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ACT Proxy Vote Changed NZ
Friday, 27 June 2003, 1:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
One proxy vote, cast for ACT MP Deborah Coddington, was enough to change prostitution law. ACT must therefore accept fair proxy vote rules for the Progressives says Matt Robson, Progressive Deputy Leader today. More >>
Liberty Belle: Making Demands
Friday, 27 June 2003, 11:29 am | ACT New Zealand
Today I spotted this advertisement on the London Underground. It pictured a grumpy-faced little boy wearing an Indian head-dress (as if playing cowboys and Indians), saying, "I want the groceries I ordered. And a puppy. One that plays football!" More >>
'Fat Tax' Out, Fat Levy In?
Friday, 27 June 2003, 8:59 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today expressed her delight at having dashed the Labour Government's hopes of implementing a tax on fast food, and said that killing the `Fat Tax' was a victory for common sense. More >>
Big Business In Government's New Legislation
Friday, 27 June 2003, 8:27 am | ACT New Zealand
The Care of Children Bill, having its first reading in Parliament today, signals big business for New Zealand's family industry, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Government Position Untenable
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 5:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today called the Government's advanced negotiations to transfer ownership of 14 Rotorua lakebeds and foreshores to local Maori untenable. More >>
Newman Tables Family Court Petition
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 4:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today tabled a petition in Parliament calling for the New Zealand Family Court to be opened up to public scrutiny. More >>
Labour Lets Meth Hit Next Generation
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 9:16 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today renewed her attack on the Labour Government's soft-on-crime approach to methamphetamines, in the wake of reports that babies are now being born to meth-using mothers. More >>
Labour's Big Mac Tax
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 4:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today revealed new information showing that the Labour Government is preparing a paper, proposing a new tax on fast food in a bid to combat obesity. More >>
Butt Out, Labour
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 11:51 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today renewed her attack on the Labour Government for trying to drive the Smokefree Bill nail into the coffin of New Zealanders' personal freedom and property rights. More >>
Where's The Consistency, Labour?
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 6:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today called on the Labour Government to act consistently. More >>
Labour Keeping Us In The Third World
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 4:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today warned that, should the Labour Government be allowed to continue with its current health policies, New Zealand would never move above its 41st placing in the World Health Organisation league for healthcare. More >>
Patients Blinded By Labour Ideals -- Heather Roy
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 2:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy has once again accused Health Minister Annette King of providing New Zealanders with a Third World health system, after reports that more than 200 Wellington Hospital eye patients have waited longer than ... More >>
Don't Take Your Eye Off The Beachball, Ms Clark
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 9:02 am | ACT New Zealand
The announcement of a Cabinet decision to restore Crown ownership of seabed and foreshore sound promising. But the fine print is far from reassuring, ACT New Zealand Treaty Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Parole Board Release Meant To Scare
Monday, 23 June 2003, 5:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks described today's Parole Board media release on Michael Carroll as sadly predictable. More >>
Richard Prebble’s The Letter
Monday, 23 June 2003, 3:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
LABOUR’S MAORI CAUCUS SPLIT The daily humiliation for Labour as Parekura Horomia demonstrates his total unfitness for the office, exposes a deep split in Labour’s Maori caucus. As the ninth floor claims Parekura’s job is safe, his Maori ministerial ... More >>
Prostitution Bill Flawed
Monday, 23 June 2003, 2:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today said that he could not remain silent while Christchurch MP Tim Barnett attacked the church's arguments against the Prostitution Bill for `no evidence', when Mr Barnett himself is making claims ... More >>
Blueprint on Maori Beach and Seabed Claims
Monday, 23 June 2003, 8:57 am | ACT New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark has told the nation that Maori Treaty claim privileges will not be allowed if they are against the national interest - I believe that the national interest in this matter is clear and the solution is straightforward, ACT ... More >>
Latte Set Making The Firearms Rules In Secret
Monday, 23 June 2003, 8:56 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks on Friday night accused Police Minister George Hawkins for waiting for a suitably newsworthy firearms crime to launch a new attempt to force firearms registration on the police and law-abiding gun owners. More >>
Court Ruling Set To Open Iwi Claim Floodgates
Monday, 23 June 2003, 8:55 am | ACT New Zealand
Yesterday's Court of Appeal decision, that Maori claims for the foreshore and seabed of the Marlborough Sounds could go ahead and be heard in the Maori Land Court, is worrying news for most New Zealanders. More >>
Make Your Rage About Rapist Constructive
Monday, 23 June 2003, 8:54 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today called on people outraged by multiple rapist Michael Carroll's parole to make their protest effective, and to direct the rage at the cynical politicians who set up the parole system precisely ... More >>
