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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 >>
Heather Roy's Diary Nov 5
Friday, 5 November 2010, 4:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
'Student Loans - the debt mountain' was the headline when the latest student debt figures were released at the beginning of the week. Almost 900,000 people have taken out a student loan since the scheme started in 1992, and over two thirds haven't ... More >>
Hide - Vaulting Matilda
Friday, 5 November 2010, 3:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
The establishment of the new unified Auckland Council shows the enormous potential for productivity gains in local government. More >>
2025 Report: We’ve Yet To Start Catching Australia
Wednesday, 3 November 2010, 5:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
The second report from the 2025 Taskforce confirms that sadly not enough has been done in the past 12 months to reverse New Zealand’s ever-widening income gap with Australia, ACT Finance Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas said today. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: Acting Up Over 'The Hobbit'
Saturday, 30 October 2010, 10:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
Aficionados of Tolkien will know that 'The Hobbit' climaxes with the battle of five armies. There is a certain irony in New Zealand's latest industrial stoush of the last couple of weeks equalling the books finale in complexity, viciousness and lust ... More >>
Citizens Advice Bureau To Provide ‘One Door’
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 11:20 am | ACT New Zealand
Minister of Consumer Affairs John Boscawen was today pleased to announce that the new digital strategy of the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) meets all the Government’s criteria for a single portal consumers can access in the event of a dispute or complaint ... More >>
Heather Roy´s Diary: Industrial Inaction
Friday, 22 October 2010, 4:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
Actors´Equity got fired up, and has possibly ensured most Kiwi actors will never work in New Zealand again. The Council of Trade Unions (CTU) had a `National day of action for fairness´, which actually called for them to be inactive. Medical ... More >>
Scrap The ETS Before Things Get Worse
Friday, 22 October 2010, 4:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Climate Change Spokesman John Boscawen today renewed his call for the Government to scrap the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) following revelations that the price of coal - which has risen as much as 40 percent for some companies ... More >>
MPs Locking Youth Out Of Jobs
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 3:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand MP Sir Roger Douglas today released his latest poster criticising Parliament’s decision to abolish youth wage rates which has resulted in a dramatic rise in youth unemployment. More >>
'Success for All - Every School, Every Child
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 10:55 am | ACT New Zealand
I'm new to Special Education, and in the last six weeks I have had the privilege of listening to other people's stories - parents, teachers and colleagues - about what is working and what isn't working well for children. More >>
Freedom To Associate – And Dissociate
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 5:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
Mr Speaker, I am very proud to be the sponsor of this Bill. Compulsory membership of students associations has been an issue since I became a Member of Parliament in 2002. However, the issue goes back much further than that. When I did a quick ... More >>
Rodney Hide Speech To Auckland Sth Conference
Sunday, 17 October 2010, 3:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
As we are in Auckland today, I thought it would be fitting for me to give my perspective on the Auckland Governance reforms. As you know, much work has been done to ensure that the people of Auckland have a new Council that they can be proud of. More >>
Shane Jones: Flip-Flop Artist Extraordinaire
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 4:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Foreshore & Seabed Spokesman Hilary Calvert today advised Labour MP Shane Jones to tread carefully when commenting about the Marine and Coastal (Takutai Moana) Bill, lest he reveal himself to be an even bigger flip-flop artist than he ... More >>
Hilary Calvert Maiden Speech to Parliament
Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 5:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
Today I stand before the House, honoured to take my place as a Member of Parliament for ACT New Zealand. I pay tribute to all those whose hard work and dedication to the ACT Party and its principles over many years have brought me here today. And ... More >>
Climate: The Counter Consensus
Tuesday, 12 October 2010, 12:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
Professor Bob Carter has written the best book on the science of human-induced global warning I have read. More >>
