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We’re The Coalition Of Cuts, Labour’s The ‘Coalition Of Klutz’
Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“After six years of big spending with little to show for it, Labour and the Greens should be called the ‘Coalition of Klutz’”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government thinks all its spending is useful, but that position is completely ... More >>
Hipkins, We Have A Problem
Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 10:31 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister’s refusal to call crime a ‘problem’ on Morning Report shows he spends too long in the back of a Crown limo and not enough time out on the streets”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Just because the Prime Minister and ... More >>
ACT: National’s Conscience
Monday, 29 May 2023, 5:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT welcomes National housing spokesperson Chris Bishop getting back on the right side of housing policy. Chris broke ranks from the Labour-National housing deal just six weeks after he said he wouldn’t on the same show, and it’s a welcome reversal,” ... More >>
‘Coalition Of Chaos’ Strikes Again: Refusal To Define Mātauranga Māori Will Create Red Tape And Delay
Monday, 29 May 2023, 3:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
At today’s Environment Select Committee, Labour and Green Party members voted down a proposal from ACT MP Simon Court to include a definition of mātauranga Māori in the Natural and Built Environment Bill (NBE Bill), one of the two Bills which ... More >>
Yes, We Are The Coalition Of Cuts
Monday, 29 May 2023, 1:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“More than half of Kiwis want to pay less tax according to a recent 1News poll, and ACT will give them what they want,” said ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour calls us the ‘coalition of cuts’, thinking it’s an insult, but it just shows ... More >>
Labour Unarmed In Contest Of Ideas
Sunday, 28 May 2023, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders watching for Labour’s vision for a wealthier, safer, more united country this weekend saw a political party enter a contest of ideas completely unarmed,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour’s first two policy announcements of this ... More >>
Where Is Labour’s Vision?
Saturday, 27 May 2023, 3:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders watching for Labour’s vision of a wealthier, safer, more united country will be bitterly disappointed to see its opening gambit this election: a promise to keep everything the same,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Promising ... More >>
Are Labour Financially Illiterate, Or Dishonest?
Saturday, 27 May 2023, 2:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s claim that taxpayers would be worse off under ACT’s alternative budget is either financially illiterate or dishonest, because they ignored ACT’s generous tax cuts for working families,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If Chris ... More >>
ACT Would Scrap $79m Agency Responsible For ‘showerganda’
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 2:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The condescending taxpayer-funded campaign for five-minute showers highlights why the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority is unnecessary – and ACT’s alternative budget, released last week, proposed to scrap it”, says ACT’s Climate ... More >>
National Finally Admits They Got Housing Density Policy Wrong
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 5:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden welcomed National Party Leader Christopher Luxon’s admission that National ’got MDRS (housing density) wrong’. Ms van Velden said, “These comments, made at a meeting in Birkenhead today, are ... More >>
Change The Govt, Not The Length Of Your Shower
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 5:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour is launching a nationwide campaign to lecture people to have shorter showers on the same day its reckless economic policies have added $2,500 to a half million dollar mortgage over the next two years”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour’s ... More >>
Reckless And Irresponsible Robertson Just Cost You Big Time
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 3:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Reckless and irresponsible Robertson just cost a family with a half-million mortgage $2,500 over the next two years,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “As the Reserve Bank says, fiscal pressure will drop away eventually but not now. In the meantime, ... More >>
Bad, Terrible Or Disastrous? How Bad Are Interest Rates Going To Get?
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 12:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The country is waiting nervously for today’s OCR announcement, which is going to be bad, terrible or disastrous,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Because this Government can’t control its spending, it’s not a question of “if” we’re ... More >>
Assaults On Police Triple Under Labour
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
In response to a question from ACT’s Police spokesperson Chris Baillie, the Government has been forced to reveal that assaults on police have more than tripled since Labour was elected. Assaults (excluding spitting) have gone from 307 a year in 2017 to 1001 ... More >>
Thank Grant Robertson For Your Next Interest Rate Rise
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 12:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Following last week’s blowout budget, the question around tomorrow’s OCR decision is whether Adrian Orr hikes it by 25 points or 50. If Grant Robertson had shown the slightest degree of fiscal competency and reigned in his spending there ... More >>
Colourblind State Care Petition Hits 10k Signatures
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 11:38 am | ACT New Zealand
A campaign to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act has hit 10,000 signatures. “Children are being taken out of safe, loving foster homes because their foster parents are the ‘wrong’ race”, says ACT Spokesperson for Children Karen Chhour. ... More >>
PM Needs To Back Struggling Kiwis, Not Wealthy Aussies
Monday, 22 May 2023, 2:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Prime Minister Chris Hipkins appears to be confused about which country he’s leading,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. In recent weeks his government has spent $10,000 advertising in Australia to promote the benefits of living there and given ... More >>
Kiwis Pay An Extra Two Days’ Worth Of Taxes Than In 2022
Monday, 22 May 2023, 12:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Every year Labour is in Government, Kiwis have to work longer just to hand over every cent they’ve earned to Grant Robertson,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today is ‘Tax Freedom Day’ according to accounting firm Baker Tilly Staples ... More >>
Time To Take Youth Crime Seriously
Monday, 22 May 2023, 11:24 am | ACT New Zealand
“The epidemic of youth crime has gotten to the point where New Zealand’s news headlines could be straight out of the L.A. Times – ram raids, stabbing threats, brazen robberies. It’s past time for youth offenders to start facing real consequences,” ... More >>
First Gamers, Now Global Manufacturers Receive Corporate Welfare
Sunday, 21 May 2023, 5:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s $140 million handout to Bluescope Group to build an electric arc furnace is more corporate welfare from a Government who thinks the answer to everything is spending your money,” says ACT Party Leader David Seymour. “Emissions ... More >>
