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Labour Punishes Taxpayers ? Again
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 6:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark's announcement, that the Government will phase out asset testing for the elderly, raises questions about Labour's motives in Government - formulating wise policy, or buying votes, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman ... More >>
Clark's Comments Used by Pro-Iraq Media
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 2:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Prime Minister's foolish assertion that the war in Iraq is not going to plan has been picked up and repeated by pro-Iraq media in the Middle East, ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
More Insults From the PM
Monday, 31 March 2003, 5:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Prime Minister's latest official line on Iraq appears to be designed to rub our traditional allies' noses in it, ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
United Future Misleads the Public
Monday, 31 March 2003, 5:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
United Future MPs need to put the brakes on their unseemly haste to support the Labour Government on absolutely anything and everything, ACT Transport Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Bad Consciences Over Privy Council?
Monday, 31 March 2003, 5:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today said that Green and United Future pressure, for the appointment of international judges to Attorney General Margaret Wilson's new Supreme Court, is simply a conscience salve for them. More >>
Richard Prebble's "The Letter" 31 March 2003
Monday, 31 March 2003, 5:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
It is not just Mugabe who is using the world’s preoccupation with the war in Iraq to achieve his agenda. Here in NZ Labour is pushing its own unpopular policies: More >>
Tragic Failure By Out-Dated Agency
Monday, 31 March 2003, 3:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today called for an urgent inquiry into CYF, and demanded that the agency be modernised to ensure that no more children, like Kelly Gush, are failed by Government agencies. More >>
Sickness Benefit In Need Of Urgent Treatment
Monday, 31 March 2003, 9:22 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today revealed damning evidence that the Labour Government's soft-on-welfare policy reversals are failing working age sickness beneficiaries. More >>
Muriel Newman: Little Hope For Landlords
Monday, 31 March 2003, 9:02 am | ACT New Zealand
Private property investors, who are concerned about the impact of the Government's proposed Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill, should not get their hopes up when they read the Social Services Select Committee's report on the Bill. More >>
Conveyancing Bill Discharge Failure
Monday, 31 March 2003, 8:59 am | ACT New Zealand
The Justice & Electoral Select Committee's recommendation, that Justice Minister Phil Goff's Conveyancing Bill not proceed, sinks a reform that has been promised for nearly five years, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Clark Misleading NZ Media
Friday, 28 March 2003, 11:34 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said that Helen Clark's statement justifying New Zealand's statement to the Security Council is totally misleading. More >>
Labour Allows Entrenched Sexism
Friday, 28 March 2003, 11:34 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley today questioned why Labour's women MPs - staunch feminists of old - remain completely silent over Capital and Coast District Health Board's men-only rule on the construction site of the Kapiti Health Centre. More >>
Humanitarian aid to Iraq
Friday, 28 March 2003, 11:24 am | ACT New Zealand
Richard Prebble writes to the Prime Minister... More >>
Labour's Fence Sitting Increasingly Painful
Friday, 28 March 2003, 9:33 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader is calling on Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff to confirm one way or the other whether his Labour Government is prepared to offer humanitarian aid in the post-conflict reconstruction of Iraq if that programme is led by the United ... More >>
Parents Slack, With Ministerial Approval
Thursday, 27 March 2003, 5:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today attacked Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey for allowing more and more women to collude with the fathers of their children to rip off taxpayers. More >>
Prediction of Speed-Fuelled Violence in Northland
Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 8:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
The discovery of the third suspected drug laboratory in Northland this year shows gang problems are out of control, ACT Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Debate Blocked on Treaty Settlement
Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 8:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Treaty of Waitangi Spokesman Stephen Franks is disappointed the Speaker refused his application to allow Parliament to debate the imminent Deed of Settlement between the Crown and Ngati Awa. The Speaker said it could not be debated because it related ... More >>
Clark Further Insults Coalition of the Willing
Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 8:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand's plan to make a statement to the UN Security Council on Thursday expressing disappointment with our traditional allies' course on Iraq is offensive and hypocritical, ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
New Zealand Not On The US Trade Agenda
Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 8:24 am | ACT New Zealand
Act Leader Richard Prebble tabled in parliament the 2003 Trade Policy Agenda as presented by Robert B Zoellick, United States Trade Representative, to Congress on 1 March this year. More >>
Cure Worse Than Disease
Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 6:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
After two years of thinking, since the last generation emergency, the best the Government can come up with is threats to dismantle the market - but not for two years - and a `Grid Security Committee' which has now spawned its own `Winter Power Taskforce', ... More >>
