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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 >>
ACC Changes Long Overdue
Monday, 26 May 2003, 12:40 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand ACC Spokesman Heather Roy today said that, while changes were needed in ACC's assessment of medical misadventure, the faults with the system should have been addressed sooner. More >>
High Priestess Helen Abandons Cult
Friday, 23 May 2003, 5:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
This week justifies celebration across the country as New Zealanders - Maori and pakeha alike - who believe in the sanctity of property rights and one law for all, see the beginning of the end of the Treaty industry. Meanwhile, the Treaty cult has ... More >>
Heather Roy's Diary
Friday, 23 May 2003, 4:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
Following the reading of the Budget by the Finance Minister, there is a 14-hour debate. Because everything at Parliament works on proportionality, each party is allocated so many minutes of debate - in this case broken up into 10-minute speaking slots. More >>
Labour-Fonterra Unholy Alliance
Friday, 23 May 2003, 4:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today said that dairy farmers are becoming increasingly uneasy over the potential for an unholy alliance between the Labour Government and Fonterra. More >>
Budget Debate Speech: Dr MURIEL NEWMAN
Friday, 23 May 2003, 4:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
The 2003 Budget is an utter disgrace. It cements New Zealand on a path to failure. More >>
Minister Must Come Clean Over Service Loss
Friday, 23 May 2003, 2:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today demanded that Health Minister Annette King come clean about her plans for cancer treatment centres in New Zealand, in the wake of reports that Wellington Hospital is in danger of losing its cervical ... More >>
Te Mangai Paho Well Past Its Use-By Date
Friday, 23 May 2003, 1:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
If the Government doesn't have the good sense to end race-based funding, then it should at least end the slow torture of revelations of financial fiascos at Te Mangai Paho by bringing Maori Broadcasting under the auspices of NZ On Air, ACT New Zealand ... More >>
Sutton Confesses to Flawed Foreign Policy
Friday, 23 May 2003, 11:46 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today the Minister of Trade's statement to his local newspaper that it's time for New Zealand to review its nuclear policy is very significant. More >>
