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Cellular Scam At Taxpayers' Expense
Friday, 13 August 2004, 9:46 am | ACT New Zealand
Only an irresponsible Minister, from a financially irresponsible Government, could believe that dishing out free cell phones to Open Polytechnic students is a sensible use of taxpayer money, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said ... More >>
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle: Aug 13 2004
Friday, 13 August 2004, 12:57 am | ACT New Zealand
Let's hear it for truckies. They get such bad press. This week Michael Laws questioned whether they'd have enough brains to be in the All Blacks. More >>
Energy Minister Must Heed Warnings
Friday, 13 August 2004, 12:06 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Energy Spokesman Ken Shirley today urged Energy Minister Pete Hodgson to heed the warnings of Electricity Committee Chair Roy Hemmingway, who has criticised the Labour Government for under-writing Genesis Energy's new combined cycle gas generating ... More >>
ACC Farmers Levy Overkill
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 5:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said farmers, with perfect safety records, could expect no relief from ACC's proposal to increase farmers' levies by a whopping nine percent. More >>
Wisconsin, Setting The Standard For Welfare Reform
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 11:20 am | ACT New Zealand
“Newman Online” Weekly commentary by Dr Muriel Newman MP Wisconsin – Setting The Standard For Welfare Reform More >>
Prebble Files For Appeal Against Awatere Huata
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 12:21 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand MP Richard Prebble today announced that he and fellow ACT MP Ken Shirley had filed an application in the new Supreme Court for leave to bring a civil appeal against Donna Awatere Huata MP's injunction preventing ACT from having her ... More >>
Indecent Haste Over Foreshore Bill
Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 3:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand's representative on the Select Committee hearing the Foreshore and Seabed Bill, Ken Shirley, today urged Labour to pause and await the decision of the Privy Council - which is hearing the Port of Marlborough appeal to the New Zealand ... More >>
Welfare Symposium
Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 2:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today invited the media to attend, what will be, the most important symposium on welfare reform to be held in New Zealand in 2004. More >>
Council Outrage Hypocritical
Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 11:32 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today accused the country's local authorities of being hypocritical on their reported concerns over being stripped of land they own by the impending Foreshore and Seabed Bill. More >>
Labour's PC Agenda Weakening Families
Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 10:19 am | ACT New Zealand
Most New Zealanders would believe that a government should be focused on making the country a better place to live. That is why it is so disappointing to realise that that is not the goal of this Labour Government. Instead we have a government ... More >>
The Defence Of New Zealand
Wednesday, 11 August 2004, 12:21 am | ACT New Zealand
Speech to Australian Defence College - Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies; Intercontinental Hotel; Wellington; Wednesday August 11, 2004. More >>
Teachers' Pay: Here We Go Again
Tuesday, 10 August 2004, 11:15 am | ACT New Zealand
If secondary school teachers are unhappy with the new pay deal being offered by the Government, what will happen when the pay round concludes in three years, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Call For Commonsense In Coromandel
Friday, 6 August 2004, 1:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Environment and Conservation Spokesman Ken Shirley today called on the Labour Government to heed an Environment Court decision on mining in the Coromandel and lift the outright access ban imposed under the Crown Minerals Act. More >>
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle: 6 Aug 2004
Friday, 6 August 2004, 10:32 am | ACT New Zealand
Goodbye, Auntie Phillippa - Last week my auntie went shopping and died. She had a stroke, was taken to hospital, but couldn't survive. On Thursday this week nearly 500 people came to celebrate her life at her funeral in Wellington. More >>
Sex Lepers Must Go Free
Friday, 6 August 2004, 9:54 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today drew attention to the uproar surrounding the release of yet another sex offender, this time to scare parents of children at Tauranga's Selwyn Ridge School - or wherever he ends up. More >>
Farmers' ACC Levy Hike Disgraceful
Friday, 6 August 2004, 9:52 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today slammed ACC's attempt to increase farmers' levies, and described the move as unfair and discriminatory. More >>
Smith's Bill Unprincipled, Says Eckhoff
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 3:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said Dr Nick Smith's Private Members Bill would better reflect the Greens' or Progressive Party's phobia over foreign investment, than that of a senior member of the National Party. More >>
Maharey Must Resign
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 1:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today demanded that Tertiary Education Minister Steve Maharey resign, after a report confirmed that Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology wrongly spent over $80,000 to attract students. More >>
Arts Minister Reckless With Film Funding Dollar
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 11:45 am | ACT New Zealand
It is totally irresponsible for Prime Minister Helen Clark to recklessly spend $3 million of taxpayers' money on a feature film when she can't guarantee the investment is secure, ACT New Zealand Arts, Culture and Heritage Spokesman Deborah Coddington ... More >>
Newman Online: Welfare: the Problems and Solutions
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 9:46 am | ACT New Zealand
If you are concerned about New Zealand’s welfare culture you should read this speech, delivered to the Australian Centre for Independent Studies annual Consilium conference. Then, you should register for our 2004 Welfare Reform Symposium – to be held in Parliament ... More >>
