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Secrecy No Answer To Domestic Violence
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 1:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today predicted that New Zealand would never be able to reduce its levels of domestic violence so long as the Family Court protects perpetrators behind closed doors. More >>
Shirley Supports Ban On Committee Abuser
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 12:26 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand representative on the Select Committee hearing the Foreshore and Seabed Bill Ken Shirley to supported the actions of Chairman Russell Fairbrother in invoking a trespass order and effectively banning submitter H T Rikihana from ... More >>
Maori Party Talks Double-Speak
Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 12:24 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide today accused Maori Party Co-Leader Dr Pita Sharples of talking double-speak in claiming that the Maori Party was for all New Zealanders. More >>
Tragedy On Its Way
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 5:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
While the entire nation is aware of the dangers posed to the community by pulling police off the beat to guard prisoners, few are aware of the risks facing over-worked police and under-supervised prisoners, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Police Spokesman ... More >>
Labour Fleeces Public With Inflation
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 5:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand MP Ken Shirley today accused the Government of using inflation to fleece the New Zealand public, after new information obtained from Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen revealed that the annual gift duty threshold has not been adjusted ... More >>
Minister Deliberately Under-Spends
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 4:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today accused Health Minister Annette King of deliberately deceiving the public over the increases in health spending that have occurred since she took office. More >>
Employment Law Reform Bill Severely Flawed
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 1:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Employment Relations Law Reform Bill should be rejected by Parliament. It is ACT's view this Bill will result in significant deterioration in industrial relations, equity in the workforce, productivity, jobs and growth," said ACT Employment spokesman, ... More >>
Hide: The Maori Party
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 1:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
Rodney Hide: Speech to Wellington Central Rotary; Whitby Lounge, James Cook Hotel; Tuesday September 14, 2004. More >>
United Future Backslides Over Waitaki Bill
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 10:25 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today accused United Future of backsliding on its promise to support the allocation of Waitaki River water rights to Mackenzie Basin farmers. More >>
Coddington’s Liberty Belle – NCEA
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 10:24 am | ACT New Zealand
For the past nine years I've been beating my head against a concrete wall and finally the cracks are appearing. That wall started out in about 1995 as Lockwood Smith's "Seamless Education". It is now Trevor Mallard's NCEA. More >>
Time To Consider The Nuclear Power Option
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 9:44 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Energy Spokesman Ken Shirley today congratulated Environment Canterbury for at least being prepared to consider the option of nuclear power, and predicted that its public meetings and workshops would be well attended. More >>
Dinosaur Unions Drive Labour's Employment Law
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 9:42 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide today said that the Employment Relations Law Reform Bill shows the union movement is calling the shots within the Labour Government - not the needs of an innovative and growth-orientated economy. More >>
Thanks Mr Feary, Says Eckhoff
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 9:39 am | ACT New Zealand
The Conservation Department's bullying of a farming family will lose it any vestige of credibility, and cost taxpayers millions of dollars, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
Coddington’s Liberty Belle
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 9:19 am | ACT New Zealand
How did you meet your wife? Husband? Soul mate, significant other (as the psychiatrists say these days), life partner? For your sake, I hope it wasn’t over the water cooler at work. More >>
ACT's The letter
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 8:29 am | ACT New Zealand
GOING UP Even though it was predicted – Michael Cullen prematurely announced it – the increase in interest rates was the big news of the week. The Reserve Bank lifted the official cash rate from 6% to 6.25% and indicated there are more interest rises ... More >>
Widow's Plea Likely To Fall On Deaf Ears
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 12:43 am | ACT New Zealand
The heartfelt plea from the widow of murdered farmer Jack Nicholas to Prime Minister Helen Clark, to abandon proposals to legislate access to all named waterways, is likely to fall on deaf ears, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff ... More >>
Need Good Psychiatric Care? Kill Someone
Tuesday, 14 September 2004, 12:40 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today predicted that we would continue to see more tragedies, like the murder by mentally ill Otaki man Jesse Moore, until the Government accepts that it is not providing adequate facilities for the assessment ... More >>
Dunne Misleads Public With Kahawai Ads
Monday, 13 September 2004, 4:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The expensive newspaper ads taken out by United Future attempting to explain their curious position on the kahawai fishery is laughable" ACT New Zealand Whip Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Shirley Applauds Meridian Proposal
Monday, 13 September 2004, 8:15 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Energy and Environment Spokesman Ken Shirley today applauded Meridian Energy's plan for New Zealand to adopt tradeable water rights. More >>
Coddington’s Liberty Belle
Monday, 13 September 2004, 8:14 am | ACT New Zealand
This week the NZ Herald published a column I wrote on the overlooked implications of the Human Rights Tribunal decision on a prisoner not being allowed to view a letter written about him. For readers of Liberty Belle who don’t receive the Herald, here’s ... More >>
