Press Releases

“Labour’s claim that taxpayers would be worse off under ACT’s alternative budget is either financially illiterate or dishonest, because they ignored ACT’s generous tax cuts for working families,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.

“Newshub’s revelation that a condescending campaign for five-minute showers will cost $2.8 million shows Wellington bureaucrats don’t live in the real world and EECA should be scrapped altogether, as proposed in ACT’s alternative budget last week”, says ACT’s Climate Change Spokesperson Simon Court.

The agency, EECA receives $79 million from the taxpayer each year to ‘promote’ energy efficiency, but its main ‘jobs’ are giving unnecessary handouts and lecturing New Zealanders about taking shorter showers.

ACT New Zealand Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden welcomed National Party Leader Christopher Luxon’s admission that National ’got MDRS (housing density) wrong’.

“Labour is launching a nationwide campaign to lecture people to have shorter showers on the same day its reckless economic policies have added $2,500 to a half million dollar mortgage over the next two years”, says ACT Leader David Seymour.

“Reckless and irresponsible Robertson just cost a family with a half-million mortgage $2,500 over the next two years,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.

“The country is waiting nervously for today’s OCR announcement, which is going to be bad, terrible or disastrous,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Because this Government can’t control its spending, it’s not a question of “if” we’re going to feel more pain, it’s a matter of when.”

"In response to a question from ACT’s Police spokesperson Chris Baillie, the Government has been forced to reveal that assaults on police have more than tripled since Labour was elected. Assaults (excluding spitting) have gone from 307 a year in 2017 to 1001 in 2022. That’s nearly three a day! In total, since Labour was elected there have been 11,300 assaults on police."

“Following last week’s blowout budget, the question around tomorrow’s OCR decision is whether Adrian Orr hikes it by 25 points or 50. If Grant Robertson had shown the slightest degree of fiscal competency and reigned in his spending there wouldn’t be a need for any hike,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.

“Children are being taken out of safe, loving foster homes because their foster parents are the ‘wrong’ race”, says ACT Spokesperson for Children Karen Chhour.

The Haps ACT’s annual rally, Real Change Now, is selling fast. With just under two weeks to go, please get your tickets here. Meanwhile ACT has stood out as the only party giving a clear alternative to Grant Robertson’s insane budget blow out. More on that to come.

“Prime Minister Chris Hipkins appears to be confused about which country he’s leading,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. In recent weeks his government has spent $10,000 advertising in Australia to promote the benefits of living there and given highly two highly profitable Aussie companies a massive corporate handout.