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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 >>
Control Freak Govt Should Apologise, Drop Mandates
Saturday, 11 March 2023, 5:15 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealanders were illegally punished by a control freak Government for no public health benefit at all”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ In finding that the decision by Chris Hipkins to extend vaccine mandates to family carers was illegal ... More >>
Race Relations Commissioner Needs To Go
Friday, 10 March 2023, 2:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Meng Foon is consistent only in his ability to ignore everything that doesn’t fit his narrow left wing worldview. He’s not upholding human rights for all New Zealanders, just those who fit his personal political views and he needs to go,” ... More >>
Labour Drives Up Building Costs In A Cost Of Living Crisis
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 2:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Government is stubbornly proceeding with new building regulations that will make the rebuild from Cyclone Gabrielle cost even more. If people are going to have any chance to rebuild there needs to be an assurance that bureaucracy and red tape ... More >>
Wood Needs To Drop Ute Tax On Struggling Families
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 12:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
“With up to ten thousand vehicles expected to be written off in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle, the Government’s ute tax needs to go. Flood-affected families trying to rebuild their lives shouldn’t be taxed more to help pay for someone’s new ... More >>
Donald Trumps Of The Left Need To Cut Out Populist Attacks On Foreign Bankers
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 11:15 am | ACT New Zealand
“Bashing the banks because they’re Australian and obsessing over profit-making panders to the worst prejudices and won’t improve the cost of living for New Zealanders”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The number one priority of any government right ... More >>
