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Adoption Viable Option For Unprepared Parents
Wednesday, 30 April 2003, 11:58 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today urged the Labour Government to review its approach to child adoption, after two teenage parents in Dunedin were convicted of neglecting their three-month-old baby girl. More >>
Mallard's Budget Offering: Quantity, Not Quality
Wednesday, 30 April 2003, 10:32 am | ACT New Zealand
Labour has responded to the teaching crisis in a typical neo-socialist, pro-union manner, ACT Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
NZ Govt Dot Com Purchase Crazy
Wednesday, 30 April 2003, 9:03 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that the Clark Government's purchase of `NewZealand.com' for $US 500,000 was crazy. More >>
Time For Change Is Now
Wednesday, 30 April 2003, 9:02 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today claimed that it is not only car crash victims who are subjected to inadequate policing, but car theft victims as well. More >>
Ministers Engage in Double Dealing
Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 4:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Conservation Minister's refusal to allow a land-swap that would let Trustpower's Arnold River hydro scheme proceed is a graphic example of this Government's double dealings, ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Are You Mean, Or Are They Greedy, Mr Goff?
Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 2:48 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today called on the Labour Government to let New Zealanders know the principles for the compensation for false convictions. More >>
Helen Clark's Anti-NZ Tour
Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 2:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark's use of her trip to France to express concern, that the US might emerge as an unchallenged superpower, takes the New Zealand Prime Minister's anti-Americanism to a whole new level, ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Prison Arguments Hypocritical, Lefty Tosh
Monday, 28 April 2003, 5:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Employers & Manufacturers Association is dead right - Attorney General Margaret Wilson has absolutely no valid arguments for ending the management contract of New Zealand's only privately-managed prison, ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen ... More >>
Richard Prebble’s Letter From Wellington
Monday, 28 April 2003, 2:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Letter strongly supports Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard's surprise move to cut interest rates - a signal to the market that the Bank will respond to the coming slow-down. In the last slow-down caused by the Asian crisis, both Treasury and the ... More >>
Health is More Important Than a Name
Monday, 28 April 2003, 2:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Minister of Health should stop her hand-wringing over the name of Starship, and instruct the Auckland DHB to get on with the real work of providing healthcare, ACT Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Newman Goes Over Minister's Head
Monday, 28 April 2003, 2:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today said she will write to the Prime Minister - in the hope that Helen Clark will see the problems facing police, which Police Minister George Hawkins seems to have missed. More >>
Hide Speech: Political Leadership
Monday, 28 April 2003, 2:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
I have heard a lot about the course and I think you are very fortunate to be having this course. I have been asked to talk political leadership. More >>
ARC 'Study' Should Be Treated with Caution
Monday, 28 April 2003, 8:37 am | ACT New Zealand
The latest shock horror tactics by the Auckland Regional Council should not be taken too seriously, ACT New Zealand Transport Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
NZ Encourages North Korean Weapons Program
Monday, 28 April 2003, 8:36 am | ACT New Zealand
The admission by North Korea that it has nuclear weapons is a very dangerous development that directly affects the Pacific region, ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
Labour Leaving Children In Danger
Monday, 28 April 2003, 8:35 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused the Labour Government of an appalling lack of commitment to child welfare, in light of new information showing that some children at risk of abuse have waited more than two-and-a-half ... More >>
Thin Blue Line Set To Snap
Monday, 28 April 2003, 8:34 am | ACT New Zealand
I feel very sorry for the police - short-staffed and under-resourced, they are trying to fight a tidal wave of crime that is becoming more sophisticated and complex each day. More >>
TB Eradication Must Not Be Ignored
Thursday, 24 April 2003, 5:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today slammed Strategy Committee Chair for Possum and Bovine TB Control Dr Peter O'Hara for ignoring the potential for possum bio-control. More >>
Government's RMA Failure
Thursday, 24 April 2003, 5:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Committee of Parliamentary Opposition Parties hearing submissions on the RMA Amendment Bill heard overwhelming evidence today supporting the view that the Bill fails to address the Act's fundamental flaws, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and committee ... More >>
Surprise Cut First Step Only
Thursday, 24 April 2003, 4:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble welcomed today the Reserve Bank's surprise cut in interest rates. More >>
Off-The-Wall and Typical of Peter Dunne
Thursday, 24 April 2003, 2:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble said today that Peter Dunne's call for the population of New Zealand to increase by 1 million in just 12 years is silly even by his standards and his claim that New Zealand needs a policy that is well planned belies his lethargy ... More >>
