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Mercy For A Mistake, Or Mercy For Money?
Monday, 9 June 2003, 5:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today demanded to know why Ding Yan Zhao - whose reckless driving killed an innocent child - had his sentence cut to an effective six months, with permission to apply for home detention. More >>
What's so right now that wasn't right before?
Monday, 9 June 2003, 5:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble today welcomed the Labour government's decision to abandon its policy of refusing to assist in Iraq except as part of a UN force. More >>
ACT Extends Sympathy To Crash Victims' Families
Monday, 9 June 2003, 3:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today extended his deepest sympathy to the families of the seven Crop and Food Research employees, and the pilot, who were killed in Sunday's plane crash. More >>
Richard Prebble’s The Letter
Monday, 9 June 2003, 3:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
Last week the Reserve Bank cut interest rates again. Is the bank just feeding a property price boom? The editor of influential The Economist (31 May) says the stockmarket bubble has been replaced by a property price bubble that will burst. Property is ... More >>
What's The Score, Labour?
Monday, 9 June 2003, 2:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today attacked the huge surgery criteria discrepancies that exist in District Health Boards throughout the country, and said they were yet another example of the Labour Government putting patients' lives at ... More >>
ACT Fisheries Vote Unlikely
Monday, 9 June 2003, 11:53 am | ACT New Zealand
It is unlikely that ACT will vote for the $700 million allocation deal that Fisheries Minister Pete Hodgson has approved, ACT New Zealand Treaty Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Tranz Rail Questions To Be Answered
Monday, 9 June 2003, 9:15 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that the ACT Party was opposed to the Government again getting itself involved in rail. More >>
Minister Of Maori Affairs Must Front
Monday, 9 June 2003, 9:14 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that Minister of Maori Affairs Parekura Horomia had no option but to front up to question time in Parliament this week. More >>
Taxpayers deserve better
Monday, 9 June 2003, 9:13 am | ACT New Zealand
News stories this week exposed a critical shortage of fruit pickers in an area that boasts one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. Kiwifresh, the largest citrus grower in Northland, had a half million dollar export order of mandarins put ... More >>
Energy Problems Remain Unsolved
Friday, 6 June 2003, 4:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
While this year's energy crisis may have been averted, it is clear that we are very vulnerable in a dry year - and the el Nino weather patterns could well create an extremely tight situation later this year or next year," ACT Deputy Leader Ken ... More >>
Deborah Coddington's Liberty Belle - Ray Mallon
Friday, 6 June 2003, 1:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
I first heard about Ray Mallon from a friend who attended a London conference in April on reforming public services. "Mallon," he emailed me, "was one of the top cops in Middlesbrough and he's now the Mayor. Basically he was saying ... More >>
Family Court To Blame For Its Own Dramas
Friday, 6 June 2003, 1:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
If it were not for the secrecy of the Family Court - with the associated delays and costs - MPs would not be asked to intervene in Family Court cases, and National MP Dr Nick Smith would not have found himself facing prosecution, ACT New Zealand ... More >>
Panic Patch on Paedophile Law
Friday, 6 June 2003, 1:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT looks forward to the details of Justice Minister Phil Goff's hasty promise to let courts order supervision for paedophiles after they get out of prison but it is a panic patch on the law. The principle should apply to a whole range of predictably ... More >>
Minister Must Heed Mental Health Warnings
Friday, 6 June 2003, 11:08 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today said that health professional and union delegate Jim Ferguson's comments - that the mental health situation at Waitemata DHB's new clinic is `beyond crisis' and `dangerous to patients, staff and ... More >>
Where's the Accountability?
Friday, 6 June 2003, 10:05 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today that it was clear that Helen Clark was applying two standards in Government: one for Maori and one for everyone else. More >>
ACT Party Cleared
Friday, 6 June 2003, 10:00 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble revealed today he had received a draft report from the Auditor General's office. More >>
Database Gains Support -- Deborah Coddington
Friday, 6 June 2003, 12:12 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Deborah Coddington is very hopeful that with the support of Justice Minister Phil Goff, her legislation to create a central database of sex offenders will pass into law. More >>
Good On You, TV3 -- Stephen Franks
Thursday, 5 June 2003, 10:13 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today congratulated TV3 news for having the courage to name convicted paedophile Lloyd Alexander McIntosh, when the wider media would not. More >>
Labour Rips Motorists Off - Again
Thursday, 5 June 2003, 8:58 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today accused the Labour Government of forcing motorists to pay for its ideological ACC scheme, in the wake of reports that petrol tax is due to increase by another three cents per litre by July 1. More >>
Heads Must Roll
Thursday, 5 June 2003, 12:26 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded answers from the Government, in the wake of reports that two girls were found in drug convulsions after running away from a Dunedin-based Child, Youth and Family Home. More >>
