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Regulatory Reform Bill Set To Slash Red Tape
Friday, 17 December 2010, 10:23 am | ACT New Zealand
Minister for Regulatory Reform Rodney Hide introduced into the House a Bill designed to slash red tape and make life easier for businesses. The Regulatory Reform Bill proposes amendments to 13 Acts, removing duplication, getting rid of unnecessary ... More >>
ACT to Launch Foreshore & Seabed Billboard
Thursday, 16 December 2010, 3:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader John Boscawen will tomorrow unveil the first of two billboards that ACT will erect urging New Zealanders to draw a line in the sand against the Government’s Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill. More >>
Hide Invites Goff To Discuss Foreshore Solution
Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 5:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today invited Labour Leader Phil Goff to meet with him to discuss a bi-partisan approach to recognising Maori customary rights in the foreshore and seabed. More >>
ACT Urges Harawira To Support Calvert Bill
Monday, 13 December 2010, 1:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Hilary Calvert today urged Maori Party MP Hone Harawira to support her Foreshore and Seabed (Repeal and Establishment of Free Public Access) Amendment Bill in order to force the withdrawal of National’s Marine ... More >>
National Must Do Its Duty On Foreshore Issue
Friday, 10 December 2010, 3:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Hilary Calvert today urged National Party members of the Maori Affairs Select Committee to insist that the Government heed the public and withdraw the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill. More >>
ACT Welcomes Labour Into The Foreshore Fold
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 1:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader John Boscawen was today pleased to see that the Labour Party has gotten on board and will join ACT in opposing the Government’s proposed Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill. More >>
ACT Welcomes Labour Into The Foreshore Fold
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 12:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader John Boscawen was today pleased to see that the Labour Party has gotten on board and will join ACT in opposing the Government’s proposed Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill. More >>
NZ Super Policy Needs Total Rethink
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 9:26 am | ACT New Zealand
The Retirement Commission’s recommendations for New Zealand retirement income policy – which included raising the retirement age to 67 by 2033 – merely tinker around the edges and will not solve the problem of our ‘pay-as-you-go’ system, ACT Finance ... More >>
Harawira Correct: Foreshore Bill Is An Insult
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 11:02 am | ACT New Zealand
Although we may have different viewpoints on the ideal outcome of the foreshore and seabed debate, Maori Party MP Hone Harawira was absolutely correct when he described the Government's proposed Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill as an 'insult' ... More >>
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 >>
