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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 >>
Practical Parole Reforms
Monday, 23 June 2003, 8:47 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today summarised what ACT will do with the parole system and said the publicised cases of Douglas Reekie and Michael Carroll are simply two of countless cases of parole failure - public anger should ... More >>
Liberty Belle: Elitist, Academic Bovine Manure
Monday, 23 June 2003, 12:03 am | ACT New Zealand
This week, in the course of my research, I came across a chapter written for a British publication by the Dean of the School of Education at Otago University, Professor Keith Ballard. Apart from being badly written, the content is highly questionable, ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: Health Estimates
Friday, 20 June 2003, 6:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
Once a year, following the budget, Health Minister Annette King comes before the health select committee to explain the spending estimates for the forthcoming financial year. More >>
Flatulence Tax Just Government Hot Air
Friday, 20 June 2003, 1:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said that farmer organisations should not, under any circumstance, cooperate with the Government over the imposition of the new flatulence tax. More >>
Foreshore And Seabed Ownership
Friday, 20 June 2003, 10:36 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today disputed Maori Fisheries Commissioner Maui Solomon's statement that non-Maori have nothing to fear from collective iwi ownership of the foreshore and seabed. More >>
Prime Minister Must Act Consistently
Friday, 20 June 2003, 9:10 am | ACT New Zealand
"The Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commissioners have foreshadowed that the decision to allow the Maori Land Court to hear iwi claims to the foreshore and seabed of the Marlborough Sounds opens the way for similar claims around the country" ... More >>
Maori Claim to Marine Areas a Mabo Problem for Gov
Friday, 20 June 2003, 9:09 am | ACT New Zealand
The Court of Appeal's decision that customary rights can be a basis for the Maori Land Court to award ownership of foreshore, could confront the Government with problems as legally knotty as in Australia's Mabo uproar, ACT New Zealand Treaty Spokesman ... More >>
Fonterra Bites The Hand That Feeds It
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 1:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today lodged a formal complaint with the New Zealand Commerce Commission over Fonterra's intention to reject milk from dairy farmers who do not meet its environmental and animal welfare standards. More >>
