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ACT's Stance On Sign Language Bill Clarified
Friday, 12 August 2005, 12:11 am | ACT New Zealand
I did not respond to your earlier messages because the questions appeared to be rhetorical, more statements of position than requests for information. More >>
Court decision a blow for free speech
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 6:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
The High Court decision may be temporarily good for democracy this week but it's bad for free speech in the long run and respect for the rule of law, ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Unfranked
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 5:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
Thank you very much to the many people who have sent in cheques to Stephen's Parliamentary Office for Michael Vaimauga after reading last week's Unfranked and watching the subsequent Sunday programme. More >>
250 more police is too little, too late
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 1:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today said Helen Clark's promise to increase police numbers is "too little, too late." More >>
The constitution is broken but who would fix it?
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 4:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today described his service on Parliament's Constitutional Arrangements Committee as an "unsatisfying duty". More >>
Crazy soft drink tax won't fix obesity problem
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 3:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Green Party's crazy plan to put a tax on soft drinks is totally outrageous and won't stem the growing tide of child obesity, ACT Health spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
King's nose growing faster than Pinocchio's
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 2:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government is deliberately suppressing public health figures that will show hospital waiting lists are climbing above 181,000, ACT Health spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Transit decision short-sighted - ACT
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 11:29 am | ACT New Zealand
Transit's decision to axe Transmission Gully is short-sighted but entirely predictable, says ACT Wellington-based MP Heather Roy. More >>
Residential homes struggle for survival
Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 2:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
Heather Roy: Speech to Mana Tawa Grey Power - Political Panel on Retirement Homes/Asset Testing. Porirua Club, Lodge Place, Porirua, Tuesday 9 August, 1.30pm More >>
Tax Cuts Best for Students – Best For Everyone!
Monday, 8 August 2005, 2:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
Rodney Hide Speech to Victoria University students, GBLT 4, Law School, Wellington, Monday August 8, 1.15pm. More >>
ACT’s tax cuts better for students
Monday, 8 August 2005, 2:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
Students will be far better off with ACT’s tax policy than Labour’s loans bribe, ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today. More >>
ACT's The Letter 8 August 2005
Monday, 8 August 2005, 1:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
The nation is in the phoney war between the dissolving of parliament and the opening of the campaign. TV3s debate will open the real campaign. Winston has asked Muslims to turn in any tube bombers they know. The Greens falter. Industrial unrest rises. More >>
If Labour won't give Vaimauga medal the people can
Monday, 8 August 2005, 11:46 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today called on the Police Minister to apologise to Michael Vaimauga and ensure reimbursement for all the wages lost through seven court appearances, after he was prosecuted instead of the burglar he caught and held ... More >>
Hard labour not $2m gym, says Franks
Monday, 8 August 2005, 10:50 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Corrections spokesman Stephen Franks today called on the Corrections Minister to scrap plans to build a new $2 million gym at Rimutaka Prison and instead buy a few picks, shovels and wheelbarrows for a quarry that inmates can break rocks in. More >>
Newman Online Weekly commentary by Muriel Newman
Monday, 8 August 2005, 8:58 am | ACT New Zealand
It is ironic to witness the pompous jockeying of political parties as they busily promote their own version of time limits for the Treaty of Waitangi claims settlement process, knowing that all of them opposed ACT’s private member’s bill to introduce ... More >>
National releases "no defence" policy
Monday, 8 August 2005, 8:57 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today said that he was appalled by the National Party’s abandonment of any commitment to defence. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Monday, 8 August 2005, 8:56 am | ACT New Zealand
At election time there is much discussion of economic statistics, which often seem boring and remote from everyday life. However, a recent report from New Zealand accounting firm KPMG has changed all that in a flash and banished forever accountancy’s reputation ... More >>
Child support bill election-year window dressing
Friday, 5 August 2005, 3:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Social Welfare spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today labelled Labour's Child Support Amendment Bill as election-year window dressing. More >>
Access panel stalking horse for Labour
Thursday, 4 August 2005, 5:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
Jim Sutton still hasn't grasped the fundamental issue regarding public access to private land, which is that every landowner must retain the right to say who may or may not enter their property, says ACT Rural Affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff. More >>
Labour's Treaty time limits bogus
Thursday, 4 August 2005, 2:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that voters won't be fooled by Labour's Clayton's time limits for Treaty settlements. More >>
