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ACT's Pledge To New Zealand
Monday, 19 May 2008, 9:00 am | ACT New Zealand
Here's the state of play: the economy's heading south - fast. Kiwis are finding it harder and harder to makes ends meet. Wages are low, taxes are high, prices are rising, and interest rates are up. More >>
ACT Reveals 20-Point Pledge Card
Sunday, 18 May 2008, 2:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide, and ACT founder and candidate Sir Roger Douglas, today released the ACT Pledge Card - a '20-Point Plan' that will take the New Zealand economy forward to beat Australia. More >>
Housing Equity Scheme First Of Election Bribes
Friday, 16 May 2008, 1:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today dismissed the Labour-led Government's Housing Equity Scheme as the as an election year bribe. More >>
Cullen Comments Disappointing - But Consistent
Friday, 16 May 2008, 12:15 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today said that Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen's comments warning Kiwis not to expect big tax cuts were disappointing but consistent - Dr Cullen spends big but, when it comes to letting taxpayers keep their money, gives little. More >>
Cullen Must Give Kiwis $35 Just To Break Even
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 12:29 am | ACT New Zealand
Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen needs to give Kiwis on the average wage $35 a week just to break even under his management, ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today. “Over the past nine years, Dr Cullen’s failure to inflation-proof personal income ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Friday, 9 May 2008, 2:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen looked like an over-excited school boy as he was snapped playing with a model railway train carriage earlier this week. More >>
Education Ministry Plays School Bully
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 10:56 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Heather Roy today demanded to know how Education Minister Chris Carter could sit by and allow Longbeach School pupils to be taught in a shipping container - especially given that it is his Ministry that has put the ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Saturday, 3 May 2008, 12:08 am | ACT New Zealand
The economic news in New Zealand and abroad is both dramatic and difficult to understand. More >>
ACT: Dump The ETS
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 10:11 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today congratulated the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research for quantifying the costs of the Labour-led Government's Emissions Trading Scheme. More >>
Time To Start Growing The Economic Cake
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 4:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealanders’ preoccupation with how to divide up the current economic cake – rather than on how to grow it – is one of the major reasons why we have done so poorly in terms of productivity over recent years, ACT founder and candidate Sir ... More >>
Gibbs Donates $100,000 To ACT
Monday, 28 April 2008, 9:41 am | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand developer Alan Gibbs – known for such projects as high-speed amphibian vehicles like the Aquada – today said he is delighted to donate $100,000 to the ACT Party. More >>
Douglas: Main Issue Lost In Local Govt Debate
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 12:14 am | ACT New Zealand
Aucklanders are so busy worrying about how many Councils and Councillors they should have that the real issue is being side-lined, ACT New Zealand founder and candidate the Hon Sir Roger Douglas said today. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: Fairness In The Family Court
Friday, 14 March 2008, 12:28 am | ACT New Zealand
This week saw the issue of Child Support raised in Parliament, with National MP Judith Collins using the term 'deadbeat dads' to describe those fathers who fail - or refuse - to fulfil their obligation to contribute financially to the raising of their children. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: Melodrama And Auckld Airport
Friday, 7 March 2008, 10:53 am | ACT New Zealand
Auckland International Airport Limited is a well-functioning company: it makes money; is expanding, as anyone who's recently travelled through Auckland will know; and shares are for sale - but not just anyone can buy them it would seem. More >>
Sir Roger Douglas Returns to ACT
Sunday, 2 March 2008, 11:21 am | ACT New Zealand
I am delighted to announce that Sir Roger Douglas has committed his formidable skills and experience to the 2008 ACT Campaign. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Friday, 29 February 2008, 2:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
Election year brings out the worst in people - several commentators have already predicted that the 2008 campaign will be a nasty one. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: Ministerial Malpractice
Friday, 15 February 2008, 2:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
With one dollar in every five of Government spending going on Health, one might well have anticipated a reasonable amount of health-related commentary in the Prime Minister's address to Parliament to mark the start of the Parliamentary year. More >>
[ACT] Cunliffe Guilty Of Ministerial Malpractice
Wednesday, 13 February 2008, 5:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman and Wellington-based MP Heather Roy today released documents showing that, in October 2005, 90 patients - all who had been given certainty of treatment - had been waiting longer than six months to receive cardiothoracic ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Friday, 8 February 2008, 11:32 am | ACT New Zealand
A Whiter Shade Of Pale The old adage that the political Party that holds the middle ground of public opinion will hold power continues to be true but, in the battle to stake out that turf, National and Labour risk becoming indistinguishable. More >>
More Dithering Over Waterview Connection
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 4:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today expressed disappointment and frustration over Deputy Prime Minister Dr Michael Cullen's announcement regarding the much-needed Waterview Connection - and predicted that Aucklanders would be kept waiting in their cars for ... More >>
