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Tag: david seymour

Christopher Luxon Winston Peters and Jacinda Ardern photo collage
New Zealand 
January 17, 2023

A lot can still happen before the election

Posted By: Eric Lomas 36 Views 2023 New Zealand election, christopher luxon, david seymour, featured, jacinda ardern, new zealand labour party, winston peters

With Parliament in holiday, MPs around the country would have welcomed the new year at the beach, at a barbie with friends and loved

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Brooke van Velden ACT Party Austerity
New Zealand 
September 5, 2020September 5, 2020

New Zealand: ACT wants to impose the harshest austerity measures we’ve seen since Rogernomics

Posted By: Louie Encabo 892 Views ACT Party, austerity measures, brooke van velden, david seymour, featured

After the Green Party scared rational voters many weeks ago with their bizarre pronouncement that: “Tax is love”, their fringe counterpart on the opposite

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Winston Peters Jacinda Ardern Judith Collins
New Zealand 
August 28, 2020August 30, 2020

New Zealand: How should we manage our borders and quarantine facilities?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 574 Views covid-19 pandemic, david seymour, featured, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, managed isolation facilities, winston peters

With the re-emergence of COVID-19 in New Zealand, the issue of border security and managed isolation facilities has become a hot political topic. After

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New Zealand 
August 16, 2020August 16, 2020

New Zealand: Should the election be pushed back to a later date?

Posted By: Louie Encabo 474 Views 2020 new zealand elections, david seymour, featured, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, new zealand labour party, new zealand national party, winston peters

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will announce on Monday, 17th August the fate of this year’s general elections. Originally set for the 19th of September,

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ACT Party David Seymour Kenneth Wang
New Zealand 
June 16, 2019June 16, 2019

A party soul-searching: Understanding the ACT Party’s identity crisis

Posted By: Louie Encabo 724 Views ACT Party, david seymour, don brash, featured, freedom of speech, jamie whyte, kenneth wang, rodney hide

This weekend the ACT Party underwent a rebranding: a rehashing of its image, its messaging, and its brand of politics undoubtedly in preparation for

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New Zealand 
March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

Richard Prebble’s gaffe shows ACT’s true attitude on education

Posted By: Louie Encabo 734 Views ACT Party, david seymour, education in new zealand, featured, richard prebble, tomorrows schools

Education has become one of the loudest battlegrounds between the incumbent Coalition Government and the parties in Opposition, particularly as the former want to

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New Zealand 
December 16, 2017

A Heartless Cost-Cutting Measure

Posted By: Louie Encabo 629 Views ACT Party, david seymour, End of Life Choice Bill, euthanasia, featured, Louie Encabo

They say the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable people. This quote by Mahatama Gandhi

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