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Thank you Bjorn Lomborg for your insights - how to get the most benefit by investing in Best Things First. ACT was chuffed to host Bjorn and Roland from Copenhagen Consensus Centre at Parliament this week, to present to around 80 guests. BCR key to good decision making!
Great chat and good company.
Thank you @Pillar_NZ Nathan and Nick for asking great questions about how we got here, the problems we face and how to unlock New Zealand's potential.
Simon Court on Cutting Red Tape, Getting Tough on Crime & Rebuilding New Zealand | EP 055
Is government the biggest roadblock to New Zealand's success?
ACT MP Simon Court joins PILLAR for a conversation on red tape, property rights, crime, welfare reform, and what's holding New Zealand's economy back.
From the RMA and infrastructure to civil liberties, homelessness, and ACT's vision for the country, we get into the policies, the politics, and what's at stake this election.
Less red tape. More freedom. What's the plan?
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Cut the Waste, Grow the Country.
ACT's Fiscal Plan is an honest, credible pathway to less debt, with targeted tax relief.
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ACT Ministers cut $14 billion in wasteful spending, because your money should be treated with respect.
We dig minerals out of the ground overseas, ship them halfway around the world, then use them to build things here.
But try digging them up in NZ and Wellington throws the rulebook at you.
That's bloody nuts.
Today I announced ACT's plan to:
⛏️ Scrap duplicate mining consents
⚡ Keep oil and gas exploration open.
🏗️ Protect property rights and investment from political U-turns.
🌲 Set clear environmental standards and make operators pay for their impacts.
Let's get drilling and digging
Young New Zealanders look across the Tasman and ask, "Why stay here when I can earn so much more over there?"
Australian wages are higher for a few reasons, but a big one is that they're allowed to dig for their wealth.
Today @actparty releases its policy to unlock New Zealand's mineral and energy potential. It's a pathway to higher-paying jobs.
We would make it easier to responsibly develop resources by cutting duplicated approval processes, keeping New Zealand open for exploration, strengthening property rights and investment certainty, and setting clear environmental standards that operators, not taxpayers, are responsible for meeting.
New Zealand has minerals needed for roads, homes, power lines, phones, batteries and modern technology. There is huge demand for them.
If we do not allow Kiwis to meet that demand, other countries will. And they will happily snatch some of our brightest young workers to do the work.
Unlocking New Zealand’s mineral wealth is really about unlocking reasons to stay in New Zealand.
It means restoring hope for people looking to build livelihoods and families here, in a country that says yes to wealth-generating projects and creates jobs that pay accordingly.
Three years ago today, Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel and murdered, raped and kidnapped innocent civilians.
October 7 was not legitimate resistance. It was a terrorist massacre.
Today Labour’s Vanushi Walters chooses to promote recognising Palestine and sanctioning Israel.
Making Israel the target of your political message on the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is extraordinarily callous.
Charity unlocked.
.@actparty will remove the $33,333 cap on tax refunds for charitable donations. New Zealanders who want to give generously to good causes should be encouraged, not held back by the tax system.
ACT will stop spiritual claims stopping homes and infrastructure.
ACT is pledging to ban religious or spiritual observances from resource consent conditions, arguing New Zealand’s planning system should deal with measurable effects rather than spiritual beliefs. chrislynchmedia.com/news-ite…
Kiwis shouldn’t have to perform or pay for religious or spiritual ceremonies to get a consent.
Planning law should protect legal rights and regulate measurable effects — not spiritual beliefs.
Protect what’s real. Measure what matters. Leave spirituality out of Infrastructure.
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Fact check: Andrea Vance suggests David Seymour, as Minister responsible for Pharmac, tried to dictate what cancer drugs were funded.
She's thinking of National, who campaigned on funding drugs of their choice, instead of those independently prioritised by Pharmac.
David protected Pharmac's independence and delivered a record funding uplift, including for cancer medicines.