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BIA's $10 Million Slush Fund - Who Grabs It?
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 4:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government should come clean on what it intends to do with the $10 million plus the Building Industry Authority has accumulated, now that the BIA is to be absorbed into a government department, ACT New Zealand Consumer Affairs Spokesman Deborah ... More >>
NZers Must Decide If Privy Council Stays or Goes
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 3:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT is promoting a cross party movement of MPs to press for a referendum on the abolition of our rights of appeal to the Privy Council. ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today wrote to political parties asking for their support for a citizens-initiated ... More >>
ACT New Zealand Launches Tax Campaign
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 3:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand is today launching its Tax Campaign for the 2003 Budget, Leader Richard Prebble said. More >>
Report Highlights Need For Change
Thursday, 10 April 2003, 9:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman labelled the Jules Mikus report, released today by chief CYF social worker Shannon Pakura, as an appalling litany of failure and said the document highlights the need for major departmental ... More >>
Prime Minister Misleads Again
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 5:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark's claim that the New Zealand Ambassador in Washington "was not called in by the US State Department" to express displeasure over her diplomatic gaffe is misleading in the extreme, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said ... More >>
Time To Look At The Bigger Picture
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 3:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
Claiming retrospective child support from errant fathers - promoted in Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey's crackdown on DPB mothers refusing to name the father of their children - will not solve the problem, ACT New Zealand Social ... More >>
Drugs On The Rise
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 11:13 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today slammed the Labour Government for its soft-on-crime approach - an approach that has crippled the police's ability to effectively fight the war on drugs and gangs. More >>
Labour Creates Two-Tier Primary Health System
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 9:45 am | ACT New Zealand
As predicted the Labour Government's new Primary Health Organisations are creating a two tier health system, ACT Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Labour Raises Petrol Tax for Third Time
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 9:44 am | ACT New Zealand
Legislation introduced to Parliament today will create the third unnecessary increase in petrol levies since Labour came to power, ACT New Zealand ACC Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Steve
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 9:43 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today congratulated Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey for finally heeding ACT's calls for a crackdown on DPB mothers who refuse to name the father of their children, but questioned ... More >>
What Priority For Enforcing Law In Prisons?
Wednesday, 9 April 2003, 9:42 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today called on Corrections Minister Margaret Wilson and Minister Phil Goff to explain why the specialist drug search team at Waikeria Prison was scrapped, and to ensure that it is replaced with something that is at ... More >>
Coddington Welcomes Goff's Support on Registry
Tuesday, 8 April 2003, 3:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Deborah Coddington today expressed her delight that Labour believes her Sex Offenders Registry Bill is a serious option to monitor sexual predators. More >>
Helen Clark Wrong About Al Gore
Tuesday, 8 April 2003, 3:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
Helen Clark's political gaffe - the suggestion that war in Iraq would not have happened under an Al Gore presidency - was not only extremely inappropriate but was also ill-informed, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Richard Prebble’s Letter From Wellington
Monday, 7 April 2003, 2:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Letter believes the economy has slowed. Since February, new home consents are down; the America's Cup (an estimated gain of $1 billion) is lost; Fonterra's payment is down and Air NZ has joined the other airlines in cutting overseas flights. More >>
Labour: Into The Next Century
Monday, 7 April 2003, 12:33 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today released new information showing that of the top five Sickness Benefit debts, only one will take under a century to repay, and said the Government must answer serious questions about the management ... More >>
What Did the Teachers' Union Teach Our Kids?
Sunday, 6 April 2003, 10:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
The rich and powerful secondary teachers' union must take some responsibility for the latest shameful suspension figures, ACT Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Mallard Fails to Reduce School Suspensions
Friday, 4 April 2003, 6:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
Two percent of all New Zealand schools were responsible for thirty-five percent of last year's suspensions, ACT Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Bad Law For Mad Killers
Friday, 4 April 2003, 6:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today urged a rethink of the system that draws such huge distinction between `mad' and `bad', after reports that Raurimu killer Stephen Anderson is entitled to leave into the community - only six years after killing ... More >>
Life Must Mean Life For Killer
Friday, 4 April 2003, 2:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
If a wanton murderer gets only a 13 year minimum non-parole period, what sentences will be given for lesser murders under the Government's new Sentencing Act? ACT justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Waitangi Tribunal Members
Friday, 4 April 2003, 9:23 am | ACT New Zealand
After astonishing debate in the Committee stages today, a law change went through that allows the Chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal to pull off and replace any Tribunal member hearing a case, ACT Treaty Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
