Press Release: New Conservatives In 2017, the coalition of Labour, NZF and the Greens took control of New Zealand thus becoming the start of a journey that originally claimed transparency, openness and kindness but has failed to deliver except in the area of removing freedoms and disempowered democracy. New Conservative
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government can encourage respect for the law and confidence in Police by releasing the Crown Law advice on the legality of the lockdown”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today at the Epidemic Response Committee, the new Police Commissioner continued to stonewall on the issue of
New Conservative Party Yesterday, the first day that Parliament was sitting after almost 5 weeks of a nationwide lockdown, the Arms Legislation Bill (commonly known as the 2nd tranche) was on the Parliamentary Order Paper as a Bill for consideration. This Bill contains a number of items that are highly
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government has left open a critical blind spot when it comes to a strategy for aged-care facilities”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Almost every death from COVID-19 to date has occurred at an aged-care facility, yet, in its rush to achieve
Press Release Ministry of Health Today New Zealand’s total number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 9, made up of 7 new confirmed cases and 2 new probable cases. There are no additional deaths to report and the total number of COVID-19 related deaths remains at 12.
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government must release a damning report on the Ministry of Health’s ability to do contact tracing”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. Otago University infectious diseases physician Ayesha Verrall recently audited the Ministry of Health’s contact tracing capabilities. The Ministry received the report a
Press Release: New Conservatives As the Lockdown has progressed, the signs of further state control over New Zealanders’ freedoms by this Labour, NZ First and Green coalition is becoming ever more apparent. We are seeing the state give itself more power, both through the suppression of civil liberties and the
Media release Ministry of Health 18 April 2020 Today New Zealand’s total number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 13, made up of 8 new confirmed cases and 5 new probable cases. The new combined total of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand is 1422. There are
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government’s decision to ban an estimated 200,000 Kiwis from hunting at Alert Level 3 is illogical and I have written to Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters to ask them to reconsider this issue”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The move appears to be
Press Release: ACT Party “The Prime Minister’s announcement on Alert Level 3 this afternoon was broadly encouraging but she must provide more flexibility for retailers”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Alert Level 3 rules say it’s acceptable for a supermarket to have fifty customers inside at one
Press Release: ACT Party “New Zealanders deserve to the see the legal basis on which their civil liberties are being severely restricted”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today at the Epidemic Response Committee, the Attorney-General refused to allow the public to see the Crown Law legal advice on
Press Release: ACT Party D-Day The Government will tell us on 20 April whether the Level 4 lockdown continues past 22 April. It needs to give clear guidance on what a Level 3 world looks like because business cannot prepare with two days’ notice. But there is another problem.
Press Release: ACT Party “Today’s Epidemic Response Committee hearing revealed that businesses want the Government to start listening to them, provide clear guidance about the rules at lower Alert Levels, and hit pause on new regulations”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We’re told that we’re all in
Press Release: ACT Party “Former chief executive of BusinessNZ Phil O’Reilly and industry leaders have endorsed ACT’s view that the Government should be taking a ‘safety’ rather than an ‘essential’ approach to businesses opening”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. Ministerial Statement – State of National Emergency – Video 5 from
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government needs to come clean on the reason why many frontline health workers can’t get PPE”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I am hearing many stories from health workers about a lack of PPE on the frontline. “That clearly signals there’s an issue
Press Release: ACT Party “While New Zealanders are distracted by the greatest public health emergency of our lives, the Government is sneaking its political agenda through Parliament”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has given the Justice Committee just two months to consider the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners)
