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Statement on Awatere Huata Story
Tuesday, 31 December 2002, 12:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble has been in contact today with the Awatere Huata family today regarding the Dominion Post's allegations of wrongdoing. More >>
Secretive Committee Refuses to Review Security
Tuesday, 31 December 2002, 12:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
Secretive Committee Refuses to Review Security ACT New Zealand Leader Hon. Richard Prebble today expressed concern that Parliament's secretive Intelligence and Security Committee has declined his request for a review of New Zealand's security and intelligence ... More >>
Police Minister's Priorities Are All Wrong
Monday, 30 December 2002, 11:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
The revelation over the Christmas break that Labour has increased the number of expensive police head office desk jobs at the expense of frontline policing is very serious, ACT New Zealand Leader and former Minister of Police Hon. Richard Prebble said today. More >>
Richard Prebble’s Letter From Wellington
Tuesday, 24 December 2002, 9:18 am | ACT New Zealand
Dr Cullen is boasting that the December fiscal update indicates the surplus will be a massive $3.5 billion. Labour taking, over the last three years, an additional $14 billion in increased taxes and government charges, has brought about the surplus. ... More >>
Response to Allegations Against Huata MP
Friday, 20 December 2002, 2:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
This morning the Dominion Post newspaper has run a front page story making serious allegations against Donna Awatere Huata MP stating that public money that was paid to assist New Zealand school children with reading difficulties has been misused. More >>
ACT Protects Liberties, But Treaty Rights Miss Out
Friday, 20 December 2002, 11:36 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand today successfully changed one despotic aspect of the massive Local Government Bill, in an unprecedented defeat for the Labour Government. More >>
Time for a Tax Cut for the Workers
Friday, 20 December 2002, 1:06 am | ACT New Zealand
“New Zealand can afford a tax cut for every worker and a cut in the company tax rate to below Australia’s rate right now,” said ACT Leader Richard Prebble. More >>
Population Funding A Fraud
Friday, 20 December 2002, 1:05 am | ACT New Zealand
Health Minister Annette King’s statement today that she is implementing population-based funding is just not true, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
ACT Protects Liberties, But Treaty Rights Miss Out
Friday, 20 December 2002, 1:02 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand today successfully changed one despotic aspect of the massive Local Government Bill, in an unprecedented defeat for the Labour Government. More >>
Newman: How Social Welfare Nurtured A Killer Trio
Friday, 20 December 2002, 12:04 am | ACT New Zealand
Jules Mikus, Bruce Howse, William Bell. Three killers who - in a year defined by rising crime and a fading blue line - stand out for their unmistakable evil. Three men whose convictions may have served justice, but whose lessons our country has ... More >>
DEFU Shows Welfare Spiralling Out of Control
Thursday, 19 December 2002, 3:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
The December Economic and Fiscal Update shows Labour Government welfare spending is roaring ahead despite unemployment actually being down, ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Minimum Logic to Minimum Wage Change
Thursday, 19 December 2002, 3:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
With the stroke of a pen, the Government has locked thousands of young New Zealanders out of employment by denying them choice and freedom of contract, ACT New Zealand Commerce Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Cullen is the Grinch who Stole Christmas
Thursday, 19 December 2002, 3:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
Finance Minister Michael Cullen’s December Economic and Fiscal Update shows him for what he is - the Grinch who stole Christmas from working families, ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today. More >>
Evidence Favours ACT Opposition to Local Body Bill
Thursday, 19 December 2002, 9:38 am | ACT New Zealand
A growing gap between local authority rates revenue and expenditure shows why opponents to the Local Body Amendment Bill are justified in fearing the "powers of general competence" the Local Government Bill will give councils, ACT New Zealand Deputy ... More >>
Those Were Helen Clark's People Tonight
Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 4:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government's decision to carve up TVNZ into a crown company and a state-owned enterprise will put the broadcasting arm into an invidious position, ACT New Zealand Commerce Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Labour Wraps Tax Rise For Christmas
Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 3:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour's Christmas present to motorists is the news that petrol prices will rise to cover an increase in the ACC motor vehicle levy, ACT New Zealand ACC Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Air NZ Decision: Good Politics, Bad Governance
Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 3:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Labour cabinet should not have approved the Qantas takeover of Air New Zealand," said ACT Leader Richard Prebble. More >>
Maharey Must Back Effort to Reduce Benefit Fraud
Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 2:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
Complaints from a beneficiary advocacy group that WINZ's random visits to clients' homes are "invasive and intimidatory" should be disregarded, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Families Commission: How 'Useful'
Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 11:10 am | ACT New Zealand
Details of Labour and United Future's new Families Commission raise more and more questions as the days go by, ACT New Zealand Families Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
One Man Crime Wave Cannot Be Jailed
Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 9:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today that he expects Phil Goff will again claim there is an "unintended loophole" in legislation that prevented a Christchurch Youth Court judge from sending a "one man crime wave" to jail. More >>
