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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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Maharey Impotent Over DPB Dads
Friday, 8 August 2003, 4:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey of incompetence, in light of new information showing an increase in the number of DPB mothers refusing to name the father of their ... More >>
Heather Roy’s Diary: Saving Private Harry
Friday, 8 August 2003, 3:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
The week has been dominated by Harry Duynhoven and his predicament in initiating his Dutch citizenship and its ramifications under the Electoral Act. When Harry discovered there was a problem he told the Speaker and his Ministerial warrant was withdrawn. ... More >>
Labour Makes Cuckold Of United Future
Friday, 8 August 2003, 2:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today accused the Labour Government of adultery - using the recommendations of the report on the Cannabis Inquiry to flirt with the Greens, while keeping the cuckold United Future on side. More >>
Oh, 'Kia Ora', Minita
Friday, 8 August 2003, 2:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today labelled Associate Tangata Whenua Minister Tariana Turia's proposal to now refer to Maori as Tangata Whenua - and drop the term `Maori' altogether - as a questionable diversion from ... More >>
MSD Fraud: Record Highs, Record Lows
Friday, 8 August 2003, 11:47 am | ACT New Zealand
It is ironic that, while overseeing a $44 million drop in benefit fraud detection, the Social Development Ministry has experienced the largest staff fraud in public service history - all under the leadership of Social Services and Employment Minister ... More >>
DHBs Labouring Under Huge Deficits
Friday, 8 August 2003, 11:46 am | ACT New Zealand
The fact that combined District Health Boards ran a $56 million deficit for the final quarter of the 2002-03 year highlights Health Minister Annette King's inability to manage her portfolio, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle
Friday, 8 August 2003, 11:37 am | ACT New Zealand
Last weekend I took my first journey through rural New Zealand since returning from Old Blighty. What a contrast in landscapes. In East Anglia I tired of gazing through train windows at endless hectares of bilious rapeseed crops, hugely subsidised by ... More >>
Private Property Rights Must Be Upheld
Thursday, 7 August 2003, 5:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today that all landowners' property rights must be upheld - regardless of the findings of a working group's report on public access. More >>
