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Show Us Your Principles John
Tuesday, 30 September 2003, 8:26 am | ACT New Zealand
The government needs to completely rethink its foreshore and seabed stance said ACT Leader Richard Prebble. More >>
Prebble's The Letter
Monday, 29 September 2003, 9:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
RECORD TAX REVENUE Tax collected in the last financial year was up $3.57 billion. A massive 9.9% increase in tax. The biggest increase in NZ’s history. The government’s surplus is now a record $5.6 billion – $1.5 billion higher than was predicted in ... More >>
ACT's The Letter - Monday 29 Sep 2003
Monday, 29 September 2003, 2:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
Tax collected in the last financial year was up $3.57 billion. A massive 9.9% increase in tax. The biggest increase in NZ's history. The government's surplus is now a record $5.6 billion - $1.5 billion higher than was predicted in the April budget. So Labour ... More >>
Labour Must Drop The Spin And Take Action
Monday, 29 September 2003, 11:50 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today condemned the Labour Government for refusing to take the rising methamphetamine crisis seriously, and for ignoring calls for action from local leaders and the wider community. More >>
Rural Landowners' Rights Under Threat
Monday, 29 September 2003, 9:51 am | ACT New Zealand
In the 1960s an Iranian peasant observed that if the Shah of Iran could take land from the wealthy and give it to those without land, how much easier it would be for him to take it back again at his pleasure. More >>
Judd Speech: Turning Back The Tide
Monday, 29 September 2003, 9:49 am | ACT New Zealand
Thank you for attending today. We are continuing our regional conferences in good heart, albeit with a growing sense of urgency about the task ahead. More >>
Get Your House In Order Maharey
Monday, 29 September 2003, 8:32 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Associate Finance Spokesman Deborah Coddington today accused Housing Minister Steve Maharey of failing taxpayers, in light of information showing that Housing NZ spent more than $30 million repairing tenant-damaged state houses, and ... More >>
New Zealand Can Be The Best Again
Monday, 29 September 2003, 8:31 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today announced, at the ACT Christchurch Regional Conference, that ACT would launch a concerted campaign to ensure that New Zealand schools were ranked among the best in the world. More >>
Prebble Speech: The Foreshore
Monday, 29 September 2003, 8:30 am | ACT New Zealand
It's a pleasure to be here at ACT's Christchurch Regional Conference and I congratulate the organisers on the programme. More >>
Centre-Right Coalition Campaign Viable Option
Monday, 29 September 2003, 8:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble said today the centre-right needs to show that we can form a viable alternative government to the left. More >>
Government 'P'rocrastinating On Drugs
Friday, 26 September 2003, 2:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today accused Labour of compromising vulnerable New Zealanders' health and safety, in the wake of the UN report ranking New Zealand's Ecstasy and amphetamine abuse rate as one of the world's highest. More >>
Eckhoff Urges Calm
Friday, 26 September 2003, 1:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today urged farmers not to allow their anger and frustration, over Climate Control Convenor Pete Hodgson's arrogant refusal to scrap plans to impose a methane emissions tax on rural communities, to ... More >>
Regulating Aviation - Rodney Hide Speech
Friday, 26 September 2003, 1:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
I am here for two reasons. The first is because I am responsible for the State Services Commissioner's Inquiry into the Civil Aviation Authority. The second is because I asked to speak to members of your Association after being visited by two of your ... More >>
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle
Friday, 26 September 2003, 11:37 am | ACT New Zealand
I'm often asked if being a member of a small political party in government is frustrating. Can I make a difference? What's the point? More >>
NZ Academic Freedom An Orwellian Joke
Thursday, 25 September 2003, 2:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Cabinet guessed right that most of our academics are craven cowards when it decided to demand that all research proposals be examined through a Maori lens. Otago University is in the news, but at least some there resisted that racist demand. ... More >>
NZ Third In Contest We Don't Want To Win
Thursday, 25 September 2003, 12:32 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today demanded that Labour drop its soft-on-crime mentality and start doing, instead of talking, in the wake of a UN report finding that New Zealand has one of the world's highest rates of amphetamine-type ... More >>
Muriel Newman: Saving Our Children From Brutality
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 4:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
Last week’s UNICEF report – that ranked New Zealand as having the third highest rate of child abuse in the OECD – is a real wake-up call. It is an appalling indictment of our ability to perform one of the most basic functions of any Western nation – ... More >>
Landowners Urged To Send Govt The Message
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 4:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today urged landowners to attend a series of Government-organised public meetings to discuss the Land Access Ministerial Reference Group's recent report - or risk losing their property rights ... More >>
Health Minister Must Butt Out
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 10:56 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today accused Health Minister Annette King of imposing unrealistic expectations on District Health Boards, after new information revealed that Capital and Coast DHB's budget blowout was completely unexpected. More >>
Greens Scaremongering Could Hit Meat Trade
Wednesday, 24 September 2003, 9:37 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today warned that trade with the European Union and beyond would become increasingly difficult, thanks to Green Party scaremongering. More >>
