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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-752/
- Published: 2023-06-04T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-04T18:28:23.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Election 2023, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

The ACT Party launched its election campaign in the weekend.

Leader David Seymour stated that co-governance was dividing the country:

> He said Maori language had been “weaponised as a tool the minority forces on the majority in every forum, no matter how impractical, just to prove their political point”.  
>  
> “They never asked. Nobody would agree if they did. It won’t take us anywhere good, and it must end now.” \[…\]  
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> He blamed both the Labour Government and previous National government for the nation’s economic fortunes, and said his party would seriously cut any wasteful spending by assessing each year which policies and departments were performing well. “Every year \[the\] Government should ask if this activity or department didn’t exist today, could we justify starting it up? If not, it should stop.”He promised to overhaul the Resource Management Act, based on property rights, and rehashed policies to increase prison capacity, transfer youth justice from Oranga Tamariki to Corrections and take any reference to the Treaty of Waitangi from all legislation, before again accusing Labour of dividing New Zealand. \[…\]  
>  
> “Labour have accelerated the drift towards separatism with their constant insertion of race-based policy into everything from Three Waters’ governance to resource management.” \[…\]  
>  

Seymour also discussed rising crime rates, school attendance, having only two tax rates, retirement age, mental health, the health system and the cost of living crisis.

> “In every area that troubles New Zealand, the pattern is the same. The problem is decades in the making. Labour is promising to make it worse faster. National are promising not to rock the boat or scare the horses. Only ACT is promising real change and real solutions.”  
>  
> [*Stuff*](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/132231427/act-party-launches-campaign-announces-new-ministry-of-regulation?ref=goodoil.news)

*Newshub* provided [a transcript of Seymour’s speech](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/06/election-2023-act-leader-david-seymour-pulls-up-in-little-yellow-car-attacks-red-tape-in-major-speech.html?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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