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Time To Clamp Down, Labour
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 2:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today accused the Government of refusing to hold charitable and iwi-based health providers accountable for their spending of taxpayers' money - in light of the Te Whatiuapiti Trust's comments today that ... More >>
Australian Defence College Visit
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
Speech to the Australian Defence College Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies Visit, Australian High Commission, Thursday 14th August 2003 More >>
Muriel Newman MP Column - The Harsh Reality
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 1:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
In the mid 1800s, Henry David Thoreau said, “Men are born to succeed, not fail”. That is as true today as it was back them. In almost any area of enterprise, success is the name of the game. More >>
Rodney Hide To Try To Boost Charter TV
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 8:11 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today that he had accepted Dr Brian Edwards' invitation to try and pump some life into his ailing chat show "Edwards at Large". More >>
Labour Rewards Non-Smokers With Sunny Jaunt
Thursday, 14 August 2003, 8:11 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today demanded that Health Minister Annette King tell the public whether her Labour Government had used taxpayers' money to send 25 anti-smoking bureaucrats and activists to Finland - and, if so, how much. More >>
Fight the Fart Tax
Wednesday, 13 August 2003, 3:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today launched the Party's `Fight the Fart Tax' tour on the steps of Parliament - the start of a four-week journey that will see him tour the length and breath of the country listening to rural New ... More >>
Commissioner Must Be Best Person For The Job
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 4:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today expressed disappointment that the Labour Government had appointed a new Commissioner for Children without consulting with Opposition parties. More >>
Property Owners Must Protect Their Rights
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 3:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today called on New Zealand property owners to consider a new land march on Parliament, akin to that led by the great Dame Whina Cooper. More >>
Government Pharmacies A Bad Idea
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 2:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today announced that she has submitted an amendment to the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Bill, to prevent Labour from nationalising pharmacies - and turning chemists into state employees. More >>
Peter All Dunne With Transmission Gully?
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 11:02 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Wellington-based MP Heather Roy today gave her support to the Automobile Association campaign to fast-track the proposed Transmission Gully motorway, and was not surprised that United Future Leader Peter Dunne has not yet done the same. More >>
Don't Blame Court When There Are No Volunteers
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 8:33 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Sport Spokesman Stephen Franks today labelled event manager Astrid Anderson's conviction this week as a tragedy. More >>
TVNZ Waka Up The Charter Without A Paddle
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 8:32 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Broadcasting Spokesman Deborah Coddington today slammed the appointment of Hone Edwards to the position of TVNZ Kaihautu, labelling the move political correctness gone completely, utterly mad. More >>
New Zealand Safer Without Nuclear Ban
Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 12:16 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today reiterated his call for the Government to indicate support for his Members Bill proposing the removal of the ban on nuclear-propelled vessels, following the comments of senior US official Grant Aldonas in Auckland yesterday. More >>
Landowners Beware
Monday, 11 August 2003, 5:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today predicted that the Labour Government would use the report of the Land Access Ministerial Working Group to further its obfuscation of the foreshore and seabed issue, while appropriating private property ... More >>
Dog Control Measures Farcical
Monday, 11 August 2003, 1:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Labour-promoted dog control legislation introduced to Parliament is unworkable, imposing massive and unreasonable costs on dog owners and ratepayers alike" ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
ACT's The Letter - Monday, 11 August
Monday, 11 August 2003, 12:26 am | ACT New Zealand
Any government that interferes with New Zealanders' right to walk along the beach faces certain electoral defeat. More >>
Stop The Erosion
Monday, 11 August 2003, 12:00 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today called upon Prime Minister Helen Clark, and her Cabinet, to stop the erosion of property rights by un-elected and non-mandated pressure groups. More >>
Patent Law's 'Foreshore' To Go To Maori
Sunday, 10 August 2003, 8:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Cabinet's proposed Maori veto over inventions `likely to be contrary to Maori values' is more sinister than this week's planned fudging of seabed and foreshore ownership, ACT New Zealand Associate Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks ... More >>
It's Not Your Money Minister, Pay It Back
Sunday, 10 August 2003, 8:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Commerce Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today it was outrageous that Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel believed it was simply "not practical" to pay back the $11.5 million which the Building Industry Authority had accumulated ... More >>
Labour Confuses Foreshore With Property Rights
Friday, 8 August 2003, 5:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today accused the Government of cynically combining the very separate issues of foreshore and seabed with public access to and through private property for their own political purposes. More >>
