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Figures Tell Story Horomia Would Rather Ignore

Friday, 16 April 2004, 2:13 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today wondered how Maori Affairs Minister Parekura Horomia could sleep at night, when he spent his days making excuses to hide the fact that he is failing his own people. More >>

Special Treatment For Maori Landowners

Friday, 16 April 2004, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand

Some local authorities are being far too tolerant of Maori landowners who don't pay their rates, at the expense of law-abiding landowners who do, ACT New Zealand Auckland-based MP Deborah Coddington said today. More >>

ACT Forces Govt U-turn On Export Levy

Friday, 16 April 2004, 8:26 am | ACT New Zealand

Education Minister Trevor Mallard's U-turn on the Education (Export Education Levy) Amendment Bill shows why ACT is the party of influence in Parliament, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>

Anderton Runs Million-Dollar Slush Fund

Thursday, 15 April 2004, 4:52 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today attacked Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton for running a million-dollar slush fund for wealthy business people. More >>

DPB Women Staying Single

Thursday, 15 April 2004, 1:41 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded that the Government tighten its control of the Domestic Purposes Benefit in a bid to halt the growing prevalence of family breakdown in New Zealand. More >>

ACT Urges More Maori Cultural Influence On Law

Thursday, 15 April 2004, 11:09 am | ACT New Zealand

At the ALRAC conference today, ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs and Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks will criticise the New Zealand Law Commission's proposals for courts to be more like hui, with dollops of indigenous ritual - but call for much greater ... More >>

Franks Speech - Treaty of Waitangi & Maori Affairs

Thursday, 15 April 2004, 11:08 am | ACT New Zealand

Australasian Law Reform Agencies Conference: Session 6, 2-00pm to 3-15pm Thursday 15 April 2004, Law School Lecture Theatres More >>

Time For Maori Caucus To Look Out For Maori

Thursday, 15 April 2004, 8:36 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused Labour's Maori caucus of spending too much time on the foreshore contemplating the seabed, and not enough time trying to ensure a decent future for wider Maori society. More >>

Westhaven Purchase Extreme Folly

Thursday, 15 April 2004, 12:05 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT New Zealand Acting Leader Ken Shirley today said that it was extreme folly for the Labour Government to purchase Westhaven Marina - as is its move to buy Hobson West Marina. More >>

The Column: Welfare Destroying Maori

Thursday, 15 April 2004, 12:04 am | ACT New Zealand

This week, the Column looks at how welfare dependency is crippling Maori, and urges Maori leaders to make a pro-active stand to improve the lot of the Maori people. More >>

Hospital Move Too Little Too Late

Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 2:57 pm | ACT New Zealand

Wellingtonians could have had greater certainty about the delivery of heart surgery sooner, had Health Minister Annette King set aside her Government's dislike of private health providers and directed Capital and Coast District Health Board to consider ... More >>

Give Juries A Real Job

Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 2:56 pm | ACT New Zealand

Labour's proposal to tinker with juries distracts attention from its refusal to undertake real criminal justice reform, ACT New Zealand Justice spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>

RMA Costing Jobs And Growth

Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 9:56 am | ACT New Zealand

Unacceptable delays and costs imposed by the Resource Management Act process are not confined solely to infrastructural processes, ACT New Zealand Acting Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>

Anderton's Job Machine Ducks Scrutiny

Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 12:45 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today labelled Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton a disgrace for trying to duck Parliamentary scrutiny for his Visitor Investor Programme. More >>

Richard Prebble’s The Letter

Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 12:01 am | ACT New Zealand

EASTER RECESS Parliament is in recess for three weeks coinciding with the first term school holidays. So many MPs have school-age children that Parliament has adjusted its program to the school calendar. More >>

DHBs Caught Between Rock And A Hard Place

Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 12:00 am | ACT New Zealand

District Health Boards are being sandwiched between Health Minister Annette King's funding and commercial reality, when it comes to recruiting and retaining the quality staff that the Minister and the public demand, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather ... More >>