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Time For Truth On Sickness Benefit
Monday, 26 July 2004, 12:45 am | ACT New Zealand
Any Minister who can make sickness beneficiary numbers grow more in four years than they did in four decades should be looking for a new job, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Convicting And Acquitting Is Not A Game
Friday, 23 July 2004, 1:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today called on Justice Minister Phil Goff to add into his double jeopardy reform a closure of the technical loophole that acquitted a young thug on a brutal murder charge. More >>
Liberty Belle: Deb's Fundraising Dinner Speech
Friday, 23 July 2004, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand
This week Sir Robert Jones was guest speaker at my fund-raising dinner in my North Shore electorate. He entertained the 180-strong gathering with a hilarious - but also thoughtful - response to Mayor John Banks' rubbishing of Wellington at Stephen ... More >>
Prime Minister's Head In The Clouds
Friday, 23 July 2004, 8:52 am | ACT New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark's suggestion that she might need a private plane - instead if apologising for mis-using traffic law privileges - shows that she has delusions of grandeur, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Parole Hearings Of Victims Irrelevant
Friday, 23 July 2004, 8:51 am | ACT New Zealand
The announcement that victims will now be heard by a full division of the Parole Board - instead of just a representative member - is a sign of eagerness to placate victims, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Migration Trend Reveals Skills Exodus
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 12:24 am | ACT New Zealand
Migration statistics released today paint a worsening picture of skilled New Zealanders leaving the country permanently, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Immigration Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Labour's Fatherless Generation
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 12:17 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded that the Government front up and admit that it is incapable of making decisions at the hard end of welfare, after new information showed that more children than ... More >>
What Use Is The Maori Caucus?
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 12:14 am | ACT New Zealand
It is ironic that the only Parliamentary Party to have a Maori Caucus is doing less than any other to help ensure that Maori children have a chance of a decent future, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Social welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman observed ... More >>
Another Confirmation Of Parole Bungling
Wednesday, 21 July 2004, 4:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Corrections Spokesman Stephen Franks today renewed ACT's call for the abolition of the parole system, in light of the bungling that has now allowed offenders an opportunity to re-open parole decisions. More >>
Treaty Time Limits - Let's Look Forward, Not Back
Wednesday, 21 July 2004, 1:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide today said it was good news that the Government was considering time limits for lodging historical Treaty claims and tighter targets for settling claims. More >>
PM To Blame For Motorcade Madness
Wednesday, 21 July 2004, 8:41 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today urged Police Commissioner Rob Robinson not to pursue a witch-hunt against officers who plainly thought they were doing the best they could for their boss in breaking speed limits to get Prime ... More >>
Rugby And PR Not Worth Lives
Wednesday, 21 July 2004, 12:23 am | ACT New Zealand
In breaking the law to make it to the rugby on time, Prime Minister Helen Clark has undermined the good work done to reduce speeding on our roads, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Backward Greens Must Move Forward
Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 2:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today urged the Green Party to change its backward and archaic attitude and cast aside its xenophobic opposition towards foreign investment in New Zealand. More >>
The Letter
Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 8:27 am | ACT New Zealand
LABOUR’S CHANCE NZ’s economic performance is truly outstanding. Commodity prices are up 26% on last year; a rise that has compensated farmers and manufacturers for the high dollar. Merchandise exports for May were $3.3 billion – a record. NZ appears ... More >>
Rates Shocker In Inflation Data -- Ken Shirley
Monday, 19 July 2004, 12:24 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Local Government Spokesman Ken Shirley today called on Labour to take responsibility for Kiwi households being hit with a 10.4 percent rise in council rates over the past 12 months, as revealed in consumer price inflation data released ... More >>
More Government = Higher Power Prices
Monday, 19 July 2004, 12:22 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Energy Spokesman today labelled electricity price rises of 10.4 percent over the past year - revealed in data released as part of the consumer price index - the fruits of Labour's increasing government domination and regulation of ... More >>
ACT On Huata Decision
Friday, 16 July 2004, 2:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide today expressed disappointment with the Court of Appeal's decision not to uphold the High Court's judgement that ACT is entitled to request that Speaker Jonathan Hunt declare Donna Awatere Huata's Parliamentary ... More >>
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle - 16 July 2004
Friday, 16 July 2004, 1:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
I have in my office a work of art that I offer for sale. My asking price is fifty grand. I call my work of art "dregs" (notice the trendy lack of a capital letter). "dregs" is an empty coffee mug with authentic coffee caked around the bottom. It ... More >>
Patients To Suffer Under Labour Bribe
Friday, 16 July 2004, 10:58 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today accused the Labour Government of re-packaging yet another pre-election voter bribe, this time with a big sell of accelerating its primary healthcare PHO roll out. More >>
McIntosh Release Highlights Labour's Failure
Friday, 16 July 2004, 12:44 am | ACT New Zealand
The decision to released recidivist sex offender Lloyd McIntosh from prison shows just how many things are wrong with Justice Minister Phil Goff's 2002 so-called `reforms', ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
