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No Prizes For Fixing Own Mistakes
Monday, 13 March 2023, 4:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Prime Minister Chris Hipkins deserves no credit for fixing messes Labour made. For another day, he’s like a kid who messes up his room and wants a reward for tidying it. This time it’s the madcap scheme to lower speed limits, something ACT ... More >>
No Bonfire, Just Burning A Twig In A Damp Forest
Monday, 13 March 2023, 1:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Kiwis aren’t going to fall for the spin that Labour is torching its manifesto when it’s introduced hundreds of illogical policies and is only prepared to u-turn on a tiny handful," says ACT Leader David Seymour. “When Chris Hipkins announces ... More >>
Government Can’t Play The Blame Game On Food Prices
Monday, 13 March 2023, 12:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
“With the Food Price Index (FPI) showing the largest annual increase to food prices in 34 years, Labour will automatically look for someone to blame, ACT is calling on Labour to instead take responsibility and ease the squeeze on Kiwi families,” ... More >>
Past Time For A Change Of Values On Crime
Monday, 13 March 2023, 10:43 am | ACT New Zealand
“When it comes to crime, Labour has the wrong values. They get confused between criminals and victims. Like Donald Trump, they seem to think there’s “fine people on both sides.” ACT says there must be rights for victims and consequences for ... More >>
Hipkins Unable To Say That Co-governance Is Democratic
Sunday, 12 March 2023, 2:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Asked point blank by Jack Tame on Q+A this morning “is co-governance democratic?” Prime Minister Chris Hipkins couldn’t say that it was. ACT is clear in its position that having different political rights based on ancestry is anti-democratic,” says ... More >>
ACT Would Pay Good Teachers More
Sunday, 12 March 2023, 2:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Next week’s teacher strike is what happens when you have a rigid, centrally-planned wage structure. ACT would pay good teachers more with the Teachers Excellence Reward Fund,” says ACT’s Education spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Teachers play such ... More >>
Farmers Fobbed Off, Relax The RMA
Saturday, 11 March 2023, 2:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government has fobbed off farmers by not relaxing the RMA in cyclone-affected areas, they must act now so farmers and growers can recover from Cyclone Gabrielle minus the red tape and bureaucracy,” says ACT’s Environment spokesperson Simon ... More >>
Control Freak Govt Should Apologise, Drop Mandates
Saturday, 11 March 2023, 5:15 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders were illegally punished by a control freak Government for no public health benefit at all”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ In finding that the decision by Chris Hipkins to extend vaccine mandates to family carers was illegal ... More >>
Race Relations Commissioner Needs To Go
Friday, 10 March 2023, 2:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Meng Foon is consistent only in his ability to ignore everything that doesn’t fit his narrow left wing worldview. He’s not upholding human rights for all New Zealanders, just those who fit his personal political views and he needs to go,” ... More >>
Labour Drives Up Building Costs In A Cost Of Living Crisis
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 2:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government is stubbornly proceeding with new building regulations that will make the rebuild from Cyclone Gabrielle cost even more. If people are going to have any chance to rebuild there needs to be an assurance that bureaucracy and red tape ... More >>
Wood Needs To Drop Ute Tax On Struggling Families
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 12:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
“With up to ten thousand vehicles expected to be written off in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle, the Government’s ute tax needs to go. Flood-affected families trying to rebuild their lives shouldn’t be taxed more to help pay for someone’s new ... More >>
Donald Trumps Of The Left Need To Cut Out Populist Attacks On Foreign Bankers
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 11:15 am | ACT New Zealand
“Bashing the banks because they’re Australian and obsessing over profit-making panders to the worst prejudices and won’t improve the cost of living for New Zealanders”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The number one priority of any government right ... More >>
DOC Huts Still Being Powered By Coal
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 9:09 am | ACT New Zealand
“Despite declaring coal would be gone from all DOC huts two years ago, it is still being burned on a regular basis to warm Department of Conservation huts with no plan to stop,” says ACT’s Conservation spokesperson Nicole McKee. “This is yet another ... More >>
Robertson Says MPs Aren’t Up To It
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 9:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Grant Robertson’s assertion that the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee isn’t capable of conducting an inquiry into the banking sector shows he doesn’t trust Parliament, and by extension the people who elect it,” says ACT Leader David ... More >>
Jobs For Nature Paying $167 An Hour
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 2:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
“While private businesses are having to tighten their belts amid a cost of living crisis, the Government is spending more than a billion dollars on a make-work scheme in which the Minister can’t even explain how the money is being spent,” says ... More >>
Bill Drafted To Bring Back $500m Export Industry
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 1:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Today I have put my Member’s Bill into the ballot to repeal the ban on live animal exports,” says ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “Latest forecasts show that live animal exports are expected to generate $500 million for ... More >>
Labour Dominated Finance Committee Must Back Consumers
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 11:28 am | ACT New Zealand
“It would be shameful for the Labour-dominated Finance and Expenditure Committee to block an inquiry into the Labour Government’s regulation of the banking sector,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Government regulation has a major influence on ... More >>
A Society Committing Slow Suicide
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 11:03 am | ACT New Zealand
“Lost in the debate about the truancy crisis is the fact that neither parents nor Ministry of Education bureaucrats are being held accountable for their poor behaviour,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “New Zealand is facing a slow moving train wreck ... More >>
Road To Zero Needs A U-turn
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 9:22 am | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s Road to Zero programme is underdelivering on safety improvements and overdelivering on speed restrictions that no one wants. The Government needs to sort out its priorities for road safety,” says ACT’s Transport spokesperson Simon ... More >>
Bureaucrats Creaming It In A Cost Of Living Crisis
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 8:22 am | ACT New Zealand
“While Kiwi battlers tighten their belts, and businesses cut costs left, right and centre, Wellington bureaucrats are creaming it. It’s time to zero base government and ask whether some departments need to exist,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
