David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government’s command and control over our lives have gone on long enough and it’s time for Jacinda to give up her vice-like grip and let us get on with our lives. Kiwis are being denied entry into their own country because our
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon has breached the Human Rights Act by racially profiling Members of Parliament. Late last year Mr Foon wrote to selected Members of Parliament to request a five-year compulsory te reo Maori education strategy. I noticed with interest that the only
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Mallard hunting season came to an end last weekend but there’s one more Mallard that still needs to go. Parliament is too important an institution to have someone leading it who New Zealanders don’t trust. A 1News poll last night shows New
David Seymour ACT Party Leader New Zealand is becoming an economic backwater to Australia under Labour and we need real change to stem the tide of Kiwis fleeing our shores. On just about every economic measure, Australia is winning the Trans-Tasman battle: * The Australian median wage has grown $6,600
David Seymour ACT Party Leader With interest rates set to undergo another hike this week, the pressure being heaped on Kiwi households is close to breaking point. The Government’s mismanagement of the border and unworkable isolation periods are making the problem worse for no benefit. Until New Zealand is
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Government have today presented New Zealand with the Brain Drain Budget. Ambitious New Zealanders, tired of being milked, will weigh up leaving for greener pastures. Last December Treasury forecast a population of 5.188 million in the next financial year,
David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT’s policy to get rid of the Human Rights Commissioner has today been backed up by Jacinda Ardern and her Government. The fact that the Human Rights Commissioner hasn’t requested a meeting with the Prime Minister or her senior Ministers for three years
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Reports that Labour’s caucus has voted to abandon the co-governance aspect of Three Waters is a sign that New Zealand has seen right through their anti-democratic agenda. I brought the topic up in Parliament today and Labour MPs’ hysterical reactions from across the aisle
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The petty and vindictive trespass orders issued to people who simply visited the Parliament protest shouldn’t stand. The orders will only result in lengthy and costly legal battles and taxpayers will lose. Similar cases have been through the courts and the Speaker lost. A
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Labour party has no choice but to vote against the Rotorua District Council (Representation Arrangements) Bill after Attorney General David Parker found the Bill would limit the right to be free from discrimination and cannot be justified under the Bill of Rights Act. This
David Seymour ACT Party Leader ACT is appealing to the Government to make openness and inclusion the non-negotiable condition for work on our country’s constitutional future. Labour’s consultation on He Puapua is already dividing rather than uniting, asking only select Maori groups about our constitutional future. Closed-door consultations
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Today’s inflation figures are the direct result of Labour’s addiction to borrowing and spending and Kiwi families are paying an almighty price. The Government’s refusal to take responsibility is the equivalent of it giving the middle finger to middle New Zealand. Its
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Prime Minister needs to apologise to the thousands of Kiwis who were cruelly stranded overseas after her Cabinet had been briefed that MIQ was pointless in November last year. Documents obtained by media show that Ministers were told that the MIQ system was totally
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government’s books show Grant Robertson is profiteering from record inflation as he refuses to give any money back to New Zealand taxpayers. ACT can reveal the Government has taken in a massive $14 billion more in income tax revenue than expected, but Robertson
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The ACT Party welcomes National Leader Christopher Luxon saying he wants a conversation about co-governance. We put it to him that a referendum is a conversation where ordinary people get a say. You can’t solve problems by ignoring them. Luxon says he shares our
David Seymour ACT Party Leader No wonder we have a productivity problem when even the Prime Minister takes 22 minutes to deliver 2 minutes of information. Jacinda seems to have a case of separation anxiety, she can’t let go of control. She keeps announcing and restricting while the economy
