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ACT Caucus Votes To Expel Donna Awatere Huata
Tuesday, 16 December 2003, 11:28 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today announced that the ACT Caucus has voted by more than 75 percent to expel Donna Awatere Huata from Parliament. More >>
Ho, Ho, Home Invasion
Tuesday, 16 December 2003, 8:36 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today expressed a fervent hope that Santa does not slide down a chimney to deliver presents, and come face to face with one of the 242 inmates being granted early release for Christmas. More >>
ACT's The Letter - Monday 15 December 2003
Monday, 15 December 2003, 3:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
The government hopes to end parliament and announce the foreshore policy with no parliamentary scrutiny. Labour is pleased Maori are criticising the proposals because that means the rest of the country concludes it must be ok. The Letter fears the ... More >>
Urgent Hearing Tommorow
Monday, 15 December 2003, 3:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today the Court of Appeal has agreed to consider why it is urgent that the court hears argument as to why the injunction granted to Mrs Awatere Huata be lifted. More >>
Labour Fuels Treaty Grievance Industry
Monday, 15 December 2003, 1:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today accused the Labour Government of duplicity and inconsistency over the transfer of ownership of 14 Rotorua lakes and foreshores from the Crown to local iwi. More >>
Wrong Again, Prime Minister
Monday, 15 December 2003, 11:54 am | ACT New Zealand
It seems that Prime Minister Helen Clark's crystal ball has let her down yet again, this time over the possibility of US forces ever capturing Saddam Hussein, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
PHO Criticisms Echo ACT Warnings
Monday, 15 December 2003, 11:21 am | ACT New Zealand
Media reports today of PHO staff criticisms of the Government's implementation of the primary health strategy, have simply re-iterated what ACT has always warned - that changes in the delivery of primary healthcare have actually resulted in very ... More >>
ACT Welcomes National Call For Seabed Debate
Monday, 15 December 2003, 9:58 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today lent his support to National Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee's proposal to forego any adjournment debate in favour of a debate over the foreshore and seabed issue. More >>
Prebble: Urgent Hearing Sought
Friday, 12 December 2003, 6:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today he is applying for leave from the Court of Appeal for a special urgent hearing of the Court to squash the High Court ruling preventing him from invoking the Electoral Integrity Act in the case of former ACT ... More >>
Labour's Spin Knows No Bounds
Friday, 12 December 2003, 6:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour's propaganda machine has gone into overdrive this Christmas, with news that a large sum of taxpayers' money is being given to an advertising/PR agency to run a campaign `explaining' to the public the dangers of climate change, ACT New Zealand ... More >>
"Just more expensive to sit in a traffic jam?"
Friday, 12 December 2003, 6:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said in his view, as a former Transport Minister, the Labour government's transport measures will fail to resolve Auckland's gridlock and the nations inferior roading system. More >>
Labour Ignores Auckland's Real Problem
Friday, 12 December 2003, 2:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
The only way to fix Auckland's gridlock problems is to radically overhaul the Resource Management Act, ACT New Zealand Transport Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Research Indicates National Radio Bias
Friday, 12 December 2003, 11:37 am | ACT New Zealand
Radio New Zealand is in breach of its obligations under the Radio New Zealand Act's Section 7 1(f) to provide `comprehensive, independent, impartial and balanced national news services and current affairs', ACT New Zealand Broadcasting Spokesman Deborah ... More >>
Judge Says It's ACT's Decision
Friday, 12 December 2003, 9:26 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that, while he would have preferred the judge to have thrown out Donna Awatere Huata's application for an injunction, he was nevertheless pleased with significant parts of the court's decision. More >>
Sutton Fails Rural New Zealand
Friday, 12 December 2003, 9:25 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today highlighted Rural Affairs Minister Jim Sutton's ongoing failure to stand up for the concerns of rural New Zealand - a constituency he's supposed to represent at the Cabinet table. More >>
OECD Report Criticises Govt's Economic Direction
Friday, 12 December 2003, 9:24 am | ACT New Zealand
Finance Minister Dr Michael Cullen's airy dismissal of the latest OECD report on the New Zealand economy, as a `difference of opinion', should not go unchallenged, ACT New Zealand Associate Finance Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Labour, Let Downs, and Child Support
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 4:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
This week, the Column looks at soaring child support debt, and examines how Labour’s failings not only allowed it to happen, but perpetuates the situation. Last week’s fiasco over unpaid child support debt and penalties – now standing at over $730 million ... More >>
RMA Hindering New Zealand's Development
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 2:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
Environment Minister Marion Hobbs has described the RMA as `beautifully written and beautifully balanced' - what a joke, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Parole, Not Bail, The Main Issue
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 1:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
Public outrage at the soft criminal justice system that allowed Steven Williams freedom to murder Coral Burrows, is completely justified - but parole, not bail, should be the target, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Courts Right, Exchange and Politicians Wrong
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 1:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
It is a pity that National thinks like Labour on business law issues, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today, commenting on National's joining in the complaints after Fletcher Forests received court approval to a 50 percent majority ... More >>
