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Sweet Words Bad Signs
Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 2:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today the sweet coy protestations of friendship between Helen Clark and Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, are just a sign of how deeply dysfunctional the ANZAC relationship has become. More >>
Road Politics Cause Chaos
Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 11:47 am | ACT New Zealand
"The traffic chaos in Auckland caused by just 20 millimetres of rain would have cost the city and the country tens of millions of dollars as well as having seriously disrupted people's lives," ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
Richard Prebble’s Letter From Wellington
Monday, 10 March 2003, 5:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
Why have electorate agents for list MPs? How do you take rules written for electorate MPs and apply them to a list MP whose electorate stretches from North Cape to Stewart Island? How do you apply rules written before fax machines were invented, to the ... More >>
Victims' Rights Paramount
Monday, 10 March 2003, 1:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today congratulated the Parole Board for deferring rapist-murderer Paul Bailey's parole for three years, but said the law will not work properly until it is changed to give victims' families enforceable rights - not just ... More >>
Roy Welcomes Baker's Comments
Monday, 10 March 2003, 9:55 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today slammed Health Minister Annette King for her criticisms of Canterbury District Health Board member Erin Baker, saying the biggest problem facing New Zealand healthcare is the lack of intellectual honesty ... More >>
Disband the Ministry of PC Women
Monday, 10 March 2003, 9:55 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Women's Affairs Spokesman Heather Roy today used the eve of "International Women's Day" to slate the Government-initiated `Action Plan for Women' and to call for the disbandment of the Ministry of Women's Affairs. More >>
Debate Reveals Selective Dislike of Democracy
Monday, 10 March 2003, 9:54 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks was today amazed by the Government's reaction to the Auckland District Law Society's 85 percent opposition to abolishing our right of appeal to the Privy Council. More >>
Disband the Ministry of PC Women
Friday, 7 March 2003, 6:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
Disband the Ministry of PC Women ACT Women's Affairs Spokesman Heather Roy today used the eve of "International Women's Day" to slate the Government-initiated 'Action Plan for Women' and to call for the disbandment of the Ministry of Women's ... More >>
Three Things Wrong with Plan for Hiring & Firing
Friday, 7 March 2003, 6:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks said today that Sir Geoffrey's Palmer's scheme for changing Attorney General Margaret Wilson's process of appointing judges has three serious faults. More >>
Clark says "Give Saddam Another Chance"
Friday, 7 March 2003, 6:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
Prime Minister Helen Clark's ideologically blinkered prediction that "a world of anarchy and chaos" will be created by a "unilateral" attack on Iraq is foolish, ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
You Do The Talking, Winston, We'll Do The Thinking
Friday, 7 March 2003, 6:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
There is only one line in New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters' justified rant against political correctness and Treaty references which needs correction, ACT Justice and Treaty Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Welfare Debate Finally Opening Up
Friday, 7 March 2003, 6:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
It is refreshing to see that the welfare debate has intensified this year. As a result, welfare activists no longer label people speaking out as 'benefit bashers', in order to close the debate down, but allow their voices to be heard. More >>
Steve, You Must Be Joking
Friday, 7 March 2003, 10:01 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today slammed Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey for crowing about his removal of work testing for DPB recipients. More >>
Donna Awatere Huata Not Credible
Wednesday, 5 March 2003, 8:26 am | ACT New Zealand
"I have been informed by the media that disgraced MP Donna Awatere-Huata is the source of allegations against the ACT Parliamentary staff," ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
No Complaints
Tuesday, 4 March 2003, 3:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that he had spoken to both the Speaker and the Head of Parliamentary Services regarding the way that ACT manages its parliamentary staff. More >>
ACT Leader Defends Staff
Tuesday, 4 March 2003, 3:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today said the attack by the New Zealand Herald on ACT staff members was scurrilous. More >>
Preb's Letter From Wellington: It's the economy
Monday, 3 March 2003, 3:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
The economy has been hit by a 20% appreciation against the US dollar in just three months, the worldwide investment pause over Iraq, and now the shock of the America's Cup loss. The latest figures show manufacturing to be stalling. Farm incomes this ... More >>
New Ally In Welfare Reform Battle?
Friday, 28 February 2003, 5:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
Last week Associate Minister John Tamihere distributed a controversial speech at Auckland's Knowledge Wave Conference. More >>
Fishy Beauracracy
Friday, 28 February 2003, 3:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today slammed the Auckland Regional Council for allowing bureaucracy to hinder the building of farm dams and lakes, in the face of reports that water harvesting - through the building of dams, ... More >>
Freedom Of Speech Means Just That
Friday, 28 February 2003, 1:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks, and ACT Health Spokesman Heather Roy, today urged Associate Health Minister Damien O'Connor to stick to his guns in continuing to defend free speech against professionals who think it shouldn't extend to health ... More >>
