In a key scene in Orson Welles’s classic Citizen Kane, an outraged trustee confronts Kane at a party celebrating his purchase of a newspaper. The newspaper is a bad investment, he warns: it lost a million dollars in just the last year. Far from being chastened, Kane replies: “You’
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s paternalistic approach towards Maori through procurement is a step too far and needs explaining. The Government, in another departure from the idea that all New Zealanders are equal before the law, has set a quota of five percent of Government procurement being spent
David Seymour ACT Leader Stuart Nash owes New Zealanders an explanation about why he said he wasn’t working on a bed tax when he has been. Information obtained by the ACT Party through Parliamentary Written Questions and briefings to Stuart Nash show that Government is working with the Queenstown
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David Seymour ACT Leader The Prime Minister’s paternalism of the Cook Islands has caused economic and emotional harm to our Pacific neighbours that will take years to fix. ACT was calling for a travel bubble with the Cooks in July last year. Here we are almost a year later
Brooke van Velden ACT’s Deputy Leader Our Wellington bureaucrats could learn a thing or two from Amazon on how to avoid largess, especially when taxpayer money is at stake. Bureaucrats from the Film Commission and Tourism New Zealand weren’t afraid to whip out the taxpayer funded credit card
Brooke van Velden ACT’s Housing spokesperson A website set up by the ACT Party to hear concerns about the Government’s new interest deductibility law change has shown just how damaging this policy will be to renters. We have been inundated with stories about how this policy will hurt
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government’s Seasonal Work Scheme attracting just 195 new fruit pickers to move to where the work is shows its strategy is failing and it’s time to let more workers in,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Fruit and vegetable growers have done
Yulia McKenzie Hawkhurst Media Whittaker’s has taken out the Reader’s Digest Most Trusted of all Brands award for the tenth consecutive year – an unprecedented achievement. The Whittaker family’s long-standing belief that “best is always better” has stood it in great stead says Reader’s Digest Australasian editor-in-chief
My father always used to think that everyone in New Zealand wore grass skirts and threw spears. He wasn’t joking. That was the view often presented to the world when royalty or dignitaries came here. He had a clear memory of the Prince and Princess of Wales in a
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ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT welcomes the news that migrant families who have been cruelly separated for far too long will be reunited, but 1500 empty MIQ rooms shows there’s no reason both them and desperately needed workers can’t be here now,” says ACT Leader David
April 16th, 2021. My last letter from the North was about the death of a town. I have just received the results of the quarterly regional economic survey for the southwestern region. It underlines how deep the recession is and the future doesn’t look good for St. Austell and
17th April 2021 The economy is taking a hit in the weirdest ways and the military in particular are suffering from the downturn. By closing down the internet and mobile networks the Junta have hit at the heart of the modernising transactional banking part of the economy. This, combined with
