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Minister's Smugness Premature
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 2:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today challenged the Labour Government's gloating over recent unemployment figures. More >>
Minister Sees The Light - At Long Last
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 2:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today welcomed the Health Minister's call for the private sector to be used to reduce waiting lists, but asked why it has taken her so long to see the light. More >>
CYF Conduct Unacceptable
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 9:10 am | ACT New Zealand
The case of a woman who had to turn to the media before Child, Youth and Family would listen to her complaints, raises serious questions about the actions of the department, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Goff is Concerned with Figures, Not Victims
Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 4:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT will not retract its criticism of our youth justice system just because the OECD has been persuaded by Mr Goff to withdraw its statistical comparison figures showing New Zealand has the worst youth crime in the OECD, ACT Justice Spokesman ... More >>
Air New Zealand: Response by Richard Prebble
Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 2:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble is unsurprised by the Treasury warning that the Government will need to put more taxpayer money into Air NZ if the Qantas takeover doesn't succeed. More >>
Government 'Loses' Unemployed
Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 2:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today expressed deep concern for up to 37,000 missing New Zealanders - all conspicuously absent from the Labour Force Household Survey. More >>
Get Off Your High Horse, Mallard
Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 2:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Deborah Coddington today slammed the Education Minister's attitude toward increased exam fees, labelling it outrageous and arrogant. More >>
Government Resurrects Muldoon Era
Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 8:23 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today slammed Government plans to amend the Resource Management Act, to allow energy projects - such as the Waitaki development scheme - to proceed with haste. More >>
Police Buckling Under Pressure
Tuesday, 11 February 2003, 8:07 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today slammed the Government for allowing some police districts to come under such enormous pressure that some of their duties have had to be sidelined. More >>
Business Roundtable Wake-Up Call Welcomed
Tuesday, 11 February 2003, 8:06 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today that the New Zealand Business Roundtable's wake-up call to Prime Minister Helen Clark's government was welcome. More >>
Labour Invites The Big Finger
Monday, 10 February 2003, 3:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today accused the Government of inviting teenage offenders to give the law the finger, after a Hamilton teen clocked up $9,205 in fines - after having nearly $20,000 written off last year. More >>
Richard Prebble’s Letter From Wellington
Monday, 10 February 2003, 3:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ACT Caucus will suspend her [Donna Awatere Huata] tomorrow because she admitted to them last Monday that she had broken the ACT Caucus rules on conflicts of interest; she accepted with her husband a plane trip to Sydney, all expenses paid to see the ... More >>
Government-Funded Gangs
Monday, 10 February 2003, 2:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
Ongoing violence in Palmerston North highlights the need for police to be given the mandate and resources to adopt a zero tolerance approach to crime - especially gang-related crime - ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
ACT Urges Government To Help Children
Friday, 7 February 2003, 6:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Housing Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today urged the Government to fast-track a proposal, before the Social Services Select Committee, to stabilise housing for low-income families. More >>
Paradise Lost Can Be Regained
Friday, 7 February 2003, 6:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
Weekly Column by Dr Muriel Newman: Although we like to think our country is a child-rearing paradise, the OECD this week released a devastating picture of life for young New Zealanders. The study found that New Zealand's rates of juvenile crime, youth suicide, ... More >>
Adult Crime Should Mean Adult Treatment
Friday, 7 February 2003, 2:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today that it was time the law was changed, so that teenagers who commit crimes should expect to be held in police custody. More >>
Prebble Requests Special Parliamentary Iraq Debate
Friday, 7 February 2003, 2:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble has today written to the Prime Minster to request that the government set aside time for a special parliamentary debate on Iraq. More >>
Energy Crisis Looms
Friday, 7 February 2003, 1:53 pm | ACT New Zealand
Energy Minister Pete Hodgson has failed to address pressing issues that threaten to undermine our energy sector with increasing frequency, ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
Streets Must Be Safe Before Children Can Play
Thursday, 6 February 2003, 1:42 pm | ACT New Zealand
As well as urging schoolchildren to become more physically active, the Government must get to the heart of why more children spend time indoors, ACT New Zealand Police Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Be Radical; Look At The Treaty On Waitangi Day
Thursday, 6 February 2003, 1:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
For me, as ACT's Treaty and Maori Affairs Spokesman, today is a day of reflection. I will go to look at the original signed Treaty, on display just for today, here in Wellington, ACT Treaty Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
