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Sisters Already Doing It For Themselves
Monday, 22 September 2003, 2:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Women's Affairs Spokesman Heather Roy today asked why Labour pushes so strongly for pay equity, when Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey announced that women are already catching up with men in the workforce. More >>
Ministry Unfit To Run Cervical Programme
Monday, 22 September 2003, 2:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
Although Select Committee has come part of the way toward addressing the earlier problems with the National Cervical Screening Programme, I still have serious concerns about the Health Ministry's all-encompassing involvement in the programme, ACT New ... More >>
Maharey Exploits Tragedy For Labour Ends
Monday, 22 September 2003, 11:16 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today accused Labour of exploiting the Coral Burrows tragedy to re-attempt to impose its child-raising theories on parents, after Social Services Minister Steve Maharey revealed an anti-smacking law change ... More >>
ACT Smacks Children's Commissioner
Friday, 19 September 2003, 8:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today said that new Commissioner for Children Cindy Kiro's leap into the anti-smacking debate was showing Labour's ideology. More >>
Liberty Belle: After Cancun - Where's Plan B?
Friday, 19 September 2003, 3:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
I've been in Parliament 14 months now, but last Tuesday was the first time I've ever heard the Prime Minister give a speech in the House. She's answered questions, or more accurately, "addressed the question", but she's very coy about coming ... More >>
Save Cadenza!
Friday, 19 September 2003, 10:22 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Broadcasting Spokesman Deborah Coddington today expressed dismay over Radio New Zealand's decision to can classic music programme Cadenza from its National Radio weekday line-up. More >>
Quit The Window Dressing Minister
Friday, 19 September 2003, 8:09 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Associate Education Spokesman Stephen Franks today accused Tertiary Education Minister Steve Maharey of attempting to further restrict the role of private education providers. More >>
Make Tax Really Easy
Friday, 19 September 2003, 8:08 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said the Labour government should stop fiddling on the issue of tax on small business. More >>
Govt's Fraudulent GM Policy Chases Rainbows
Friday, 19 September 2003, 8:07 am | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government's GM policy of zero tolerance was exposed for the fraudulent sham it is at the Local Government & Environment Select Committee, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
What Drives The Law Society On Privy Council?
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 8:20 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today asked whether the New Zealand Law Society is expressing solidarity with the politically correct sisterhood ahead of its members in welcoming of the abolition of our right of appeal to the Privy ... More >>
Landowners Must Deliver Strong Message
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 3:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today urged landowners to deliver a strong, concise message to Rural Affairs Minister Jim Sutton that they must retain the climate sanction of refusing access to their land if they so choose. More >>
Keeping The Monsters At Bay
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 11:38 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Associate Justice Spokesman Deborah Coddington was today pleased to launch the latest edition of her `New Zealand Paedophile & Sex Offender Index' - and described it as another step toward protecting communities from sexual predators. More >>
ACT Fights For Open Justice
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 10:06 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today commended his colleague Deborah Coddington for trying to achieve openness in the face of the justice establishment's attempts to ensure that secrecy surrounds offenders and their crimes. More >>
Minister Must Address Mental Health Problems
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 8:16 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today called on Health Minister Annette King to consider changes to Labour's mental health policy, in light of reports that an Auckland couple now lives in fear after the release of their son who, they have ... More >>
Protest At Parliament - The Right Place
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 8:16 am | ACT New Zealand
The May incident referred to in the House today was that of a young man who rode his motorbike on Parliamentary lawns, protesting murderer Nika Abraham's inadequate sentence. It was one of the most justified protests Parliament has seen in years, ... More >>
Consultation - What's That? Says Mallard
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 8:15 am | ACT New Zealand
Labour's refusal to consult with the insurance industry over accommodation fees lost through the collapse of the Modern Age English Language school has cost private education providers hundreds of thousands of dollars, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman ... More >>
The Column: New Zealand CAN Be Safe Again
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 8:14 am | ACT New Zealand
The fear of crime is alive and well in most New Zealand communities. At one end of the scale we are so concerned about the young that we no longer let our children walk to school on their own. At the other, we worry about the safety of the elderly ... More >>
Invertebrate Committee on Privy Council
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 2:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Select Committee report on the Supreme Court Bill shows how powerful Attorney-General Margaret Wilson is, despite claims that her PC agenda is a minority taste in the Labour Cabinet, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Time to Repair US Relationship
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 2:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that the ACT Party is using its oral question to point out that the New Zealand government no longer has a viable trade position. More >>
King Forced To Come Clean
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 1:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
It's no surprise that Health Minister Annette King has made an announcement on $3 maximum prescription charges for Access PHOs, and all PHO patients under 18 - especially in light of the pressure I have been placing on her for answers, ACT New Zealand ... More >>
