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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 >>
'No-Go' Zones Not The Solution
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 4:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
Community response to the Government's Limited Employment Locations - or `no-go' zones - shows that, once again, Labour has got it wrong, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
ACT Commends Crown Appeal
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 4:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Crown appeal against Steven Williams' 15 years non-parole sentence, for murdering Coral-Ellen Burrows, is good news - parole must be abolished but, until then, we must remove the weasel words from our law, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen ... More >>
Muriel Newman's The Column
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 12:20 am | ACT New Zealand
The Column this week - is the text of a speech delivered to Rotary - looks at the devastating effect that political correctness has had on our society, and asks how we can reverse the damage. More >>
Free Water Claim An Insult
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 12:13 am | ACT New Zealand
Meridian Energy's claim that farmers were after `free' water is as insulting as it is inaccurate, and it is wrong for Meridian CEO Dr Keith Turner to imply that irrigators want `free' water to enrich themselves, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs ... More >>
Seabed And Foreshore Shambles
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 5:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today predicted that Labour would be forced to abandon its plan to give Maori customary title over most of New Zealand's coastline. More >>
Helen Clark Has Changed Her Tune
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 5:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
Today's revelations that Taranaki District Health Board has paid around $370,000 in costs, and a settlement package to its former CEO, makes a farce of Prime Minister Helen Clark's 1999 election rhetoric, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy ... More >>
DHB Blowout Due To Labour Double-Speak
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 2:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
Christchurch Hospital's multi-million dollar budget blowout - and the resulting threats of service cuts - is the direct result of Health Minister Annette King's double-speak, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Time To Prove Job Jolt Is For Real
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 2:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
Today's release of the `Limited Employment Locations' alert sheet, for Work and Income case managers, gives Labour an opportunity to prove that the `Jobs Jolt' is more than just window-dressing, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel ... More >>
