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Socialists Well On Track
Wednesday, 19 March 2003, 4:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government's social engineers are well on track for their utopia of dumbing down the education system, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Gang Crime Escalates
Wednesday, 19 March 2003, 2:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today renewed her attack on Police Minister George Hawkins, demanding to know how he could allow gang-related crime to rise unchecked since 1999. More >>
Deadline Raises Serious Questions
Wednesday, 19 March 2003, 2:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today questioned the March 28 deadline for the inquiry into public access to private land, saying that it further proved the pending outcome was a foregone conclusion. More >>
Is Labour Simply Looking After Its Mates?
Wednesday, 19 March 2003, 2:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today attacked the Government's Public Access Reference Group, saying the presence of Mr Gottlieb Braun-Elwart in the group was a clear conflict of interest. More >>
Smokefree Bill: No Smoke, No Freedom
Wednesday, 19 March 2003, 9:31 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today slammed the Government's Smokefree Bill, calling it another nail in the coffin of New Zealanders' personal freedom. More >>
Tragedy On The Way -- Heather Roy
Tuesday, 18 March 2003, 2:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
More and more psychiatric patients are slipping through the cracks of our fragmented mental health system - and it will not be long until one reappears, having committed a horrendous crime, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
ACT's Alternative Plan To Fight Poverty
Tuesday, 18 March 2003, 2:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
Recommendations from the Child Poverty Action Group to ease child poverty will not work, and will only serve to lower New Zealand's standard of living, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Lock Up The Forests, Labour
Tuesday, 18 March 2003, 1:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
Fears of forests being locked up - or exorbitant rent being charged - for access, illustrates yet again that the criteria for Maori is different from that of the rest of the country, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
ACT Welcomes National Party Support on Iraq
Monday, 17 March 2003, 8:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said he welcomed National Party's Foreign Affairs Spokesman Wayne Mapp's statement on Iraq. More >>
Sudden Resignation at Te Mangai Paho
Monday, 17 March 2003, 8:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today's sudden resignation from Te Mangai Paho (TMP) of Mr Tame Te Rangi highlighted the Clark Government's lax attitude to public spending and misbehaviour by officials. More >>
Public Money Down the Gurgler
Monday, 17 March 2003, 8:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
Massey University's decision to loan $180,000 to a "fraud-stricken" student union is indefensible, ACT New Zealand Tertiary Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
LabourLand: Poor Workers, Rich Beneficiaries
Monday, 17 March 2003, 8:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today condemned the Labour Government for enabling beneficiaries to live the high life off the sweat of hardworking New Zealand families. More >>
Clarification: Broken Prison Rules? Who Cares?
Monday, 17 March 2003, 5:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
In an earlier release, entitled Broken Prison Rules? Who Cares? ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks wrongly attributed Janet McIntyre's interviews on TVNZ's Sunday programme, to TV3's 20/20. We apologise for the error. More >>
Broken Prison Rules? Who Cares?
Monday, 17 March 2003, 3:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today asked how criminals could possibly take the law seriously, when the Prison Service itself cannot even bring itself to enforce the law of the land. More >>
More Effort For Free Trade
Monday, 17 March 2003, 2:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today recommended that the Rural Affairs Minister Jim Sutton divest himself of his agricultural portfolio and focus more on pushing for free trade. More >>
Mental Healthcare Set To Snap
Monday, 17 March 2003, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today that it should come as no surprise that West Auckland's CATT West psychiatric crisis team is under huge pressure, and feels unable to respond adequately to those with mental illness. More >>
Richard Prebble's 'The Letter' 17 March 2003
Monday, 17 March 2003, 2:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
It seems likely that the US will invade Iraq with or without a UN resolution. The US believes Iraq, with weapons of mass destruction, is a danger, and if the UN will not enforce its own resolutions, it is broken – as is NATO if it will not respond ... More >>
What's The Deal With Mental Health?
Monday, 17 March 2003, 8:54 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today said there were huge discrepancies between DHBs in the provision of mental healthcare, and asked why these discrepancies exist if - as the Mental Health Commission has found - money allocated to mental ... More >>
Securities Market Watchdogs Yapping at Visitors
Monday, 17 March 2003, 8:53 am | ACT New Zealand
Having multiple watchdogs comment on the Vertex prospectus is likely to reduce market confidence and renew calls for a bigger dog, ACT Associate Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Allow MP at Parole Hearing
Friday, 14 March 2003, 4:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today applauded attempts by United Future MP Marc Alexander to attend the Parole Board's hearing for Casie Rawiri, who robbed pizza deliveryman Michael Choy as he lay dying. More >>
