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Auckland Zoo has made the heart-breaking decision to move its two female Asian elephants Burma and Anjalee to a new home – to give them both the family herd they need for their long-term wellbeing. “In 2011, Auckland Zoo with the support of Auckland Council, committed to building a

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New Conservative Party Leadership Change
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New Conservative Party Leadership Change

New Conservative After a thorough and robust review of the party leadership by the New Conservative Board, we have come to the difficult decision to look for a fresh approach to the leadership of New Conservative and have relieved Leighton Baker of the leadership of the party at this time.

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Royal Commission Report Must Be Made Available Immediately

Royal Commission Report Must Be Made Available Immediately

ACT Party ACT’s Firearms Reform Spokesperson Nicole McKee is calling on the Government to release the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terrorist attacks next week. “According to the Commissioners, the report has been finished, will be delivered to the Government next week, and no

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Aussie Govt Pinches Kiwi Workers, NZ Govt Won’t Lift a Finger

Aussie Govt Pinches Kiwi Workers, NZ Govt Won’t Lift a Finger

ACT Party “The Australian Government is going all out to pinch our workers, while our Government won’t lift a finger to support industry,” says ACT’s Primary Industries Spokesperson Mark Cameron. “Kiwis are being promised $2,000 if they complete six weeks’ harvesting in Australia’s regions. Meanwhile, our

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Firearms Register Won’t Stop Gang Scum

Firearms Register Won’t Stop Gang Scum

ACT Party “The Police Association is naïve if it believes a firearms register will stop gang violence”, says ACT’s Firearms Reform Spokesperson Nicole McKee. “A person who shoots at a police officer, or anyone for that matter, is scum. Gangs and criminals didn’t hand in their firearms during

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Mahuta Should Apologise for Hipkins’ Taiwan Comments
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Mahuta Should Apologise for Hipkins’ Taiwan Comments

ACT Party “Nanaia Mahuta should apologise for COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins calling Taiwan an ‘authoritarian regime’”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Taiwanese fought their way from dictatorship to democracy. Far from a place of oppression, Taiwan tolerates dissent. In 2014, students occupied Taiwan’s parliament, a move

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One by One, Labour’s Excuses on Housing Are Evaporating

ACT Party “Labour blamed the housing crisis on foreigners and the tax system, but its excuses are evaporating, and now it has no idea how to solve the problem,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “According to Labour, people with Chinese sounding names were to blame, but experts have found the

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COVID-19 Elimination Strategy Almost Abandoned

COVID-19 Elimination Strategy Almost Abandoned

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

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This Government Runs on Smiles & Slogans

This Government Runs on Smiles & Slogans

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

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Is Govt Upholding Its End of the COVID-19 Bargain?

Is Govt Upholding Its End of the COVID-19 Bargain?

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

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Utu Move by Labour on Full Representation

Utu Move by Labour on Full Representation

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

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Rotting Courgettes Show Govt Lucky, Not Skilled on COVID-19

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

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“Fair Pay” Agreements Take Us Back to the 1970s

“Fair Pay” Agreements Take Us Back to the 1970s

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

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COVID-19: A Tale of Two Islands

COVID-19: A Tale of Two Islands

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

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