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Speech: Brash - Freedom To Build
Monday, 14 November 2011, 2:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
Freedom To Build – Housing For The Next Generation Speech by ACT Leader Don Brash ACT New Zealand Housing Policy Launch; North Shore, Auckland; Monday, November 14, 2011 More >>
ACT: The Right Partner for the John Key Government
Sunday, 13 November 2011, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
Ladies and gentlemen, New Zealand needs ACT! New Zealand’s a wonderful country. We live in a country which is bigger than Britain, with more natural resources per person than almost any other country on Earth. A country which has more fresh water ... More >>
Act Newsletter Nov 11
Friday, 11 November 2011, 8:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
Lifting Our Sights Issue Eleven: A meeting with Prime Minister John Key and John Banks. More >>
Unimaginative Policy Treats Children as Numbers
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 8:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour’s Education Policy continues a theme of treating children as numbers instead of individuals, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman David Seymour said today. More >>
Labour’s Policy Will Only Benefit Liquor Companies
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 5:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour’s plans to set a minimum price for alcohol will divert millions of dollars to liquor companies and bars at the expense of consumers, and raises the question who is behind Labour’s decision to help out big business at the expense of consumers? ... More >>
Brash Announces ACT’s Rural Policy
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 2:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
Today at Hamilton’s Kingsgate Hotel, ACT Leader Dr Don Brash announced the party’s Rural Policy to boost New Zealand’s productive primary sector by reducing taxes, cutting bureaucracy, keeping agriculture out of the ETS, and tackling rural crime. More >>
ETS U-turn Shows Why ACT Needed
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 4:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
National’s announcement that it will effectively exempt agriculture from liability for biological emissions under the Emissions Trading Scheme appears to be a step in the right direction, but it is also an admission that the ETS was an expensive ... More >>
Aussie Exodus Shows 2025 Taskforce Recommendations Necessary
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 2:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
Wednesday, November 9 2011 The mass exodus of New Zealanders to Australia - which has reached a record high - is an indictment of National’s decision to completely dismiss the findings of the 2025 Taskforce, whose proposals would have helped close ... More >>
Speech: Brash - One Law For All?
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 2:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
One Law For All? Speech by ACT Leader Don Brash Tauranga; Wednesday, November 9 2011 More >>
Opening the doors for increased ex-pat investment
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 1:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
Opening the doors for increased ex-pat investment Press Release by ACT New Zealand Labour Spokesman Chris Simmons Wednesday, November 9 2011 More >>
Stephen Whittington Speech to Wellington Young Professionals
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 11:16 am | ACT New Zealand
Thank you to Luci and the Wellington Young Professionals for inviting me to speak to you tonight. More >>
Is The EECA A Waste Of Taxpayer Money?
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 8:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Commerce Spokesman Chris Simmons today described the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority’s proposal to implement Minimum Energy Performance Standards as blatant nanny statism – reminiscent of Labour’s shower head regulation and light bulb ... More >>
Rodney Hide: Address to the New Zealand Planning Institute
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 5:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
Chief Executive of Local Government New Zealand, the recipients of the Geok Ling Phang Memorial Award, organisers, ladies and gentlemen - thank you for inviting me to join you here this morning. More >>
ACT Pays Tribute To National MP Allan Peachey
Monday, 7 November 2011, 2:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Don Brash and Deputy Leader John Boscawen today paid tribute to National’s MP for Tamaki Allan Peachey, who died yesterday at home in Auckland. More >>
Youth To Politicians: Give Us A Reason To Stay
Thursday, 3 November 2011, 8:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Youth Affairs Spokesman Stephen Whittington today slammed National and Labour for failing to give young people a reason to stay in New Zealand, after the Ministry of Education Civic and Citizenship Education Study showed that almost ... More >>
Job Creators Back ACT Policy
Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 5:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Dr Don Brash said today that the results of the Deloitte-BusinessNZ Election Survey, polling the views of business leaders, show that New Zealand entrepreneurs overwhelmingly back policies that only ACT has the vision to implement. More >>
Crony Socialism: Environmental Lawyer Attacks Green Policy
Tuesday, 1 November 2011, 11:38 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Environment Spokesman and environmental lawyer Kath McCabe today condemned the Green Party's environmental policies as a dogma of crony socialism and picking winners after they specifically singled out a business that would receive taxpayer subsidies ... More >>
ACT Pays Tribute To Roger Kerr
Saturday, 29 October 2011, 4:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Pays Tribute To Roger Kerr ACT Leader Dr Don Brash today paid tribute to New Zealand Business Roundtable Executive Director Roger Kerr as an inspirational New Zealander whose substantial contribution to public policy helped shape the New Zealand ... More >>
Labour’s pipfruit proposals a “sick joke”
Friday, 21 October 2011, 5:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour’s proposal to bring 'cohesiveness' to the pipfruit industry is obviously a sick joke, ACT New Zealand Horticultural Spokesman John Thompson said today. More >>
Labour Out Of Touch On Agriculture
Friday, 21 October 2011, 5:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
Farmers have much to fear from Labour’s recently-announced Agriculture policy, ACT New Zealand Primary Industry Spokesman Don Nicolson said today. More >>
