ACT Party ACT Party Firearms Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee “A concerted effort involving law changes and far greater resources is needed to turn soaring levels of gun crime around,” says ACT Party Firearms Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Some of the unintended consequences of the Government’s two pieces of rushed
The number of prisoner assaults on corrections officers has skyrocketed in recent years with more than 2000 incidents taking place on the Labour Government’s watch, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. Figures released to National show the year to June 2020 was a stand-out with 889 assaults. This
No Jail Time for Serious Offences The Government’s restorative justice programme Te Pae Oranga is taking preventing imprisonment to a new level with more serious offences sent to the Iwi Community Panel, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “I don’t think many New Zealanders would consider the
The Government’s lack of urgency with a second harbour crossing for Auckland shows how misguided it is when it comes to the needs of the city and New Zealand’s economy. “Auckland desperately needs investment in a second harbour crossing but the Government has its priorities all wrong,” National’
ACT Party ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “The Government is showing extreme arrogance in its stance toward farmers who are deeply opposed to the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill,” says ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “Answers to my questions in Parliament today suggest the Government knows the Bill
Reports that Tourism Minister Stuart Nash has said a travel bubble with Australia won’t happen until January next year if we’re lucky is creating confusion and will mean many more businesses face closure, National’s Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Our tourism businesses continue to struggle, they need
Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi has failed to act on reuniting highly skilled migrant workers with their families, but if his Government just opened a travel bubble with Australia then the issue could be resolved, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “New Zealand risks eroding our critical migrant workforce – our
ACT Party ACT Foreign Affairs spokesperson Brooke van Velden “It’s hard to believe New Zealand wouldn’t have been welcome at today’s historic virtual ‘Quad’ talks taking place between the leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia, but our absence perhaps says a lot of about
The Government should make a unilateral decision to have quarantine-free travel with Australia now that we know talks between the two countries have collapsed, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. In Parliament on Wednesday, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins revealed that after 12 rounds of talks over many
ACT Party ACT Small Business and Workplace Relations spokesperson Chris Baillie. “The case for delaying the April 1 increase to the minimum wage is now so loud and clear surely even this Government can see sense and save even more businesses from going under,” says ACT Small Business and Workplace
A Member’s Bill that would make New Zealand’s medicinal cannabis scheme more affordable and more accessible to those that need it has been voted down by the Labour Government. “National first announced this legislation in 2018 and encouraged the Government to pick up the enormous amount of work
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed the only thing holding up a two-way travel bubble with New Zealand is our Government’s lack of urgency, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. When asked by media today on how far away a full travel bubble with New Zealand is,
Many hunters and farmers will miss out on this year’s duck shooting season because the Police are failing to address a backlog of firearms licence applications, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “There are 10,000 applications waiting to be processed with 3000 of those just licence renewals.
National is calling on the Government to open the trans-Tasman bubble with Australia to give our desperate tourism sector a much-needed boost and reunite Kiwis with family and friends across the ditch. “New Zealand and Australia have both done well to reduce the threat of Covid-19,” Leader of the Opposition
The extent of the Government’s failure to get on top of New Zealand’s housing shortage has been laid bare by new figures that show more than $1 million dollars of taxpayer money is being spent per day on motels for emergency housing. The Government spent $82.5 million,
Almost a year after the Government announced that ‘shovel-ready’ construction projects would be a major plank in its economic recovery plan, barely any shovels have actually made it into the ground. National’s Infrastructure spokesperson Andrew Bayly says the whole point of the Government’s flagship programme was speed. “These
