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ACT Welcomes Support For Law And Order Policies
Monday, 26 June 2023, 5:44 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT has welcomed National’s partial support for three of its policies today. “Reinstating ACT’s Three Strikes law, removing cultural reports from the Sentencing Act, and requiring prisoners to undergo rehabilitation before they can be considered for parole ... More >>
Record Rent Rises, Landlords Leaving: Labour’s Cruel Rental Property Own-goal
Sunday, 25 June 2023, 8:59 am | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s economic mismanagement and attacks on landlords are hurting renters, the very people Labour claims to care about,” says ACT’s Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “It’s a classic case of unintended consequences ... More >>
Te Whatu Ora Falling Short On Planned Care
Saturday, 24 June 2023, 8:28 am | ACT New Zealand
“If you haven’t been shuffled on a waiting list for your ethnicity there’s a reasonable chance you won’t receive the care you need anyway. New data shows that Te Whatu Ora is hopelessly underdelivering on planned care,” says ACT Deputy ... More >>
ACT Will Repeal Firearms Register
Saturday, 24 June 2023, 8:28 am | ACT New Zealand
“The full registration of firearms is a wasteful and dangerous exercise and ACT will repeal it,” says ACT’s Firearms spokesperson Nicole McKee. “This is not a good use of taxpayer money. Overseas experience has shown that full registration ... More >>
More Rules, Bureaucrats Won't Solve Conflicts Issue
Thursday, 22 June 2023, 9:46 am | ACT New Zealand
“Chris Hipkins’ reaction to the Wood affair – hiring more people and making more rules that won’t actually solve the problem – is a perfect case study in why government costs so much and achieves so little”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
Protecting Choice And Freedom To Contract
Thursday, 22 June 2023, 9:05 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is proposing to change the Employment Relations Act to give greater certainty to workers and businesses who enter a contracting relationship”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “About one in 20 New Zealanders are contractors and 90 per cent ... More >>
Labour Cuts Its Last Capitalist
Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 2:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The way things are going, Labour is going to run out of Ministers before October. If Hipkins doesn’t have the talent to keep a Government running he should bring the election forward and let New Zealanders pick a Government that is up to the job,” ... More >>
Kiwis Brace Themselves For A Cruel Summer
Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 10:50 am | ACT New Zealand
“Kiwis received some news today that Hits Different, it will be near impossible for some people to just Shake it Off,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Taylor Swift is playing the Anti-Hero today, revealing that the Love Story with New Zealand ... More >>
Serve Up Core Services Not Word Salads
Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 9:20 am | ACT New Zealand
“Our communities want their councils to get back to the basics. Water, rubbish, housing and roads is what councils should be focussed on. The last thing they need is another word salad from the Government like the Review into the Future for Local ... More >>
Statement On Westfield Newmarket Attempted Robbery
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 6:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The attempted robbery of Michael Hill Newmarket is intolerable anywhere and completely unwelcome in the Epsom Electorate," says Epsom MP David Seymour. "It's lucky that everyone did everything right, and nobody was hurt. Those working ... More >>
PM: People Can Self-identify As Māori
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 2:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
“According to the Prime Minister, whether someone is Māori or another ethnicity is up to them”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I asked Chris Hipkins in Parliament whether I would be considered Māori for the purposes of receiving healthcare. He ... More >>
Cancer Treatment Also Ranked By Race
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 12:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT has been contacted by concerned health professionals telling us that access to cancer treatment is now being determined by race. The Government needs to end the discrimination and allow health practitioners to focus on need,” says ACT Deputy ... More >>
How’s CommComm Fuel Market Study Working Out?
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 10:30 am | ACT New Zealand
“Before the Government embarks on another round of election year populism by attacking the private sector, it should ask how its last market study’s working out,” says ACT’s Associate Finance spokesperson Damien Smith. “Just as Labour publicly flogged ... More >>
Waitlist Review Must End Racial Discrimination
Monday, 19 June 2023, 5:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Health Minister’s review of Te Whatu Ora’s ‘waitlist equity adjuster tool’ must end the policy of moving sick patients up and down health waitlists based on their race,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister has ... More >>
Government Needs To Stop Fiddling With The ETS And Just Let It Work
Monday, 19 June 2023, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) reform options released today are largely unnecessary,” says ACT’s Environment Spokesperson Simon Court. “CO2 reductions can be achieved by supporting the current Emissions Trading Scheme.” ... More >>
Race-based Waitlists Indefensible
Monday, 19 June 2023, 8:54 am | ACT New Zealand
“Using ethnicity to prioritise healthcare waitlists is lazy and divisive and it’s not who we are as a country”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Te Whatu Ora’s new ‘waitlist equity adjuster tool’ uses five criteria to prioritise patients ... More >>
Time To Cancel The Corporate Welfare Gravy Train
Sunday, 18 June 2023, 9:40 am | ACT New Zealand
“While Kiwis are tightening their belts and making tough choices, the Government is spending more and more taxpayer money to keep the corporate welfare gravy train chugging along,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This week there have been at ... More >>
Foon Strewn On A June Afternoon
Friday, 16 June 2023, 6:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Meng Foon’s tenure as a Race Relations Commissioner who was never able to put his own views aside has today ended fittingly with an undisclosed conflict of interest,” says ACT Party Leader David Seymour. “Meng Foon’s resignation is welcome,” ... More >>
Nash Report Highlights Govt Skills Shortage
Friday, 16 June 2023, 11:36 am | ACT New Zealand
“It’s not just the private sector struggling to find talent. The Government’s Cabinet is facing a severe skills shortage as well, and the only solution is to fire them all,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Stuart Nash, Michael Wood, and Jan ... More >>
ACT Is Standing Up For Rural New Zealand
Thursday, 15 June 2023, 12:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Farmers in countries who are our biggest trading partners are not paying a price for their methane emissions, and under ACT neither would New Zealand farmers,” say ACT MP Mark Cameron and ACT candidate Andrew Hoggard. “ACT would also do away ... More >>
