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ACT’s Protect Free Speech Petition Reaches 10,000 Signatures

ACT’s Protect Free Speech Petition Reaches 10,000 Signatures

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT’s petition to protect the free speech of New Zealanders and oppose the Government’s proposed hate speech laws on Saturday reached 10,000 signatures,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “Our ACT caucus has been travelling the country with our Free Speech Tour.

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Firearms Licencing Still Taking Too Long

ACT Party ACT’s Fair Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Thousands of New Zealand shooters could still miss out on duck shooting season because of unacceptable delays in processing firearms licencing applications,” says ACT’s Fair Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Police put out a press release this

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ACT’s Risk Based COVID Approach Finally Adopted
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ACT’s Risk Based COVID Approach Finally Adopted

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “A risk-based approach for overseas arrivals is what ACT has been calling for since August last year”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “In ACT’s Response Plan we call for ‘Risk management: it should aim to be a world leader on risk management, with

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Local Government Needs to Get Back to Basics
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Local Government Needs to Get Back to Basics

ACT Party ACT’s Local Government spokesperson Simon Court. “The review from Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta completely misses the mark of what is important to ratepayers,” says ACT’s Local Government spokesperson Simon Court. “Our communities want their councils to get back to the basics. Water, rubbish, housing and

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Christopher Luxon – Review an Opportunity to Strengthen Local Govt
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Christopher Luxon – Review an Opportunity to Strengthen Local Govt

A review of local government is timely and necessary but it must not become the latest plank in the Labour Government’s centralisation agenda, National’s Local Government spokesperson Christopher Luxon says. “National supports the Future of Local Government review announced today. “The framework of considering what local government does,

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Nicola Willis – Emergency Motels Making Millions and Set to Grow

Nicola Willis – Emergency Motels Making Millions and Set to Grow

New figures show the multi-million dollars being netted by top-earning emergency motels with the Government expecting this to continue for at least the next few years, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “Emergency Housing should be about getting people back on their feet and into stable housing as soon

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Labour Wrong to Limit Where Kids Can Go to School

Labour Wrong to Limit Where Kids Can Go to School

Proposed changes to the Education and Training Act 2020 are part of an ongoing attack on school choice by Labour, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Labour is hell-bent on a one-size-fits-all approach to our education system.” The Government is proposing to deprioritise children and siblings of former students

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How Much Power Is Robertson Trying to Grab Now?
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How Much Power Is Robertson Trying to Grab Now?

The Finance Minister needs to give New Zealanders peace of mind that the new powers he’s proposing to give himself over bank lending won’t over-reach into retail banking, National’s Finance spokesperson Andrew Bayly says. “The Finance Minister needs to reveal the full details of what he’s

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Deposit Insurance Is Moral Hazard Madness

Deposit Insurance Is Moral Hazard Madness

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The Government’s deposit insurance scheme is the kind of moral hazard madness that led to the GFC,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This is the socialisation of banking. “The Minister of Finance is saying 93 percent of bank customers don’t care about

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Time to Decolonise the Cook Islands, Jacinda
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Time to Decolonise the Cook Islands, Jacinda

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Jacinda Ardern’s paternalism and colonialism of the Cook Islands has gone too far as she’s stopped it from unilaterally being able to open its border,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “There is no threat to New Zealand, there is no entry point

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Radical Govt Continues Push for Co-governance

Radical Govt Continues Push for Co-governance

ACT Party ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “The creation of a Maori Health Authority with a veto over national health plans shows Jacinda Ardern’s Government is much more radical than Helen Clark’s was,” says ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “The Government’s health review Cabinet paper

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Brash: Separatism No Prescription for Health Woes
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Brash: Separatism No Prescription for Health Woes

Hobson’s Pledge Trust Don Brash Another layer of separatist health delivery offers no rational prescription for Maori sickness and disability, Hobson’s Pledge spokesman Don Brash said yesterday. Today, Health Minister Andrew Little and Maori Health Associate Minister Peeni Henare announced a revamp that replaces 20 district health boards

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