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Talks the Treaty Talk, But Where's the Walk?
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 4:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks will today listen carefully to New Zealand First as the Ngati Tama Claims Settlement Bill goes through its final stage - yesterday they voted down all ACT amendments to replace `principles of the ... More >>
New Zealand Can Do Better - Deborah Coddington
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 1:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
Address to the Importers - Institute Annual Conference, Heritage Hotel, Auckland, 20 November 2003 More >>
Labour's Biosecurity Strategy Lacking
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 1:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government's Biosecurity strategy has been found wanting at its first significant test, following the discovery of Post-weaning Multi-systematic Wasting Disease Syndrome (PMWS), ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said ... More >>
Shirley To Stand In Tamaki
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 11:22 am | ACT New Zealand
At a public meeting in the Selwyn College Auditorium, Kohimaramara last night, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley was announced as the ACT candidate for the Tamaki electorate challenging Clem Simich for the seat at the next election. More >>
Mallard Can't Explain, Can the Prime Minister?
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 10:59 am | ACT New Zealand
It's time the Prime Minister went out to schools and explained to angry and bewildered parents exactly why the Labour Government is hell bent on closing up to 300 schools, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Labour Panics Over Land Access Issue
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 10:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government is clearly panicking over the public response to the access issue, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
The Column November 19th
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 10:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
The column looks at the Government's mis-management of taxpayers' money, and the lack of control mechanisms that Labour has in place to ensure that public money is spent as it should be... More >>
Mallard Talks The Talk, Walks ... Away?
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 5:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today expressed shock and dismay at Education Minister Trevor Mallard's behaviour during a public meeting to discuss the possible closure of six West Coast schools. More >>
Victims Pay, Criminals Don't
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 2:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
If the Government wants the courts to be left in the position where criminals appear to buy light sentences, then the least it could do is ensure the Justice Ministry collects the purchase price for victims, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen ... More >>
Conservation Minister Shows His Ignorance
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 9:31 am | ACT New Zealand
Conservation Minister Chris Carter `s gratuitous insult of rural New Zealand, by describing agriculture as "extractive" - during a speech to the Federated Farmers National Council - is totally reflective of his ignorance of both conservation ... More >>
Health Consultation A Sham
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 9:26 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today accused Health Minister Annette King of misleading Parliament over answers given during Question Time when she stated that the public were having an input into Government proposals to abolish local health ... More >>
ACT Welcomes Brownlee's Appointment
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 8:30 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Acting Leader Ken Shirley today welcomed Gerry Brownlee's elevation to Deputy Leader of the National Party. More >>
More Warnings From The US
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 12:23 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Acting Leader Ken Shirley today demanded to know how much it would take to make the Labour Government see sense over New Zealand's out-dated and potentially damaging anti-nuclear policy. More >>
The State Of Welfare In New Zealand
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 9:10 am | ACT New Zealand
Speech to the Annual General Meeting of the Northern Division of the Presbyterian Support Services, Whangarei More >>
Hide Gives Joris de Bres Chance To Redeem Himself
Monday, 17 November 2003, 3:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that he was giving Race Relations Conciliator Joris de Bres a chance to redeem himself. More >>
ACT's The Letter - Monday 17 November 2003
Monday, 17 November 2003, 2:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
It is open. A year out from the election, US President George W Bush’s approval rating is higher than that of Reagan and Clinton at this point – but lower than that of his dad. Iraq is the problem. The US public believes 60%-30% that the war was right, ... More >>
Labour To Axe Local Hospital Wards
Monday, 17 November 2003, 2:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today accused the Labour Government of trying to conceal its plans to abolish local wards for health board elections next year, as proposed in a discussion document sent to District Health Boards. More >>
Commonsense Must Prevail
Monday, 17 November 2003, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Economic Development Spokesman Deborah Coddington today described proposed changes to the Building Bill - that would restrict the rights of home-owners to work on their houses without supervision - as yet another nail in the coffin of ... More >>
Talk Is Cheap. Just Pay Him The Money Minister!
Monday, 17 November 2003, 8:46 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that Prime Minister Helen Clark and Defence Minister Mark Burton should just pay up on behalf of all New Zealanders the wages owed to ex-POW Mr Ross Lynneberg. More >>
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle
Friday, 14 November 2003, 10:59 am | ACT New Zealand
On a warm, spring afternoon, late last week, I flew in over the Tukituki River to Napier airport with its smart new terminal. In the 1930s my mother caught her first fish right here. That was before the Napier earthquake pushed up this airport land ... More >>
