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Questions For Mr Goff
Monday, 4 October 2004, 1:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks this morning suggested questions that should be put to Justice Minister Phil Goff when he emerged from today's Cabinet meeting. More >>
PowerCo Takeover Debacle Instructive
Monday, 4 October 2004, 1:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
There is a good lesson to be learned from the Prime PowerCo takeover spectacle, ACT New Zealand Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Coddington: Fixing Education - Government Butt Out
Monday, 4 October 2004, 9:12 am | ACT New Zealand
Deborah Coddington Speech to the ACT Upper South Regional Conference; The George Hotel, 50 Park Tce, Christchurch; Saturday October 2, 2004 More >>
Rodney Hide's Trust The People Speech
Monday, 4 October 2004, 9:10 am | ACT New Zealand
Rodney Hide Speech to ACT Upper South Regional Conference; The George Hotel, 50 Park Tce, Christchurch; Saturday October 2, 2004 More >>
Maharey Claims Success Where There Is None
Monday, 4 October 2004, 9:08 am | ACT New Zealand
Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey's claims today, that Labour has helped more sole parents into work, are simply misleading, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
King Responsible For Emergency Waiting Times
Monday, 4 October 2004, 12:38 am | ACT New Zealand
Health Minister Annette King's scorn of concerns over the reasons surrounding long waits for treatment at accident & emergency departments is proof that she is not fit to be Minister, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Political Patronage Overrides Property Rights
Friday, 1 October 2004, 2:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
The farming community can take cold comfort from the appointment of the Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Board announced yesterday by the Labour Government, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
Newman On-Line: Long-Term Unemployment
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 2:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
This week, Newman On-Line looks at the pitfalls of a welfare system that focuses on short-term unemployed, leaving the long-term unemployed to languish on the scrapheap or rip off the system. More >>
Is Mr Peters Sincere On The Treaty?
Thursday, 30 September 2004, 10:20 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today commended parts of New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters' Treaty policy but questioned its sincerity, saying that what Mr Peters does with his vote is more telling than what he says. More >>
ERO Report Reveals Dumbing Down Of Education
Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 9:37 am | ACT New Zealand
A disturbing new report, showing more than a third of new primary and nearly half of secondary teachers aren't up to standard, highlights the dumbing down of teacher training in New Zealand, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said ... More >>
Submission Deadline Must Be Extended: Newman
Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 4:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Dr Muriel Newman today urged the Government to extend the deadline for submissions on proposed changes to residential property depreciation rates, after a stunning response to her website that seeks to oppose Labour's latest ... More >>
State House Vandals Cost Taxpayers Millions
Tuesday, 28 September 2004, 11:00 am | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government has forked out a whopping $43 million repairing tenant-damaged state houses, but only recovered a third of that sum since 2001, ACT New Zealand Associate Social Welfare Spokesman Deborah Coddington revealed today. More >>
The Letter Monday 27 September 2004
Monday, 27 September 2004, 5:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
As predicted by The Letter, Clark’s plan to do a cabinet reshuffle has been destabilising and the PM has had to insist she never intended dropping Ministers. After six years one would normally expect at least four ministerial retirements next election, but ... More >>
When Will Swain Regain Control Of Prisons?
Monday, 27 September 2004, 11:40 am | ACT New Zealand
It's obvious that Corrections Minister Paul Swain is completely out of the loop on the prison overcrowding crisis - in fact, it's hard to see that he's in charge of anything to do with prisons at all, ACT New Zealand Corrections Spokesman Stephen ... More >>
Transtasman SOS Need Not Have Been
Monday, 27 September 2004, 10:09 am | ACT New Zealand
Desperate times call for desperate measures, but difficulties with the rising number of heart patients on Auckland Hospital's waiting lists are the result of bad planning and the unacceptable Government ideology that private hospitals must only be used ... More >>
Newman On-Line: Grassroots Democracy
Saturday, 25 September 2004, 4:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
This week, Newman On-Line looks at the controversial issue of underage abortion, and asks if parents have the right to know. More >>
Coddington’s Liberty Belle
Friday, 24 September 2004, 4:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
How is it that nearly everyone you speak to these days has their own taxi horror story? Everyone except, it seems, the present and past Ministers of Transport who appeared at the Taxi Federation's annual conference this year and said there can't ... More >>
Unallocated Cases Doubled
Friday, 24 September 2004, 4:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today released new information showing that the number of unallocated cases of potential child abuse held by the Department of Child, Youth and Family have more than doubled ... More >>
Labour's Greed Will Never End
Friday, 24 September 2004, 2:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
So long as Labour is the Government, it will never have enough money - it will simply keep robbing hard-working New Zealanders of ever-increasing amounts in tax until it is finally kicked out of office, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Dr Muriel Newman ... More >>
Health Funding Exposed
Friday, 24 September 2004, 11:34 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today released new information showing that Health Minister Annette King's official health funding increases, detailed by Labour in the Budget, grossly overstate real funding changes to District Health Boards. More >>
