• 14 June, 2022

    ACT agrees with Helen White - time for action on rising crime

    “The ACT Party this morning gives its full support to Labour list MP Helen White as she highlights how out of control crime has become under the Labour Government,” says ACT’s Police spokesperson Chris Baillie....

  • 14 June, 2022

    Police Minister admits failure, PM can't

    “The Prime Minister’s refusal to admit the Government failed to increase Police numbers by the promised 1800 is yet another example of failure to deliver covered up by spin, says ACT’s Police spokesperson Chris Baillie....

  • 14 June, 2022

    Labour-National housing bill returned without amendment

    “The Committee charged with examining the Labour-National housing bill has returned it without amendment because it didn’t have time to fix its many flaws,” says ACT Leader David Seymour....

  • 14 June, 2022

    Gen Less continuing to Cost More

    “After revealing last year that taxpayers’ forked out $600,000 for a 30 second compilation of file photos as part of the Right Side of History campaign, ACT has now discovered that the campaign’s cost to taxpayers far exceeds this, with...

  • 14 June, 2022

    David Seymour, Speech to Milford Rotary Club

    Thank you very much for hosting me at Milford Rotary again. Every time I speak at Rotary I thank you for what you’ve done to polio around the world. My mother was born in April 1956, five months before the...

  • 14 June, 2022

    Govt fighting phoney war against Omicron

    “As Omicron cases pile up at the border and the whole spectrum of commentators from the blasé to the catastrophists say we’re gonna get it, the Government is fighting a phoney war. Book My Vaccine is still not set up...

  • 14 June, 2022

    Resurgence payment should be weekly

    “The Government’s resurgence payment announcement will barely touch the sides for most businesses and more needs to be done,” says ACT’s Small Business spokesperson Chris Baillie....

  • 14 June, 2022

    More questions than answers from 1pm presser

    “The Prime Minister’s 1pm announcement brought good news about the situation but also questions about the Government’s response,” says ACT Leader David Seymour....

  • 14 June, 2022

    What Else Did Ashley Forget?

    “Ashley Bloomfield’s admission that he just forgot he’d been texting the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade about the UN worker from Fiji shows an official being economical with the truth,” says ACT Leader David Seymour...

  • 14 June, 2022

    Government shrugs its shoulders over lending rules

    “Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister David Clark has shown how out of his depth he is once again – this time on the Credit Contract and Consumer Finance Act,” says ACT’s Associate Finance spokesperson Damien Smith....

  • 14 June, 2022

    Calls for compulsion become compelling

    “It was a huge reveal in Parliament today when the Prime Minister admitted that none of the three community cases that led to the latest Auckland lockdown had been using the official NZ Covid Tracer app at all,” says ACT...

  • 14 June, 2022

    Government adopts ACT language – should adopt ACT policy

    “Chris Hipkins’ adoption of ACT’s language of continuous improvement in announcing his latest COVID-19 review shows the impact of effective opposition,” says ACT Leader David Seymour....