David Seymour ACT Party Leader With the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research’s (NZIER) latest quarterly survey showing the lowest business confidence in the survey’s history, it’s clear that real change is necessary to make New Zealand a prosperous country that is open for business. NZIER reports
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Today’s Food Price Index results show that Labour’s economic mismanagement is continuing to have a corrosive effect on the holiday period. As well as paying inflated prices for Christmas presents, Kiwis are coughing up more to throw a summer BBQ. For the year
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Revelations this morning in the NZ Herald that Nanaia Mahuta sought advice about the 60 per cent entrenchment threshold a month before Labour voted on the amendment shows she cannot be trusted on three waters entrenchment. These revelations contradict Mahuta’s statement in the House
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Ombudsman’s investigation into the MIQ debacle shows that the Government of kindness has been deeply cruel. Today, the Ombudsman found that MBIE didn’t adequately take into account the very real impact MIQ would have on people’s lives. It didn’t provide
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour’s bumbling approach to crime is continuing to have real consequences for Kiwis. With Epsom and West Auckland resembling Johannesburg this morning during a police helicopter chase after an attempted gunpoint carjacking in Epsom. New Zealanders deserve to feel safe in their communities, somehow
Justice Minister Kiri Allan has watered down Labour’s Hate Speech laws because Kiwis rejected Labour’s attempt to strip away their freedom of speech, but even in their current state they are not compatible with a free and open society and ACT will repeal them. Preventing freedom of expression
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour yesterday announced it’s giving up. There is a cost of living crisis for five million Kiwis. Labour’ big answer today is to help 10,000, when the need is felt by millions. What’s more, the policy will be inflationary if it doesn’
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Today’s low unemployment is actually a Labour crisis. The country is missing about 140,000 people based on normal migration trends. That’s why there is help wanted signs and businesses grinding to a halt from Cape Reinga to the Bluff. Unemployment figures become
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The spookiest thing this Halloween was a glimpse into the mind of an IRD tax collector. In a now deleted social media post, New Zealanders got to see the culture the government is setting for its departments, tax everything you can, even kids’ lollies. The
David Seymour ACT Party Leader It’s important that any lessons taken from Liz Truss’s downfall are based on actual data. The risk is New Zealand takes the wrong lesson from lazy analysis, particularly those on the political left who bleat on like the sheep in Animal Farm: tax
David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT can reveal that the Government has spent $58 million on contact tracing since May, despite the fact nobody is being traced. Fifty eight million dollars would fund 191 cystic fibrosis patients with Trikafta for a year, 412,000 mental health counselling sessions, and is
David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT welcomes the Government’s backdowns on COVID-19 powers, the Traveller Declaration Form and defunding of Shakespeare, while they’re backing down on policy they should keep going. Labour has held on to COVID powers for far too long, while the rest of the world
David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT has released another new policy paper, setting out what practical steps we would take to deliver the promise of a modern, multi-ethnic liberal democracy in Government. The current government is presenting New Zealanders with a false choice. It says that if we want to
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Te Pati Maori should be in damage control, distancing themselves from John Tamihere as rapidly as possible this weekend after his totally unacceptable ‘Pogrom’ comments. Te Pati Maori are already in hot water after the Race Relations Commissioner called a statement on their website racist
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Prime Minister has a big problem with culture in her party and it’s time she confronts it, instead of sweeping it under the carpet. Whether it’s Stuart Nash calling Nicole McKee a “nutter”, Kelvin Davis racially attacking Karen Chhour or Willie Jackson
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Te Pati Maori has been engaging in racial discrimination on its website with claims of genetic superiority, but when notified, New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon refused to publicly stand up to it. Te Pati Maori’s sports policy on its website makes
