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Family Court Driving Fathers To Suicide
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 8:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
Family Court Driving Fathers To Suicide Wednesday 9 Jul 2003 Dr Muriel Newman Press Releases -- Social Welfare More >>
Prime Minister Chewing The Cud
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 2:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today asked that, if the Government were even-handed over the imposition of the emissions tax on masticating livestock, should not Prime Minister Helen Clark - and her Front Bench - be taxed on their normal ... More >>
Plunket Plan Positive
Wednesday, 9 July 2003, 12:01 am | ACT New Zealand
Plunket's proposal, to begin charging for any additional care it offers - while still providing current services free of charge - is a sensible way for the agency to help New Zealand families in the face of dwindling Government funding, ACT New ... More >>
Labour's Bullyboy Tactics
Tuesday, 8 July 2003, 5:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today accused Labour of resorting to bullyboy tactics to force the cancellation of an important biosecurity conference scheduled for late July. More >>
Rodney Hide: Film Subsidies Playing Favourites
Tuesday, 8 July 2003, 1:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
At Middlemore Hospital the new surgery centre isn't being used. Desperate patients, many of whom can't work because of pain, are kept waiting because there is no funding for their surgery. More >>
Government Fails Doctors And Kills Patients
Tuesday, 8 July 2003, 1:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
The death of meningococcal disease victim Nileema Sharan has highlighted many of the problems that currently exist in Accident and Emergency Departments throughout the country - and points to systemic failure, rather than the errors of individual ... More >>
Tranz Rail Deal Foreign Aid To Australia
Monday, 7 July 2003, 8:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today labelled the Labour Government's latest rail proposal as aid to Australia, calling it a $200 million subsidy from the taxpayer to an Australian transport company. More >>
NCEA Will Be Trashed
Monday, 7 July 2003, 5:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Associate Education Spokesman Stephen Franks today welcomed John Minto's commonsense warning about the consequences of giving NCEA credits for picking up litter and doing chores. More >>
Greens Should Get A Grip On Reality
Monday, 7 July 2003, 3:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today recommended that Biosecurity Minister Jim Sutton take a minute to encourage the Green Party and Sustainability Council to get a grip on reality. More >>
Labour: When Landlords Go Bad
Monday, 7 July 2003, 2:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Housing Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused the Labour Government of being New Zealand's worst landlord, in light of new information revealing that rent owed by some Housing New Zealand tenants exceeds $12,000. More >>
ACT's "The Letter" 7 July 2003
Monday, 7 July 2003, 1:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
TVNZ sources claim that Ian Fraser lobbied for Helen Clark’s sycophantic biographer, and Parekura Horomia’s media minder, Brian Edwards to have his own show. More >>
Labour Out Of Touch
Monday, 7 July 2003, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today called on the Labour Government to admit that its ideologically driven public health service is failing, in light of reports that our hospitals are unable to keep up with the demand in emergency ... More >>
For Sale: Labour Justice
Monday, 7 July 2003, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today slammed the Labour Government for placing the courts in a position where sensible acknowledgement of remorse looks like putting justice up for sale, in light of reports that many criminals have won ... More >>
Muriel Newman: Labour's Legacy - Welfare & Crime
Friday, 4 July 2003, 4:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
New figures, released to me last week by the Associate Minister of Social Services, show that in 2002, some 3,203 people had their benefits cancelled due to imprisonment. This means that almost a half of all offenders who committed a crime serious enough ... More >>
BSA Threat To Free Speech
Friday, 4 July 2003, 3:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
Every New Zealander interested in robust political debate should be worried by the Broadcasting Standards Authority ACT New Zealand Associate Broadcasting Spokesman Stephen Franks today. More >>
Watchdog Gone, Labour Off The Leash
Friday, 4 July 2003, 3:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today expressed concerns over who would ensure that the recommendations of the Gisborne Inquiry were implemented, now that watchdog Dr Euphemia McGoogan's contract was complete, and only 10 of the 46 recommendations ... More >>
Liberty Belle: The Motorway That Ends In A Paddock
Friday, 4 July 2003, 11:51 am | ACT New Zealand
Last Christmas holidays I sat in the car fuming, stuck for over two hours in the blazing hot sun along with about 2000 other motorists in the Orewa traffic jam that is fast becoming intolerable. More >>
Did School Pass Kids For Picking Up Trash?
Friday, 4 July 2003, 11:31 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today said that the NCEA's rock-bottom credibility would drop even further, if there were truth in the allegation that at least one school deliberately passed children who should have failed. More >>
Greens Dealt Another Blow
Thursday, 3 July 2003, 2:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said that the lifting of the ban on GM food into the EU, and the lowering of the accidental `contamination' of GM products to 0.9 percent, was a major step towards full acceptance that genetically-modified ... More >>
Minister's Position Indefensible
Thursday, 3 July 2003, 2:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said that Pete Hodgson's refusal, as Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change, to front up to farmers illustrated the total indefensibility of his position. More >>
