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DHBs face $105m deficit next year
Monday, 27 June 2005, 2:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
New information confirms that the forecast combined deficit for District Health Boards is expected to grow to $105 million, ACT Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
ACT's The Letter - Monday, 27 June 2005
Monday, 27 June 2005, 2:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
The outcome of the election has come down to how the public reacts to National's tax package. It's high stakes politics. If tax cuts are regarded as too big the party loses credibility. If too little they will be dismissed as swapping chewing gum for ... More >>
What's Happened To Tax And Welfare Plans ?
Monday, 27 June 2005, 2:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today called on National to 'fess up about what it's doing with its tax and welfare policies. More >>
Overseas benefit fraudsters owe taxpayers $53m
Monday, 27 June 2005, 1:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Welfare spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded answers from the Social Development and Employment Minister after new information revealed 18,675 former beneficiaries have moved overseas owing taxpayers $53 million. More >>
Newman Online By Muriel Newman
Monday, 27 June 2005, 9:22 am | ACT New Zealand
This week Newman Online looks at the Labour Government’s feminist agenda and how it is undermining the New Zealand family. More >>
Ministers must front over police rescue chaos
Monday, 27 June 2005, 9:21 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that Police Minister George Hawkins and Transport Safety Minister Harry Duynhoven must front up after police botched the search and rescue attempt of the stricken fishing boat Iron Maiden 16 August last year. More >>
Newman Online Weekly commentary by Muriel Newman
Friday, 24 June 2005, 6:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
This week Newman Online looks at the Labour Government’s feminist agenda and how it is undermining the New Zealand family. More >>
Hollow threats
Friday, 24 June 2005, 6:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
Jim Sutton is now resorting to hollow threats to forward his stalled rural access policy, commonly known as ‘right to roam’ says ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs spokesman. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Friday, 24 June 2005, 2:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
Parliament is now heading into a four week recess and in the build up to the election you can expect to see politicians all over the country. More >>
GDP slump shows tax cuts needed now - ACT
Friday, 24 June 2005, 2:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
News that GDP growth has slumped highlights why tax cuts are needed urgently, ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today. More >>
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle
Friday, 24 June 2005, 1:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
There was a good doco on TV last night. Can’t remember the name, or which channel, but it involved stakeouts to catch men trying to buy sex from young girls of 14 or 16. No, this wasn’t in Bangkok, but in Auckland. South Auckland. It’s now illegal ... More >>
A welfare system for the truly needy
Friday, 24 June 2005, 10:33 am | ACT New Zealand
Tax is shaping up to be the big political issue of this election and the only party to have consistently called for tax cuts is ACT. More >>
Tikanga Maori doesn’t reduce re-offending
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 5:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
Hiding in the race-based funding review masked in bland officialese is the announcement of a reversal of the foundation plank of Labour’s corrections policy, ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Race based funding review brown wash-ACT
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 5:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour’s review of race based funding is a huge defeat for Labour’s hard man Trevor Mallard, ACT leader Rodney Hide said today. More >>
This Land Is Your Land - Not Labour's
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 4:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
Thank you all for coming to Parliament to deliver that message to Helen Clark and her Labour Party caucus today. More >>
National must back talk with walk
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 2:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that Don Brash was right to equate the protection of our freedom and democracy with the defence of private property rights. The three go hand in hand. More >>
Child abuse cases soar 45% in one year
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 11:37 am | ACT New Zealand
It is a scandal that child abuse cases have skyrocketed 45 percent to a record 13,017 cases in the last year, ACT Deputy Leader and Welfare spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Environment Waikato out of control
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 5:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
It’s little wonder that our investment in new forests has diminished to a small fraction of the former levels and that large forestry companies are looking to leave New Zealand, ACT MP Ken Shirley said today More >>
Who's the failure now, Minister?
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 10:22 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Deborah Coddington today called on Climate Control Convenor Pete Hodgson to stop blaming his advisors and accept full responsibility for hoodwinking the nation over the Kyoto Protocol effects. More >>
Actions speak louder than words, Winston
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 9:38 am | ACT New Zealand
Winston Peters’ speech on NZ First’s Treaty of Waitangi policy fails to answer a number of the telling questions concerning the Treaty grievance industry, ACT Maori Affairs spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
