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Minister Must Be Realistic
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 8:32 am | ACT New Zealand
District Health Boards are in only marginally better shape now, than they were this time last year, with a combined deficit that looks set to reach $192 million by the end of this month, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
ACT Will Check Stupefication Law Change
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 12:20 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today said that a law change is needed against opportunists who rape stupefied victims - even where they haven't done the stupefying - but that ACT will examine the drafting very carefully. More >>
Burrett's Court Abuse Should Not Go Unpunished
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 4:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today applauded the seven-year sentence given to John Burrett for the attempted kidnap of `Mr X' Bill Trotter, but said it was likely that Burrett will only serve around four years, no fault of the ... More >>
Labour Drags Its Feet On Meth
Wednesday, 18 June 2003, 3:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused the Labour Government of being soft on crime while, at the same time, trying to convince the public that it is serious about cracking down on drugs. More >>
Treatment Option Long Overdue
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 4:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today welcomed Wellington Hospital's offer to send breast and prostate cancer patients to Australia for radiotherapy treatment, but said it was disgraceful that the hospital has taken so long to see the light. More >>
Government Ducks On Compulsory Te Reo
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 4:05 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Associate Education Spokesman Stephen Franks today accused Associate Education Minister Marian Hobbs of giving a long flannel answer to his simple question about languages that could satisfy a new curriculum requirement. More >>
Sutton Unfit To Be Minister
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 3:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
Rural Affairs Minister Jim Sutton is demonstrably unsuited to the role of Minister and should resign - his failure to advocate for rural industry, and to accept the enormous contribution that dairying makes to our economy defies belief, ACT New Zealand ... More >>
Enough Is Enough, Close The Gates
Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 1:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said he would close the gates on his property to public access, in direct response to the Labour Government's constant abuse of landowners' property rights. More >>
BIA Can't See The Forest For The Trees
Monday, 16 June 2003, 5:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Forestry Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today expressed his incredulity at the Building Industry Authority's demand for all Oregon or Douglas fir wood to be treated, and accused the BIA of simply kowtowing to the Government's insistence ... More >>
Awatere-Huata Should Resign
Monday, 16 June 2003, 4:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
It is unacceptable for a Member of Parliament not to co-operate with the Auditor-General who is himself an Officer of Parliament ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
The Letter 16 June 2003 - Horomia Must Go
Monday, 16 June 2003, 1:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
The cabinet is in general agreement that Minister of Maori Affairs, Parekura Horomia, should go but is divided over whether his firing will cause more or less political damage. More >>
Fixing Abuse Of Process Is In The Court's Hands
Monday, 16 June 2003, 10:14 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT agrees with the judge in the Burrett kidnapping trial - that there should be a way to discourage abuses of court process by defendants like Burrett. The solution is plain, not complex, and is in the hands of the judges now," ACT New Zealand ... More >>
UK Supreme Court Move Good News for New Zealand?
Monday, 16 June 2003, 8:40 am | ACT New Zealand
United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to remove Ministerial input from the appointment of judges to the proposed top court in the UK -this removes one of the odd arguments pushed those supporting the dumping our right of appeal to the ... More >>
Protect Legal Self-Defence Rights, Says ACT
Monday, 16 June 2003, 12:23 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today disagreed with the National Party on restricting self-defence rights, and reiterated that the abuse of process during the Burrett trial did not warrant a change in our law - or any tinkering with ... More >>
Liberty Belle Visits Commons For PM's Questions
Monday, 16 June 2003, 12:12 am | ACT New Zealand
This week I went to the House of Commons for Prime Minister's question time and I was appalled to realise how far the New Zealand Parliament has strayed from the Westminster system. For a start, New Zealand - unlike Britain - doesn't have a session whereby ... More >>
Newman Speech in the Parliamentary General Debate
Friday, 13 June 2003, 3:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
Yesterday the Government tabled its Care of Children Bill. It was a long awaited response to concerns over the state of family law in New Zealand. I have campaigned long and hard for family law reform – in particular, to introduce shared parenting ... More >>
New Zealand Confined To Slow Track In Trade
Friday, 13 June 2003, 9:54 am | ACT New Zealand
In defending his officials, against claims they did not alert the Government that the US had started linking trade and defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Phil Goff has missed the point ACT New Zealand Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary: The Redundant Male
Friday, 13 June 2003, 12:21 am | ACT New Zealand
The recently introduced Care of Children Bill has caused consternation in Parliament this week. The Bill proposed to effectively change the legal definition of a father to include women. The offending section reads: "to avoid doubt a reference in ... More >>
Tonga In A Timewarp
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 8:35 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today asked why on earth Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff was expressing regret that an official briefing paper, he received in 2001, on Tonga has been made public. More >>
Cancel Air NZ Deal Now
Thursday, 12 June 2003, 8:34 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said the Government should, as shareholder of Air New Zealand, abandon the Qantas merger immediately. More >>
