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Fertiliser Tax Will Mean More Expensive Food
Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 11:44 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT would repeal the fertiliser tax Labour and the Greens are said to be considering for farmers, say ACT MP Mark Cameron and ACT candidate Andrew Hoggard. There have been numerous reports that the Government is considering the new tax as an alternative ... More >>
1 In 5 Schools Haven’t Reported Attendance Data
Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 10:25 am | ACT New Zealand
“The 439 schools that haven’t bothered to report their attendance data to the Ministry of Education should lose their funding until they do”, says ACT Education Spokesperson Chris Baillie. “The slow-motion catastrophe that is our education ... More >>
ACT Agrees With The Wellington Six – Scrap ‘Let’s Get Wellington Moving”
Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 5:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT’s Infrastructure Spokesperson Simon Court is right behind the six Wellington Councillors calling for the scrapping of Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM). “Monthly spending on LGWM shot up from $280k in 2017 to $7.4 million in March 23 – and what ... More >>
Finally, Labour Admits Crime Is A Problem
Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 4:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
While Chris Hipkins wriggled and squirmed and would only call crime a ‘challenge’ this morning on RNZ, his Police Minister Ginny Anderson finally admitted that crime was a problem in Parliament today. “That’s progress”, says ACT’s Police Spokesperson ... More >>
We’re The Coalition Of Cuts, Labour’s The ‘Coalition Of Klutz’
Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“After six years of big spending with little to show for it, Labour and the Greens should be called the ‘Coalition of Klutz’”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government thinks all its spending is useful, but that position is completely ... More >>
Hipkins, We Have A Problem
Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 10:31 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister’s refusal to call crime a ‘problem’ on Morning Report shows he spends too long in the back of a Crown limo and not enough time out on the streets”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Just because the Prime Minister and ... More >>
ACT: National’s Conscience
Monday, 29 May 2023, 5:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
“ACT welcomes National housing spokesperson Chris Bishop getting back on the right side of housing policy. Chris broke ranks from the Labour-National housing deal just six weeks after he said he wouldn’t on the same show, and it’s a welcome reversal,” ... More >>
‘Coalition Of Chaos’ Strikes Again: Refusal To Define Mātauranga Māori Will Create Red Tape And Delay
Monday, 29 May 2023, 3:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
At today’s Environment Select Committee, Labour and Green Party members voted down a proposal from ACT MP Simon Court to include a definition of mātauranga Māori in the Natural and Built Environment Bill (NBE Bill), one of the two Bills which ... More >>
Yes, We Are The Coalition Of Cuts
Monday, 29 May 2023, 1:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“More than half of Kiwis want to pay less tax according to a recent 1News poll, and ACT will give them what they want,” said ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour calls us the ‘coalition of cuts’, thinking it’s an insult, but it just shows ... More >>
Labour Unarmed In Contest Of Ideas
Sunday, 28 May 2023, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders watching for Labour’s vision for a wealthier, safer, more united country this weekend saw a political party enter a contest of ideas completely unarmed,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour’s first two policy announcements of this ... More >>
Where Is Labour’s Vision?
Saturday, 27 May 2023, 3:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders watching for Labour’s vision of a wealthier, safer, more united country will be bitterly disappointed to see its opening gambit this election: a promise to keep everything the same,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Promising ... More >>
Are Labour Financially Illiterate, Or Dishonest?
Saturday, 27 May 2023, 2:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s claim that taxpayers would be worse off under ACT’s alternative budget is either financially illiterate or dishonest, because they ignored ACT’s generous tax cuts for working families,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If Chris ... More >>
ACT Would Scrap $79m Agency Responsible For ‘showerganda’
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 2:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The condescending taxpayer-funded campaign for five-minute showers highlights why the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority is unnecessary – and ACT’s alternative budget, released last week, proposed to scrap it”, says ACT’s Climate ... More >>
National Finally Admits They Got Housing Density Policy Wrong
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 5:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden welcomed National Party Leader Christopher Luxon’s admission that National ’got MDRS (housing density) wrong’. Ms van Velden said, “These comments, made at a meeting in Birkenhead today, are ... More >>
Change The Govt, Not The Length Of Your Shower
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 5:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour is launching a nationwide campaign to lecture people to have shorter showers on the same day its reckless economic policies have added $2,500 to a half million dollar mortgage over the next two years”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour’s ... More >>
Reckless And Irresponsible Robertson Just Cost You Big Time
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 3:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Reckless and irresponsible Robertson just cost a family with a half-million mortgage $2,500 over the next two years,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “As the Reserve Bank says, fiscal pressure will drop away eventually but not now. In the meantime, ... More >>
Bad, Terrible Or Disastrous? How Bad Are Interest Rates Going To Get?
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 12:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The country is waiting nervously for today’s OCR announcement, which is going to be bad, terrible or disastrous,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Because this Government can’t control its spending, it’s not a question of “if” we’re ... More >>
Assaults On Police Triple Under Labour
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
In response to a question from ACT’s Police spokesperson Chris Baillie, the Government has been forced to reveal that assaults on police have more than tripled since Labour was elected. Assaults (excluding spitting) have gone from 307 a year in 2017 to 1001 ... More >>
Thank Grant Robertson For Your Next Interest Rate Rise
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 12:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Following last week’s blowout budget, the question around tomorrow’s OCR decision is whether Adrian Orr hikes it by 25 points or 50. If Grant Robertson had shown the slightest degree of fiscal competency and reigned in his spending there ... More >>
Colourblind State Care Petition Hits 10k Signatures
Tuesday, 23 May 2023, 11:38 am | ACT New Zealand
A campaign to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act has hit 10,000 signatures. “Children are being taken out of safe, loving foster homes because their foster parents are the ‘wrong’ race”, says ACT Spokesperson for Children Karen Chhour. ... More >>
