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David Seymour

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5 months

New Zealanders elected a government that will treat people equally, regardless of their race. The sooner the Māori Party comes to terms with that – and start providing solutions for Māori instead of divisive theatrics – the better.

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After having a laugh about it, Jacinda Ardern and I are going to auction a signed copy of the Hansard (official record) of her calling me an “arrogant prick” to raise money for pricks everywhere, a great cause, the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

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1 year

Ironically, the group who complained they were going to be the victims of violence ended up being the violent ones.

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1 year

Giving different rights to different ethnic groups is racism and every New Zealander should oppose it.

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5 months

The Māori Party gets another free pass from the media. The double standard is unbelievable.

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2 years

Siouxsie Wiles says she’s disappointed and worried we’re getting rid of some restrictions. I think she’s disappointed and worried she’s going to become irrelevant.

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5 months

Five million people living in a nanny state ❌ Letting people make their own choices ✅

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2 years

Jacinda Ardern tells Parliament we’re stopping 1,000 cases a week by keeping the border closed to all tourists another 6 weeks. We have 200,000 known active cases. Probably twice that in reality. Keeping the border closed is reducing cases by 0.25%. Complete and utter madness.

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David Seymour

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1 year

Marama Davidson can’t be an effective Minister if she can’t get basic facts about violence right and instead chooses prejudice based on skin colour. If she can’t front up with evidence for her statement about white men, she should resign.

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1 year

You have to see this to believe it. @Breakfaston1 crew shooting a doll of a politician and encouraging others to do it. Trump's not my favourite politician either, but is this the same TVNZ that's been complaining about the abuse of politicians for the last week? Insane.

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1 year

Sometimes a single moment reveals a person's true character.

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1 year

ACT will end co-governance – a policy New Zealanders weren’t consulted on. We’ll define the Treaty principles openly and democratically so all New Zealanders are equal under the law. And we’ll tell bureaucrats that treating people differently based on race is lazy and divisive.

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David Seymour

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11 months

The only racist political party in New Zealand is the Māori Party. They have no solutions and everything is about race.

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1 year

No, we don’t need a government that “gets things done”. Government is the problem. We need a government that does less so New Zealanders can do more.

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5 months

We’ve got no shortage of left-wing lobby groups in New Zealand. ACT doesn’t see why taxpayers should be forced to pay for another one in the Human Rights Commission.

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1 year

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and the Māori Party say the Labour Leader must be Māori. They’re effectively saying Hipkins isn’t good enough because of his ethnicity. The level of what used to be called racism the Māori Party peddles without penalty is astonishing and disgraceful.

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David Seymour

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5 months

ACT will stop calling the Human Rights Commission a group of left-wing activists masquerading as neutral public servants when it stops hiring left-wing activists to masquerade as neutral public servants.

Human Rights Commission appoints shared leader to honour treaty

The new partnership model aims to honour Te Tiriti, but an ACT MP says it is a "thumb to the nose" of Kiwis who voted against co-governance.

www.stuff.co.nz

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David Seymour

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4 months

I'm asked by journalists, "Do you think Māori are happy?" There's no answer to that question because about 3/4 of a million Māori New Zealanders are capable of thinking for themselves. Frankly, I'm sick and tired of people being categorised by race.

Government MPs hit back after 'moan-session' hui, say they're putting Kiwi before iwi | Newshub

"I'm deeply saddened by the description of our Government as a vessel of white supremacy."

www.newshub.co.nz

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5 months

ACT’s policy of requiring universities that receive taxpayer money to uphold free speech on campus will send a message: no more deplatforming speakers to protect students from “emotional harm”. Protect free speech or have your funding cut.

1News

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5 months

Concern plans to enshrine free speech at unis could allow hate speech

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3 months

He should be held to a very high standard for talking about shooting people, just as any other leader would. The fact that he gets a free pass for saying it in Māori on a marae points to some of the challenges we have in New Zealand.

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11 months

A recession is when your neighbour loses their job. A recovery is when Chris Hipkins loses his.

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David Seymour

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3 years

Disgraceful that an MP would tweet a phrase used by Hamas, a terrorist group that calls for the destruction of Israel.

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David Seymour

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2 years

Our once free and open nation is now an insular Hermit Kingdom, bound by what feels like creeping authoritarianism. My thoughts in the @DailyMailUK 👇

How lockdown-loving lefties turn New Zealand into a hermit kingdom

DAVID SEYMOUR: While the rest of the world moves forward, it feels like we in New Zealand are moving backwards, reduced to look on enviously as you go about your business.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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David Seymour

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8 months

It’s astonishing that Labour, Te Pāti Māori, and their allies are able to deflect and distract the media from a fundamental truth: they are the real racists.

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David Seymour

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4 months

Activist judges and unelected bureaucrats have twisted the meaning of our founding document to give different groups of people different rights. New Zealanders were never consulted on this. 🧵

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David Seymour

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2 months

Sorry, not sorry. Actions have consequences now. Every Kiwi deserves to feel safe and at peace in their own neighbourhood, so we're bringing back real incentives to discourage antisocial behaviour.

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2 months

Anyone else remember being locked in their house for months, locked out of their country, and unlawful vaccine mandates? Apparently not the former COVID-19 Minister.

Newshub Politics

@NewshubPolitics

2 months

Hipkins calls Govt 'dictatorship' for 'ramming' through law changes, advice shows it could breach international obligations

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David Seymour

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7 months

Really saddened to see this. The situation in the Middle East is appalling, but there's no place for flag burning and hatred in NZ. All NZers should be united against hate, not practicing it on Queen St. Jewish NZers have a right to be safe and not be the targets of hate.

Israel Institute of NZ

@IsraelInstNZ

7 months

Scenes in Auckland yesterday (Oct 28). These are not protests for peace. These are not protests for Palestinians. At best, these are hateful protests against Israel. And the next generation is being indoctrinated.

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1 year

Tonight’s 1News poll shows we can end Labour’s reign of woke terror, and ACT and National can win and deliver real change.

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1 year

Chris Luxon says it would be “divisive” to have a referendum to confirm that the Treaty says all Kiwis should have equal rights. What's divisive is allowing politicians, bureaucrats, and judges to push a revisionist history that creates different rights for different people.

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David Seymour

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9 months

It would make much more sense for kids to teach Labour MPs about money.

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5 months

“Fair Pay” Agreements and Ute Tax goneburger.

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7 months

Someone in New Zealand needs to condemn the actions of Hamas terrorists because we can't rely on our Foreign Minister to do so.

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1 month

The best thing you can do if you’re a student who wants to effect change in the world is show up to school and get a good education now.

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11 months

Another day, another example of government-sponsored racial discrimination.

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1 year

If Chris Hipkins thinks ACT is making co-governance divisive, he should check out what Labour's up to. It's put 17% of the population in charge of 50% of 3 Waters. Or he could stop playing politics and unite NZ under the fundamental democratic principle of one person, one vote.

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3 years

I believe it’s the person you made Prime Minister.

Winston Peters

@winstonpeters

3 years

Aucklanders needing a scheduled time slot to leave the city for xmas is simply nuts. It makes you wonder which clown is running this circus.

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1 year

The Government forcing every Auckland school to close for a week because 20 schools are flood damaged is dictatorial, impractical, and infuriating. With everything parents are facing, this last minute decision is the last thing they need... 1/2

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3 months

ACT believes every Kiwi deserves the dignity of being treated as an individual, not as a member of a racial group. The Māori Health Authority was incompatible with this belief, so we're getting rid of it.

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David Seymour

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6 months

“From the river to the sea” appears in Hamas’ 2017 constitution. Some people believe it means no Israel and even no Jewish people. UK Labour suspended an MP for using it last week. Our Jewish community lives in fear of anti-semitism. Why aren’t media asking her what she meant?

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David Seymour

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27 days

The Waitangi Tribunal has picked the wrong fight

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1 year

Meng Foon refuses to condemn racism if it comes from someone who is left-wing. Meng Foon donated money to a Labour MP while he was the (supposedly independent) Race Relations Commissioner. He's useless, he’s biased, he needs to be fired.

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2 years

In the old days, emphasising a person’s race over their other characteristics was called “racism”. Today, it’s called “Labour Party policy”.

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David Seymour

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8 months

People are sick and tired of being called racist for opposing different rights for different groups. As for Chloe, if you want to call ACT racist, you'd better come with proof.

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1 year

If the Race Relations Commissioner won’t criticise a poem/show about murdering white people, you really have to ask why that taxpayer-funded position exists.

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11 months

Treating people differently based on race is racism and every New Zealander should oppose it.

Shanan Halbert 🛥️ 🚊 🌍 🏳️‍🌈

@shananhalbert

1 year

That’s some scary stuff 🙀 @rnz_news

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David Seymour

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9 months

New Zealanders don’t want a ‘world first’ climate experiment that'll mean the government micromanages what kind of fuels they can use. Effectively banning fossil fuels is an extremely expensive way of virtue signalling to the world.

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David Seymour

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1 year

The Government should withdraw the $107,280 in taxpayer money given to a racist stage show about murdering James Cook, his descendants, and 'white men like [him] with pig hunting knives,' then apologise to the public for giving so much to racism in the first place.

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David Seymour

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10 months

Another day, another example of Te Pāti Māori’s disgusting racism, this time published on the @1NewsNZ website. When will the media start calling them out for it?

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1 year

The point of road signs is to communicate information in a language drivers understand, not to virtue signal, not to socially engineer.

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David Seymour

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7 months

Te Pāti Māori has played fast and loose with the truth. Police confirm there was no home invasion, no ram raid, and no racial motivation. They misled voters so they could smear ACT. They should apologise to victims of crime for making misleading claims so they could play victim.

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10 months

“Chemistry,” “physics,” “biology,” “atom”, “molecule”: 0 mentions. “Mātauranga”: 55 mentions. Did anyone ask you if spirituality should replace science?

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1 month

ACT stands in solidarity with the Middle East’s only democracy, Israel, as it faces another senseless attack from a brutal theocracy, this time Iran. All people who believe in humanity, non-violence, and liberal democracy should be condemning the actions of the Iranian Government

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David Seymour

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3 years

To summarise the PM’s big announcement: Auckland will go to Level 2 gradually at an unspecified timeframe. And there will be picnics.

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David Seymour

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6 months

The idea pushed by the left that New Zealanders shouldn’t debate important constitutional questions like “Does the Treaty of Waitangi guarantee citizens equal rights, regardless of race?” because a few people might try to cause trouble is uncivilised and irresponsible.

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1 year

Is anyone really watching the resignations from Labour, the infighting in the Greens, and the outbursts from the Māori Party, and thinking, “yep, I want them telling me how to live my life”? Party Vote ACT in October for real change.

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David Seymour

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1 year

Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon has criticised as racist: - Police Ten 7 - Simon Henry’s comments about Nadia Lim - An MP for getting a colleague’s ethnicity wrong Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon has not criticised as racist: - A poem about murdering white people

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David Seymour

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1 year

Tomorrow, Labour’s going to change the name of 3 Waters and they think you’ll buy it. But New Zealanders aren’t stupid. The policy will still steal assets and use co-governance. If Chris Hipkins thinks he can sell 3 Waters by changing the label, he’s got another thing coming.

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David Seymour

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3 months

Our universal humanity comes first, our race second. If the Treaty affords rights, it should afford the same rights and duties to all. In fact, that is exactly what the Treaty’s third article says.

'We don’t believe Treaty is a partnership between races' - Seymour on eve of Waitangi

David Seymour: No successful society has divided itself by race.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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David Seymour

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2 months

Kiwis just had six years of Labour throwing money at every problem and not getting results. More tax might be the solution if the problem was a lack of money, but it’s not. What we need is more effective spending, and that’s what ACT is focused on in the new coalition government.

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2 years

There’s no point in beating Labour just to babysit its policies. We can’t simply change the faces while keeping the ideas that got us here. New Zealand needs real change. That will require courage. We can’t keep avoiding difficult choices.

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1 year

The media has predictably gone berserk over Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. The reporting has totally accepted the Green Party spin that she is somehow a physical danger to people. Zero balance.

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10 months

Never a truer word spoken.

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1 year

An important message from ACT’s Māori caucus.

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David Seymour

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11 months

Labour is dividing New Zealand into two peoples with different rights. What used to be called discrimination, bigotry and prejudice is now official Labour Party policy. Only ACT will put an end to co-governance.

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13 days

There’s a culture in the Greens where they think they know it all, and the rules don’t apply to them. Now there’s a Green Party scandal almost every month with one of their MPs acting out on that culture.

Newshub Politics

@NewshubPolitics

13 days

Green Party says 'clearly unacceptable' for Genter to intimidate National counterpart

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David Seymour

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2 years

Jacinda is giving us a history of Covid in New Zealand. We all know it, we lived through it. Cut to the chase and give us the decision.

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11 months

Good. Meng Foon’s fundamental failing was that he was unable to put aside his personal politics and criticise racism from the left. The Human Rights Commission has become a left-wing activist organisation and it should be abolished.

Newshub Politics

@NewshubPolitics

11 months

Foon resigns as Race Relations Commissioner after failing to declare interests - Govt

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9 months

Giving different rights to different ethnic groups is racist and no amount of media criticism is going to stop ACT campaigning against it.

Newshub Politics

@NewshubPolitics

9 months

Seymour accused of dog-whistling to anti-co-governance supporters

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David Seymour

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2 months

Yesterday Grant Robertson gave his final speech in Parliament. Today, we learn his final quarter as Finance Minister led us into a recession. Here's my message to New Zealanders in response.

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5 months

Greenpeace and the Greens would take us back to the dark ages. We need clean natural gas as a transition fuel. The alternative is importing more coal from Indonesia. I’m proud of ACT’s role in removing this policy.

Nick Young

@nickofnz

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In Wellington today. #ClimateExtremists #ClimateCrisis #nzpol

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3 months

Museums are funded to teach, not preach, but Auckland War Memorial Museum wants to transform into a "social impact organisation" that gives away its artefacts. This is wrong.

Auckland Museum plans to shift from 'colonial museum' to 'Te Tiriti-led museum'

Museum will operate as a social impact organisation under its draft annual plan.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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1 year

Sadly, School Strike 4 Climate has unthinkingly adopted the hard left’s hatred of capitalism and is using climate change to try to permanently shift New Zealand politics to the left.

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1 year

“Teaching maths for social justice” sounds like a parody of some left-wing nonsense the Ministry of Education might do. Friends, this is not a parody.

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1 year

Bureaucrats from the Environment Ministry are lecturing New Zealanders to get out of their cars and into public transport. In 2022, staff at that department spent $1 million on flights and taxis and only $250 on public transport. Next level hypocrisy.

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David Seymour

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9 months

New Zealand will have the second worst economic growth in the world next year. (Last place goes to the African nation of Equitorial Guinea.) New Zealand desperately needs REAL change, not more of the same.

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3 months

Not a single NZ journalist will report this evidence on tobacco prohibition because it doesn’t fit their view of the world: Bhutan was the first country to ban tobacco sales. Smuggling and the black market became rampant. Tobacco use didn’t fall. And it had to reverse the ban.

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David Seymour

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1 year

Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt’s claim that white supremacy is "woven into the fabric" of New Zealand shows he is unfit for office and reinforces the need to abolish the Human Rights Commission, a left-wing activist organisation masquerading as a government department.

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8 months

Check this out. ACT MP Karen Chhour stands up for Māori who don't want the radical, divisive race-based policies Labour and the Māori Party are pushing.

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1 year

He came, he saw, he bankrupted us all.

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1 year

If we pay the Human Rights Commission $16 million a year to, among other things, “make public statements in relation to any matter that may affect or infringe human rights” and they refuse to comment on a piece of “art” about murdering white people, shouldn’t we abolish them?

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4 years

I’m the first to support free speech and protest, and to oppose abuse of police power. But this gathering is a slap in the face for every business that has restricted its operations, lost money, and laid off staff to comply with the Govt’s rules. Those rules must be removed now.

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20 days

Go Karen.

ACT New Zealand

@actparty

20 days

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.

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3 months

Don’t expect media to report a senior politician standing shoulder to shoulder with someone holding a violent slogan.

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3 months

At yesterday’s protest in Auckland. Is it a ceasefire they want or intifada? They can’t have both. And yes that does look like the Green Party co-leader in the hat.

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1 year

Herald “columnist” Shaneel Lal claimed Rainbow Youth was deliberately targeted by arsonists. The judge found the offenders weren’t motivated by malice, weren’t mentally capable, and the choice of the building was incidental. The truth doesn’t matter. The ends justify the means.

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3 years

Jacinda Ardern’s Auckland visit was even more stage-managed than we predicted. She visited just two businesses, one of which was never forced to close. She has snubbed Aucklanders.

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2 years

Do as we say, not as we do.

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2 months

More time practicing, less time on politics.

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1 year

Peak Labour bureaucracy. A well-paid Treaty job. Based in Wellington. To talk to iwi in Auckland. For a railway that doesn’t exist. Merry Christmas, taxpayers.

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1 year

Good news. The IRD accepts voluntary contributions. Problem solved. If people want to pay more tax, I can give them the IRD’s bank account number, so there’s no need for them to force their values on others.

Group of wealthy New Zealanders ask to be taxed more in open letter to Government | Newshub

Ninety-seven Kiwis have signed it.

www.newshub.co.nz

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David Seymour

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2 months

This is the co-chair of Health Coalition Aotearoa. If you followed media coverage of them commenting on school lunches, you’d believe they were politically-neutral academics. @1NewsNZ was shown this before it ran a story at 6pm quoting them, but chose not to inform its viewers.

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1 year

Our Race Relations Commissioner has refused to call a poem about murdering white people “racist”, but he did make this touching remark. Thanks, Meng.

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David Seymour

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4 months

Why would you be there? My understanding is a guy came out as a prophet of his own religious movement in the 1870s. And politicians feel a strange obligation to be there every year. I've never felt that.

David Seymour skipping Rātana 'absolute ignorance' - Opposition MPs

Opposition MPs from the Green and Labour parties have called out ACT leader David Seymour's no-show at Rātana today, saying it is a display of ignorance about the Māori world.

www.rnz.co.nz

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2 years

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3 years

Jacinda Ardern is now threatening Aucklanders with summer imprisonment? She’s either bluffing or she’s lost the plot. It’s deeply divisive and totally impractical.

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52% of people support the Govt’s public service job cuts or want the Govt to go further. 34% are opposed. That’s more than a slim majority, @1NewsNZ .

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