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Give Scholarship back to rightful owners
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 9:24 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today called on the Labour Government to do the right thing and allow the New Zealand Educational Scholarship Trust to once again run scholarship exams and end the debacle that NZQA has caused. More >>
ACT's The Letter - WHAT'S UP
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 8:29 am | ACT New Zealand
The Letter - WHAT'S UP We pass over National's promise to keep Kiwibank, and the Cullen fund, etc. Labour is in continuing trouble with NCEA. Mallard is about to discover that having a Crown representative sign cheques for the Wananga will not ... More >>
Cancer treatment loser in Govt package
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 8:23 am | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government's move to spend a paltry 12 percent of its total $40 million cancer control package on cancer treatment is a disgrace, ACT Health spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
ACT's The Letter Monday 7 March 2005
Monday, 7 March 2005, 4:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
We pass over National's promise to keep Kiwibank, and the Cullen fund, etc. Labour is in continuing trouble with NCEA. Mallard is about to discover that having a Crown representative sign cheques for the Wananga will not help. The Crown already has ... More >>
Newman OnLine: Sheltered workshops face extinction
Monday, 7 March 2005, 9:43 am | ACT New Zealand
This week, Newman Online looks at the Labour Party’s Disabled Persons Employment Promotion (Repeal and Related Matters) Bill, and what it means for sheltered workshops throughout New Zealand. More >>
Minister shouldn?t reject nuclear power outright
Friday, 4 March 2005, 4:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
The new Energy Minister Trevor Mallard's outright rejection of even considering the nuclear power option is confirmation of Labour's foolish adherence to cold war mantras, says ACT's Energy spokesman Ken Shirley. More >>
Liberty Belle - Thu, 03 Mar 2005
Friday, 4 March 2005, 2:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
These lunacy sightings seem to be well received - nothing like a little light nonsense on a Friday afternoon. The stories make you want to weep with frustration at how bureaucratic this country is becoming. More >>
National now backs Jim Anderton's KiwiBank
Friday, 4 March 2005, 11:05 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today said it was clear that John Key has not only wrestled control of National's economic policy, he's imported all the Left's dopey ideas. More >>
Petrol and power hikes - double whammy
Friday, 4 March 2005, 9:38 am | ACT New Zealand
Energy statistics released this week prove the Labour Government has been milking power customers through its SOEs, ACT Energy spokesman Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Plunketline's problems predicted
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 5:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
Young Kiwi parents' worst fears about Labour's merger of Plunketline into Healthline have been realised, ACT Health spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Franks calls for amendment to Arms Bill
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 5:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today called on Police Minister George Hawkins to add an amendment to his Arms Amendment Bill, which is shortly to have its first debate in Parliament. More >>
Labour drives Kiwis offshore
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
The latest migration figures confirm that Helen Clark is driving thousands of Kiwis offshore, ACT Deputy Leader and Immigration spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Crisis in school funding
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 11:59 am | ACT New Zealand
Associate Education Minister David Benson-Pope is just plain wrong when he argues that schools have enough money because they manage to balance their books, ACT Education spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Wananga hides thousands of unemployed
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 4:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Ken Shirley today said the Minister for Social Development and Employment did well to duck and dive answering his question in parliament today on the number of beneficiaries enrolled in Te Wananga o Aotearoa's Mahi Ora course. More >>
Labour spin can't hide rise in violent crime
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 3:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Police spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today said Kiwis would take cold comfort in the fact that violent crime is supposedly down in the last year given in reality violent crime has skyrocketed since Labour took office. More >>
Labour pumps up taxes... again
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 1:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Transport spokesman Deborah Coddington today slammed the Labour Government's decision to ratchet up petrol taxes by five cents a litre from April 1. More >>
Response to Government's 'Package of Actions'
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 8:57 am | ACT New Zealand
"We would have welcomed a full Commission of Inquiry into this matter which would have been able to address the full range of allegations that have made about Te Wananga o Aotearoa" said Tariana Turia today, in response to the Government's proposals to ... More >>
ACT's The Letter is Posted
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
Parliament resumes this week with Labour hoping the recess has allowed it to regroup. We will be watching to see if National MP Murray McCully turns up and Don Brash decides to participate. The Hansard record shows last week's story was factual. We could ... More >>
What the Relationships Bill should look like
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 8:19 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today released a checklist of things he says the Relationships (Statutory References) Bill should, and should not, deal with when it is reported back from the Justice and Electoral Select Committee. More >>
Shirley calls for urgent debate on wananga
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 8:19 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Ken Shirley has written to Speaker Jonathan Hunt seeking an urgent parliamentary debate on Labour's moves to hand over Te Wananga O Aotearoa's financial control to a Crown observer as announced by Trevor Mallard this afternoon. More >>
