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Critics Must Get The Facts Straight First
Friday, 9 May 2003, 12:18 am | ACT New Zealand
If people want to use a report as a basis for their criticism of our health professionals, one would think that they would actually read the report thoroughly first," ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
ACT Condemns Government Stand on Americas Cup
Friday, 9 May 2003, 12:10 am | ACT New Zealand
73% of New Zealanders are opposed to funding the America's Cup campaign with taxpayer's money ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
Compliant United Future's Opposition is Hollow
Thursday, 8 May 2003, 9:03 am | ACT New Zealand
United Future claims of opposition to the terms "spiritual", "cultural landscape" and "ancestral lands" contained in the Resource Management Amendment Bill No 2 are nothing but hollow rhetoric, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader ... More >>
Michael's Midnight Madness
Wednesday, 7 May 2003, 12:13 am | ACT New Zealand
The overnight increase in alcohol tax has nothing to do with health, ACT Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Labour Kicks Taxpayers In The Butt
Wednesday, 7 May 2003, 12:12 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today demanded to know why hard-working families should have to fork out to buy beneficiaries' smokes, in light of new information showing that benefits have been adjusted to compensate for ... More >>
Minister Must Follow IMF Recommendations
Tuesday, 6 May 2003, 5:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today welcomed the recommendations of the latest International Monetary Fund report, that New Zealand beneficiaries should be subject to tighter rules and restrictions while claiming welfare assistance. More >>
Clark in Full Retreat
Tuesday, 6 May 2003, 5:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark - who assured the press gallery yesterday that she had `not returned to once more be easy meat for the Opposition parties' - was in full retreat mode in Parliament today. More >>
Deputy Speaker's Ruling Wrong
Tuesday, 6 May 2003, 5:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Speaker today ruled that Deputy Speaker Ann Hartley was wrong on Thursday to refuse to allow Opposition MPs to debate the Maori Television Bill, ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble said. More >>
Minister Caught Out
Tuesday, 6 May 2003, 2:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey is guilty of one of two things - he either misled Parliament, or is simply not on top of his own portfolio, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Escaped Crim? Surprise, Surprise, Surprise
Tuesday, 6 May 2003, 1:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today demanded that Justice Minister Phil Goff get off his chuff and fix the Sentencing Act, in light of reports that an armed robber is now at large after being freed to apply for Home Detention. More >>
Too Little Too Late
Tuesday, 6 May 2003, 8:35 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today New Zealand was continuing to pay a heavy price for our failure to contribute to the Coalition of the Willing. Peace keeping in Iraq could be time consuming, very expensive, dangerous and certainly, a thankless ... More >>
Give Maori Credit, Labour
Monday, 5 May 2003, 5:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today reiterated support for National's call to abolish Maori seats, and called on the Government to stop treating Maori like second-class citizens incapable of succeeding in the modern world. More >>
Richard Prebble's Letter From Wellington
Monday, 5 May 2003, 3:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour’s solution is to bring huge pressure to get those who hold Maui Gas contracts to sell. Maui Gas “take or pay” contracts supply gas at a price that’s about half the world price. Pressure is going on to the owners of the methanex plant that converts ... More >>
Mallard Closes Schools - And Then Does Nothing
Monday, 5 May 2003, 10:46 am | ACT New Zealand
Seventy-four of the 192 state schools closed between 1994 and 2002 are still waiting to be disposed of, ACT Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington revealed today. More >>
Liberty Belle: Education Vouchers In Britain
Monday, 5 May 2003, 10:20 am | ACT New Zealand
Liberty Belle In Cambridge (2) Education vouchers in Britain? It’s not a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’. By Deborah Coddington M.P More >>
Clark Looks For Next Job
Monday, 5 May 2003, 9:11 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble strongly criticised Helen Clark's attacks on Britain and the United States during her visit to London as reported in The Guardian newspaper. More >>
Deliberate Government Policy Helps Paedophile
Monday, 5 May 2003, 9:10 am | ACT New Zealand
Convicted paedophile Euan Trafford Hovell is immune from the judge who relied on his promise to pay compensation to his victims because of a deliberate Government choice to ensure judges could not make restorative justice agreements enforceable, ... More >>
Minister Names Top Suspending Schools
Monday, 5 May 2003, 9:09 am | ACT New Zealand
Four schools suspended more than one-in-ten pupils last year, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington revealed today. More >>
Playgrounds Safe from Scaremongering
Monday, 5 May 2003, 9:08 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today welcomed with relief the ERMA review that finds playgrounds are safe. More >>
ACT Tautoko For National's Kaupapa
Monday, 5 May 2003, 9:08 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Maori Affairs Spokesman Stephen Franks today welcomed the National Party's call to abolish Maori seats, saying he hoped it marked the end of two decades of woolly thinking, collusion with Labour on Treaty issues, and disastrous outcomes ... More >>
