Blocking access to spaces based on ethnicity has an ugly past and has no future in New Zealand.
@AucklandUni
and any others with segregated spaces owe an explanation to the Kiwis who pay their bills.
In 2022 a man who punched a pregnant woman unconscious was let out on home detention, because a cultural background report found he hadn’t been properly introduced to his whakapapa. The woman he punched was pregnant with the man’s seventeenth child.
Finally, the scales of justice
We just saved you $107 million on school lunches.
Despite the shrieking from the left, we’re not cancelling the programme.
We'll be doing more with less money to feed kids the fruit and sandwiches their parents would, not woke food like quinoa and sushi.
Bon appétit.
There’s a sinister side to School Strike 4 Climate.
Some students argue it’s not a day off, it’s about saving their lives. They HAVE to take a day off school because, in the words of one child, “I am literally [sic] going to die from climate change.”
One day we'll look back at
The Reserve Bank is advertising for a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion adviser.
This will not help to lower inflation. It is inconsistent with the Bank's single mandate to focus on price stability.
Asking kids who don't pay rates, rent, or water bills to elect local councillors was always a dumb idea. Democracy works best when voters have skin in the game.
"The idea that the pressures of Parliament drive people to bad behaviour, that mental health challenges are an explanation for that behaviour, or that we should hold women of colour to lower standards is offensive."
-ACT MP Karen Chhour
“Today’s discharge without conviction is a tragedy for women,” says ACT MP Laura Trask.
“A 71 year old woman attending a women’s rights event was physically attacked by a man who thought his political opinion trumped her right to safety. Using violence to suppress opinions you
ACT MP Mark Cameron responds to cancellations and protests of ANZAC Day commemorations in Wellington:
"How bloody lucky I am to live in rural New Zealand. Today's very well-attended dawn service in Dargaville was a perfect, dignified commemoration of the courage of the ANZACs.
BREAKING: Karen Chhour wins in the High Court against the Waitangi Tribunal.
Karen, as Children’s Minister, is repealing section 7AA so Oranga Tamariki’s whole focus is on the wellbeing of children, not their race.
"Anti-extremist" campaigner must be sacked
The director of an anti-extremism centre, appointed by Jacinda Ardern, has called the new Government a ‘death cult’ that ‘hates children’.
Dr Joanna Kidman made the comments in response to David Seymour looking for savings in the
We don't pay public servants to prop up the Wellington hospitality scene. We pay them to deliver vital public services, with the knowledge that every dollar spent comes from the pocket of a taxpayer.
One of the reasons Wellington has a fantastic hospitality scene and entertainment is because public servants have traditionally had more disposable income to put into the local economy which has a stimulatory effect. It means more eateries, it means more places to buy things
Sad to have to report that left-wing Twitter users do not understand the difference between free speech and the taxpayer being forced to fund racist "art".
Interesting that Stuff reports on Tusiata Avia defending her $60,000 poetry award, but doesn't include an example of the poetry in question.
Here's a sample. Do you think this deserves taxpayer funding?
As promised in our coalition agreement: owners of electric vehicles will start paying road user charges from 1 April. This ensures costs of maintaining our roads are shared fairly among all drivers.
A new annual tradition began in Parliament today, with Mark Cameron winning special permission for rural MPs to wear gumboots in a show of solidarity with farmers.
HRC hijacked by radicals, disband it
“While Kiwi households and government departments are tightening their budgets, the Human Rights Commission is throwing its $15 million budget at left-wing activism – the latest being a campaign for a divisive constitution,” says ACT Justice
ACT congratulates Wayne Brown on review of woke procurement
“The Auckland Mayor’s move to review woke procurement policies should prompt other councils – and central government – to do the same,” says ACT Local Government spokesman Cameron Luxton.
“ACT believes the purpose of
The MAPAS scheme, which sets aside 30 percent of medical school places for Māori and Pacific students, is an example of racial discrimination, says
@dbseymour
.
The Māori Party is sharing a series of Instagram posts on "How to train your Pākehā".
Waiting for
@NZHumanRights
and the media to condemn this as dehumanising and divisive... ⏲️
ACT celebrates as hate speech law halted
“ACT is proud to have played a principled role in defending freedom of expression in New Zealand,” says ACT Justice spokesman Todd Stephenson in response to the Justice Minister’s instruction to the Law Commission to halt work on hate
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@dbseymour
's State of the Nation 2024:
One day our new Government will be judged. It could be viewed as midwife to another reborn New Zealand, stronger and freer again. Or, it could turn out to be spectator to ongoing decline until another government takes us somewhere else
Education should be prioritised ahead of protesting
Students should be in school and learning instead of protesting during school hours, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says.
“If students feel strongly about sending a message, they could have marched on Tuesday when
Russel Norman and Greenpeace are now campaigning against our Treaty Principles Bill. That's because they like to use Treaty principles to justify their political agenda.
By restoring the integrity of Te Tiriti, we can stop it from being exploited by political actors like these.
Just two days after the Treaty display was vandalised, Te Papa leadership agreed to meet with the vandals for their input on how to update the exhibit. 🤯
What a bizarre capitulation to criminal behaviour.
Why is TVNZ’s youth platform promoting (and the "content partner" for) an event featuring past and present Māori Party MPs that will “debunk colonial narratives, examine the implications of Tiriti mythmaking and discuss how sovereignty was never ceded”?
Will it also join with
The repeal of Three Waters is symbolic of a broader change in New Zealand's political direction, away from the centralising instincts of Labour and back toward empowering local communities.
"What an incredible disrespect to the fallen servicemen for whom the museum is named, who laid their lives down for the Crown and colonial institutions like our Parliamentary democracy."
BREAKING: The Misuse of Drugs (Pseudoephedrine) Amendment Bill has just passed unanimously.
Effective cold and flu medicine is coming back to a pharmacy near you.
Here's a Te Pāti Māori MP saying Karen Chhour wants to "exterminate Māori" because she's directing Oranga Tamariki to focus on children's individual needs over their race.
Te Pāti Māori wants to tear society apart along racial lines. ACT believes we are all united by our
So my tax cut comes from National making cigarettes more widely available, harming lungs and then this govt’s policies will yank their health services because they ‘chose’ to smoke? Wow, you new libs really know how to put a country on its feet.
The experiment of being nice to gangs in the hope they'll be nice back to us is over. Gang membership is now being made an aggravating factor at sentencing.
“Combine voting at 16 with civics delivered by left-wing teacher unionists and you’ve got a recipe for cultural revolution, pitting indoctrinated socialist youth against the parents and taxpayers who pay their bills.”
When will the Greens release their report on Darleen Tana? They said it would take 2-4 weeks; it's now been an 8 week taxpayer-funded holiday. $25k and counting...
This morning Genesis Energy announced that it would resume coal imports to stockpile 350,000 tonnes due to lack of gas supply.
Wonder if this could have anything to do with Labour’s oil and gas ban?
In December last year the Human Rights Commission attracted some criticism when it appointed Julia Whaipooti as a “shared leader” to work alongside Meg de Ronde who was the other “shared leader/Chief Executive”.
At the time the Commission described this as “part of the
“Firearm owners are sick of being blamed for something they didn’t do. ... They feel as if their private property rights have been taken away and that they are being treated no better than gang members."
-Nicole McKee
.
@toddmstephenson
asked the Human Rights Commission whether they ever think about the rights of victims of crime. Their response was to tell him off for using the word "victim"!
Auckland War Memorial Museum wants to transform into a "tikanga-led" "social impact organisation" that will "disrupt colonial structures".
Mark Cameron responds:
ACT COALITION WIN: The Government today announced changes to the Sentencing Act 2002 that will make gang membership an aggravating factor during sentencing
The Court of Appeal’s ruling against the Defence Force’s vaccination mandate demonstrates the need to open up the independent Covid inquiry.
All New Zealanders were affected by the previous government’s Covid response, and we shouldn’t have to rely on ad hoc challenges in the
Consequences for unruly Kāinga Ora neighbours long overdue
“ACT is welcoming the Housing Minister’s instruction to Kāinga Ora to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against repeated antisocial behaviour – a commitment secured in our coalition
ACT auditing “safe space” policies at universities and polytechnics
“Today I wrote to each New Zealand university and polytechnic to determine their commitment to an inclusive education,” says ACT Tertiary Education and Skills spokesperson Dr Parmjeet Parmar.
“There is a reason
New Zealand is making incredible, world-leading progress towards a smokefree future. We're on track to achieve our goals without the nanny state prohibition pushed by the previous government.
“There are many state schools which, I suspect, would be very happy to move to a model where they received their money in return for reaching performance targets, and are given much greater autonomy and much less interference from the state.”
Whether a politician has children or not isn’t relevant.
@Breakfaston1
wouldn’t say it about a female MP - why is it appropriate when talking about a male MP?
"The Māori Party's narrow-minded view that we only exist as Māori and Pākehā in New Zealand is damaging and disappointing. When they stand and claim to speak for Māori, I can guarantee you it is not for Māori like me, who dare to have a different view."
Ministry bosses must not thwart coalition agreements
“We cannot allow a public service boss to deliberately thwart a coalition policy,” says ACT Public Service spokesman
@toddmstephenson
.
“Ministry of Disabled People chief executive Paula Tesoriero has reportedly emailed all
ACT's vision is a society that honours the Treaty as our founding document. Its principles should be defined to reflect what it says: That we all have the same rights and duties, we all have tino rangatiratanga.
1/10 A number of people who don't read poetry have pronounced Tusiata Avia a bad poet. How can we judge for ourselves? Back in the days when I used to edit literary publications, & often had loads of poems to accept or reject, I had two tests. I think Avia passes both.
ACT is committed to going after the gangs, not treating law abiding firearm owners like criminals. The previous government couldn’t seem to tell the difference.
Willie Jackson claims ACT's opposition to the 'partnership' interpretation of the Treaty "dismisses every credible opinion ... and every National and Labour Prime Minister since 1987".
He needs to check his history. Here's what the late David Lange had to say:
Art centre got $25m in handouts - it's now struggling for visitors
“The Hundertwasser Art Centre is a cautionary tale for politicians who believe they can spend money better than the people who earned it – and governments need to start resisting calls for corporate welfare if
“The saga of a Kaitaia couple run off their own land by illegal occupiers is a travesty that should never be allowed to happen again, anywhere in New Zealand,” says Northland-based ACT MP Mark Cameron.
“Cecil Williams first reached out to me last year in utter frustration and
The culture of extravagance in the public service needs to end. Under this government we expect the public service will start thinking about how it is serving taxpayers again, rather than itself.
Today Hon Nicole McKee announced the Government's intent to reintroduce a refined and improved Three Strikes regime to target repeat violent and sexual offenders, and prevent victimisation.
Greens’ rent control demand is economically illiterate
“The Green Party's calls for rent control are economically illiterate,” says ACT Housing spokesman Cameron Luxton.
“Rent control has been a disaster wherever it is tried. One economist famously described rent controls as
Every child growing up in New Zealand deserves the same respect and dignity, no matter who their ancestors were. That's what the Treaty Principles Bill is about.
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"ACT understands the true cost of taxpayer money being spent on the arts. Every dollar allocated to the arts is a dollar that can't be spent on education, health, infrastructure, or returned to taxpayers to spend on the things they value.
"Given the dire state of our books, it's
Bureaucratic harassment of bar owners must stop
“The tactics deployed by public officials against bars in Wellington is akin to harassment, and needs to stop,” says ACT Small Business spokesperson Laura Trask.
“The case of Saint Diablo, a Courtenay Place bar that was forced to
An email from Ministry for Primary Industries boss to staff: "Today we will commence consultation on proposals to reduce our staff numbers by an estimated 9%..."
@the_postnz
Anyone incarcerated by Three Strikes will be so due to their having committed multiple serious violent or sexual offences. Why would you want them in our communities?
Great news: As of today, Kiwis can finally have a say on what gets investigated by the official Covid-19 response inquiry.
Submissions close on 24 March, so make yourself heard at
This commitment has been delivered as part of ACT's coalition agreement.