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Vote ACT to dump NCEA
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 4:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today said it was a bit rich for the National Party to call for an overhaul of the discredited NCEA. More >>
On wananga Clark has only herself to blame
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 4:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark and her Government are solely to blame for hundreds of extra millions being poured into Te Wananga O Aotearoa, ACT MP Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Household debt levels rocket under Labour
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 10:18 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide today revealed that the average household debt is now $75,000 - an increase of 55 percent since Labour came to power. More >>
ACT supported 5-year sentence
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 12:40 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Associate Justice spokesman Deborah Coddington today said United Future's Marc Alexander should know it was she who first called for the maximum penalty for child pornographers to be increased from two to five years. More >>
Dunne distances himself from freedom
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 5:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
United Future's astonishing support for Labour's censorship amendment bill will enable the film censor to ban or restrict Christian videos, ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
More police needed to crunch gangs
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 4:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Police spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today called on Labour to bolster police numbers, in light of a warning from the Police Association that gang warfare is likely to rise as a result of the growing trade in methamphetamine drugs. More >>
ACT welcomes NCEA inquiry
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 3:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education spokesman Deborah Coddington today welcomed the Government's decision to hold an inquiry into the NCEA Scholarship debacle. More >>
Maori student body talking poppycock
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 12:39 am | ACT New Zealand
The National Maori Students' Association's claim that the student loan scheme breaches the Treaty of Waitangi should be thrown out of court, ACT Education spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Reason 3,046 why the NCEA must be dumped
Monday, 14 February 2005, 5:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
Political correctness in the so-called exam system of NCEA has surely reached its limit in the marking of the Scholarship papers, ACT Education spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
ACT's The Letter - Monday 14 February
Monday, 14 February 2005, 2:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
MPs have concluded that this years Orewa speech was a disaster. National did no polling. The propositions were not put to caucus. Katherine Rich was consulted and offered to resign before the speech was given. More >>
Labour must take responsibility for rate rise
Monday, 14 February 2005, 8:34 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Rodney Hide today said the Labour Party must accept responsibility for local government rate hikes. More >>
Liberty Belle 11 February 2005
Friday, 11 February 2005, 4:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
A break from Lunacy Sightings today – here are some edited extracts from my speech in the debate on the Prime Minister's Statement. More >>
Motherhood
Friday, 11 February 2005, 3:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
This week, Newman Online takes a closer look at Helen Clark and Don Brash’s views on motherhood, and explains why mothers and fathers should be encouraged and respected, not undermined. More >>
Employment figs. good news - but let's build on it
Friday, 11 February 2005, 2:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that the employment figures were good news and should be built on to provide New Zealand with a more prosperous future. More >>
Reason 3,045 why the NCEA should be dumped
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 5:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
Each day brings more evidence from parents calling for the NCEA to be scrapped, ACT Education spokesman Deborah Coddington said. More >>
Top judge currying favour with Govt?
Thursday, 10 February 2005, 1:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today warned that Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias will be seen as currying favour with the Labour Government after more than a year of frostiness. "Whether she wants to or not she is supporting them in their embarrassment ... More >>
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 >>
