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Hunt Unfit For Office, HRC Should Be Abolished
Friday, 3 February 2023, 11:23 am | ACT New Zealand
“Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt’s comments this morning about white supremacy and co-governance show he is unfit for office and reinforce the need to abolish the left-wing Human Rights Commission”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. ... More >>
Where’s The Truancy Data?
Thursday, 2 February 2023, 1:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Education Minister Jan Tinetti’s first job in her new role should be asking her officials where the truancy data is for the second half of last year,” says ACT’s Education spokesperson Chris Baillie. “We have a truancy crisis in this ... More >>
Firearms Owners To Pay For Becoming Victims
Thursday, 2 February 2023, 1:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
“New Police proposals for licensed firearms owners include making them pay for the cost of Police attendance at a burglary, the Government wants licensed firearms owners to pay for the privilege of being burgled,” says ACT’s Firearms Reforms ... More >>
Household Costs Tip Of The Mortgage Pain Iceberg
Thursday, 2 February 2023, 11:31 am | ACT New Zealand
“With half of New Zealand’s mortgage debt due to be refixed this year, today’s household cost figures are just the tip of the iceberg,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The main contributor to the 8.2 per cent increase in household living ... More >>
Another Damning Report, More Silence From Kelvin
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 3:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
“In the wake of yet another damning report into Oranga Tamariki, there’s still nothing to suggest Children’s Minister Kelvin Davis is taking the many issues within his department seriously,” says ACT’s Children Spokesperson Karen Chhour. “Today’s ... More >>
Accountability Needed After School Closure Flip Flop
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 2:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Education Minister needs to front and take responsibility for a third of the country’s students being needlessly and offensively messed around,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Auckland’s Mayor has been pilloried for his response ... More >>
Hipkins' Own Trussonomics
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 12:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Chris Hipkins’ first policy decision is to carry on deficit spending, continuing the petrol, RUC, and Public Transport subsidies. Carrying on spending without a plan to control Government spending is a recipe for more inflation,” says ACT Leader ... More >>
Labour Crisis Makes Unemployment Figures Irrelevant
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 11:04 am | ACT New Zealand
“With close to 100,000 people on jobseeker benefits and businesses begging for more workers, low unemployment numbers cannot mask the labour crisis facing New Zealand businesses,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today’s unemployment figure of ... More >>
Three Reasons Petrol Subsidy Is Dumb, Election Year Populism
Wednesday, 1 February 2023, 9:38 am | ACT New Zealand
“Chris Hipkins’ dumb, election year populism shows he just doesn’t have the mettle to make hard choices. Reducing revenue while spending up large is Liz Truss-style economics”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “There are at least three reasons ... More >>
Same Faces, Same Policies?
Tuesday, 31 January 2023, 4:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Changing some of the faces in the Beehive will make no difference to the lives of New Zealanders if there aren’t new policies to go with them,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Chris Hipkins has today announced the same top five Ministers as ... More >>
Friendly Advice For The Big Reshuffle
Tuesday, 31 January 2023, 10:44 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Prime Minister has some big calls to make today when he reshuffles his Cabinet. Here are a litany of failures he needs to take into account ahead of allocating portfolios,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. Michael Wood in Transport: Wood has completely failed ... More >>
Hipkins Fails First Test
Tuesday, 31 January 2023, 7:29 am | ACT New Zealand
“Former Education Minister and now Prime Minister Chris Hipkins must front up and explain the poorly communicated overkill decision to close every Auckland school,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Mayor Wayne Brown has been smashed for late decision ... More >>
ACT Proposes Auckland Inorganic Waste Collection Day
Monday, 30 January 2023, 10:27 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT is proposing that Auckland Council organises a special inorganic waste collection day this week, to help the many Aucklanders who are suffering with debris and waste that they can’t dispose of themselves,” says MP for Epsom and ACT Leader David ... More >>
Hit Pause On Minimum Wage For Three Years
Friday, 27 January 2023, 11:59 am | ACT New Zealand
“Chris Hipkins has a chance to show he understands the pain businesses are feeling by hitting pause on further minimum wage increases”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “While both Labour and National are now saying they would put the minimum wage ... More >>
If Only They’d Listened Earlier
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 10:48 am | ACT New Zealand
“ACT has consistently fought for all of the concerns business leaders will raise with Chris Hipkins today and yet Labour is only just waking up to the challenges facing this country,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Business leaders this morning ... More >>
A United Health System? We Hear Ya!
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 9:50 am | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s health reforms which came into effect this year has further divided New Zealand and made our health system divided by race,” says ACT’s Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “There’s no doubt our health system needed change, but there’s ... More >>
Green Party Writes To New Prime Minister
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 4:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Green Party has written to Prime Minister Chris Hipkins outlining a plan for a fairer Aotearoa. “Action to support families is needed now more than ever. “Too many families are struggling to make ends meet, wealth is out of balance, and our ... More >>
Robertson Admits Spending Causing Inflation
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 12:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Finance Minister Grant Robertson has effectively admitted that out-of-control government spending is to blame for sky high inflation”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Reacting to today’s inflation numbers, Robertson said: ‘The Government ... More >>
Forget Hipkins’ Swearing In, Kiwis Swearing About Inflation
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 11:25 am | ACT New Zealand
“The day Jacinda announced she was stepping down we learned of rising food inflation and increasing dependence on welfare. Today Chris Hipkins has a baptism of inflation with the consumer price index showing inflation is stubbornly frozen at 7.2 per cent ... More >>
Take Co-government Out Of Three Waters? We Hear Ya!
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 10:30 am | ACT New Zealand
“Three Waters is a trojan horse for more co-government, ACT says all New Zealanders should have an equal say,” says ACT’s Local Government spokesperson Simon Court. “When the legislation was being debated, ACT put forward a series of amendments ... More >>
