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Stopping The Slide – Ending Truancy
Monday, 14 August 2023, 11:06 am | ACT New Zealand
“Every day this week ACT will highlight how to stop the slide and raise standards in health and education. Beginning with a range of solutions to deal with New Zealand’s truancy crisis, including consequences for parents and schools,” says ACT Leader ... More >>
Labour Announces Waste Will Continue
Sunday, 13 August 2023, 8:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Over six Budgets, Labour has increased the Government’s annual tax take by $43 billion, annual spending by $50 billion, and borrowed a net $121 billion. Today they confirmed that disastrous trajectory will continue with a so-called tax policy ... More >>
Hipkins Massive Own Goal On GST
Sunday, 13 August 2023, 8:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
“In criticising income tax cuts today, Chris Hipkins has taken down his own GST policy with a huge own goal”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Hipkins said today of income tax cuts: ‘If I’m going to target support, I’d rather give it to ... More >>
Labour’s Visionless, Poll Driven Gimmick Policy Sets Election Tone
Sunday, 13 August 2023, 6:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour going all in on GST meddling sets up an election between parties with serious ideas to improve economic policy, and parties with vote buying gimmicks who are also the ones that got us into this mess,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s ... More >>
HRC Doesn't Need Two CEOs, It Needs To Go
Saturday, 12 August 2023, 11:22 am | ACT New Zealand
“A vote for ACT is a vote to abolish self-serving, taxpayer-funded bureaucracies that don’t deliver for New Zealanders. The latest example? The Human Rights Commission offering $286,900 so they can have a second Chief Executive for the sake of ethnicity,” ... More >>
Let’s Close The Australia Pay Gap
Friday, 11 August 2023, 9:47 am | ACT New Zealand
“If Labour was serious about pay gaps it would set its sights on the massive gap between New Zealand and Australian workers – it won’t because it’s focused on dividing the economic pie, not growing it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Compared ... More >>
Farmer Confidence Buried In Red Tape
Thursday, 10 August 2023, 12:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Is it any wonder farmer confidence is so low? Labour has layered the red tape and costs on so thick farmers now must hire outside consultants to explain how they’re incorporating the treaty into their farming practice. ACT says let farmers do what ... More >>
Ensuring Sentences Fit The Crime
Thursday, 10 August 2023, 6:39 am | ACT New Zealand
“Being nice to criminals hasn’t worked. New Zealand’s justice system needs to start putting victims first, which means ensuring appropriate sentences for offenders that will keep communities safe,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “People are ... More >>
Ministry For Pacific Peoples Ineffective At Everything But Spending
Wednesday, 9 August 2023, 3:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Ministry for Pacific Peoples seems to have no outputs except gross expenditure, and would be gone under ACT,” says ACT leader David Seymour. “Today the Public Service Commissioner condemned MPP’s spending $39,262 on a farewell for its former ... More >>
Energy Minister Forgets She Owns Electricity Generators
Wednesday, 9 August 2023, 11:56 am | ACT New Zealand
“Megan Woods has been Energy Minister for almost six years, but she still hasn’t figured out that the Government owns majority shares in electricity generators. This is the sort of incompetence New Zealand taxpayers have been shelling out for over ... More >>
Jackson Should Deny Meeting With Media On Treaty Principles
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 1:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson should come out and deny that he is meeting with journalists this week to discuss how they should report on the Treaty”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We are hearing reports of a meeting held by Stuff with ... More >>
Cutting Red Tape To Ease The Health Workforce Crisis
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 12:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is proposing to cut red tape to ease our health workforce crisis,” says ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “New Zealand’s health system is in crisis. Emergency departments are overflowing, patients languish on ... More >>
NZers Don't Want 'world First' Climate Experiment
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 12:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders don’t want to be subject to a ‘world first’ climate change experiment that will mean the government micromanages their lives”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is an issue of values. Labour says we want to control your ... More >>
PM Has Lost Control Of Divided Health System
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 11:47 am | ACT New Zealand
“Prime Minister Chris Hipkins told Mike Hosking this morning that “the healthcare system should be treating people equally,” but examples of race-based healthcare appear everywhere you look. If the Prime Minister was being honest when he said he ... More >>
Another Firearms Privacy Breach Shows Register Dangerous
Monday, 7 August 2023, 11:13 am | ACT New Zealand
“How many privacy breaches will it take for the Government to admit that a firearms register is going to put firearms owners in danger?," asks ACT’s firearms spokesperson Nicole McKee. “After the Firearms Safety Authority accidentally released ... More >>
Time To End Failed Māori Health Authority Experiment
Monday, 7 August 2023, 11:06 am | ACT New Zealand
“Just as ACT predicted, the Māori Health Authority experiment has been disastrous, and that’s why we will end it. The Māori Health Authority has sacked half its board, failed to hire critical skills because it’s too focused on hiring based ... More >>
‘Stop Work Notices’ Will Cut $1 Billion Of Waste On Day One
Sunday, 6 August 2023, 2:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour has increased government spending by $56 billion over six budgets and some of the spending is so damaging it must be stopped on day one of the next Government,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT will defund failing and wasteful projects by ... More >>
Grant ‘Contortionist’ Robertson Says Boondoggles Are Good
Sunday, 6 August 2023, 2:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Boondoggles can be worked through” says the contortionist Finance Minister of a cynical government on its last legs. How can New Zealanders trust a government that doesn’t believe in its own policy?” Asks ACT Leader David Seymour. "Besides ... More >>
New Zealand Can’t Afford To Chase Wealth Away
Saturday, 5 August 2023, 1:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The constant focus on the wealth gap in New Zealand betrays the biggest problem with New Zealand’s economy – Everyone is getting poorer, and until we have a Government focussed on attracting wealth and growing the economy then New Zealand ... More >>
Government Quietly Withdraws Flawed Bill
Friday, 4 August 2023, 4:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Disabilities Minister Priyanca Radhakrishnan has quietly withdrawn the Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill from Parliament because it doesn’t meet the disabled community’s standards. This is what we’ve been trying to tell her from the start,” says ACT’s ... More >>
