“The Police are using new guidelines for frontline officers for propaganda instead of being open and transparent with the public about their new powers”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “On Thursday, the Epidemic Response Committee requested that Police Commissioner Mike Bush provide it with the operational guidelines under which
Press Release: New Conservative New Conservative calls on the government to allow expansion of relationship bubbles, the start-up of more businesses and an ease up on travel restrictions by the end of this week. COVID-19 has neither destroyed our population nor even caused widespread debilitating sickness, even though
Press Release: ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour is questioning whether the Finance Minister has enough information about COVID-19 to know when New Zealand should come out of lockdown. “Every day of this lockdown is costing a fortune. Livelihoods are being lost as businesses burn up their working capital
Press Release: ACT Party “The Finance Minister must commit, as far as is possible, to returning New Zealand to pre-COVID-19 economic settings, rather than using the current crisis to make permanent ideological changes”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Grant Robertson told the Epidemic Response Committee yesterday morning he’
Press Release: New Conservative This is the question burning in most New Zealanders’ minds: What are the key indicators for decision making? How many new cases are required for the lockdown to continue? How many deaths? What is the plan when the lockdown ends? We understand that the government is
Press release: ACT Party “As the COVID-19 lockdown evolves, the Government must walk back its restriction on bakeries, butchers and fruit and vegetable stores”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has effectively given supermarkets a monopoly on food, but it seems surprised that prices have risen. In some
Press Release: ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour is asking the public to submit and vote on the questions it would like answered by the Government on its response to COVID-19. “Keeping our democracy strong through the COVID-19 crisis will be vital”, says Mr Seymour. “Parliament has been
Press Release: Friends In Need A free COVID-19 community initiative called ‘Friends in Need’ has launched to support the elderly and vulnerable through the COVID-19 restrictions. COVID-19 has rapidly changed life for all New Zealanders. Now the country is at Level 4 restrictions, which means that everyone
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government’s move to adjourn Parliament while assuming extraordinary new powers is misguided”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Although the Business Committee today came to a compromise that will allow the Opposition to continue to hold the Government to account, it’s worrying that
Press Release: New Conservative New Conservative joins the many experts in their fields and is calling for the Government to immediately implement Covid-19 Alert 4. On Sunday alone, Auckland had 4 schools linked to Covid-19. Today, a call to Government to go to Alert 4 and close all
Press Release: New Conservative Dismembering a live baby with or without sedation can never be classified as kind. Brutal? Yes. Repugnant? Yes. Inhumane? Yes. Kind? No! Leaving a living baby on a cold stainless steel bench to die does not qualify as kind either, yet this government has rejected requiring
Press Release: New Conservative According to an article released this week, late Saturday night on the eve of the commemoration of the Christchurch massacre, a firearms licence holder was visited and interrogated by armed police at his home, and segregated from his family when they returned home later. He was
Press Release: Regan Cunliffe Petition for the urgent removal of the epidemiological criteria for COVID-19 testing. Regan Cunliffe is petitioning for urgent removal of the epidemiological criteria for COVID-19 testing. Doing so would allow testing for those who meet the clinic criteria but do not meet the epidemiological
Press Release: Downright Discrimination NZ 1300 people with Down syndrome and their families called on PM Jacinda Ardern to not introduce abortion up-to-birth for NZ babies with Down syndrome ahead of the Abortion Legislation Bill vote yesterday 1300 people with Down syndrome have signed an open letter to
Press Release Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern Hon Stuart Nash Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today announced the appointment of Andrew Coster as the next Commissioner of Police. “Andrew takes up this leadership role at a time when the Government is making our communities safer by adding 2,000 new police officers
Press Release: Embassy of Israel in New Zealand Wellington, 5 March 2020 An Agreement on Cooperation in Technological Innovation, Research and Development was signed today (5 March 2020) between the Government of the State of Israel and the Government of New Zealand resulting to pursue a sustained effort to promote
