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Auckland households face unrelenting attack
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 1:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today said the steep rate hikes proposed by the Auckland City Council for the coming financial year would add insurmountable pressure to households already under severe attack from central government. More >>
Traffic Fines Skyrocket 88 Percent
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 9:08 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Ken Shirley today said New Zealanders would be aghast at Police Minister George Hawkins' admission that the total value of traffic offence notices issued per year had skyrocketed by 87.7 percent between 2000 and 2004. More >>
Minister can't handle the worsening statistics
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 9:07 am | ACT New Zealand
It is an outrage that the Minister of Health seems indifferent to the fact that more New Zealanders could be dying from illness associated with not getting their required elective surgery in time, ACT Health spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
NCEA Debacle: Heads must roll
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 3:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education spokesman Deborah Coddington today called for heads to roll at the NZQA over the NCEA scholarship results debacle. More >>
Latest report confirms LAV purchase bungled
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 8:49 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today described Labour's highly controversial purchase of the 105 Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs) as Helen Clark's bungle. More >>
ACT slams Labour's election year vote-buying
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 3:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Social Welfare spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused the Labour Government of election year vote-buying. More >>
ACT: Tougher penalties for child pornographers
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 1:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Associate Justice spokesman Deborah Coddington today said she would be moving an amendment to the Film, Videos and Publications Classification Amendment Bill to toughen penalties for child pornographers. More >>
Inmate benefit payments show Govt soft-on-welfare
Tuesday, 8 February 2005, 10:45 am | ACT New Zealand
The mistaken payment of benefits to prison inmates is just another example of the Labour Government's soft-on-welfare approach, ACT Deputy Leader and Social Welfare spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
ACT"s The Letter - 7th February 2005
Monday, 7 February 2005, 4:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
In the first debate of the year the parties have begun their election campaigns and set out their pitches. More >>
Liberty Belle - Lunacy Sightings Vol. One
Monday, 7 February 2005, 11:01 am | ACT New Zealand
Thankyou for the fantastic response to last week's Liberty Belle. I hadn't realised how much the column was missed – gosh it's nice to be missed. I was overwhelmed with the lunacy sightings sent in. More >>
Newman Online 7 February 2005
Monday, 7 February 2005, 9:55 am | ACT New Zealand
This week’s Newman Online is based on Muriel’s speech in reply to the Prime Minister’s opening statement to Parliament. More >>
Will We Dump the Name or the Treaty?
Monday, 7 February 2005, 9:32 am | ACT New Zealand
Stephen Franks, Maori Affairs spokesman, ACT New Zealand - Waitangi Day Address; Backbencher Pub, Molesworth Street, Wellington; 1.15pm, Sunday 6 February 2005. More >>
Rodney Hide: Waitangi Day - New Zealand's Birthday
Monday, 7 February 2005, 9:29 am | ACT New Zealand
It is a pleasure to be celebrating our special day with some of our newest New Zealanders present. Welcome. It's a great pleasure to be nowhere near Waitangi. More >>
More smoking guns in Ruatoki Valley
Friday, 4 February 2005, 4:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today lodged an additional complaint with the police against any other carriers of firearms during the Ruatoki Valley insult to the Waitangi Tribunal and the flag on 16 January. More >>
Shirley attends Waitangi celebrations
Friday, 4 February 2005, 11:24 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Whip Ken Shirley today said he was pleased to respond to the invitation from Eruera Taurua and Te Hapae Ashby to represent ACT at the political forum at Te Tiriti O Waitangi Marae on Saturday at 2pm. More >>
Hide to deliver New Zealand Day speech
Friday, 4 February 2005, 9:54 am | ACT New Zealand
Rodney Hide, Leader of ACT New Zealand, will promote his vision for how New Zealand should celebrate its national birthday. The time has come to end the annual display of confrontation at Waitangi. Rodney will raise the proposition of February the 6th ... More >>
TVNZ funding Labour election year ploy
Friday, 4 February 2005, 9:49 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Broadcasting spokesman Deborah Coddington was today outraged at the Labour Party's manipulative ploy in an election year to shore up guaranteed coverage on State-owned television. More >>
Franks Writes To Police Commissioner Over Iti
Friday, 4 February 2005, 9:47 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today wrote to Police Commissioner Rob Robinson requesting that Tame Iti be prosecuted on three offences relating to the possession of a shotgun during a Tuhoe protest last month. More >>
Request For The Prosecution Of Tame Iti
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 3:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
As requested by the Minister of Police I formally request that Tame Iti be prosecuted for the following offences: More >>
Who's right, Mallard or the NZEI?
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 3:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
Education Minister Trevor Mallard must front up and tell the truth regarding pay equity for early childhood teachers, ACT Education spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
