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Maori Myth-Making Grows From PM Dithering
Monday, 14 July 2003, 12:15 am | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark's dithering has fertilised the growth of customary property claims to beaches - from a fanciful gleam in greedy eyes, to the mythical proportions fuelling tomorrow's Hauraki hui, ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks said ... More >>
Police Too Stretched Already
Friday, 11 July 2003, 4:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today called on the Government to tell the public how the deployment of police to the Solomons would affect crime in New Zealand, after reports that Auckland police were already too busy to pursue ... More >>
Don't Tax The Burger, King
Friday, 11 July 2003, 2:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today wrote to Director General of Health Karen Poutasi, expressing her concern at conflicting comments from Health Minister Annette King and Director of Public Health Dr Colin Tukiutonga, over the ... More >>
Time For Maturity On Nuclear Ships
Friday, 11 July 2003, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Spokesman Ken Shirley today urged National to adopt the Conference remit calling for the cessation of the ban on nuclear-propelled ship visits. More >>
Liberty Belle: Final Transmission From Cambridge
Friday, 11 July 2003, 12:44 am | ACT New Zealand
This is my last Liberty Belle from Cambridge. When you read this, I'll be on my way home. In truth, with mixed feelings. I've missed my family - at times, physically ached for them. More >>
Muriel Newman Column - A Crumbling Society
Friday, 11 July 2003, 12:34 am | ACT New Zealand
“Strange times are these in which we live, when the old and the young are taught in falsehood’s school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and a fool.” More >>
Fat Tax Back On The Menu
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 5:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
It looks as though the Fat Tax - to tax foods with a high fat content - is back on the political menu, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Hard Policing The Answer To Gang Problem
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 4:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today said, in response to the outbreak of violent gang activity in Taneatua, that hard policing is the key to reducing New Zealand's criminal gang problems. More >>
Bleed The Gangs, Don't Flatter Them
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 4:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
Predictable political calls to outlaw the gangs always miss the mark, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Lifestyle The Problem, Not Race
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 2:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
Appalling new figures on Maori and Pacific life expectancy should come as no surprise - but blaming a 1980s government for terrible health figures in the 1990's, and hypothesising that this is the cause of the ills of the 21^st century health system, is short-sighted ... More >>
Claims On Maori Health Illogical
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 2:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today said claims by health academics, that Rogernomics is to blame for poor Maori health statistics are as silly as claiming that Rogernomics makes pakeha live longer. More >>
DoC Provides Million Dollar Bribe To Join PSA
Thursday, 10 July 2003, 8:43 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said it was wrong that taxpayers had to pay Department of Conservation staff to join the Public Service Association. More >>
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 >>
