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Supercharged Ute Tax Taxing Tradies To Subsidise Teslas
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 8:50 am | ACT New Zealand
“Making cheap, reliable cars more expensive for tradies and farmers in a cost of living crisis for no environmental gain will go down as one of Labour’s dumbest policies,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Despite desperately spinning that ... More >>
Government Must Ease The Squeeze On Kiwi Households
Monday, 1 May 2023, 11:00 am | ACT New Zealand
“Household living costs data released by Stats NZ shows that the Government isn’t doing enough to Ease the Squeeze on Kiwi households,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “In the past 12 months the cost of living for the average household has increased ... More >>
ACT Would End Winter Energy Payment Money Go Round
Monday, 1 May 2023, 10:25 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Winter Energy Payment needs to be targeted to those who really need it, New Zealand can’t afford to be spending half a billion dollars on a winter energy payment that goes to millionaires and beneficiaries alike,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
ACT Will Bring Real Change For Firearms Community
Sunday, 30 April 2023, 12:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
“National’s proposed firearms policy shows they’re aware of problems with the current law, but reviewing and tinkering won’t fix the issues or make up for the poor treatment licensed firearms owners have had over recent years. ACT says ... More >>
Climate Change Should Be Science-based, Not Spiritual
Sunday, 30 April 2023, 11:58 am | ACT New Zealand
“Any response to climate change needs to based on science, not vague spiritual concepts which don’t lower emissions one bit,” says ACT’s Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court. “Some of this week’s recommendations for the Government’s Emissions ... More >>
Policy Bonfire Actually Just Putting Things On Ice
Saturday, 29 April 2023, 12:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Chris Hipkins’ ‘policy bonfire’ is no such thing. He’s just putting a bunch of unpopular policies on ice in election year,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Many of the policies that Hipkins has tried to run from are still lingering. He ... More >>
Critics Out To Lunch On The Tenancy Laws
Friday, 28 April 2023, 10:10 am | ACT New Zealand
“Those saying landlords shouldn’t be able to end a tenancy are the worst enemy of vulnerable tenants,” says ACT’s Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Making it harder to get rid of a bad tenant, as Labour has done, sounds ... More >>
3,000 words of nothing from Hipkins
Thursday, 27 April 2023, 7:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Chris Hipkins pre-budget speech today was 3,000 words without substance. It was like an old Jacinda Ardern speech, just without her flair,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The only thing Hipkins managed to set out today were the things his Government ... More >>
Parker Can’t Defend Dodgy Study
Thursday, 27 April 2023, 11:36 am | ACT New Zealand
“David Parker’s only way of defending the dodgy methodology in his tax system fishing expedition is to create a new definition for what ‘income’ means,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “When questioned by the AM Show about the report’s ... More >>
MOE Needs Stop Micromanaging And Start Measuring
Thursday, 27 April 2023, 9:31 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealand is facing a slow-moving train wreck as students just disengage from school. A lack of accountability from a bloated education ministry means New Zealand kids won’t receive the opportunities in life they used to,” says ACT’s Education ... More >>
Consequences Of Zero Carbon Act Keep On Coming
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 6:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Climate Change Commission’s latest batch of recommendations will cost the country immensely without reducing emissions one bit. This is what ACT warned about when we were the only party to vote against the Zero Carbon Bill,” says ACT’s ... More >>
Parker Pitches To Rob Peter To Pay Paul
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 2:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
“David Parker is defining unrealised capital gains as income so he can create a better case for his beloved CGT. His fishing expedition wasn’t about gathering information, it was about creating a narrative that he can ride to more taxes on ... More >>
You Can’t Tax Your Way To Prosperity
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 11:33 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government will try and leverage whatever comes out of the IRD’s tax study into a reason to take more money from Kiwis. No one has ever taxed their way to prosperity though, the Government needs to cut its own waste before it looks for more revenue, ... More >>
Five Times More Spent On Cycleways Than At Risk Roads
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 8:37 am | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s transport priorities are clear for all to see. Despite highlighting hundreds of resilience risks in New Zealand’s roading network almost three years ago they have only started to address ten of them, meanwhile they’ve spent five ... More >>
Aussies Played Hipkins Like A Didgeridoo
Monday, 24 April 2023, 11:28 am | ACT New Zealand
“Instead of getting played like a didgeridoo by the Australian Government raiding New Zealand’s talent, Chris Hipkins should be telling New Zealanders how his Government will boost productivity and make New Zealand a greater place to live. Problem is ... More >>
Waka Kotahi’s Lacklustre Contribution To Auckland Flooding Response
Sunday, 23 April 2023, 12:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Waka Kotahi’s response to the events of January 27th in Auckland have been revealed to have been slow off the mark and totally underwhelming,” says ACT’s Transport spokesperson Simon Court. “Much has been made of the Auckland Mayor’s ... More >>
One In Five Kids In Benefit Dependent Households
Saturday, 22 April 2023, 12:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
“This year’s Salvation Army State of the Nation report shows that there are 208,900 kids living in benefit-dependent households, 30,000 more than when Labour took office,” says ACT’s Social Development spokesperson Karen Chhour. “Almost ... More >>
Meng Foon’s True Colours Revealed – Labour Red
Friday, 21 April 2023, 12:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT has said right from the start that Meng Foon isn’t fit for his role because he is unable to remain politically neutral, today’s revelations bring new weight to our claims and he needs to go immediately,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “After ... More >>
Grant Robertson Is Directing The Country Towards Disaster
Friday, 21 April 2023, 11:25 am | ACT New Zealand
“Grant Robertson told Newstalk ZB this morning that he is focussed on ‘the direction of travel’ for inflation, what direction? Everything he has any influence over is getting worse,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Non-tradeable inflation, the ... More >>
Massive Benefit Numbers The New Normal Under Labour
Thursday, 20 April 2023, 4:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
“What was once sold as a COVID-19 increase to beneficiary numbers has become the new normal,” says ACT’s Social Development spokesperson Karen Chhour. “Here are some of the real stats that show where New Zealand is at in terms of welfare ... More >>
