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ACT Welcome National’s Support For Ankle Bracelets Policy
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 11:31 am | ACT New Zealand
“The ACT Party is today welcoming the National Party showing support for our policy of ankle bracelets for youth offenders,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT first announced this policy in August. National has gone back and forth on whether ... More >>
ACT Says Clean Car Discount Should Go
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 1:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The Clean Car Discount needs to go and ACT will keep campaigning to get rid of it,” says ACT’s Transport and Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court. “National Party Leader Christopher Luxon confirmed to AM Show this morning that National no ... More >>
Leaked Ministerial Briefing Shows Green List Emergency
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 9:14 am | ACT New Zealand
“A Ministerial Briefing leaked to the ACT Party shows Health Minister Andrew Little is fully aware of the shortages across the health sector and yet he continues to do nothing,” says ACT Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. ... More >>
Families Expect Inflation Pain To Continue
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 3:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The latest Household Expectations Survey from the Reserve Bank shows Kiwis expect inflation to bite even harder over the next year,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Households on average expect 1-year ahead CPI inflation to be 7.5%. This is even ... More >>
Minister Won’t Say How Many Retail Businesses Helped
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 3:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Police Minister Chris Hipkins refuses to say how many of the 27,759 retail businesses in New Zealand have had a completed installation of protective equipment through the Retail Crime Prevention Programme, it’s seems likely the answer is not a single ... More >>
RMA Retread Doesn’t Fix A Thing
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 1:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour’s Natural and Built Environments (NBE) Act and Spatial Planning Act are a retread of the Resource Management Act. They even dusted off the same guy who did the RMA to design them,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Like Labour’s ... More >>
Migration Figures Mean More ‘Help Wanted’ Signs
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 12:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
“It is no wonder there are help wanted signs from Cape Reinga to Bluff as Stats NZ’s latest migration figures show that New Zealand is bleeding people,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Provisional figures for September show 8,400 more people ... More >>
Ellerslie Robbery Shows Cost Of Hipkins’ Bumbling
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 7:12 am | ACT New Zealand
“The long-standing saga of Government bumbling became all too real today when Ellerslie Jewellers was robbed by a smash and grab using hammers and machetes. Ellerslie Jewellers started asking Police Minister Hipkins for support in August but were told ... More >>
Good Teachers Deserve A Better Deal
Monday, 14 November 2022, 10:32 am | ACT New Zealand
“If New Zealand’s hardest working teachers don’t receive a pay rise they’re going to stop turning up to school like the kids, the Government should adopt ACT’s Teaching Excellence Reward Fund,” says ACT’s Education spokesperson Chris Baillie. ... More >>
Rally To Save Laura Fergusson Trust Site
Sunday, 13 November 2022, 1:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
Epsom MP David Seymour and the ACT Party have today supported a rally to buy back the Laura Fergusson Epsom site. “The Laura Fergusson Trust has been a safe haven for young people with physical and neurological impairments to receive treatment ... More >>
Kainga Ora Blows Out On Staffing Costs
Saturday, 12 November 2022, 1:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Kainga Ora might be failing to fix the housing crisis but they are still spending up a frenzy in the process, with a 78 per cent increase in managerial salaries in just two years,” says ACT’s Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Written ... More >>
Mahuta Carries On With ‘My Way Or The Highway’ 3W Reforms
Friday, 11 November 2022, 4:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Labour is continuing to bulldoze through its wildly unpopular Three Waters policy, despite New Zealanders overwhelmingly rejecting it,” says ACT’s Local Government spokesperson Simon Court. “Select Committee today reported back, and Nanaia Mahuta ... More >>
Government Should Get Out Of The Housing Market
Friday, 11 November 2022, 2:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
“If Kāinga Ora can’t operate in the housing market without being bailed out by taxpayers, it shouldn’t be there competing against private developers,” says ACT’s Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Finance Minister ... More >>
No Labour, Food Prices Aren’t The War’s Fault
Friday, 11 November 2022, 11:07 am | ACT New Zealand
“The price of food continues to rise and as much as they try to blame overseas factors, Labour needs to accept it has cooked up this problem all by itself,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “For the year ended October 2022 Stats NZ reports a 10.1 ... More >>
No Answer For Health Worker Shortages
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 2:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The critical health worker shortage New Zealand faces has little chance of being fixed anytime soon if Health Minister Andrew Little’s performance in Parliament today is any indication,” says ACT’s Deputy Leader and Health spokesperson Brooke ... More >>
Bogeyman Not Found In Reserve Bank Review
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 11:33 am | ACT New Zealand
“We seek him here, we seek him there, but the bogeyman the Reserve Bank tamed in 2020 cannot be found in its newly released five-year review. Instead, there is only a pile of debt and inflation for Kiwis to deal with,” says ACT Leader David ... More >>
Open Banking A Win For Consumers
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 10:24 am | ACT New Zealand
“The Government has finally had a good idea around financial policy but it’s a pity it will take two years,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s not often I praise the government for a policy that promotes opening markets and increasing ... More >>
Govt Failing To Address Truancy Crisis
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 10:12 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealand’s truancy crisis continues to get worse, with another report showing that Kiwi kids are falling behind the rest of the world in school attendance,” says ACT’s Education spokesperson Chris Baillie. “The Education Review Office’s ... More >>
Cultural Report Cottage Industry Doesn’t Fit Victim-centric Approach
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 2:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The use of cultural reports for reducing sentences is out of touch with Justice Minister Kiri Allan’s alleged “victim-centric approach”, more money is being spent helping offenders than victims,” says ACT’s Justice spokesperson Nicole ... More >>
High Court Backs Up ACT Bill
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 2:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The High Court decision on the “Moana case” released today reflects the sort of changes that ACT is proposing to Oranga Tamariki,” says ACT’s Children’s spokesperson Karen Chhour. “The child who is now six-years-old was traumatised ... More >>
