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100 Days To Real Change
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 12:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
“With 100 days before the election ACT has set out a stark choice for voters - that there is more of the same from the duopoly of the last 90 years, or a Government of Real Change powered by ACT,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT’s support ... More >>
Reckless Robertson’s $9 Billion Deficit Leaves Forecasters In The Dust
Wednesday, 5 July 2023, 12:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Fresh from the news that Labour wasted $531 million on expiring Rapid Antigen Tests, the interim financial statements for May show a Government in serious fiscal trouble,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Previously damning forecasts haven’t ... More >>
Enough Of The Failures, Kelvin Davis Must Resign
Wednesday, 5 July 2023, 11:50 am | ACT New Zealand
“Kelvin Davis needs to put his money where his mouth is. If he’s going to call for resignations over scandals in opposition, he should be prepared to stand down himself when he loses control of his department and has the same problems occurring ... More >>
Being Nice To Gangs Hasn’t Worked
Wednesday, 5 July 2023, 11:26 am | ACT New Zealand
“Being nice to gangs because they’re victims of colonisation hasn’t worked – Labour’s real-world experiment has proved that,” says ACT’s Justice spokesperson Nicole McKee. “The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor’s report on gangs ... More >>
New Zealand Is In An Undeclared Economic And Social Crisis
Monday, 3 July 2023, 2:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
“When the history of this period is written, it will record New Zealand was in an economic and social crisis, without realising it. Just look at the evidence in every area, and ask yourself whether Labour or National are proposing real solutions,” ... More >>
Rooftop Standoff Why Corrections Must Run Facilities
Monday, 3 July 2023, 11:40 am | ACT New Zealand
“It’s time to restore the values of right and wrong. Police should be out in the community preventing crime instead of dealing with the latest youth offender breakout, and Corrections should be in charge of youth justice facilities to ensure ... More >>
If More Bureaucracy Was The Answer, Every Rental Would Be A Palace Already
Sunday, 2 July 2023, 2:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Greens’ predictable policy of putting more bureaucracy on landlords will only serve to take rentals off the market, without doing a thing to boost much needed supply. It also continues the Greens’ damaging approach of singling out and othering ... More >>
Taxes Up Tomorrow, But Where Are The Results?
Friday, 30 June 2023, 5:41 am | ACT New Zealand
“There is never a good time for a tax increase, but Labour’s massive tax hike while Kiwis are struggling with a cost-of-living crisis is about the worst timing you can get,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Knowing these extra taxes will ... More >>
Deborah Russell Rejects Deborah Russell’s Call For Deborah Russell To Resign
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 2:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
“It’s not unusual for opposition MPs to call for a Minister’s resignation. Statistics Minister Deborah Russell has flipped the script by calling for her own resignation, and then rejecting it,” says ACT’s Statistics spokesperson Damien ... More >>
Kids The Real Losers In Sorry Tinetti Saga
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 2:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The real losers in the sorry saga of Jan Tinetti are the kids, says ACT Education Spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Jan Tinetti was effectively found not guilty of contempt of Parliament because she had no idea what she was doing. She apparently didn’t ... More >>
Robertson, Woods, Must Front Massive Auckland Planning Power Grab
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 1:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Without any announcement on the Beehive website, Ministers Robertson and Wood have written to Kainga Ora and asked them to commence a Specified Development Project to rezone an enormous area of the Auckland isthmus between Mt Eden Rd and Sandringham ... More >>
Will Mauri Make Our Water Safe To Drink
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 1:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Labour Government’s obsession with adding race-based hierarchy to every piece of legislation has come to Three Waters,” says ACT’s Infrastructure Spokesperson Simon Court, “but will it fix our broken pipes and make our water safe to drink?” ... More >>
Why Wouldn’t Hipkins Release Kiri Allan’s RNZ Transcript Earlier
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 11:49 am | ACT New Zealand
“Recent revelations about bad working relationships with Minister Kiri Allan raise questions about why Prime Minister Chris Hipkins wouldn’t release the transcript of her controversial speech to Radio New Zealand earlier this year,” said ACT Leader ... More >>
Let’s Get Wellington Moving Absolutely Positively Must Go
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 11:13 am | ACT New Zealand
“If Wellington City Council’s (WCC) faction of clueless left-wing councillors try and condemn the city to Let’s Get Wellington Moving today, Central Government should at least do the right thing and pull its funding out of it,” says ACT’s ... More >>
Kids Get KFC For Breaking Someone’s Wrist? That’s A Dying Nation
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 10:24 am | ACT New Zealand
“Five youths who attempted to escape a youth facility, damaged taxpayer property, and broke a person’s wrist in the process were rewarded with KFC? These are Labour’s values in action and they will doom a nation. It also shows why youth imprisonment ... More >>
OT Staff Responsible For Increasing Harm
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 7:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Even though the number of children in Oranga Tamariki care is decreasing, the number of incidents where Oranga Tamariki staff are causing harm to them is increasing. Something is rotten in Oranga Tamariki and needs to change,” says ACT’s Children ... More >>
Govt Must Explain $10k A Day COVID Storage
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 3:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The same Government that banned private companies from importing rapid antigen tests now admits it’s spent $45 million in 14 months on storage for expired and expiring rapid antigen tests (RATs) and PPE that will likely never be used,” says ... More >>
Covid-19 Inquiry Needs Broader Public Input
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 11:39 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is concerned that the Royal Commission into Covid-19 Lessons Learned is unnecessarily restricting the public’s ability to make submissions, which will defeat their stated aim of getting a wide variety of viewpoints and experiences,” says ACT Leader David ... More >>
Tough On Crime Tradies Trump Police
Wednesday, 28 June 2023, 11:37 am | ACT New Zealand
“You know there is something wrong when local tradies are keener to arrest criminals than the police are,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The NZ Herald has reported that four tradies and a local man performed a citizen’s arrest on a criminal who ... More >>
Verrall Can’t Find Her Ghost RATs
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 3:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
“How is it possible to lose enough Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) to stretch from Auckland to Wellington and back? Minister Verrall says she has a contract to store just that many RATs, but she can’t say how much storage is costing, where it is, ... More >>
