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Drop The Spin, Minister
Friday, 5 December 2003, 2:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today claimed that Transport Minister Paul Swain's latest proposal to almost halve the drink driving limit - from 80 to 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood - to further reduce the road ... More >>
Dont's Stop There, Labour
Friday, 5 December 2003, 2:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT's spokesman for Health, Heather Roy said today the advantages of private healthcare should be extended to patients on waiting lists. More >>
Private Hospitals For All?
Friday, 5 December 2003, 1:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble today praised the statement by Social Welfare Minister, Steve Maharey, that he was considering referring sickness beneficiaries on state waiting hospital lists to private hospitals, where the cost of the operation would ... More >>
Muriel Newman's Column: Anti-Family Zealots
Friday, 5 December 2003, 11:53 am | ACT New Zealand
Did the Labour Party really campaign on destroying the family, marginalising fathers, trivialising winning, and crushing ambition? More >>
First the State Schools, then the Catholic Schools
Friday, 5 December 2003, 12:35 am | ACT New Zealand
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle First the State Schools, then the Catholic Schools, Who's Next? More >>
Report Shows CAA To Be A Debacle
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 7:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that Douglas White QC's report on the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) confirms that the CAA is out of control. More >>
Condemn Peters' Anti-Asian Pamphlet
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 6:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble is to set down a notice of motion next week for parliament to condemn Winston Peters' anti-Asian immigration pamphlet. More >>
Labour Will Never Fix Auckland's Transport Woes
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 4:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT predicts Labour's transport package for Auckland - to be announced next Thursday - will do zilch to solve the city's gridlock, ACT New Zealand Transport Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Forest & Bird Dishonest Over Tenure Review
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 4:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Forest & Bird Society is being dishonest in the extreme with its comments over tenure review of pastoral lands in the South Island high country, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
ACT Supports Principal's Stand Against Zoning
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 4:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today congratulated Napier Principal Robin Edwards for refusing to comply with Education Ministry instructions to develop an enrolment scheme for Meeanee School. More >>
Labour's Double Standard Beyond Contempt
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 4:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today accused the Labour Government of having double standards, in the wake of its decision to raise levies for private education providers by a massive 55 percent. More >>
Giant Step Backwards
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 2:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble condemned the 59-page Employment Relations Law Reform Bill as a great step backwards towards the dark old days of compulsory unionism, multi-employer contracts, and trade union bosses. More >>
Smoking Gone - Along With Freedom
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 10:05 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today expressed her disappointment - but not surprise - that Labour had tonight managed to make the legal illegal, after the passing of the third reading of the Smokefree Environments Amendment Bill. More >>
What About The Family Court?
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 5:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today expressed disappointment - but not surprise - that, while media attention has been grabbed by a restructuring of our courts, little has been said about the need to re-vamp the Family Court. More >>
Less Law - Not More Courts
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 3:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today deplored the Law Commission's warning that it is about to recommend yet another layer of `people's courts' to deal with New Zealand's ballooning law suits and prosecutions. More >>
Dangerous 'Musing'
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 2:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble called for an informed open public debate before the government orders the Reserve Bank to intervene in the international currency market in an attempt to drive down the value of the Kiwi. More >>
Give Up, Jonah
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 2:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
Rugby superstar Jonah Lomu should give up any idea of playing rugby again and become an ambassador for the sport, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Time to Ditch the Kiwi -- Richard Prebble
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 2:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
On Monday the Kiwi dollar hit 64 cents. The Kiwi started 2003 at 52 cents. Exporters are hurting. Manufacturers normally work on a profit margin of just 6 per cent. More >>
Alternative Hydro Options Ignored
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 11:15 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today expressed disbelief that the Ministry charged with overseeing the environment has not even considered the environmental impacts of alternatives to Project Aqua. More >>
Transit NZ Shafting Tauranga
Wednesday, 3 December 2003, 12:58 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today slammed Transit New Zealand for its farcical decision denying highway status to the Tauranga Harbour Bridge. More >>
