Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Good teachers play a huge role in children’s upbringing and deserve to be appropriately remunerated. ACT has a plan to ensure the best teachers get paid more. Teachers play such an important role in our society; a good education is what sets someone up
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson Michael Wood’s assertions that ‘Fair Pay Agreements’ are the solution to the dire driver shortages across New Zealand are out of touch with reality. Workplace Relations and Immigration Minister Michael Wood’s comments came in response to a letter from industry heads highlighting
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Truancy is so out of control and our education culture is so poor principals are admitting to literally watching kids skateboard past school on their way to bunk off, we need real change to keep Kiwi kids in school. Today RNZ reported a principal talking
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Control freak politicians are now taking over the job parents used to be expected to do. First, Labour decided parents couldn’t be trusted to make sure kids got lunch. Now, it’s decided to take away fizzy drinks and is proposing to replace them
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson The Government has taken a major step backwards by re-introducing 1890s style compulsory unionism. The Government’s so-called ‘Fair Pay Agreements’ Bill amounts to unionism by stealth and will simply make it tougher for business who are already doing it tough. Labour have dusted
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson and bar owner It’s time to start following the science and make the move to Orange, it will make little difference to transmission but the world of difference to hospitality businesses, or better yet – scrap the traffic light system completely. When asked about
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The ACT Party today welcomes the New Zealand History curriculum being delayed a year, we just hope it means there’ll be a significant rewrite. The draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson Police Minister Poto Williams has graduated from the Jacinda Ardern school of spin following her latest media release about Police numbers. Labour promised 1800 new Police by 2020 – a target that it still hasn’t met. Last month Poto Williams admitted under questioning from ACT
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson It’s no wonder the Police are heading to arbitration over their pay offer when it’s less than half the rate of inflation. Labour is no longer the party for workers. Whether it’s Police, nurses or teachers, Labour has turned its back on
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson More than two-thirds of retailers being unsatisfied or very unsatisfied with the Government’s Response to COVID-19 should be a massive wake-up call to Jacinda Ardern and her Government. The results of those who are unsatisfied with the Government in Retail NZ’s Radar
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson and former Police officer The current approach to gangs isn’t working and Police Minister Poto Williams needs to take action. The headlines this morning are simply unacceptable. Our Sunday morning papers shouldn’t be reading “Shocking gang axe attack: Man killed in front of
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson Just over a year ago Jacinda Ardern told New Zealanders she had achieved her goal of 1800 new Police, today Poto Williams broke ranks and said she was wrong. It was always nonsense the way that the Government said they achieved the target without taking
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson The ACT Party has today released a range of measures the Government should take to help take the pressure off businesses and the hospitality sector. The Resurgence payment should be available every week that a business is under Alert Level 4 or 3, and
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson Businesses are doing it tough through no fault of their own and the Government needs to step up with further resurgence payments. The payment should be available every week that a business is under Alert Level 4 or 3, and extend to Alert Level
Chris Baillie ACT Small Business spokesperson The pressure and uncertainly placed on small businesses this lockdown has been enormous and the Government needs to do more to offer certainty. Restaurant and cafe owners will be beside themselves wondering whether to order food or not. If the level changes at 3
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson ACT supports school boards to decide how to their run own schools without interference. If MacLeans College, or any other school decides that a student telling a teacher to f-off after refusing initial instructions does not reach their standards and they want to suspend them,
