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Corporate Gravy-train Needs To Stop
Monday, 17 April 2023, 2:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Since 2019 Callaghan Innovation has wasted $5.2 million of taxpayer money by doling it out to failed organisations. The corporate welfare gravy train isn’t helping everyday Kiwis and needs to stop,” says ACT’s Research, Science and Innovation ... More >>
Class Sizes Already Smaller Because Of Truancy
Monday, 17 April 2023, 12:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s announcement that it is going to reduce class sizes ignores the fact that so many kids are truant they can’t get that many kids in the classroom anyway,” says ACT’s Education spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Labour has announced a drop ... More >>
Labour Cuts Police Holding Cells At Victims’ Expense
Monday, 17 April 2023, 11:46 am | ACT New Zealand
“There are 2,274 less prisoners than when Labour took office, yet Police are being encouraged to reconsider arrests when crime is out of control. Part of the problem is that Labour has scrapped police holding cells,” says ACT’s Police spokesperson ... More >>
Grant Robertson Is Feeling 17 Again
Monday, 17 April 2023, 11:42 am | ACT New Zealand
"Stats NZ is once more telling Kiwis what they already know – that life has never been more expensive than it is under Labour,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today Stats NZ hit New Zealanders with both barrels: Food prices and rental prices ... More >>
McAnulty Mixes Honesty, Naivete And Ignorance On Three Waters
Sunday, 16 April 2023, 3:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Kieran McAnulty’s candid admission that Labour’s three waters reforms are not democratic shows a dangerous mixture of naivete and ignorance about the Treaty and democracy,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Under questioning from Q+A’s ... More >>
Labour Puts Rights Of Criminals Over Victims
Sunday, 16 April 2023, 2:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A leaked email shows Labour has its values all wrong. The Government has run out of room to put dangerous criminals because it doesn’t want to build more prisons or put people behind bars”, says ACT Justice spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Kelvin ... More >>
Interest Deductibility Limitations Smashing Landlords
Sunday, 16 April 2023, 2:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Landlords are being hit with a double whammy of rising mortgage interest rates and increasing interest deductibility limitations to hit them hard during a cost of living crisis,” says ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. ... More >>
Another Headstone In Labour’s Expensive Policy Graveyard
Saturday, 15 April 2023, 1:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“This week Three Waters joined a long list of Labour policies that have been re-branded, kicked for touch, or outright scrapped. Nothing sums up Labour’s incompetence more than all of their failed policies,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “No wonder ... More >>
‘Affordable’ Water Reforms To Cost Taxpayers More
Friday, 14 April 2023, 11:12 am | ACT New Zealand
“Taxpayers are going to have a big bill to pay for the Government’s shallow rebrand of Three Waters. The Government needs to be upfront with the costs, if it has even bothered to figure them out,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Yesterday’s ... More >>
Media Council: Racism Against White People Not Possible
Friday, 14 April 2023, 11:07 am | ACT New Zealand
“The organisation that deals with complaints about media content says people don’t deserve protection from racism, ironically because of their race. It concluded that it’s not possible for white people to be victims of racism, seemingly unaware the ... More >>
Māori Health Authority Spends Millions Hiring Bureaucrats
Thursday, 13 April 2023, 11:44 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Māori Health Authority has been spending half a million dollars a month on recruiters to hire more bureaucrats,” says ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Written Parliamentary Questions released to ACT show that the ... More >>
Three Waters Rebrand An Insult To Kiwis
Thursday, 13 April 2023, 11:40 am | ACT New Zealand
“If Chris Hipkins had any respect for Kiwis then this morning’s Three Waters announcement would be that he’s getting rid of it completely. Instead he is unveiling a hollow rebrand that Kiwis won’t fall for,” says ACT’s Local Government spokesperson ... More >>
Māori Caucus: 1, Chris Hipkins: 0
Thursday, 13 April 2023, 11:14 am | ACT New Zealand
“There was only ever going to be one winner in a battle over co-government between the Prime Minister and the Māori Caucus,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Chris Hipkins has given the impression that he’s running as far from co-government as ... More >>
IMF Report Shows NZ Falling Behind Asia
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 11:04 am | ACT New Zealand
“The World Economic Outlook report released by IMF today shows the fallout of Grant Robertson’s economic mismanagement, with New Zealand taking last place of all the advanced Asian and Pacific economies,” says ACT Party Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
New Zealanders Aren’t Stupid, Chris
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 10:46 am | ACT New Zealand
“If Chris Hipkins thinks he can sell Three Waters by changing the name, he’s got another thing coming”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Trying to sell an unpopular idea by branding it differently is something Jacinda Ardern would do, but ... More >>
Dictatorship Of Academics Still Running Covid-19 Policy
Tuesday, 11 April 2023, 5:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
“A dictatorship of unelected academics is still running what remains of the Government’s Covid-19 policy, imposing significant costs on New Zealanders for little benefit, and showing reckless disregard for working people and businesses,” says ACT Leader ... More >>
Green Light For Health Roles Far Too Late
Tuesday, 11 April 2023, 5:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Today’s announcement that more health professionals have been added to the Green List is far too late, New Zealand is losing the global war on talent because Labour is so far behind the rest of the world,” says ACT’s Immigration spokesperson ... More >>
Govt Won’t Admit They Got Three Waters Wrong
Tuesday, 11 April 2023, 11:35 am | ACT New Zealand
“Prime Minister Chris Hipkins can’t claim that Three Waters was a good policy that wasn’t fair on Nanaia Mahuta, either the policy itself was a dog all along or Mahuta screwed it up,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Hipkins told The Hui ... More >>
COVID Isolation Periods Make New Zealand A Global Oddity
Tuesday, 11 April 2023, 10:02 am | ACT New Zealand
“Retaining a seven-day mandatory COVID isolation period makes New Zealand a global oddity. It’s a kind of Hermit Kingdom redux, 2023 edition, where Labour keeps treating adults like kids and putting costs on the economy like money is no object,” says ... More >>
Road Safety Taking A Backseat To Cycleways
Sunday, 9 April 2023, 11:48 am | ACT New Zealand
“For everyone who has been stuck driving on a goat track that once resembled a road this long weekend, try not think about how much Labour has spent on cycleways,” says ACT’s Transport spokesperson Simon Court. “There needs to be a big shift ... More >>
