“Labour’s plan to introduce a capital gains tax by stealth vindicates ACT’s opposition to the brightline test”, says David Seymour. “Grant Robertson has asked Treasury to investigate a range of tax options, including extending the brightline test beyond five years. “ACT predicted this. When National introduced the brightline
Auckland Zoo has made the heart-breaking decision to move its two female Asian elephants Burma and Anjalee to a new home – to give them both the family herd they need for their long-term wellbeing. “In 2011, Auckland Zoo with the support of Auckland Council, committed to building a sustainable elephant
ACT Party ACT’s Firearms Reform Spokesperson Nicole McKee is calling on the Government to release the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terrorist attacks next week. “According to the Commissioners, the report has been finished, will be delivered to the Government next week, and no
ACT Party “The Australian Government is going all out to pinch our workers, while our Government won’t lift a finger to support industry,” says ACT’s Primary Industries Spokesperson Mark Cameron. “Kiwis are being promised $2,000 if they complete six weeks’ harvesting in Australia’s regions. Meanwhile, our
ACT Party “The Police Association is naïve if it believes a firearms register will stop gang violence”, says ACT’s Firearms Reform Spokesperson Nicole McKee. “A person who shoots at a police officer, or anyone for that matter, is scum. Gangs and criminals didn’t hand in their firearms during
ACT Party “Nanaia Mahuta should apologise for COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins calling Taiwan an ‘authoritarian regime’”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Taiwanese fought their way from dictatorship to democracy. Far from a place of oppression, Taiwan tolerates dissent. In 2014, students occupied Taiwan’s parliament, a move Hipkins
ACT Party “Labour blamed the housing crisis on foreigners and the tax system, but its excuses are evaporating, and now it has no idea how to solve the problem,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “According to Labour, people with Chinese sounding names were to blame, but experts have found the
Chris Hipkins Masks will need to be worn on all public transport in Auckland and in and out of Auckland and on domestic flights throughout the country from this Thursday, Minister for COVID-19 Response Chris Hipkins said today. “I will be issuing an Order under the COVID-19 Response Act requiring
covidplanb.co.nz Covid Plan B has welcomed the Government’s decision not to over-react to cases of people testing positive to COVID-19 by starting another lockdown. Simon Thornley, spokesperson for the group, says the Government appears to finally be adapting its strategy to new information about ineffectiveness of lockdowns
ACT Party “The latest Covid community case is more evidence that the Government runs on smiles and slogans,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “How is it that a financially struggling media which operates on the smell of an oily rag was able to alert people at The Vincent Residences there
ACT Party “Aucklanders will be asking whether the Government is upholding its end of the COVID-19 bargain,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “New arrivals at the MIQ facility at the Grand Millennium were seen on Monday mixing and mingling with people from The Vincent Residences.“Several hundred people from both
ACT Party Three days after the full representation rule brought an additional Maori Party MP into Parliament, Jacinda Ardern wants to get rid of it. “Election rules should be changed rarely, and only for good reason. Labour has no good reason to change the election rules other than its own
ACT Party “The Government’s Covid-19 response is like Mickey Mouse playing Russian roulette blindfolded,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Continued basic errors in MIQ facilities, poor contact tracing, and a lack of coordination between health agencies mean we risk another community outbreak. A person who was in the same
ACT Party “There’s nothing sadder than someone who tries being knocked back by others’ needless restrictions, as is the case with Brett Heap,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Brett Heap is a pioneer of the horticulture industry. His courgettes are rotting on the ground because he can’t get
Press Release: New Conservative News came out this week that a shearer was given a 16-month prison sentence for killing a lamb because it frustrated him while shearing it. Christopher Tredinnick received the sentence in Cromwell this week, according to the New Zealand Herald. Meanwhile, only a few months earlier,
Press Release: National Party If Labour has a spare billion dollars up its sleeve – and that’s a big if – then that money should be spent on creating jobs rather than growing benefits, National’s Social Development spokesperson Louise Upston says. “Our focus right now should be growing the economy
