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Productivity Heading In Wrong Direction
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 5:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
The drop in labour productivity growth by 1.5 percent in the year to March 2009 – as released by Statistics New Zealand today - highlights the ever-widening gulf between the promise to improve our living standards and catch Australia, and the stark reality, ... More >>
Roy on TrustPower National Community Awards
Monday, 15 March 2010, 10:32 am | ACT New Zealand
It is no easy feat to make the finals of this event. I understand that this year in particular the entries were of a very high calibre. I would also like to acknowledge the contribution of all contestants in the regions for their positive contributions ... More >>
Reserve Bank Confirms ETS Tax to Lift Prices
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 5:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
Dr Allan Bollard, Governor of the Reserve Bank today confirmed what ACT has said all along; that the new ETS tax will lift the price of electricity and petrol from July and will push inflation to the top end of the Bank’s 2-3 per cent band, ACT ... More >>
Tertiary Education Reforms Long Overdue
Saturday, 6 March 2010, 11:27 am | ACT New Zealand
Like thousands of other parents around the country I've delivered my university aged children to their respective universities in the past couple of weeks. With 'O Week' over for another year, and everyone settling in to new halls of residence or flats, ... More >>
Let’s Axe The (ETS) Tax
Friday, 5 March 2010, 3:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
If Labour is so concerned that an increase in tax will hurt low income families – as demonstrated by Labour’s ‘axe the tax bus’ against a 2.5 percent increase in GST – then why isn’t Phil Goff prepared to stand against the ETS tax and campaign ... More >>
Let Students Judge Value Of Services
Friday, 5 March 2010, 1:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
The claims by students’ associations yesterday that my Voluntary Student Membership Bill is going to decimate membership and cripple services merely highlights how poor the current services provided to students must be, ACT New Zealand VSM Spokesman ... More >>
New Zealand Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 9:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand ETS Spokesman John Boscawen today advised New Zealand families to prepare themselves for a future of over-taxation and financial hardship - a fate they can thank the National and Labour Parties for. More >>
Truancy Initiative Focuses On Wrong Issue
Wednesday, 3 March 2010, 4:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
It's not surprising that the Government's initiatives to tackle truancy in schools has had no real effect on the 30,000 students cutting class every day, as truancy is the symptom – not the cause – of a broken school system, ACT MP Sir Roger ... More >>
'One Law - One Door' For Consumer Transactions
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 10:32 am | ACT New Zealand
Hon Heather Roy presentation to the Employers and Manufacturers' Association (EMA) Northern Members Policy Forum on 'One Law - One Door'; EMA Boardroom, Khyber Pass Road, Grafton, Auckland; Monday, March 1 2010. More >>
Welfare Dependency: A Principal Driver Of Crime?
Sunday, 28 February 2010, 11:40 am | ACT New Zealand
Speech By David Garrett MP, ACT New Zealand: First, I would like to thank you all for coming today. I know you will all be expecting me to discuss Three Strikes and to give an update on the revised policy, but today I want to step back a bit, and ... More >>
Hon Heather Roy: 150 Years Of Heroes
Sunday, 28 February 2010, 11:34 am | ACT New Zealand
on Heather Roy speech to the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of the 4TH Otago and Southland Battalion Group; Saturday, February 27 2010. More >>
Speech By Hon Rodney Hide
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 2:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
Today I want to talk about Promises. When politicians mention the word promise it usually generates a good chuckle. And fair enough. For the simple reason that political promises are easily made and easily broken. More >>
Self-Evident Truths And Black Swans
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 1:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
Hon Heather Roy speech to the ACT New Zealand National Conference 2010: One of the best-known quotes in the English language is that found in the US Declaration of Independence, which says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident." More >>
Stranded on the Middle Ground?
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 1:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
National has now been in Government for over a year, and I believe it is fair to start passing judgement. Before the last election, many Labour and Green voters believed that National had a secret agenda to slash the size and scope of the state, deliver ... More >>
Youth Minimum Wage Bill Drawn From Ballot
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 2:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
The drawing of my Minimum Wage (Mitigation Of Youth Unemployment) Amendment Bill today is a step toward mitigating the high rate of youth unemployment, which has soared since Labour abolished the youth minimum wage in 2008, ACT New Zealand MP ... More >>
ACT Releases Minority View On IPWG Report
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 1:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Inter-Party Working Group (IPWG) chair Heather Roy today joined fellow IPWG ACT representative Sir Roger Douglas to release 'Free to Learn', the minority view on the 'Step Change' report launched at Parliament yesterday. More >>
Heather Roy - Excellence In Education
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 9:42 am | ACT New Zealand
As Associate Minister of Education, I'm committed to choice. The Government doesn't believe that central planning, or ideology, should dictate where children attend school. We want to give parents greater freedom to send their children to the school ... More >>
Success The Only Option For NZ Students
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 3:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Inter-Party Working Group (IPWG) on School Choice Chair Heather Roy was today pleased to announce the release of the report 'Step Change: Success The Only Option' - the culmination of a year of studying current education practice ... More >>
Key To Tax Cuts Is Expenditure Cuts
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 3:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
Prime Minister John Key claims to believe in the power of tax cuts - so it seems odd that he is only willing to decrease taxes on income if we increase taxes on consumption, ACT New Zealand's Finance Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas said today. More >>
Douglas Drafts Bill To Reintroduce Youth Wage
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 3:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
If the Government is ‘always willing to listen to good ideas’ over youth unemployment, as Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson said yesterday, then I expect the Government to support my Minimum Wage (Mitigating Youth Unemployment) Amendment Bill and put ... More >>
