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Waitangi Tribunal And Maori Land Court On Skids
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 9:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
Dr Michael Cullen revealed in parliament today the Government's growing mistrust of the Maori Land Court. He showed they've realised the Court won't haul them out of their seabed and foreshore swamp, and Labour's worry about the second hat worn ... More >>
Swain Ducks 'Honesty Box Punishment' Questions
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 9:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman, Stephen Franks, said that Corrections Minister Paul Swain's evasion of questions in Parliament today about his department's handling of people who don't show up for community work sentences, shows he knows the community work ... More >>
Labour's Foreshore & Seabed Policy Hits The Rocks
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 9:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
It is clear the Government has no idea where it is going in settling the foreshore and seabed dispute, and we now have nothing but chaos and confusion, ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Minister Chooses Savings Over Humanity
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 3:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today challenged the Minister of Health to take the advice of health experts and address the real problems caused by patients waiting indefinitely for treatment. More >>
Pressure Mounts To Rid South Island Of Farmers
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 3:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said past comments by environmentalists, referring to sheep as maggots on the hillsides, appears to be paying off as pressure mounts from all sides to rid the South Island high country ... More >>
Majority Rules - When it Suits Labour
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 2:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that the government should explain why it has ignored the eighty percent of New Zealanders who polled to say they want a referendum on the Privy Council. More >>
ACT Offers Support On Nuclear Issue
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 1:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble today welcomed National Leader Bill English's statement that New Zealand should invite United States warships to visit. More >>
Prebble’s The Letter
Monday, 20 October 2003, 10:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
THE MOST EFFECTIVE MPS Two weeks ago the Sunday Star-Times (SST) published Parliament’s 10 least effective MPs. More >>
Unions In New Zealand
Monday, 20 October 2003, 7:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
Let me make it clear from the start - I am not ideologically opposed to trade unions. However, as a Member of Parliament for a Classical Liberal political party, and as an individual who promotes freedom, choice and personal responsibility, I am strongly ... More >>
Spot The Hypocrisy, Mr Acland
Monday, 20 October 2003, 4:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said the criticism of the tenure review process enabling farmers who have given up vast areas of land in return for a freehold title, is reprehensible. More >>
ACT Publishes Most Effective MPs
Monday, 20 October 2003, 3:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ACT party today published on its website the list of the most effective backbench Members of Parliament. More >>
Undoing The Damage
Monday, 20 October 2003, 9:27 am | ACT New Zealand
Richard Prebble Speech to Auckland Regional Conference Alexandra Park Raceway, Auckland 10:30 am, Saturday 18 October 2003 More >>
ACT Supports APPEL Complaint To SFO
Monday, 20 October 2003, 9:27 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today welcomed the Association of Private Providers of English Language's decision to lodge a complaint to the Serious Fraud Office about potential fraud related to the closure of the Modern Age English ... More >>
ACT Auckland Regional Conference
Monday, 20 October 2003, 9:25 am | ACT New Zealand
Reflecting on the `Reform of the U.K. Public Sector' paper prepared by Ruth Richardson, Steve Robson and myself, I realised how little had changed. More >>
Aucklanders, Get Ready To Walk To Work
Monday, 20 October 2003, 9:23 am | ACT New Zealand
He told more than 140 delegates at ACT's Auckland Regional Conference that New Zealand roads were "third world". More >>
Welcome Home To New Zealand's Liberal Party
Monday, 20 October 2003, 9:22 am | ACT New Zealand
Thank you for attending today. It's great to be here in ACT's urban liberal heartland. More >>
Minister Fails CYF, CYF Fails Children
Friday, 17 October 2003, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded that Labour address the problems plaguing CYF, in light of new information showing the department currently has 85,982 children recorded as having a client number. More >>
Sue Kedgley: Cereal Killer
Friday, 17 October 2003, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
Green MP Sue Kedgley's `Children's Food Awards' shows, yet again, the contempt for science that has become the Green Party's trademark, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Liberty Belle: Closing The Schools Of New Zealand
Friday, 17 October 2003, 2:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
Who would have thought that the Labour Government would be closing schools all over the country? Isn't this something that ACT is usually accused of doing? Isn't this the kneejerk reaction when ACT says we will lower taxes? More >>
Charter Funding Blows Out 'Willy Nilly'
Friday, 17 October 2003, 8:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that TVNZ's annual report released yesterday showed taxpayers just what the Government had bought with $12 million of Charter Funding. More >>
