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Megan Woods in Hiding on Housing

Megan Woods in Hiding on Housing

ACT Party ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “This Government’s practice of blather and flannel when asked specific questions about its performance is running its usual evasive course in respect of how many new houses it will build this year,” says ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “When I

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Government’s Shot Selection Raises More Questions
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Government’s Shot Selection Raises More Questions

News that our national men’s cricket team may get vaccinated ahead of the elderly and other at-risk groups shows why the Government needs to release its full vaccine schedule, so every New Zealander knows where they stand in the queue. “New Zealanders deserve more transparency than they’re getting

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Government’s Super-majority Creating Extreme Arrogance

Government’s Super-majority Creating Extreme Arrogance

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT says you can’t deliver better public policy if you don’t show humility, and this Government’s arrogance is getting in the way of solving problems and helping people,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We’re seeing it in the response to

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National Calls for Inquiry into Valentine’s Day Cluster

National Calls for Inquiry into Valentine’s Day Cluster

The National Party is calling for an inquiry into the Valentine’s Day cluster to see where our response went wrong, and what lessons we can learn. The scope of the inquiry would include: * The performance of contract tracing * Communication of public health messaging * Whether the testing regime met expectations

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National Welcomes Lifting of Auckland Lockdown

National Welcomes Lifting of Auckland Lockdown

Lifting the Auckland lockdown will be welcome news to all those people who have slogged their way through Level 3 multiple times now, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. But given the Government’s confidence that this outbreak is under control, National sees no good reason why Auckland can’

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Gas Barbecued Chickens Coming Home to Roost
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Gas Barbecued Chickens Coming Home to Roost

ACT Party ACT Climate Change spokesperson Simon Court. “The Government was warned its hasty virtue signalling policy of banning new oil and gas exploration would have the opposite of its intended impact on the domestic economy and the global environment, and so it looks set to play out with New

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Where Is New Zealand’s Vaccine Rollout Plan?

Where Is New Zealand’s Vaccine Rollout Plan?

National is calling on the Government to provide more detail on the schedule for vaccinating the entire population so that New Zealanders – particularly businesses – have the clarity they need to plan for the post-Covid future, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “It is great that border workers are being

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Other Prime Ministers Have Apologised

Other Prime Ministers Have Apologised

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “New Zealand Prime Ministers have on a number of occasions realised their comments or behaviour were ill-judged, gotten over their own egos and apologised to people for doing them wrong,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern should climb down from her

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Lockdown’s Impact on Student Learning Dire

NZQA’s assessment that the University Entrance pass rates for 2020 would have ‘fallen off a cliff’ without free credits shows the huge impact lockdown disruption is having on learning, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Every time we go into lockdown our children are missing out on vital

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Someone Owes Someone an Apology

Someone Owes Someone an Apology

The KFC worker who was vilified by the Government for not self-isolating deserves an apology from the Prime Minister if the Covid-19 Facebook post contradicting Jacinda Ardern’s claims is accurate, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “The Prime Minister pointing the finger of blame at rule breakers was

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Director General Say What?

Director General Say What?

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield gave a simply astonishing explanation this afternoon of why community contact tracing performance might be so far below the at least 80 per cent of contacts within four days of exposure to a source case, recommended by

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Contact Tracing Failing New Zealanders

Contact Tracing Failing New Zealanders

After more than a year of dealing with Covid-19 the Government is still failing its own contact tracing performance measures and is failing to be open and transparent about locations of interest, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. Information supplied to National from the Health Minister show that

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Contact Tracing Data Missing; Past Performance Terrible

Contact Tracing Data Missing; Past Performance Terrible

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Where is the Ministry of Health’s contact tracing performance results for February, and did they achieve the ‘gold standard’ of 80 per cent of community contacts isolated or in quarantine within four days from exposure, based on Dr Ayesha Verrall’s audit of

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There Is No Long Term COVID-19 Strategy

There Is No Long Term COVID-19 Strategy

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT applauds and endorses the business people who have written to the Government today asking what its longer term COVID-19 strategy is,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We’d all like to know, but at the moment we have the blind leading the sighted.

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Govt Must Release Contact Tracing Evidence

Govt Must Release Contact Tracing Evidence

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government needs to release full details of the contacts made with the family of cases L, M, N and O at the centre of the South Auckland cluster,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Prime Minister is fighting an asymmetrical information war, drip

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IINZ Calls for a Freeze of MFAT Funding of Terror Incitement
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IINZ Calls for a Freeze of MFAT Funding of Terror Incitement

IINZ Israel Institute of New Zealand co-director, Dr David Cumin, is calling on New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to immediately freeze funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in light of a Human Rights Commission investigation into the use of New Zealand taxpayer

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