The ACT leader spoke in Auckland on Sunday morning, the day after he was sworn in as deputy leader at Government House. [...]
Seymour spoke of his party’s setbacks and successes as it grew from a rank outsider to its current position, with 11 seats in parliament. [...]
“Our opponents are a Labour Party best described as lost, a Green Party that barely talks about the environment... [and] a race-based political party, that increasingly threatens violence to its opponents, tolerated by the media.”
Labour had called Seymour “dangerous”.
“Sorry Labour: ACT remains your worst nightmare and New Zealand’s best hope... Yes, I am dangerous, but only to you and your batty outriders.”
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The occasion marked the halfway point for the coalition government and the end of Winston Peters’ 18-month stint in the position.
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The group are mostly elderly and retired and gather at an old sports building in Hastings to make coffins. “We are at a point where we don’t have the room to make any more,” Treasurer Cherie Hames says. “We are basically at capacity of what we can make on the premises. We have to find new premises.”
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Peters, who is also the minister for rail, said he pitched an alternative plan, to immediately put the harbour crossing to tender, but was outvoted in cabinet. His comments seemed to surprise both Transport Minister Chris Bishop and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
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