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Did Ardern Know?
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 2:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Police Commissioner Andrew Coster should have known that Stuart Nash was acting in a way that was inconsistent with section 16 of the Policing Act. The question is, who then received that information and what did they do with it?” Asks ACT ... More >>
GDP Shows What Kiwis Already Know
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 12:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
“With New Zealand almost certainly headed for a recession, Labour needs to wake up and unleash the ingenuity of New Zealanders by reducing wasteful spending, giving it back in tax cuts, and ditching the stifling red tape,” says ACT Leader David ... More >>
Is Nash A One-off, Or Is This Just Labour’s Standard?
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 10:29 am | ACT New Zealand
“New acting Police Minister Megan Woods has an immediate task of confirming whether Stuart Nash’s indiscretion was a one-off, or whether other Labour Ministers have tried to interfere in Police matters,” says ACT’s Police spokesperson Chris Baillie. ... More >>
Good Teachers Deserve More Money, ACT Would Give It To Them
Thursday, 16 March 2023, 10:22 am | ACT New Zealand
“Today’s strike is what happens when you have a rigid, centrally-planned wage structure. ACT would pay good teachers more with the Teachers Excellence Reward Fund,” says ACT’s Education spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Good teachers deserve to be ... More >>
3 Strikes And Nash Should Be Gone
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 2:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
“He interfered, he boasted about it, and then he doubled down on it. That’s three strikes and Stuart Nash should be out,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Under Chris Hipkins’ watch a Minister can show complete disregard for the Cabinet Manual, ... More >>
CRL Blowout Announcement Long Time Coming
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 12:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
“After asking the Government for three and a half years to provide the public with an updated cost estimate for City Rail Link, it has finally been announced the project is yet another budget blowout for Michael Wood,” says ACT’s Transport ... More >>
70 Per Cent Support GST Sharing With Councils - An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 9:56 am | ACT New Zealand
“A recent poll shows that Kiwis overwhelmingly support my Member’s Bill to share GST with councils, allowing them to develop more infrastructure and deliver more housing for their communities,” says ACT’s Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson ... More >>
Maurice Williamson Resigned For Less Than Nash Just Admitted To
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 9:51 am | ACT New Zealand
“Former Minister Maurice Williamson resigned in 2014 for allegedly interfering in a police investigation into businessman Donghua Liu, but Stuart Nash this morning boasted of calling the Police Commissioner to influence prosecution decisions,” ... More >>
PM Looks For Excuses When Retailers Need Solutions
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 7:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The PM is claiming retail crime rates are up because more thefts and shoplifting are being reported. What he fails to admit is that there’s so much crime a lot of these reports aren’t even being investigated,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
Ute Tax Must Go For Cyclone-affected
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 4:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Transport Minister Michael Wood has point blank refused to even consider allowing cyclone victims to avoid a significant tax when replacing their written off utes,” says ACT’s Transport Spokesperson Simon Court. “In Parliament today, Wood said ... More >>
Labour Doesn’t Deserve The Name
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 2:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour is now the party for beneficiaries – it doesn’t deserve its name,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If you work for a living, don’t expect Chris Hipkins to cut you any slack. Today in Parliament he confirmed that he no longer ... More >>
Labour MPs Vote To Not Do Their Jobs
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 12:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour MPs have shamefully blocked the Finance and Expenditure Committee from holding an inquiry into the Labour Government’s regulation of the banking sector,” says ACT’s Associate Finance spokesperson Damien Smith. “Labour MPs on the committee ... More >>
Inflation Adjustment Catches Robertson Telling Porkies
Monday, 13 March 2023, 4:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s inflation adjustment of pensions, benefits and student allowances has caught Grant Robertson telling porkies. Just last month he said wages were rising faster than inflation, but he forgot to mention after tax wages, which is what benefits ... More >>
No Prizes For Fixing Own Mistakes
Monday, 13 March 2023, 4:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Prime Minister Chris Hipkins deserves no credit for fixing messes Labour made. For another day, he’s like a kid who messes up his room and wants a reward for tidying it. This time it’s the madcap scheme to lower speed limits, something ACT ... More >>
No Bonfire, Just Burning A Twig In A Damp Forest
Monday, 13 March 2023, 1:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Kiwis aren’t going to fall for the spin that Labour is torching its manifesto when it’s introduced hundreds of illogical policies and is only prepared to u-turn on a tiny handful," says ACT Leader David Seymour. “When Chris Hipkins announces ... More >>
Government Can’t Play The Blame Game On Food Prices
Monday, 13 March 2023, 12:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
“With the Food Price Index (FPI) showing the largest annual increase to food prices in 34 years, Labour will automatically look for someone to blame, ACT is calling on Labour to instead take responsibility and ease the squeeze on Kiwi families,” ... More >>
Past Time For A Change Of Values On Crime
Monday, 13 March 2023, 10:43 am | ACT New Zealand
“When it comes to crime, Labour has the wrong values. They get confused between criminals and victims. Like Donald Trump, they seem to think there’s “fine people on both sides.” ACT says there must be rights for victims and consequences for ... More >>
Hipkins Unable To Say That Co-governance Is Democratic
Sunday, 12 March 2023, 2:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Asked point blank by Jack Tame on Q+A this morning “is co-governance democratic?” Prime Minister Chris Hipkins couldn’t say that it was. ACT is clear in its position that having different political rights based on ancestry is anti-democratic,” says ... More >>
ACT Would Pay Good Teachers More
Sunday, 12 March 2023, 2:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Next week’s teacher strike is what happens when you have a rigid, centrally-planned wage structure. ACT would pay good teachers more with the Teachers Excellence Reward Fund,” says ACT’s Education spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Teachers play such ... More >>
Farmers Fobbed Off, Relax The RMA
Saturday, 11 March 2023, 2:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government has fobbed off farmers by not relaxing the RMA in cyclone-affected areas, they must act now so farmers and growers can recover from Cyclone Gabrielle minus the red tape and bureaucracy,” says ACT’s Environment spokesperson Simon ... More >>
