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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 >>
We Need A Plan And We Need It Now
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 4:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
Prime Minister John Key’s blasé response to a probable third credit down grade is both irresponsible and reckless - all New Zealanders should be concerned, ACT Leader Don Brash said today. More >>
The Devil Is In The Detail - Goff light on policy
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 4:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Devil Is In The Detail - Goff light on policy in his latest photo-op More >>
ACT Welcomes Defence Amendment Bill
Thursday, 20 October 2011, 11:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Defence Spokesman John Banks today welcomed the tabling of the 'Defence Amendment Bill' by Defence Minister Wayne Mapp. More >>
Labour Launches Attack on Small Businesses – ACT
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 10:07 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand’s Labour spokesman Chris Simmons today slammed the Labour Party’s new ‘Work and Wages’ policy, labelling it an unprecedented attack on New Zealand’s small business sector. More >>
ACT Confirms List Positions
Monday, 10 October 2011, 4:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
In a joint press statement, ACT Party Leader Don Brash and President Chris Simmons today confirmed that all ACT candidates would move one place up the list to fill the position vacated by the Party’s retiring Parliamentary Leader John Boscawen, ... More >>
ACT Policy Would Have Averted Downgrade
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 5:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Dr Don Brash has called on Finance Minister Bill English to take responsibility for his part in New Zealand’s double credit downgrade. More >>
ACT Pays Tribute to Allan Peachey
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Parliamentary Leader John Boscawen today paid tribute to Allan Peachey on news of Mr Peachey’s upcoming retirement. “Allan Peachey was one of New Zealand’s leading educators before coming to Parliament, serving most recently as Principal ... More >>
NZ Super Unaffordable - Credit Agency Not Fooled By National
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 10:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand’s credit downgrade stems from National’s failure to make the hard decisions; one of which is the growing unaffordability of superannuation, ACT New Zealand Parliamentary Leader John Boscawen said today. More >>
Heather Roy’s Dairy - The Last Political Chapter
Monday, 3 October 2011, 5:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
I wrote my first Heather Roy’s Dairy on 9 August 2002 and have sent one out most Fridays since then. Looking back, they are a great record of what was happening at the time and the issues I was involved with. Hon Hugh Templeton advised me that I ... More >>
Credit Downgrade Was Avoidable says Brash
Friday, 30 September 2011, 11:53 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Party Leader Don Brash today said that the news that New Zealand’s long-term foreign credit rating has been downgraded did not surprise him, noting that he had been saying for many months that New Zealand has become too heavily dependent on ... More >>
Valedictory Statement - Hon Heather Roy
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 11:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
My introduction to politics came at the tender age of 20 in 1984. They were exciting political times - Sir Robert Muldoon had called a snap election and Sir Robert Jones had launched a new party - the New Zealand Party. For the first time I had a flicker ... More >>
