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Low-Income NZers To Subsidise Power Companies
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 4:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand ETS Spokesman John Boscawen today condemned National and the Maori Party for ramming the Emissions Trading Scheme into law today – thereby placing a massive financial burden on low-income New Zealanders. "Implementation of the ETS ... More >>
National: Too Lazy, Too Hasty
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 9:35 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand ETS Spokesman John Boscawen today expressed disappointment over National's back-door deal with the Maori Party in order to ram through its flawed Emissions Trading Scheme. "The amended ETS Bill is likely to be rushed into law this week, ... More >>
ACT Will Support ETS Amendment Legislation
Monday, 23 November 2009, 11:23 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide has confirmed the party is prepared to make further concessions to National to assist it in taking a more considered approach to the passage of legislation amending the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). There are reports ... More >>
Bill To Empower Victims
Friday, 20 November 2009, 3:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
The censoring of Victim Impact Statements is an example of the courts attempting to usurp the role of Parliament; my Victims’ Rights (Victim Impact Statements) Amendment Bill makes it clear that it is Parliament - and not the courts - that make ... More >>
Catching Australia By 2025
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 5:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas today released his discussion document 'Catching Australia By 2025: An Alternative Approach' which outlines a comprehensive reform of Government expenditure, accelerating our economic growth and creating opportunities ... More >>
Mr Goff's Monetary Mischief
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 4:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour Leader Phil Goff's belief that the Reserve Bank's role of focussing on inflation should shift to trying to address exchange rate concerns displays his poor understanding of basic economics and suggests that Labour's anticipated big spending may be funded ... More >>
Pork-Barrel ETS – The Worst Kind Of Politics
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 9:54 am | ACT New Zealand
Climate Change Minister Nick Smith's secret deal with the Iwi Leadership Group - gifting land to five iwi to gain support for the Government's Emission Trading Scheme proposal is pork-barrel politics of the worst kind, ACT New Zealand MP John Boscawen ... More >>
Government Needs To Put Brakes On ETS
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 9:44 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand MP John Boscawen today urged the Government to slow down and await the outcome of negotiations in Copenhagen before rushing any legislation through, following the Finance and Select Committee’s inability to reach an agreement on ... More >>
The Cost Of Food
Sunday, 15 November 2009, 11:31 am | ACT New Zealand
Food prices came under scrutiny this week after a New South Wales Associate Professor, having analysed figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), said that grocery prices in Australia and New Zealand had risen 41 percent ... More >>
Rules Need To Be Changed
Friday, 13 November 2009, 4:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
draft a Private Members' Bill – in support of calls from the father of murder victim Sophie Elliott – to change the rules regarding censorship of victim impact statements, giving victims and their families more freedom to confront those criminals who have ... More >>
International Trend For Tougher Stance On Crime
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 3:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
The British Government’s decision to increase minimum sentences for knife attacks to 25 years – an increase of 10 years - is part of a growing trend in western countries recognising that law and order policies treating offenders as victims do not work, ... More >>
A Rubbish Review Of A Rubbish Law
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 5:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
The report to the Minister of Social Development on the review of the Anti-Smacking law is completely worthless and not worth the paper it’s written on, ACT New Zealand MP John Boscawen said today. “In it, Social Development Ministry CEO Peter Hughes ... More >>
More Argument Against Emissions Trading
Monday, 9 November 2009, 9:36 am | ACT New Zealand
This week another compelling argument was raised against the need for an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), this time in a New Zealand Institute of Economic Research Inc (NZIER) report titled 'Sustainable Development: Have We Got Our Priorities Right?' ... More >>
Rodney Hide Issues Apology For Casual Use Of Money
Monday, 9 November 2009, 8:51 am | ACT New Zealand
I have asked you here today because I want to apologise. I want to apologise to the public. I want to apologise to my colleagues and to my supporters. More >>
ACT Leader apologises to PM
Thursday, 5 November 2009, 11:26 am | ACT New Zealand
I would like to apologise to the Prime Minister and my Cabinet colleagues for the comments reported in the media from a breakfast function in Christchurch. This was light-hearted banter at an ACT party function and taken out of context", Mr Hide ... More >>
New Figures Show Prison Works
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 1:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Law & Order Spokesman David Garrett today released new information to prove that prison works as an effective deterrent to crime and showing that a huge proportion of offenders who serve a prison sentence make sure they do not have ... More >>
Don't Replace The FSA With Another FSA
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 2:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Issues Spokesman Peter Tashkoff was today heartened that the Government has finally accepted that the Foreshore and Seabed ACT (FSA) should be repealed, but expressed concern over the idea that it should be replaced with new ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: OCR & The New Driving Laws
Friday, 30 October 2009, 3:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
As predicted, Reserve Bank Governor Dr Alan Bollard this week announced that he has kept the Official Cash Rate (OCR) unchanged at 2.5 percent. This is the lowest that the OCR has been in history, and Dr Bollard has pledged to keep it there until the ... More >>
No Guts No Glory
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 4:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
The time for tinkering around the edges is over and comprehensive action must now be taken in order to lift our economic fortunes and prevent New Zealand's downward spiral into debt, ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas said today, ... More >>
Douglas: Benefits of Opening ACC to Competition
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 5:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation and compensation Amendment Bill does not reform ACC. This Bill keeps ACC in its current form, continues to fund ACC through compulsory levies, and does not apply ongoing commercial pressure to its operation. More >>
