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ACT New Zealand - Latest News [Page 332]

John Tamihere humiliates PM

Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 2:38 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Rodney Hide today said that John Tamihere has trampled all over the Prime Minister and the Labour Party. More >>

Clark must stop dithering over Tamihere

Monday, 11 April 2005, 5:31 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that Helen Clark's dithering over John Tamihere's remarks was compounding the offence he has caused. More >>

ACT's The Letter - Monday April 11th, 2005

Monday, 11 April 2005, 1:56 pm | ACT New Zealand

The latest revelations from the Wishart interview with Tamihere have given the PM just the ammunition she needed. Tamihere is now toast. She didn't want to be seen beating up a guy who the public see as telling the truth about her government. But ... More >>

Fractious Factions Within Labour

Monday, 11 April 2005, 9:12 am | ACT New Zealand

This week Newman Online looks at how John Tamihere did the full monty and gave us a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the Clark Labour Government. More >>

PM must accept Tamihere's resignation

Monday, 11 April 2005, 9:06 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that Prime Minister Helen Clark has no option but to accept John Tamihere's resignation from the Labour Party. More >>

189 percent increase in traffic tickets

Monday, 11 April 2005, 8:57 am | ACT New Zealand

The number of traffic tickets issued by police has almost tripled in five years, ACT Deputy Leader and police spokesman Dr Muriel Newman revealed today. More >>

PM must accept Tamihere's resignation

Sunday, 10 April 2005, 8:33 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that Prime Minister Helen Clark has no option but to accept John Tamihere's resignation from the Labour Party. More >>

Rodney Hide Speech - ACT on growth

Friday, 8 April 2005, 11:16 am | ACT New Zealand

Rodney Hide, Leader - ACT New Zealand, Speech to Parties for Growth Forum, Thorndon Club, 4 Katherine Avenue, Wellington; 6.00pm, Thursday 7 April 2005 More >>

ACT supports property rights members bill

Thursday, 7 April 2005, 2:42 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today pledged ACT's full support for United Future MP Gordon Copeland's member's Bill to extend the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 to protect property rights. More >>

Govt closes down Parliament 1st time in 100 years

Thursday, 7 April 2005, 8:17 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Rodney Hide said tonight he was appalled that Michael Cullen had deliberately withheld Ministers from the House to collapse Parliament just after 7:30pm. More >>

118,553 NZers wait for their Specialist Assessment

Thursday, 7 April 2005, 12:32 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT health spokesman Heather Roy today revealed that 118,553 New Zealanders were waiting for their First Specialist Assessment at the country's 21 District Health Board's in December 2004, an increase of 5,102 since September when 113,451 were ... More >>

Strip police of traffic duties

Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 11:25 am | ACT New Zealand

Wellington city's frontline police staffing crisis shows the time has come to seriously consider splitting traffic duties from the police, ACT police spokesman and deputy leader Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>

Welfare benefits cost taxpayers $23 million day

Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 8:11 am | ACT New Zealand

New social welfare statistics show benefits are costing taxpayers $23 million a day, or almost $1 million an hour, ACT deputy leader Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>

Child abuse cases soar under Labour

Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 2:25 pm | ACT New Zealand

The number of Maori children being emotionally abused has more than doubled in the last five years under Labour, ACT deputy leader Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>

Tax Cuts Not Strikes Key To Better Wages

Monday, 4 April 2005, 3:16 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Rodney Hide today repeated his call that under ACT's proposed tax cuts workers would receive a bigger boost in their take home pay. More >>

Hide on Tamihere

Monday, 4 April 2005, 3:03 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Rodney Hide has written to Prime Minister Helen Clark, United Future Leader Peter Dunne and Progressive Party Leader Jim Anderton. More >>

ACT's The Letter - 4 April 2004

Monday, 4 April 2005, 3:02 pm | ACT New Zealand

John Tamihere's statements in "Investigate" are more devastating than the media reports. He claims our government is run by a group of anti-family homosexuals, who pander to trade unions and double cross their coalition partners e.g. More >>

"Newman Online" - Working For Families

Monday, 4 April 2005, 9:07 am | ACT New Zealand

This week, Newman Online looks at the Labour Party’s election year spin, which taxpayers are being forced to spend $17 million to help promote, is that the ‘Working for Families’ package is the biggest innovation since Michael Joseph Savage created the welfare ... More >>

Prime Minister Helen Clark's "losing it" - ACT

Monday, 4 April 2005, 8:28 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today in response to Helen Clark's extraordinary attacks on the ACT party that she is clearly "losing it". More >>

Newman Speech Extract - Sunrise Rotary Club

Monday, 4 April 2005, 12:02 am | ACT New Zealand

All the signs are there that the 2005 general election is just around the corner: select committees with no work, the new speaker losing control of the House, and Helen Clark getting rattled. An election will probably be called after the budget, ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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