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Resist Creeping Separatism, Brash Urges Wellingtonians
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 3:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
A Wellington City Council proposal to give Maori a formal decision-making role in the management of the city’s town belt is yet another instance of the promotion of race-based privilege to which ACT is vehemently opposed, says ACT Leader Don Brash. More >>
Labour Kills Its Own ‘Clayton’s’ Bill
Monday, 20 June 2011, 2:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour has torpedoed any chance of passing its own State-Owned Enterprises Private Member’s Bill before even submitting it in the ballot by continuing to filibuster the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill says ACT New Zealand Tertiary ... More >>
Mallard's UFB Comments Economic Sabotage
Monday, 20 June 2011, 12:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Party’s latest attempt at economic sabotage is further evidence of their unfitness for the Treasury benches, says ACT New Zealand Leader Dr Don Brash. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary - Hon Heather Roy
Friday, 17 June 2011, 4:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
What has Labour got against Farmers? They are amongst the most productive business people in our society. Some farmers vote Labour (I’ve met a few) and I can’t quite work out the recent frontal attack by Labour on the farming community, unless ... More >>
Abolish Yourself, ACT Tells Mayors’ Taskforce
Thursday, 16 June 2011, 5:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
Abolish yourself! That was the message from ACT Finance Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas when speaking to the Mayors’ Taskforce For Jobs Core Working Group in Wellington this afternoon. More >>
ETS: There’s Bad News And Bad News
Thursday, 16 June 2011, 5:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
Remarks made by Environment Minister Nick Smith to the Local Government and Environment Select Committee about the ETS should cause alarm among all New Zealanders struggling to make ends meet in the face of relentless price rises More >>
Use Delay To Repel Prohibitionism
Thursday, 16 June 2011, 12:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
News that the Government’s alcohol reforms may not pass before the election should be celebrated rather than lamented, says ACT New Zealand Youth Affairs Spokesman Hon Heather Roy. More >>
Minister Confirms Woeful Waste
Thursday, 16 June 2011, 9:45 am | ACT New Zealand
It's official - much of the spending on early childhood education under National and Labour has been a woeful waste of taxpayer money, notes ACT New Zealand Early Childhood Spokesman Hilary Calvert. More >>
Hone Harawira’s Sad And Sorry Separatism
Wednesday, 15 June 2011, 5:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
Hone Harawira’s mooting of a Maori Parliament is an insult to his race and a classic example of the backward thinking that pervades his new Mana Party, says ACT New Zealand spokesman Sir Roger Douglas. More >>
Compulsory Maori No Answer To Under-Achievement
Saturday, 11 June 2011, 2:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
Proposals to make tertiary level Maori language and education courses compulsory for secondary school teachers are racist, high-handed and wrong-headed, says ACT New Zealand Leader Dr Don Brash. More >>
Tolley: Not My Policy But I'll Give It Half A Billion - Roy
Friday, 10 June 2011, 9:43 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand MP Hon Heather Roy today criticised Education Minister Hon Anne Tolley for her failure to answer what spending half a billion dollars on early childhood education would actually achieve when asked in the House today. More >>
Race-Based Diplomacy A Bad Idea - Hilary Calvert MP
Thursday, 9 June 2011, 12:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Hilary Calvert today condemned the suggestion by Maori Party MP Rahui Katene that the Government does not have the right to negotiate international treaties without first consulting tangata whenua or having regard to ... More >>
Extreme Caring – Hon Heather Roy Speech To Budget Debate
Wednesday, 8 June 2011, 9:43 am | ACT New Zealand
This Budget was a dire disappointment - an abject failure of nerve. Confronted with the necessity and opportunity to begin a historic sea change away from the knee-jerk borrow-and-spend mentality that has held New Zealand back for so long, the Government ... More >>
Labour's Delaying Costs: A By-Election Every Hour
Friday, 3 June 2011, 9:49 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Tertiary Education Spokesman Hon Heather Roy today condemned the Labour Party's filibustering of her Education (Freedom Of Association) Amendment Bill, saying it denies backbench MPs the right to have their issues debated and is ... More >>
Green Smog Envelops ETS
Thursday, 2 June 2011, 5:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
In a joint press release today, New Zealand's and Australia's Greens are now trumpeting the seemingly imminent imposition of a carbon tax in Australia and the superiority of such a tax over New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme, notes ACT New Zealand ... More >>
ACT Welcomes ACC Recommendations - Hon John Boscawen
Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 4:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand is welcoming today’s release by ACC Minister Nick Smith of a discussion document on reforms to ACC. Parliamentary Leader John Boscawen says the proposals contained in the document are clearly in line with ACT’s policy of restoring choice ... More >>
Let Funding Follow The Child
Friday, 27 May 2011, 4:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
Hon Heather Roy Speech to Early Childhood Council Conference; Wellington Convention Centre; Friday, May 27 2011. Peter Reynolds, CEO of the Early Childhood Council, Council members, Early Childhood educators, Ladies and Gentlemen - thank you for ... More >>
Phil Goff Confused About ETS
Monday, 23 May 2011, 10:45 am | ACT New Zealand
Labour Leader Phil Goff's statement that the Emissions Trading Scheme forces people to subsidise polluters shows that Labour, like the Greens, is confused about the real effects of the scheme and that they are clearly not ready to govern, ACT New ... More >>
Children’s Ministry Just Election-Year Gimmick
Saturday, 21 May 2011, 6:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour’s proposal to set up a Children’s Ministry and disband the Families Commission is little more than election-year window dressing and will do nothing to curb New Zealand’s appalling rates of child abuse and neglect, ACT New Zealand Welfare Spokesman ... More >>
Budget 2011 A Missed Opportunity - Hon John Boscawen
Friday, 20 May 2011, 8:59 am | ACT New Zealand
Budget 2011 should have been about comprehensive change to turn New Zealand's economy around, take control of our debt track and fix long-standing social problems; instead it was a missed opportunity ACT New Zealand Parliamentary Leader Hon John Boscawen ... More >>
