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Speech: Roy - The Social Cost Of Economic Failure
Saturday, 12 March 2011, 7:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Social Cost Of Economic Failure Speech to ACT Annual Conference; Barrycourt Accommodation and Event Centre, Parnell, Auckland, Saturday, March 12 2011. Ladies and Gentlemen On Tuesday this week Rikki Ngatai-Check was sentenced to life imprisonment ... More >>
After The Earthquake – A Vision For New Zealand
Saturday, 12 March 2011, 11:57 am | ACT New Zealand
Hon John Boscawen speech to the ACT Annual Conference; Barrycourt Accommodation and Conference Centre, Parnell, Auckland; Saturday, March 12 2011 More >>
Customary Title Or Freehold Title?
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 5:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
Attorney-General Chris Finlayson should come clean and call a spade a spade – if the Government envisions customary marine title over the foreshore and seabed to be equivalent to freehold title, then it should simply go ahead and call it freehold ... More >>
Beach Access Assumption Not Good Enough
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 5:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader John Boscawen today demanded to know how New Zealanders could be certain of retaining free access to beaches under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill when Attorney-General Chris Finlayson himself only ‘would have thought’ ... More >>
ACT Welcomes Mateparae's Appointment As Governor-General
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 3:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today welcomed the appointment of former Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae to the role of Governor-General of New Zealand and paid tribute to the dedication of outgoing Governor-General Sir Anand Satyanand. More >>
Vaulting Matilda: Respect For Parliamentary Process - Hide
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 10:06 am | ACT New Zealand
The Maori Affairs select committee hearing submissions on the foreshore and seabed – the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill – heard around 5,000 written submissions and 500 oral submissions, presented on behalf of hundreds of thousands ... More >>
Hide - Vaulting Matilda March 4
Friday, 4 March 2011, 7:53 pm | ACT New Zealand
These are grim times for Canterbury, and indeed for New Zealand. Our second largest city is devastated and the people of Christchurch are enduring the hardest of times. More >>
Hide: The State Of Our Nation
Thursday, 3 March 2011, 12:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
These are grim times for Canterbury. And for New Zealand. Our second largest city is devastated. The people of Christchurch are enduring the hardest of times. Our economy has taken a huge whack. More >>
Brash and Jackson to headline ACT Annual Conference
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 4:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand will hold its 2011 Annual National Conference next weekend, 12-13 March, at the Barrycourt Accommodation and Event Centre, Gladstone Road, Parnell. “ACT conferences are always a time to challenge our thoughts and rally the troops ... More >>
ACT Leader’s ‘State of The Nation’ Address
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 1:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide will tomorrow deliver his ‘State of the Nation’ address at the Ellerslie Events Centre, Greenlane, Auckland. "These are grim times for New Zealand. Our second largest city is devastated. Our economy has taken a huge whack. ... More >>
After The Earthquake – A Vision For New Zealand
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 5:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
The past week will remain in our national consciousness for generations to come. The Christchurch Earthquake will forever be a part of New Zealand history. Christchurch has changed. New Zealand will change – potentially forever. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary - No Week for Politics
Friday, 25 February 2011, 3:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
There is no Heather Roy’s Diary this week. In New Zealand’s worst natural disaster in living memory our focus is entirely on the people of Christchurch and Canterbury. Parliament rose early this week to allow MPs to concentrate on assisting those affected ... More >>
ACT Calls For Full Story On Foreshore Tests
Sunday, 20 February 2011, 7:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader John Boscawen today supported some of the concerns of National Party supporter Jim Matson - printed in today's 'Sunday Star-Times' - and called on Prime Minister John Key and his Government to tell the full story on the tests ... More >>
ACT Party Statement on Sir Roger Douglas
Saturday, 19 February 2011, 11:11 am | ACT New Zealand
Yesterday Sir Roger Douglas announced that he would retire from Parliament at the end of this term. President Chris Simmons and Leader Rodney Hide wish to acknowledge Sir Roger’s major contribution to ACT as its founder and – more latterly – ... More >>
Tide Going Out On Foreshore And Seabed
Friday, 18 February 2011, 4:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Foreshore and Seabed issue has been ebbing and flowing for most of my time in Parliament and to say that the latest bill has been topical is an understatement. This is an issue kiwis feel passionately about - largely, I think, because the beaches ... More >>
National Minister Judith Collins to address ACT Conference
Friday, 18 February 2011, 1:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Party President Chris Simmons is delighted to announce that senior Government Minister Hon Judith Collins has accepted ACT’s invitation to address its Annual Conference on 12 March. Ms Collins, as Minister for Corrections, was responsible ... More >>
NZ's Salvation - Seventh State Of Australia?
Friday, 18 February 2011, 10:11 am | ACT New Zealand
What does the future hold for the New Zealand economy - can we make it on our own, or would our interests be better served through a trans-Tasman union with Australia? Next week ACT Leader Rodney Hide and Council of Trade Unions Secretary Peter Conway ... More >>
National's Botany candidate has some explaining to do
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 11:15 am | ACT New Zealand
The ACT Party's Botany candidate, Lyn Murphy, today announced full support for the Citizens & Ratepayers (C&R) team members on the Auckland Council who are opposing the draft budget for the Maori Advisory Board. Mrs Murphy is an elected C&R member ... More >>
Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill – update #4
Friday, 11 February 2011, 2:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
Waves of Discontent: Act’s Report on the Marine and Coastal Area Bill Submission Process Download the full report The Māori Affairs Select Committee released its report on the Marine and Coastal Area Bill yesterday – over two weeks before it ... More >>
Foreshore Bill Fails Prime Minister's Criteria
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 4:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader John Boscawen today called on Prime Minister John Key to stand by his promise in March 2010, that if there was not widespread support for the proposed Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill, the law that currently governs the ... More >>
