Chris Hipkins Masks will need to be worn on all public transport in Auckland and in and out of Auckland and on domestic flights throughout the country from this Thursday, Minister for COVID-19 Response Chris Hipkins said today. “I will be issuing an Order under the COVID-19 Response Act requiring
covidplanb.co.nz Covid Plan B has welcomed the Government’s decision not to over-react to cases of people testing positive to COVID-19 by starting another lockdown. Simon Thornley, spokesperson for the group, says the Government appears to finally be adapting its strategy to new information about ineffectiveness of lockdowns
ACT Party “The latest Covid community case is more evidence that the Government runs on smiles and slogans,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “How is it that a financially struggling media which operates on the smell of an oily rag was able to alert people at The Vincent Residences there
ACT Party “Aucklanders will be asking whether the Government is upholding its end of the COVID-19 bargain,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “New arrivals at the MIQ facility at the Grand Millennium were seen on Monday mixing and mingling with people from The Vincent Residences.“Several hundred people from both
ACT Party Three days after the full representation rule brought an additional Maori Party MP into Parliament, Jacinda Ardern wants to get rid of it. “Election rules should be changed rarely, and only for good reason. Labour has no good reason to change the election rules other than its own
ACT Party “The Government’s Covid-19 response is like Mickey Mouse playing Russian roulette blindfolded,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Continued basic errors in MIQ facilities, poor contact tracing, and a lack of coordination between health agencies mean we risk another community outbreak. A person who was in the same
ACT Party “There’s nothing sadder than someone who tries being knocked back by others’ needless restrictions, as is the case with Brett Heap,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Brett Heap is a pioneer of the horticulture industry. His courgettes are rotting on the ground because he can’t get
ACT Party “Labour’s so-called ‘Fair Pay’ Agreements will take industrial relations back to the 1970s”, says ACT’s Workplace Relations and Safety spokesperson Chris Baillie. New Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Wood said this morning that Labour will press ahead will FPAs. “Labour claims FPAs will help poor
ACT Party “Taiwan continues to outperform New Zealand in its COVID-19 response,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “While Taiwan allows new arrivals to isolate at home, our Government has done such a poor job of running managed isolation and quarantine that it’s directed Air New Zealand to stop flying.
ACT Party “The Government must immediately provide clarity to farmers about the enforcement of its new freshwater rules,” says ACT’s Primary Industries Spokesperson Mark Cameron. “The new rules require all paddocks to be resown by 1 October or 1 November in Otago and Southland. “That’s completely unrealistic given
ACT Party “The Human Rights Commission’s left-wing manifesto is clear evidence that the organisation must be abolished,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Commission is a hard-left organisation masquerading as a government department. “Its new manifesto calls for a new hate speech law, a living wage, raising benefits by
Press Release: New Conservative News came out this week that a shearer was given a 16-month prison sentence for killing a lamb because it frustrated him while shearing it. Christopher Tredinnick received the sentence in Cromwell this week, according to the New Zealand Herald. Meanwhile, only a few months earlier,
Press Release: ACT Party “Labour’s plan for small businesses is a contradictory mess”, says ACT’s small business spokesperson and Nelson employer Chris Baillie.“ Labour is piling new costs and red tape on SMEs with one hand and giving handouts with the other. It makes absolutely no sense. The
Press Release: New Conservative New Conservative yesterday put a case to the high court in Auckland seeking to be included in the scheduled Multi-Party debate by state broadcaster TVNZ. The case was turned down by Justice Woolford, and the debate will proceed with the initial list of participants unless another
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government’s decision to ease restrictions in Auckland is welcome, but lockdowns are an unsustainable long-term strategy,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Auckland has been under COVID-19 restrictions for almost two months because the Government couldn’t trace and isolate the current outbreak. “If the
Press Release: New Conservative New Conservative is preparing a legal challenge over the publicly-owned TVNZ’s right to pick and choose which political parties get election coverage in their televised debate planned for 8th October. New Conservative’s action is a last resort, taken after several attempts to discuss the
