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Meat And Wool NZ Must Investigate Lamb Prices
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 12:39 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today urged Meat and Wool New Zealand - seen by most producers as an "independent referee" - to investigate the disparity in lamb and beef prices between the North and South Islands. More >>
Call an Election
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 3:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that he had the solution for the government's inability to legislate on the foreshore. "The constitutional convention is very clear. More >>
Peace In Our Time On Foreshore And Seabed
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 2:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
The key announcement today was that ancestral connection orders will be available for any Maori `group' that can show an `association' with an area of coastline, ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
What's Happening To Rural New Zealand?
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 1:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
What's happening to rural New Zealand? While, in the past, the rural community refused to meekly accept Government edicts, it would now appear that the fighting spirit has gone, and Government decrees are now being met with a degree of subservience. More >>
Time To Base Healthcare On Need, Not Race
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 1:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
If, as the Government claims, healthcare is delivered based on need - not race - what will Labour now do to address figures showing that the seriously mentally ill die earlier than other New Zealanders, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy ... More >>
Customary Title Destroys Property Law Certainty
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 12:05 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today slammed the Labour Government's reported deal to allow customary use rights for anyone, and said that it would destroy one of the jewels of our land law. More >>
Time For Action -- Dr Muriel Newman
Tuesday, 6 April 2004, 8:28 am | ACT New Zealand
Last week's vicious attack on two tourists at Whangarei Falls is a grim reminder of the violence and crime that is rife in our city. That two of the attackers were children, aged 14 and 17, is a worrying reminder that crime can be intergenerational ... More >>
Act's The Letter - 5 April 2004
Monday, 5 April 2004, 2:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Act Party's weekly look at curent events and their political implications More >>
Training Our Doctors For Export
Monday, 5 April 2004, 12:47 am | ACT New Zealand
The New Zealand Medical Association's claims, and figures released by the New Zealand Medical Council, confirm what everyone thought to be true about number of newly graduated doctors heading overseas - we continue to train more and more doctors for export, ... More >>
Ministry Of The Blatantly Obvious
Monday, 5 April 2004, 12:25 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today wondered why the Health Ministry spent more of its time investigating and stating the obvious, than actually trying to address the health issues facing New Zealanders today. More >>
Council Commended For Sensible Sentencing Support
Friday, 2 April 2004, 10:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today commended the Napier City Council's resolution to support the Sensible Sentencing Trust policy against parole and organising a public meeting, saying that councils have a legitimate role in countering ... More >>
Liberty-Belle, April 2 2004
Friday, 2 April 2004, 3:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
When I went into Parliament I got a call with Andy's gruff voice on the end of the phone: "Never forget where you came from," he barked at me. More >>
Truancy: Labour's Lost Children
Friday, 2 April 2004, 10:17 am | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government and its Education Ministry have completely lost track of hundreds of children who don't attend school, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington revealed today. More >>
Energy Minister's Blooper
Friday, 2 April 2004, 8:34 am | ACT New Zealand
The energy sector and related industries must be mortified by Energy Minister Pete Hodgson's announcement that the new Electricity Commission will engage in building generation capacity if others don't, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Energy Spokesman ... More >>
Exemptions Skyrocket Under Mallard
Friday, 2 April 2004, 12:00 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today revealed that the Government has given up on thousands of young New Zealanders, with new information showing that approvals for children to leave school early have risen 49 percent since 1999. More >>
Adult Sentences For Adult Crimes
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 1:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today called on the Government to reform youth justice by lowering the age of criminal responsibility, after a 14 year-old North Canterbury boy admitted to brutally raping a girl in a Kaiapoi cemetery. More >>
Euthanasia: Time For Some Honesty
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 11:39 am | ACT New Zealand
Medical and nursing professionals should be more forthcoming over the covert practice, among some, of assisting terminal patients to die earlier than they otherwise would, ACT New Zealand MP Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
Muriel Newman: The Winds Of Change
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 9:09 am | ACT New Zealand
The winds of change are now sweeping towards New Zealand’s Family Court. In a report to Parliament earlier this month, not only has the Law Commission recommended that the Family Court be more open but, both the former and present Chief Family Court ... More >>
RSA Should Defend Freedom
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 8:22 am | ACT New Zealand
I hope the national Returned Servicemen's Association joins sports organisers, school trustees, employers and others burdened by the Government's nanny state risk aversion, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Judges To Escape Minister Wilson's Thumb?
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 5:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
No one should mourn if the Labour Government has lost majority support for the Judicial Matters Bill, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
