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Brash: Farming - Vital in Our Past, Present and Future
Thursday, 30 June 2011, 8:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
An address to Federated Farmers annual conference by Don Brash Leader of ACT New Zealand 30 June 2011 More >>
Open letter to New Zealanders on the Youth minimum wage
Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 4:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
We are writing to urge all New Zealanders to support the reinstatement of a youth minimum wage. More >>
Air Diet Best For Diabetes, Says ACT
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 11:34 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand is delighted to be counted among the opposition parties calling for healthy eating policies following the release of a report showing New Zealand has one of the highest rates of diabetes among developed countries, says the party's ... More >>
Migration: Mind The Mirror Matt!
Monday, 27 June 2011, 11:48 am | ACT New Zealand
If Matt McCarten is serious about dissuading his daughter from migrating to Australia, along with a record number of her peers, he need only dissuade himself from his own extremism, observes ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary; I am retiring
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 1:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
This year is my ninth as a Member of the New Zealand Parliament. It has been a fast-paced journey comprising excitement, disappointment, enjoyment and angst. In this regard, my tenure as an MP is little different to that of others who have taken up the challenge ... More >>
Don’t Stop There Jim
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 12:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand warmly supports the proposal by Progressive Party Leader Jim Anderton to impose a levy on sugary soft drinks to help fund free dental care for all New Zealanders, says the Party’s Spokesman on Dodgy Beverages, Sir Roger Douglas. More >>
Anti-Mining Activists Would Keep Kiwis Poor
Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 5:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Parliamentary Leader Hon John Boscawen welcomes news that two new proposed South Island coal mines could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the New Zealand economy. More >>
ACT: Heads Should Roll Over Luxury Resort Rort
Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 12:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government should urgently investigate the decision to allow $1 million of taxpayers’ money to be wasted on a public service training course at a luxury Queenstown resort since 2008 says ACT New Zealand Parliamentary Leader Hon John Boscawen. More >>
Where’s Your Ambition for New Zealand, Mr Key and English?
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 4:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
Further evidence that the National Party has abandoned its goal of catching Australia by 2025 was on offer in Parliament this afternoon, says ACT New Zealand Parliamentary Leader Hon John Boscawen. More >>
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 >>
