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Blood Test, Comrade?
Monday, 12 May 2003, 1:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today renewed her attack on the Government's consideration of a plan to nationalise privately owned medical laboratories, labelling it another example of Labour's ideological opposition to private sector involvement ... More >>
Liberty Belle
Monday, 12 May 2003, 9:37 am | ACT New Zealand
New Zealanders should take fright at Prime Minister Helen Clark’s announcement in Paris that “the whole dynamic” is shifted by a German, French and Russian “linkup.. against a small Anglo/American group.” More >>
Fisheries Settlement Trashes Property Rights
Monday, 12 May 2003, 8:50 am | ACT New Zealand
It is unlikely that ACT New Zealand will vote for the $700 million allocation deal that Fisheries Minister Hodgson will soon put before Parliament, ACT New Zealand Treaty Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Get Your Priorities In Order, Labour
Monday, 12 May 2003, 8:49 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today slammed the Labour Government's move to give $34 million to the America's Cup syndicate, at a time when taxpayers' money should be used more effectively. More >>
Labour Dumbs Down Growth
Monday, 12 May 2003, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said that instead of trying to take credit for the smart growth of the private sector, Labour MPs should be taking action to stop the dumb growth in the Government sector. More >>
Prebble Speech: Israeli Independence Day
Monday, 12 May 2003, 8:47 am | ACT New Zealand
Israeli 55th Anniversary of Independence Day Speech by Hon Richard Prebble MP CBE Sunday 11 May, 7:15 pm Auckland Zoo. More >>
Time Right For Honest Unemployment Figures
Monday, 12 May 2003, 7:51 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today urged the Government to advance to a new, and more honest, measure of the true rate of unemployment. More >>
Teen Pregnancy: Who Is Accountable?
Friday, 9 May 2003, 4:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
Many people were shocked by the recent revelation that 28 boys, all under the age of 16 – the youngest being 12 years old – had fathered children and were being charged child support. More >>
Helen Clark's Visit is Not So Smart
Friday, 9 May 2003, 4:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark's "Smart Growth Day" visit to EDS - the huge company receiving $1.5m of public money - is an embarrassing backfire, ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today. More >>
Government Gambles On Cup For Votes
Friday, 9 May 2003, 3:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Sport and Recreation Spokesman Stephen Franks today wondered how a silver-ferned black boat competing in Europe was supposed to encourage international tourists, rich or poor, to visit New Zealand. More >>
Heather Roy's Diary 09 May 2003
Friday, 9 May 2003, 1:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT is dedicated to enabling New Zealanders to have more opportunities and choices in their own lives. We promote political and economic freedom, strong families and communities, smaller government, and greater empowerment of individuals. www.act.org.nz More >>
When are you going to admit you're wrong Goff
Friday, 9 May 2003, 9:32 am | ACT New Zealand
Today the United States of America has signed a Free Trade Agreement with Singapore. According to the New York Times, Franklin L. Lavin, the US Ambassador to Singapore, said it was the US Administration's policy, after the war in Iraq, of "working ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
