David Seymour ACT Leader Labour MP Tamati Coffey has told media a second motel is being purchased for emergency accommodation in Rotorua. $8.1 million was spent on the Boulevard Motel. That’s about double the CV, real estate agents have said it’s far more than market value. Tamati
David Seymour ACT Leader It is entirely inappropriate that the people who set the policy for our schools are undertaking courses that teach them “guilt and shame” are natural responses to so-called “white privilege.” After ACT revealed school kids were being taught about “white privilege”, we can now reveal that
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern owes New Zealanders an apology for the slow vaccine rollout that has New Zealand at the bottom of the OECD. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday stood in front of media and apologised for the slow rollout saying “I’m sorry that we haven’
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has spent a quarter of a million dollars on focus groups and polls to test whether its COVID-19 advertising was popular. In an answer to Written Parliamentary Questions from the ACT Party, Jacinda Ardern said the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet spent $252,
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party has today released the second of our three Discussion Documents as part of our Honest Conversations series. Gang numbers are up 50 per cent after four years of Labour’s ‘kindness’ approach. We’ve watched as patched gang members have taken over our
David Seymour ACT Leader Even as a frequent critic of this Labour Government, I never thought Grant Robertson would try appointing a teacher union rep to run an airline. In April, Grant Robertson wrote to the Air New Zealand Board, rather menacingly, ‘I would like to be involved in the
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government is extending its tentacles into nearly every area of media with an offer too good to refuse for each outlet, and it has rapidly reached absurdity with taxpayer money spent on journalism to check on Government expenditure of taxpayer money. According to a NZ
David Seymour ACT Leader Instead of creating the conditions for wealth, Labour is once again finding new ways to take it. The Government has given Inland Revenue $5 million to assess the wealth of high-wealth individuals. Labour is clearly gearing up for an inheritance tax. A better way to fight
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party has today released the first of three Discussion Documents as part of our Honest Conversations series. Labour was elected to fix housing because National failed. Now they have failed as well, but that’s politics. The real problem is not just that young
David Seymour ACT Leader In an extraordinary interview on Newshub Nation this morning, Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt has demonstrated exactly why the Commission should be abolished. Hunt either refused or was unable to answer any of the questions to put to him. He was defensive of gangs and stood
David Seymour ACT Leader Labour’s plan for compulsory unionism is anti-democratic and anti-freedom and it must be scrapped. Labour has been told by its officials that so-called ‘Fair Pay’ Agreements would wreck the economy and undermine freedom of association. Michael Wood will no doubt ignore this advice and push
David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister today told parliament that she didn’t know when Janssen vaccines would be on shore in New Zealand because Medsafe has only just approved the vaccine. The European Union and United States’ authorities approved the Janssen vaccine in March and February, respectively. Janssen
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government has wasted more than $4 million dollars of taxpayers’ money this term asking itself questions about things as banal as what reports Grant Robertson’s received. Yesterday, Leader of the House Chris Hipkins accused ACT of wasting taxpayer’s money by raising questions to
David Seymour ACT Leader Now MedSafe has approved the Janssen one shot vaccine, months after the United States and European Union, the Government should be transparent about its plans for using the vaccine. Under questioning in Parliament yesterday, the Prime Minister showed the Government has no plan for getting back
David Seymour ACT Leader Yesterday Parliament had a constructive and sensible debate about my Regulatory Standards Member’s Bill. My Member’s Bill was drawn from the Ballot in April and is due to be debated in Parliament shortly. Ahead of that, Members of Parliament yesterday had an opportunity to
David Seymour ACT Leader Yesterday Jacinda Ardern made it clear in Parliament that she has no plan for New Zealand to move on from COVID-19. Last week Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison outlined a four-phase plan to reopen Australia to the world. Yesterday when I asked Jacinda Ardern where her
