David Seymour ACT Party Leader Recent revelations about bad working relationships with Minister Kiri Allan raise questions about why Prime Minister Chris Hipkins wouldn’t release the transcript of her controversial speech to Radio New Zealand earlier this year. Was he aware of these other issues and trying to protect
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Prime Minister Chris Hipkins appears to be confused about which country he’s leading. In recent weeks his government has spent $10,000 advertising in Australia to promote the benefits of living there and given highly two highly profitable Aussie companies a massive corporate handout.
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The epidemic of youth crime has gotten to the point where New Zealand’s news headlines could be straight out of the L.A. Times – ram raids, stabbing threats, brazen robberies. It’s past time for youth offenders to start facing real consequences. Yesterday morning
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour and National are offering different shades of beige when it comes to government spending with only ACT promising real change. Labour’s budget will spend more money than any government in the history of New Zealand, but the results will be mediocre. Government spending
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Hapless Chris Hipkins is spending taxpayer money to advertise to New Zealanders living in Australia that life is better there now they can get citizenship – rather than trying to persuade them to come home. What the Prime Minister should have realised is that Australia, in
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Stuart Nash was the only Labour minister listening to the people of Hawke’s Bay about crime. But sadly he was hapless and incapable of convincing Chris Hipkins, who repeatedly denied there was a problem. As usual, Nash broke the rules, trying to jawbone the
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Our country will face a real choice in five months’ time. And the choice isn’t Red Chris or Blue Chris. As many now see, that isn’t much of a choice at all. The choice New Zealanders face is between parties offering more of
David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT has said right from the start that Meng Foon isn’t fit for his role because he is unable to remain politically neutral, today’s revelations bring new weight to our claims and he needs to go immediately. After being appointed to the ‘politically
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Prime Minister Chris Hipkins can’t claim that Three Waters was a good policy that wasn’t fair on Nanaia Mahuta; either the policy itself was a dog all along or Mahuta screwed it up. Hipkins told The Hui that he left Nanaia Mahuta “defending
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Prime Minister’s ‘lobbying crackdown’ is purely symbolic and a distraction from the real issue – the Official Information Act. There can be no accountability if there are no penalties for suppressing and covering up information. Labour is throwing Stuart Nash under the bus and
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Michael Wood needs to scrap his proposed Land Transport Government Policy Statement (GPS) and start again. Instead of governing for the needs of New Zealanders as he was elected to do, he is trying to force them to change their own behaviour to fit his
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, AKA Commissioner Gaslight, needs to stop undermining East Coast residents, mayors and business leaders and show them support. Residents on the East Coast have been through hell. Instead of listening and responding to their concerns, Coster just says they’re wrong.
David Seymour ACT Party Leader 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. Hunt’s claim that ‘white supremacy and institutional racism [are] woven into the
David Seymour ACT Party Leader 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. Today’s unemployment figure of 3.4 per cent becomes a moot point when there are so many
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Former Education Minister and now Prime Minister Chris Hipkins must front up and explain the poorly communicated overkill decision to close every Auckland school. Mayor Wayne Brown has been smashed for late decision making and poor communication during the Auckland floods. The Prime Minister is
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour has done everything possible to push up the price of food and Kiwis continue to suffer with the largest annual increase in food prices in 32 years, ACT will reverse Labour’s changes. For the year ended December 2022 Stats NZ reports an 11.
