall says she has a contract to store just that many RATs, but she can’t say how much storage is costing, where it is, ... More >>
Anyone Can Be PM For A Day
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 3:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Acting PM Carmel Sepuloni’s comedy routine in Parliament today was a depressing reminder of just how much money this Government has spent and how little it has achieved with it. But at least she proved social mobility is improving in New Zealand - it ... More >>
Labour’s Education Policy Failing Our Kids, Failing Our Future
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 1:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s handling of education is failing our kids, and as a result failing our future as a country,” said ACT’s Education Spokesperson Chris Baillie today. “Labour is letting down the people that most need our help.” “The numbers are ... More >>
Uni Bailout Another Consequence Of COVID Response
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 1:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The $128 million being given to universities is the result of Labour’s inability to see the bigger picture, whether it’s in the case of their bloody-minded response to COVID or their resulting obsession with throwing money at everything,” says ... More >>
Landfill Labour Presiding Over A Mountain Of Waste
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 12:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
“It’s only Tuesday, but already Labour has shown multiple times that it is a government of waste, and Kiwis need to chuck them on the landfill come October,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “So far this week we’ve seen: $158m worth of Rapid ... More >>
Two Years Of Paid Leave For OT Staff
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 10:20 am | ACT New Zealand
“Two years after the Te Oranga youth facility closed its doors amid controversy and an investigation was opened, Oranga Tamariki staff are still on paid leave courtesy of the taxpayer,” says ACT’s Children spokesperson Karen Chhour. “Te Oranga ... More >>
$158 Million In RATs Going To Waste
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 7:19 am | ACT New Zealand
“He might not be COVID Minister anymore, but New Zealanders are still paying for Chris Hipkins’ incompetence from when he was in the role. Written Parliamentary Questions answered by the Health Minister show that $158 million dollars’ worth ... More >>
Deputy PM Out Of Water, Economy Out Of Gas
Monday, 26 June 2023, 4:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Deputy Prime Minister ran out of water at post-cab and the Government is out of its depth managing the economy. Today the Government put sticking plasters on the hard facts, life is becoming less affordable due to their poor economic management,” ... More >>
Soaring Repair Costs For NZDF Clunkers
Monday, 26 June 2023, 3:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealand taxpayers have coughed up $33 million worth of repairs for the New Zealand Defence Force’s two Boeings in less than a year,” says ACT’s Defence spokesperson Dr James McDowall. “They’re now so unreliable that the Prime Minister ... More >>
PM's Spare Plane An Aircraft Embarrassment
Monday, 26 June 2023, 11:45 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealand’s embarrassingly ancient Defence Force planes are so decrepit that the PM has to bring a spare in case one of them breaks down on a stopover. The emissions created by taking the extra plane is the equivalent of driving a Ford Ranger the ... More >>
