How can my voice be heard?
By ACT’s candidate for Mt Roskill, Chris Johnston, who has outlined above, what principles and policies ACT stands for. Chris is a Project Manager who was born in Whanganui and has lived around Mt Roskill and Dominion Road for eight years with his wife and children.
This week is your chance to elect the management team to take us out of this economic hole. Using your Party Vote for ACT, gives you a far bigger voice in Parliament with more ACT MPs demanding more accountability. ACT is the party that will hold all of the others accountable. That’s why we need your party vote.
Your candidate vote can register your voice on community, moral, and protest issues. Your party vote is too important to waste because it will determine the next government. Use your party vote for ACT so that we can hold all parties accountable.
Covid’s been tough
Some people have prospered through 2020. We admire the entrepreneurs and innovators who have made the best of this time. For others, the impacts have been severe. Whichever way this year has affected you, we all need a better public health response. We have to accept this virus may not be going anywhere for some time and get smarter about how we adapt. We need to maintain elimination with no more lockdowns and safely reconnect with the rest of the world.
ACT’s approach
ACT has led the debate for New Zealand to become Taiwan-smart about COVID. It means a dedicated Epidemic Response Unit instead of an over-extended Ministry of Health. It means government sets and enforces clear rules of the game for the private sector to get on with it. It means managing risk appropriately, working with the private sector to use better technology, and comparing our response with the best, not scaring the people with comparisons to the worst.
The debt
Politicians need to live within the same rules as everyone else. Many households and businesses have had to cut out waste. The government needs to do the same, but Treasury now forecasts 15 years of deficits on current policy. Every other party is treating the election as a bidding war with borrowed money. ACT’s interactive DebtDestroyer.nz puts the choices to balance the budget in front of you.
The opportunity
Our isolation has often been considered our biggest drawback as a country. Being an island nation on a pandemic planet could now be our biggest strength, if we welcome investment and innovation. At the moment, we are a country where it takes nine years to get consent to take water out of our biggest river for Auckland. ACT’s plan for the economy shows how tax and regulatory reform could unleash a private sector led recovery.
And so much more
ACT’s mental health policy has been widely praised, from sources that often criticise. Our small and medium business policy reaches the forgotten engine room of our economy that was swept aside in the lockdowns. When the Royal Commission reports on the causes of our nation’s tragedy in Christchurch, it will be necessary to remake our firearm laws into the best in the world again. ACT will always stand for free speech. We also have the clearest solutions for infrastructure so the next generation can build homes like the boomers did.
ACT has momentum
People from all walks of life are flocking to ACT with their party vote. They want to elect a genuinely independent team to hold all the others accountable.
How good Is ACT’s team?
The more that people find out about ACT’s team, the more they find to like. If you’re interested in our top candidates, please take a moment to check them out at act.org.nz/candidates. We have been preparing for 18 months. Among them are more business owners, lawyers, engineers, former police officers, and teachers. It is the highest quality team any party is fielding.
We trust you
Only a party vote for ACT will change your future. Thank you for reading this column over the past 12 weeks, and we hope to have the opportunity to represent your voice loudly and proudly in Parliament. You deserve it.
