
16/08/2025
No accountability when the shoe is on the other foot!
Deputy Prime Minister and ACT Party leader David Seymour said the group’s refusal to publicly appear before the Commission was a change from “invading our living rooms daily” with televised briefings.
“They wielded extraordinary powers over citizens’ lives, dismissing those who questioned them as uncaring. Now they’re refusing to even show up; what a contrast,” he said.
New Zealand’s inquiry into the pandemic has ended early after Jacinda Ardern and other ministers at the time changed their mind and refused to appear.