ACT Party
It’s the third and final week of the Parliamentary recess and ACT has again dominated the news agenda.
We released the third of our Honest Conversations Policy Documents. This one about the Economic Recovery from COVID-19. We continued our tour of New Zealand and we took on Stuff and John Tamihere.
In the News
Economic Recovery Document
On Monday David Seymour, Brooke van Velden, Chris Baillie and James McDowall gathered at Frasers café in Mt Eden for the launch of our Economic Recovery from Covid-19 Honest Conversations document.
Around a dozen local business owners who are struggling to get staff came along in support.
Our policies included:
- Private MIQ: a safer system to bring back the workers we desperately need
- Dumping Labour’s ‘immigration reset,’ resuming pre-COVID immigration settings and unfreezing Expressions of Interest for residency
- Tackling the Zero Carbon Act, Health and Safety at Work Act, Resource
Management Act, and Employment Relations Act.
You can read all of the details here.
ACT is on the up… again
The latest Roy Morgan poll was released today, and it has ACT at the highest it’s ever been on 13 per cent! That would mean 17 MPs in Parliament. We’d like to thank you for your ongoing support as we keep growing. You can read the poll results here.
Why Stuff Is Stuffed
Stuff.co.nz was happy to run a column from John Tamihere accusing David Seymour of an “insidious, sophisticated and covert form of race-based politics” but they wouldn’t publish David’s below response because they didn’t like the “tone” of the article.
If you wonder why Stuff is stuffed and people don’t trust the media, here is the perfect example.
Thankfully Newstalk ZB and The BFD believe in free speech. You can read David’s reply to John Tamihere here.
Around the Country
David visits the farm
With rural New Zealand facing a pile on from the Labour Government, we sent David Seymour up to Mark Cameron’s farm in Ruawai for a day of hard work. ACT understands the pile on rural New Zealand is facing with a tax on utes, the Zero Carbon ACT, the so-called freshwater regulations and a land grab on Significant Natural Areas.
In a recent opinion piece in Farmers Weekly about the Groundswell protests, Alan Emerson says
The only political party to come out of the shambles with any credibility in my view was Act. Instead of grandstanding, they made the point that they were “pleased to stand alongside the horticultural and agricultural industries who kept New Zealanders fed and the economy going throughout covid”.
Interestingly, Act’s primary industry spokesperson and dairy farmer Mark Cameron has a private members bill before the House giving “environmental regulations to regional councils and not Wellington bureaucrats”.
It’s little wonder to me that David Seymour is rating above Collins as preferred prime minister.
Honest Conversations Tour
Our Honest Conversation Tour continued, this week we were in Taranaki,Northland and Gisborne. The tour will pick up again later next week in Taupo. Dates and times can be found here: https://www.act.org.nz/events
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