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Carter Must Approve Pike River Access Now
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 8:19 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today called on Conservation Minister Chris Carter to overturn his department's advice and approve the access allowing the Pike River coal project to proceed. More >>
Cult Spirituality Leaves Lahar Risk
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 8:18 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today said that the Government's re-affirmation of its refusal to clear a trench to release crater lake overspill is evidence of its conversion from rational materialism to spiritual quackery. More >>
Mt Ruapehu Decision Negligent
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 12:11 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today slammed Conservation Minister Chris Carter and the Labour Government for failing to act on a known and predictable threat to public safety and infrastructure. More >>
Prison Population Increase: Spin Or Substance?
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 5:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
We need much more information before the Government can be believed in its claim that tougher sentencing and parole laws are pushing up New Zealand's prison population, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Rural Health Plight Entirely Predictable
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 2:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today said it was too late for rural community leaders to fight for a say on health issues, as Labour has already rushed through what can only be described as cursory consultation of the STV At-Large voting ... More >>
Parker Must Front Over Crime Stats
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 11:36 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman and Otago-based MP Gerry Eckhoff today demanded that Otago MP David Parker explain just how his Government intends to address latest crime statistics showing that the region's crime rate has skyrocketed. More >>
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle: ACT Conference
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 10:42 am | ACT New Zealand
It was a good week for me this week. My youngest child started university, in the Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland. More >>
Labour = Violent Crime
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 8:50 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today expressed outrage that - after four years of Labour governance, spin and excuses - violent crime has skyrocketed a shocking 28.2 percent since 1999. More >>
ACT's The Letter Monday 8 March 2004
Monday, 8 March 2004, 4:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ACT party held a very successful annual conference in Christchurch over the weekend. ACT believes the next government will be centre-right and ACT will go from being a party influencing policy to implementing policy. The adoption of ACT policies has ... More >>
Under-Funded, Under-Staffed, Under-Protected
Monday, 8 March 2004, 10:54 am | ACT New Zealand
Reports that police officers are now choosing to pay for their own body armour - rather than work unprotected - should come as no surprise to anyone used to Government apathy, ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Colour-Coded Health Funding
Monday, 8 March 2004, 9:02 am | ACT New Zealand
My major area of responsibility is health and, recently, I've been highlighting the insidious onset of race-based funding - especially in primary care. More >>
Catherine Judd Speech In Praise Of Individuals
Monday, 8 March 2004, 9:01 am | ACT New Zealand
Welcome, everyone, to our 10^th anniversary conference. I'm pleased to advise that, once again, reports of ACT's death have been grossly exaggerated. More >>
The Rise Of The Centre-Right
Monday, 8 March 2004, 9:00 am | ACT New Zealand
Ken Shirley Speech to the ACT Conference Hotel Grand Chancellor, Christchurch Sunday 7th March 2004 More >>
Prebble Speech: Where ACT Leads, Others Follow
Monday, 8 March 2004, 8:58 am | ACT New Zealand
Hon Richard Prebble's Speech to ACT's Tenth Annual Conference Hotel Grand Chancellor, 161 Cashel Street, Christchurch 10:20 am, Sunday 7 March 2004 More >>
Championing The Taxpayer
Monday, 8 March 2004, 8:57 am | ACT New Zealand
It is very rare - and, I suspect imprudent - to start a speech at your party's conference with a direct quote from somebody's Labour Prime Minister (she's not ours, but I assume she must belong to somebody). I quote from Hansard - Adjournment debate Christmas ... More >>
Ending Welfare As We Know It
Monday, 8 March 2004, 8:55 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand was formed as a ginger group to lobby for the rights of taxpayers and consumers. A major focus was the unfinished business of politics: finding a way to give the dis-enfranchised - who had lost their stake in society - a pathway to ... More >>
ACT Supports 'Abolish Parole' Campaign
Monday, 8 March 2004, 8:54 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today applauded the Napier City Council's willingness to debate a proposal to support Sensible Sentencing Trust's campaign to abolish parole. More >>
Tribunal Right, And Wrong, On Coastal Policy
Monday, 8 March 2004, 8:52 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks said today that the Waitangi Tribunal got three important things right, and three wrong, about Labour's seabed and foreshore proposal. More >>
Mallard Must Pay For Vicious Attack
Friday, 5 March 2004, 5:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today urged Prime Minister Helen Clark to remove Education Minister Trevor Mallard from the Education portfolio. More >>
Double-Standard On Southern Developments
Friday, 5 March 2004, 11:15 am | ACT New Zealand
It is interesting that, while vowing to fight the Skyline Enterprises/Ngai Tahu proposal - to build a gondola linking Queenstown and Milford Sound - Forest & Bird has remained silent on Project Aqua, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman ... More >>
