Karen Chhour ACT Welfare spokesperson Grant Robertson is in full self-congratulation mode over today’s employment numbers, but the real unemployment rate is at least 6 per cent. The headline unemployment rate of 3.2 per cent equates to 93,000 people. Nobody – not even Grant Robertson – believes that
New Zealanders are getting poorer under the Labour Government with wage growth figures of 2.6 per cent trailing well behind inflation of 5.9 per cent, National’s Finance spokesperson Simon Bridges says. “The figures released today show that real incomes are going backwards. More and more people simply
The Government’s plan to impose a new tax on every worker and business in the country could not come at a worse time, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon says. “With prices growing twice as fast as wages, Kiwi families are worse off than they were 12 months ago under Labour.
We need a new strategy to safely steer New Zealand through the Omicron wave and out of endless restrictions, Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon says. “The Omicron variant has arrived and case numbers are set to increase rapidly in the coming weeks and months. The situation has changed so it is
Yet another immigration train-wreck is seeing nurses forced to leave the country for lengthy periods of time to attempt to secure a visa for their loved ones, at a time when Omicron cases are growing, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “After pressure from National, in early 2021
At a time when supply chains are already frayed, the Government’s inaction on border class exceptions for time-critical workers could have an impact on food production and distribution in New Zealand, National Leader Christopher Luxon says. “Workers for the grain harvest are needed here in February, but because
The Government’s confiscation of rapid antigen tests ordered by the private sector has gone from bad to worse, National’s COVID-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “Businesses who have had rapid tests seized by the Government have been told that they will not be able to get access to
New Zealand First Media “Instead of wise, focused, and essential immigration, the fast tracking of residency for 170,000 immigrants on working visas is a blatant return to the dangerous unfettered immigration policies of the past thirty years,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “It will only add
The Government’s lack of preparation for Omicron has unnecessarily put New Zealand in a worse position than we needed to be, National Leader Christopher Luxon says. “Rather than spending the last month urgently boosting as many people as possible, rolling out vaccinations for 5–11-year-olds and buying
Robert W Malone MD, MS Following Dr. Robert Malone’s appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, more physicians and medical scientists have joined with their colleagues from around the world in signing the Physicians Declaration. Now with more than 17,000 signatures confirmed through a rigorous validation process, these physicians
New Conservative Party Co-Leaders Helen Houghton Ted Johnston The United Kingdom has announced that mandatory vaccine passes will be scrapped, as will the mandatory wearing of masks. Sweden has announced that negative Covid tests will no longer be required to enter the country. What will it take for New
Today’s quarterly benefit data release is further confirmation that Labour has engineered a benefit dependency crisis in New Zealand, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “At a time when businesses across the country are crying out for more workers, it will surprise many that almost
Free To Be Church Logan Hagoort Last October, Free to Be Church, a group of NZ Church leaders, announced that they would be challenging the NZ government in the courts regarding religious freedom and COVID restrictions. With the implementation of the traffic light regime, things have become worse and the
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New Conservative Co-Leaders New Conservative Helen Houghton, (Christchurch) Ted Johnston, BSc BA LLB (Auckland) New Conservative wishes to sound a note of caution against vaccinating healthy children for Covid. The equation is simple: what are the benefits, and what are the risks? The risks to healthy children who catch
