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Hidesight: How Much Government?
Monday, 21 April 2003, 10:11 am | ACT New Zealand
HideSight is a regular column from Rodney Hide MP sent from his Epsom office. More >>
Ministry Must Back Off Rural Schools
Monday, 21 April 2003, 12:53 am | ACT New Zealand
Cattle Creek, Oaonui and Patea schools are all under increasing pressure to show the Education Ministry why they should not be closed, as the Government continues its attack on rural schools to free up resources in the cities, ACT New Zealand Rural ... More >>
New Zealand Must Provide Aid To Iraq
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 4:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark must urgently clarify her Government's position on providing aid to Iraq, ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
PM Inaction Contributes to Power Crisis
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 4:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
It is clear that the Prime Minister is not prepared to confront misguided conservation extremists and insist that Conservation Minister Chris Carter stops blocking the Arnold River $200 million hydro investment at Dobson, ACT New Zealand Energy Spokesman ... More >>
The Diary: Mallard the Ass vs Harold the Giraffe
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
Heather Roy's Diary is a weekly opinion piece from Mother of 5 and ACT New Zealand Member of Parliament Heather Roy. More >>
ACT Supports Iwi Claim
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 1:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Fisheries Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today supported Hawkes Bay iwi Ngati Kahungunu's calls for Maori ownership of up to 50 percent of New Zealand's coastal waters - so long as that ownership is for individual Maori, not the wider ... More >>
Deborah Coddington Goes to Cambridge
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 12:07 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington leaves New Zealand tomorrow to begin ten weeks of study at Cambridge University. More >>
Hawkins Should Back Off Victim's Brother
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 2:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
Stephen Couch should be applauded for refusing to name the police officer who gave him information about RSA triple murderer William Duane Bell - leave Mr Couch out of it, even if the public-spirited police officer has risked his career, ACT New ... More >>
Ideology Blocks Timely Cancer Treatment
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 11:59 am | ACT New Zealand
The news that cancer treatment waiting lists are growing longer is not inevitable, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Stay At Home, Helen
Tuesday, 15 April 2003, 4:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today called on Helen Clark to cancel her trip to Europe. More >>
Dog Laws Just Add More Compliance Costs
Monday, 14 April 2003, 5:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The new dog laws will just add more regulation, more costs, and more fines for law-abiding dog owners, ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
Anti-US Stance Set To Hurt
Monday, 14 April 2003, 4:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today warned that the Labour Government's stance on the war in Iraq would impact on New Zealand meat producers, in the face of PPCS chief executive Stewart Barnett's prediction that the country ... More >>
Preb's Letter From Wellington
Monday, 14 April 2003, 3:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark took a battering in Parliament last week – her worst week since Paintergate. MPs who have been ministers saw through Clark’s untruthful claim she had given just a “verbal” instruction to Ambassador John Wood to convey an apology to the US. No ... More >>
Minister Must Stop Screwing Around
Monday, 14 April 2003, 1:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused Police Minister George Hawkins of fuelling New Zealand's rising crime rate and drug epidemic by crippling police in their ability to fight crime. More >>
Mallard the Ass Versus Harold the Giraffe
Monday, 14 April 2003, 9:24 am | ACT New Zealand
Education Minister Trevor Mallard's call for schools to boycott the immensely popular and successful Life Education Trust is juvenile and pathetic, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Prebble Speech NZ Political Studies Conference
Monday, 14 April 2003, 9:23 am | ACT New Zealand
As a small trading nation in the global economy, foreign policy is vital. Yet there was almost no debate on the issue at the last election. I was not asked a single question despite the ACT Party putting forward an alternative to every other party's ... More >>
Report Glossy, Weighty, But Empty
Monday, 14 April 2003, 9:21 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today slammed the New Zealand Law Commission's `Dispute Resolution in the Family Court' report as a 300-page smokescreen. More >>
Time To Look At The Bigger Picture
Friday, 11 April 2003, 6:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
Chief Youth Court Judge Andrew Beecroft yesterday identified six characteristics of serious youth offenders: 85 percent are male, the majority have no contact with their father, 80 percent do not go to school and have chronic drug or alcohol addictions, ... More >>
Clean, Green, But Not Very Safe
Friday, 11 April 2003, 11:36 am | ACT New Zealand
Federated Farmers is doing every non-criminal New Zealander a favour in highlighting lawlessness in rural New Zealand, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Leaping Figures Must Be Addressed
Friday, 11 April 2003, 8:44 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today described Social Service and Employment Minister Steve Maharey's response to the DPB problem as pathetic, in light of new figures showing that the number of women on the DPB who have refused ... More >>
