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A Welfare System Gone Wrong
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 8:46 am | ACT New Zealand
This week the Column looks at a welfare system that is undermining our society, and asks why such flawed policies have not been modernised. More >>
Why Work For A Living?
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 12:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded that Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey explain just what it is that exempts aspiring artists from having to work for a living. More >>
ACT Shows the Way to Implement No Race-Based Law
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 12:25 am | ACT New Zealand
The ACT MPs have entered two bills to implement the no race law policy in the private members ballot, said ACT leader Richard Prebble today. More >>
Who's The REAL Racist?
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 10:42 am | ACT New Zealand
Allegations that the Opposition is promoting racial separatism are a bit rich coming from a Government that - new information shows - is creating separatism through social policies that are clearly failing the very people it purports to be helping, ACT ... More >>
Maharey Cannot Fight The Facts
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 8:15 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Housing Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today responded to Housing Minister Steve Maharey's underhanded attack on her scrutiny of Labour's race-based housing assistance programmes. More >>
Hardened Crims Too Soft For Cold Showers?
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 2:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
If prison inmates have found three days without hot water so uncomfortable as to issue riot threats, then perhaps the hot water should be left off a lot longer, ACT New Zealand Corrections Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Labour's Attacks On Dr Brash Hysterical
Monday, 16 February 2004, 4:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today said that the Labour Government's personal attacks on Dr Don Brash were now verging on the hysterical. More >>
Quit Spinning And Address Benefit Fraud, Labour
Monday, 16 February 2004, 2:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded answers from Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey, after new information shows that his Ministry does not record whether benefit debt is the result of overpayment ... More >>
ACT's The Letter - Monday 16 February 2004
Monday, 16 February 2004, 2:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
Don Brash’s Orewa speech was an earthquake that split the political landscape. Now it is producing an electoral landslide. On one side is middle NZ that has firmly returned to National and on the other is the Wellington elite and most media commentators. ... More >>
A Breach Of Law By de Bres?
Monday, 16 February 2004, 8:27 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today said that Attorney General Margaret Wilson should be trying to sack Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres, for his attack on Dr Brash's Orewa speech - as reported in today's Dominion Post. More >>
Prebble: Cooking Wine Crackdown Crazy
Monday, 16 February 2004, 8:26 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today criticised the Liquor Licensing Authority's decision to crack down on supermarkets selling rice-based cooking wine due to its high alcohol content, describing it as an over-zealous application of the law. More >>
Give Private Healthcare A Chance
Monday, 16 February 2004, 12:15 am | ACT New Zealand
Labour should consider a more broadminded attitude toward private sector involvement in healthcare - then it might not have to fork out taxpayers' money to have cancer patients treated in Australia, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy asked ... More >>
One Law For All
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 6:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble announced today that the ACT party is erecting billboards to support the One Law For All campaign. More >>
Two Sizes Two Laws
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 5:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble has put down Questions in the House to the Minister of Fisheries asking how it can be that two people arrested and charged for poaching and having in their possession undersized crayfish have been let off because they ... More >>
Fast-Track Project Aqua Legislation A Fizzer
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 4:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
All submitters before the Local Government and Environment Select Committee agree that the Project Aqua special legislation won't result in a better water allocation model for the Waitaki catchment, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and Committee Member ... More >>
Labour's No Show At ECO-N Launch A Disgrace
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 4:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today welcomed the launch of ECO-N - a new product to reduce nitrate leaching into waterways - but was disappointed at Labour's failure to send a representative. More >>
Labour Govt's Culture Of Extravagance
Thursday, 12 February 2004, 10:45 am | ACT New Zealand
Revelations that Government broadcasters are swanning off to a conference at a luxurious Fijian resort, spending at least $50,000, further confirms Prime Minister Helen Clark's idea of 'arts and culture' is the culture of excess, ACT New Zealand Broadcasting ... More >>
Honourable Lawyer Will Be Caged By Goff Law
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 4:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Palmerston North lawyer wanting to leave the Law Society, because it forces him to associate with crooked colleagues, puts his finger on the basic flaw in Justice Minister Phil Goff's Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill now before a Parliamentary Select ... More >>
Newman: Letting The Light Pierce The Darkness
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 4:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
This week the Column considers the actions of two Family Court judges who tried to remove the shroud of secrecy from their courts, and discusses what is needed to truly care for our most vulnerable children. More >>
Time To Show Mallard We've Had Enough
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 10:08 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today urged New Zealanders to voice their anger over Labour's school closures by marching on Parliament on February 24. More >>
