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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 >>
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 >>
