David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s decision to put New Zealand back into Level 4 lockdown is incredibly disappointing and shows it only has one tool in the toolbox. Delta has been a gamechanger worldwide. We need to know if the Government has strengthened our defences in preparation for
David Seymour ACT Leader The saga surrounding Troy Bowker’s LinkedIn comments raises a simple question for Kris Faafoi and Jacinda Ardern, would he be arrested for his comments under their proposed Hate Speech law?” The Cabinet paper on the proposed law states that a person can be jailed for
David Seymour ACT Leader Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi should tell New Zealanders on what grounds he rejected the applications from a group of Afghan people who helped New Zealand’s military. A group of Afghan people who assisted New Zealand in the Afghanistan conflict had their applications declined by Kris
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s announcement about New Zealand’s post-COVID future is a step in the right direction, but New Zealanders will be asking why it has taken so long. It has taken a series of damaging polls to spur the Government into action. The Government’s
David Seymour ACT Leader Today’s big announcement will feel like Give Us A Clue: COVID Edition. After the highly disappointing Skegg report that was really just three letters, the Government needs to give us a clue on the big questions about our COVID future. The Skegg letters told us
David Seymour ACT Leader While vulnerable New Zealanders are desperate for shelter, the agency tasked with housing them is spending tens of thousands of dollars on artwork. Kainga Ora is supposed to house people, not expensive carvings. We have people living in motels and cars and tenants whose houses aren’
David Seymour ACT Leader The Skegg reports tells us the Government should reopen the border in stages, proportional to risk, using better technology, but we can’t yet due to low vaccination rates, and variants might undermine the vaccine. All of this was in ACT’s COVID 2.0 report
David Seymour ACT Leader It turns out the Prime Minister’s announcement about this week’s announcement won’t be an announcement at all. Jacinda Ardern has been talking up the release of the Skegg report this week, but under questioning in Parliament admitted nothing tangible will be announced. Ardern
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s ‘Implementation Unit’ was run on a trial basis inside Grant Robertson’s office and included 115 projects according to new documents. The so-called Implementation Unit is an admission from Government that it hasn’t been delivering for the past four years. The unit,
David Seymour ACT Leader ACT will not stand by while the Government tries to criminalise New Zealanders for free speech. The Government’s proposed Hate Speech Laws will create a divided society and will put an already growing cancel culture on steroids. ACT has had more than 31,000 people
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has questions to answer about why billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page was allowed into New Zealand when desperate Kiwis and separated families can’t get through the border. Larry Page was allowed into New Zealand but the Government won’t give any details about
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government will today give itself a big pat on the back for delivering two million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, but it should hold off on its self-congratulations. To put this into perspective, that’s 40 doses per 100 people. That milestone was met in
David Seymour ACT Leader The Australian Prime Minister has called the Delta variant a game-changer. Chris Hipkins agrees and told Parliament yesterday that contact tracing wouldn’t be able to contain it. But what sort of rethink has the Government done in light of the Delta variant? It appears nothing
David Seymour ACT Leader At the same time as the Prime Minister is apologising for the Dawn Raids in the 1970s, Labour is completely ignoring the struggles being faced by migrants today. MPs from every party except Labour and the Maori Party are currently gathered in Auckland for an event
David Seymour ACT Leader Kris Faafoi needs to urgently clarify the comments he made on Newstalk ZB yesterday evening about parents being unable to deny their children hormone blockers. In an interview that can only be described as a train wreck, Faafoi said it’s not ok for parents to
David Seymour ACT Leader MIQ is the bottleneck starving the New Zealand economy of the skilled people businesses need to grow and compete. ACT has a plan to expand MIQ places and make it safer than what the Government is doing now. Under ACT’s plan, owners of currently mothballed
