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Maori Funding a Problem Across the Board
Thursday, 29 May 2003, 8:10 am | ACT New Zealand
National MP Murray McCully and ACT MP Rodney Hide said today that the Te Mangai Paho funding scandal reported on today was just a tip of a very large iceberg. More >>
Welfare Reform One Step Closer
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 2:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today welcomed the release of the National Party's welfare report, and said that it helped bring the country closer to welfare reform. More >>
Who is in Control?
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 2:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
Who is in control of Labour's foreign policy? asked ACT Leader Richard Prebble today. More >>
Patients Deserve Options
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 2:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
If Wellington Hospital is unable to offer cancer patients treatment within clinically acceptable guideline times it should then offer them treatment in Australia, as is happening at Hamilton and Christchurch Hospitals, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman ... More >>
Labour Still Killing Patients
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 11:19 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today blamed the Government for the unnecessary death of a Wellington man, and said it was the direct result of Labour's philosophical objection to use the private sector in healthcare. More >>
Ministry Set To Repeat Yesterday's Mistakes
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 11:18 am | ACT New Zealand
Delays in audit report-back, following the Gisborne cervical screening inquiry, show again the inadequacies of a flawed system that the Health Ministry insists on setting up, running reporting on and auditing, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather ... More >>
Why Does ACT Highlight Pardon Petitions?
Wednesday, 28 May 2003, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT highlights the Government's dithering and lack of concern about miscarriages of justice, because we believe passionately in justice for everyone - including people that Justice Minister Phil Goff calls `scumbags', ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman ... More >>
Why No Suppression for 'Bunker Kidnap' Victim?
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 4:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Wellington family of `Mr X' are victims - not only of the crime attempted on him, but also of Labour's legislated lies in the Victims' Rights Act passed last year. ACT always supports open justice and media freedom, and so we accept today's ... More >>
Maharey Failed, Will Dyson Succeed?
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 2:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today slammed Child, Youth and Family for its woefully inadequate management of vulnerable children, in the wake of reports that a further five teenage girls in its care are engaging in prostitution. More >>
Pike River Move Step In The Right Direction
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 2:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
While it is pleasing that Westland's Pike River coalfield has received a favourable response to its resource consents, the developers still face major obstacles, ACT New Zealand Energy Spokesman Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Time to Drop Anderton
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 11:43 am | ACT New Zealand
CT Leader Richard Prebble said Mr Anderton's foray into foreign policy demonstrates that it is time the Government dropped him from the administration. More >>
Arafat Visit Reckless
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 11:25 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble strongly criticised Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff's visit to Yasser Arafat as another foreign policy mistake. More >>
NCEA Creates Two-Tiered Education System
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 8:12 am | ACT New Zealand
If Labour needed any more evidence that NCEA is fatally flawed, news that the University of Auckland may not accept students into medicine, engineering, law and architecture courses if they sit unit standards surely provides it, ACT New Zealand Education ... More >>
Where's The $10 Million?
Tuesday, 27 May 2003, 7:51 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Commerce Spokesman Deborah Coddington today asked why Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel will not tell New Zealanders what's happening with the $10 million that the Building Industry Authority collected, by overcharging, and which is currently ... More >>
Prison Phone Failure A Constitutional Insult
Monday, 26 May 2003, 5:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
Concerns about inmates using cellphones and prison telephones to organise crimes and intimidate witnesses from within prison are nothing new. That we get the same stories recycling every few months, is a result of a conscious Government choice ... More >>
Richard Prebble’s The Letter
Monday, 26 May 2003, 5:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
LABOUR WOULD LOSE Parliament has begun a two-week recess with the government ministers struggling at question time and Helen Clark going AWOL. A Free Trade Agreement in ashes, Waitangi Tribunal inventing new grievances and corruption in Maori radio. ... More >>
Dairy Farmers On A Hiding To Nothing
Monday, 26 May 2003, 3:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
The signing of the new Dairy Accord - imposed by Fonterra, the Labour Government, regional councils, Fish and Game, the Environment Ministry and MAF - has left dairy farmers on a hiding to nothing, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff ... More >>
Liberty Belle 5
Monday, 26 May 2003, 9:26 am | ACT New Zealand
As you know, I’m at Wolfson College, one of the very new colleges in Cambridge, compared with the centuries-old Peterhouse, St John’s, Queens’ (yes – the apostrophe’s in the right place; there were two queens), King’s, Gonville & Caius (pronounced ... More >>
Hospital Woes Continue
Monday, 26 May 2003, 9:12 am | ACT New Zealand
The seriousness of the financial situation facing District Health Boards has been confirmed by Statistics New Zealand March Quarter figures, ACT New Zealand Heath Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
School Principals Promote Class-Divided Society
Monday, 26 May 2003, 8:50 am | ACT New Zealand
School principals trying to stop people using NCEA results to compare schools will recreate the `where did you go to school' kind of class divisions so many people came here to escape, ACT New Zealand Associate Education Spokesman Stephen Franks ... More >>
