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Cancer Treatment Also Ranked By Race
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 12:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT has been contacted by concerned health professionals telling us that access to cancer treatment is now being determined by race. The Government needs to end the discrimination and allow health practitioners to focus on need,” says ACT Deputy ... More >>
How’s CommComm Fuel Market Study Working Out?
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 10:30 am | ACT New Zealand
“Before the Government embarks on another round of election year populism by attacking the private sector, it should ask how its last market study’s working out,” says ACT’s Associate Finance spokesperson Damien Smith. “Just as Labour publicly flogged ... More >>
Waitlist Review Must End Racial Discrimination
Monday, 19 June 2023, 5:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Health Minister’s review of Te Whatu Ora’s ‘waitlist equity adjuster tool’ must end the policy of moving sick patients up and down health waitlists based on their race,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister has ... More >>
Government Needs To Stop Fiddling With The ETS And Just Let It Work
Monday, 19 June 2023, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) reform options released today are largely unnecessary,” says ACT’s Environment Spokesperson Simon Court. “CO2 reductions can be achieved by supporting the current Emissions Trading Scheme.” ... More >>
Race-based Waitlists Indefensible
Monday, 19 June 2023, 8:54 am | ACT New Zealand
“Using ethnicity to prioritise healthcare waitlists is lazy and divisive and it’s not who we are as a country”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Te Whatu Ora’s new ‘waitlist equity adjuster tool’ uses five criteria to prioritise patients ... More >>
Time To Cancel The Corporate Welfare Gravy Train
Sunday, 18 June 2023, 9:40 am | ACT New Zealand
“While Kiwis are tightening their belts and making tough choices, the Government is spending more and more taxpayer money to keep the corporate welfare gravy train chugging along,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This week there have been at ... More >>
Foon Strewn On A June Afternoon
Friday, 16 June 2023, 6:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Meng Foon’s tenure as a Race Relations Commissioner who was never able to put his own views aside has today ended fittingly with an undisclosed conflict of interest,” says ACT Party Leader David Seymour. “Meng Foon’s resignation is welcome,” ... More >>
Nash Report Highlights Govt Skills Shortage
Friday, 16 June 2023, 11:36 am | ACT New Zealand
“It’s not just the private sector struggling to find talent. The Government’s Cabinet is facing a severe skills shortage as well, and the only solution is to fire them all,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Stuart Nash, Michael Wood, and Jan ... More >>
ACT Is Standing Up For Rural New Zealand
Thursday, 15 June 2023, 12:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Farmers in countries who are our biggest trading partners are not paying a price for their methane emissions, and under ACT neither would New Zealand farmers,” say ACT MP Mark Cameron and ACT candidate Andrew Hoggard. “ACT would also do away ... More >>
Afterpay Economy Goes Into Recession
Thursday, 15 June 2023, 11:24 am | ACT New Zealand
“A recession is when your neighbour loses their job. A recovery is when Chris Hipkins loses his,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today’s GDP figures mean that even with Grant Robertson irresponsibly putting the economy on Afterpay with ... More >>
ACT To Slash Rural Red Tape
Thursday, 15 June 2023, 8:55 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT will rein in the bloated bureaucratic beast that the Ministry for Primary Industries has become and get it back to basics and focused on supporting farmers to do what they do best”, says ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron ... More >>
ACT Driving GE Debate From Opposition
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 1:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is driving the GE debate from opposition – just imagine what we can achieve in Government”, says ACT candidate and scientist Dr Parmjeet Parmar. “With ACT consistently polling above 10 per cent, and leading the policy conversation on our ... More >>
Unaffordable Food Part Of Labour’s Legacy
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 12:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
“One of this Labour Government’s legacies will be how it let food prices get so out of control that putting a healthy dinner on the table became too hard for many Kiwi families,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The last time Kiwis saw ... More >>
Primary Sector Keeps Paying The Way
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 12:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The latest import-export data from Stats NZ has reinforced how important pastoral farming is to New Zealand’s wellbeing, even though Labour and the Greens are intent on taxing the life out of it,” says ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson Mark ... More >>
Current Account Deficit Shows Robertson's Afterpay Economy
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 11:26 am | ACT New Zealand
“The most irresponsible Finance Minister in modern history is happy to preside over an Afterpay economy. It’s buy-now-pay later under Grant Robertson, whose just presided over the four worst quarters of trade deficit on record,” says ACT Leader ... More >>
ACT Kills Fertiliser Tax
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 11:20 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is once again standing up for farmers by killing off any attempt to introduce a new fertiliser tax ”, says ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “This morning the Prime Minister confirmed that no new fertiliser tax would be ... More >>
Infrastructure Report Says It Time To Embrace Private Enterprise
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 10:58 am | ACT New Zealand
“A new report highlights the need for New Zealand to adopt ACT’s policy of using private enterprise and local knowledge to get its infrastructure up to speed,” says ACT’s Infrastructure spokesperson Simon Court. “The New Zealand Initiative’s ... More >>
Palestine, China Stories Also Edited – Independent Inquiry Needed
Tuesday, 13 June 2023, 1:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson needs to commission an independent inquiry into RNZ after new revelations that stories about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and China’s treatment of Uighurs were also edited to provide Palestinian and Chinese-friendly ... More >>
Only One Anti-social Kāinga Ora Tenant Removed From State House
Tuesday, 13 June 2023, 9:36 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government is protecting and promoting anti-social behaviour by Kāinga Ora tenants under the Labour-National sustaining tenancies policy”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Fourteen months after Labour promised to crackdown on disruptive ... More >>
OAG Releases Damning Review Of PGF
Monday, 12 June 2023, 8:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The PGF was never about regional economic development. It was about NZ First trying (and failing) to buy votes in the provinces,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today the Auditor-General released their review into the PGF’s reset. It showed ... More >>
