National Party While many families across the country will be looking forward to the summer break, the number of people on a benefit is a stark reminder that many Kiwis are struggling to make ends meet and are anxious to find work, National’s Social Development spokesperson Louise Upston says.
ACT Party “The Government’s vaccine rollout mustn’t take the same blinkered approach to the COVID-19 response it did earlier this year, which saw private facilities largely ignored, especially those who provide aged care,” says ACT Health spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “This led to unnecessary suffering in our aged
ACT party “The Government has chosen voodoo economics over proven economic realities by arbitrarily increasing the minimum wage to $20 an hour, a decision it admits could result in as many as 9000 fewer jobs being created next year,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Workplace Relations Minister Michael Wood says
ACT Party “The Prime Minister has empowered radicals who threatened to disturb the peace and rewarded them with the gift of someone else’s property,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Buying Fletcher Building out of Ihumatao has formalised Jacinda Ardern’s worst decision as Prime Minister. “It is the equivalent
National Party The Government will open a Pandora’s Box if it spends even a single cent of taxpayer money on cleaning up the mess it made at Ihumatao, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “The Ihumatao situation is a problem of Jacinda Ardern’s own making, and taxpayers
ACT Party “It should shock people that a managed isolation booking system was developed that allowed people to book more rooms than they need, leaving multiple rooms empty while New Zealanders are desperate to return home,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “But actually it won’t surprise anyone, so used
ACT Party “Reports that the Cabinet will today rubber stamp the Government buying Fletcher Building out of Ihumatao is a terrible step toward formalising Jacinda Ardern’s worst decision as Prime Minister,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If you own land and someone squats on it, the Prime Minister won’
ACT Party “Labour’s failure to ease the housing crisis is creating a new aristocracy,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The national median house price hit $749,000 in November, 41.3 percent higher than when Labour took office. “This is the greatest transfer of wealth from poor to rich
ACT Party “News that a travel bubble with Australia won’t happen until well into next year is a sad but not surprising indictment on the approach Jacinda Ardern has taken to the issue since it was first mooted,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Jacinda Ardern is a can’t
ACT Party “The Government needs to come back to the table for a proper and honest discussion about solutions to rural New Zealand, starting with what are clearly unworkable freshwater rules,” says ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “We have a string of examples of how the Labour Government just
ACT Party “Jacinda Ardern risks making New Zealand the East Berlin of Australasia, preventing families from seeing their Aussie relatives this Christmas for no good reason,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “News that Western Australia’s border is finally opening to Victoria and New South Wales must surely provide impetus
Jane Healy Communications Manager Auckland Zoo Auckland Zoo and the Motuihe Trust are working together to return one of the world’s heaviest and most spectacular insects, Aotearoa’s unique giant weta the wetapunga, to Te Motu-a-Ihenga (Motuihe Island) in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. While the COVID-19 lockdown prevented a
ACT Party “Today’s climate emergency was a triumph for post-rational politics with feelings rather than facts driving the Government’s response to climate change,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “If the Government has a sound climate change policy, it doesn’t need to declare an emergency. If it has
ACT Party “Labour’s decision to double sick leave shows it is using COVID-19 as an excuse to advance a left-wing agenda and help its union mates,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “So far, only 2,000 people in New Zealand have had COVID-19. Labour believes that giving 2.7
ACT Party “It is disturbing to learn that evidence from senior public servants to the Royal Commission into the Christchurch mosque attacks will be withheld in full,” says ACT Justice and Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Firstly, this was not the impression given in statements from the Commission in
ACT Party “Labour has gone ‘hard and early’ to support local growers, which means it’s allowing them access to Pacific workers two months into the horticultural season,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today’s move should be welcomed, but it’s too late for some businesses. “Labour is willing
