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Referendum On Appeals To Privy Council Approved
Thursday, 3 July 2003, 2:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT, National and New Zealand First today welcomed the official approval of the wording of the petition to ensure voters get a say on Labour's plan to abolish our longstanding legal right of final appeal to the Privy Council in London. Each party ... More >>
Damning Report Shows Ministry Inadequacies
Thursday, 3 July 2003, 11:50 am | ACT New Zealand
A scathing report of New Zealand's National Cervical Screening Programme has been released today and is one that the Government will be wishing had never seen the light of day, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Is Cervical Programme Effective?
Thursday, 3 July 2003, 11:47 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today asked whether New Zealand women were being lulled into a false sense of security when they have a cervical smear, in light of Dr Euphemia McGoogan's extremely critical report on New Zealand's cervical ... More >>
Copyright Change Shows Property Rights Hypocris
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 5:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Associate Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks today accused the Government of trading property rights for votes, by planning to change copyright law to allow more copying without compensation. More >>
MPs Don't Need To Sulk - They Vote
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 5:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
United Future MPs' repeated questioning of Transport Minister Paul Swain today, about more hurdles to the Wellington by-pass, was an extraordinary display of sustained sulking by United Future, Wellington-based ACT New Zealand MP Stephen Franks said ... More >>
Why Put Brakes On Motorway Completion?
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 4:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Northland MP Dr Muriel Newman today expressed outrage that the completion of the Northern Motorway has not even made it onto the Government's roading priority list, and said she will re-launch a petition to Parliament to build public pressure. More >>
Inflexible System Must Bend, Or Break
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 11:22 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today supported Auckland doctors for trialling a new method of allocating surgery priority, according to individual patients' needs, and said the initiative highlights the inflexibility of the current points ... More >>
Teachers' Council Appointment Is Breathtaking
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 9:43 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today congratulated Joanna Beresford for her stellar rise from union flunky to better-paid union flunky. More >>
Cut Everyone's Tax, Not Just The Favoured Few
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 9:30 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that the Government's move to give special rebates to the film industry - picking them out as a special industry - was a mistake. More >>
Sentence Reduction Highlights Lies In Court Policy
Tuesday, 1 July 2003, 9:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today said that the Appeal Court's reduction of the sentence of taxi robber Eneasi Finau, highlights the fraudulence of the Government's claims to be toughening up our criminal law, and how far we are ... More >>
Cut Everyone's Tax, Not Just The Favoured Few
Monday, 30 June 2003, 6:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that the Government's move to give special rebates to the film industry - picking them out as a special industry - was a mistake. More >>
Deployment Must Not Hurt New Zealand
Monday, 30 June 2003, 5:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today called on Police Minister George Hawkins to fast-track the recruitment of the 50 additional police officers signalled in last month's Budget, in the face of the deployment of New Zealand police ... More >>
No Excuse For Northern Motorway Delays
Monday, 30 June 2003, 1:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Northland MP Dr Muriel Newman today called for the immediate completion of the Northern Motorway extension - from Puhoi to Orewa - in the wake of reports that Transfund New Zealand will carry forward $155 million of its budget into the ... More >>
Solomons Peace Force
Monday, 30 June 2003, 1:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today issued ACT's support for the deployment of New Zealand troops and police to the Solomon Islands, as part of a multi-national Pacific force to restore law and order - but expressed concern over the strain that ... More >>
The Letter - 30th June 2003
Monday, 30 June 2003, 1:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark’s announcement on Monday that Labour would legislate to extinguish any Maori claim to the foreshore and seabed was poll driven. Labour conducts regular opinion and focus group polling and this says there is growing public reaction against ... More >>
Stop Risking Lives With Parole
Monday, 30 June 2003, 9:56 am | ACT New Zealand
Government Ministers cannot pretend that the threat represented by multiple rapist Michael Carroll has nothing to do with them ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
SSC Must Investigate Entire CAA
Monday, 30 June 2003, 9:53 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that the State Services Commission Investigation underway into the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) should be expanded to cover Director John Jones, and the work of investigators and their ... More >>
Muriel Newman MP: Missed Opportunities
Monday, 30 June 2003, 9:36 am | ACT New Zealand
Australia is our closest ally. While we may be fiercely competitive in sport, we share many similar goals. In areas of governance we view our neighbour as a large, successful nation that has achieved much that we can emulate. More >>
Prostitution Law Challenges Local Councils
Friday, 27 June 2003, 2:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
With a key role in dealing with prostitution and brothels under the new Prostitution Reform Act, local councils will now be subject to the tensions and rhetoric that have split Parliament over the past weeks, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen ... More >>
Government In Hopeless Position
Friday, 27 June 2003, 1:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble said today that the Maori claim to the seabed and foreshores is an issue that has the Labour Government caught between a rock on the foreshore, and a hard place on the seabed. More >>
