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Police Sources Confirm Labour Apathy On 'P'
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 4:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused the Labour Government of not doing enough to stem the rising flood of methamphetamines that is currently sweeping the country. More >>
Depreciation Changes Must Be Canned
Thursday, 14 October 2004, 8:49 am | ACT New Zealand
With media reporting that Auckland house prices are plummeting at a rate of almost $500 a day, it is imperative that the Government scrap its proposed changes to residential property depreciation rates, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Housing Spokesman ... More >>
Heed The Police - Before It's To Late
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 5:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today urged the Government to heed Police Association President Greg O'Connor's call for more police, in order to meet the public's demand for greater security and police presence ... More >>
Govt Hypocritical Over Law Change
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 11:52 am | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government is patently hypocritical over changes to the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
Land Access Will Ensure Farmer Vigilantism
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 12:01 am | ACT New Zealand
A Taranaki farmer's decision to run an advertisement, warning trespassers on his property that he'll take the law into his own hands, is a sign of things to come if the Government's land access proposals become law, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs ... More >>
NCEA Survey Proves Parents Want Choice
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 2:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
When is Education Minister Trevor Mallard going to wake up to the fact that the NCEA is definitely not the "triumph" he claims it to be? ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Health Board STV Debacle Unacceptable
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today labelled the STV District Health Board elections an unacceptable shambles, and said that blaming the higher numbers of votes received in the last days was nothing more than a cop-out. More >>
Stephen Franks Speech Mid Canterbury Grasshoppers
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 8:58 am | ACT New Zealand
When we landed in Christchurch this afternoon the hostess told us not to release our belts, "for our comfort and safety". Apparently a long ago inquiry after a taxiing collision showed that some injuries might have been prevented if ... More >>
ACT's The Letter - Monday 11 October
Monday, 11 October 2004, 3:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
John Banks suffered a massive loss and the C&R, NZ's most successful electoral winning machine, its first defeat since the depression in 1938. More >>
Newman On-Line: Returning Power To The Judges
Monday, 11 October 2004, 9:57 am | ACT New Zealand
This week, Newman On-Line looks at the inconsistencies in Labour’s Sentencing Act, and considers ways to turn sentencing back into punishment for crime. More >>
Come Clean On Deception, Minister
Monday, 11 October 2004, 8:49 am | ACT New Zealand
It is time for Corrections Minister Paul Swain to tell us whether deceit is official policy for his agents, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Time To Get Moving On Wellington Roading
Monday, 11 October 2004, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
I hope that all Wellington MPs will now unite to ensure that we get Transmission Gully and other urgent roading improvements, given the years of confusion, bickering and indecision likely from Auckland local government, ACT New Zealand Wellington-based ... More >>
Police Denial Ducks DNA Issue
Friday, 8 October 2004, 8:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
Today's North Shore Police statement does not rebut concerns that an arbitrary police budget cap is allowing guilty criminals to escape detection, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Working Group Must Do More Than Just Talk
Friday, 8 October 2004, 8:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
Yet more money is having to be poured into Primary Healthcare to cope with problems that the Labour Government didn't anticipate when launching its flagship Primary Health Organisation programme, ACT New Zealand health Spokesman Heather Roy said ... More >>
Blame Goff For White-Collar Leniency
Friday, 8 October 2004, 9:06 am | ACT New Zealand
It is Justice Minister Phil Goff who should be taking the heat over white-collar crime leniency, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Time To Reconsider Native Species Trade
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 10:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today urged the Northland Conservation Board to keep an open mind when it considers a proposal - by one of its members - to back a trade in rare native species. More >>
'P' Research Highlights Labour Failure
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 4:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today claimed that the recent police-commissioned Massey University research on methamphetamine use had confirmed Labour's dismal failure to arrest the drug epidemic sweeping the ... More >>
ACT's The Letter - Monday 4 October 2004
Monday, 4 October 2004, 3:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Supreme Court begins its first case tomorrow, Prebble vs Huata at 10 am in the cellar of the Court of Appeal, Wellington. We will post the legal arguments at http://www.act.org.nz/supremecourt More >>
Deal With Youth Offenders Before It's Too Late
Monday, 4 October 2004, 3:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today urged the Government to catch and deal with young offenders now, before it is too late and they grow into hardened adult criminals who end up spending their lives in and ... More >>
Students Voting With Their Feet Over NCEA
Monday, 4 October 2004, 3:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today said she wasn't surprised that a growing number of students were deserting the NCEA and sitting Cambridge International Exams instead. More >>
