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Childish Abuse Has No Place In Foreshore Debate
Friday, 3 December 2010, 3:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Hilary Calvert today questioned whether, when labelling opponents of the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill as ‘clowns’ and paranoids’, Attorney-General Chris Finlayson was also referring to National ... More >>
National Will Be High And Dry On The Foreshore
Friday, 3 December 2010, 11:32 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Hilary Calvert today predicted that the Maori Party would soon realise that it cannot support the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill, and that the National Government would soon find itself left high and ... More >>
Roy meets with VSM protesters
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 4:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Tertiary Education Spokesman Heather Roy today met with protesters from the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) against her Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill. More >>
MP Welcomes Students' Association Protest
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 4:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Tertiary Education Spokesman Heather Roy today met with protesters from the New Zealand Union of Students Associations (NZUSA) against her Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill. More >>
ACT Urges Maori Party To Oppose Foreshore Bill
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 4:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader John Boscawen today urged the Maori Party to pull all support from the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill after both Te Atiawa and Ngati Tama made public submissions condemning the Bill and added to the mounting evidence that ... More >>
Cancun To Show The Foolishness Of The ETS
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 3:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Climate Change Conference in Cancun might be nothing more than a meaningless and actionless talkfest, but it does have one saving grace – it should show the National Government how foolhardy it would be to continue forging ahead with its ... More >>
Working Together For New Zealand Communities
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 11:19 am | ACT New Zealand
Hon John Boscawen speech to launch Consumer Rights Day; Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Norrie Street, Porirua; Tuesday, November 30 2010. Good morning ladies and gentlemen, it's great to be here. I'd like to begin by extending a warm welcome ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary Nov 26
Saturday, 27 November 2010, 12:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
I often wonder what Michael Joseph Savage would have to say about the welfare state if he was to stumble across it today. Labour's first Prime Minister, socialist to his core, union man and architect of the 'Welfare State', I find it hard to believe ... More >>
ACT New Zealand: Pike River Coal Tragedy
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 7:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ACT Party today offered their deepest sympathy to the families and friends of all the Pike River Coal miners whose lives are presumed lost after a second explosion in the West Coast mine this afternoon. More >>
ACT Welcomes News On ETS – But More Is Needed
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 5:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen today welcomed news that Climate Change Minister Dr Nick Smith is seriously considering delaying the inclusion of agriculture in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), and called on him ... More >>
Ministry Of Women’s Affairs Should Go
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 4:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand’s female MPs Hilary Calvert and Heather Roy agreed with the premise raised in Parliament today – that the Ministry of Women’s Affairs is a sexist and historic relic that should be scrapped. More >>
ACT Campaigns For Mana
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 10:02 am | ACT New Zealand
They will then join commuters travelling into Wellington to meet ACT Deputy Leader John Boscawen, and MPs Hilary Calvert and Heather Roy - who will be meeting Mana commuters on their way to work, at Wellington Railway Station from 8am-9am. More >>
National Doesn't Care About Mana
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 10:00 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen and ACT Mana candidate Colin du Plessis today questioned how the National Party could claim to care about the people of Mana when it is going to force them to pay tens of millions of dollars ... More >>
National Must Open Its Eyes On ETS
Monday, 15 November 2010, 12:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen today urged the Government to open its eyes and see what New Zealanders have already begun to realise – that the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) poses an enormous risk to our standard of living ... More >>
Opposition To Alcohol Reform Bill
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 4:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MPs Heather Roy, Hilary Calvert and Sir Roger Douglas will today vote against the Government’s Alcohol Reform Bill saying that it will fail to solve the problem of alcohol abuse and erodes New Zealanders’ right to make their own decisions. More >>
ACT Urges Maori Party To Oppose Foreshore Bill
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 1:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Foreshore & Seabed Spokesman Hilary Calvert today urged the Maori Party to categorically pull its support for the Government's Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill, which has split the Iwi Leadership Group and has the potential ... More >>
VSM Will Free Students From Being Held Hostage
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 9:39 am | ACT New Zealand
The Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill passed its Second Reading in Parliament last night and we are now a step closer to ensuring that tertiary students throughout the country have the choice of belonging to a Students’ Association, ... More >>
Stop the Political Carve-up of Our Coast
Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 4:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
Submissions close on the governments planned new Foreshore and Seabed Law on November 19th. If you like going to the beach, swimming, boating and fishing… THEN THIS SHOULD CONCERN YOU! More >>
Hide says No to secret deals on Foreshore & Seabed
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 5:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealanders’ worst fears about the Government’s replacement to the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 – the innocuously named Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill – were today confirmed by the Attorney-General, said ACT Leader Rodney Hide. More >>
ETS Chickens Coming Home To Roost
Monday, 8 November 2010, 2:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
ETS Chickens Coming Home To Roost President Obama’s decision to abandon his planned Emissions Trading Scheme is further proof that New Zealand is now completely isolated from its major trading partners; the National Government’s ETS chickens are predictably ... More >>
