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Why Does DoC Destroy Bull Thar?
Monday, 2 December 2002, 2:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government must explain why DoC has spent money which could have funded a footbridge or a track or hut upgrade instead slaughtering bull thar worth up to $1 million this year alone says ACT Sports spokesman Stephen Franks. More >>
Truth An Endangered Species At DOC
Monday, 2 December 2002, 10:35 am | ACT New Zealand
The Department of Conservation is misleading the public on the effect of thar on the Mt Cook lily," ACT New Zealand Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Spokesman Gerrard Eckhoff said today. More >>
Welfare Reform - Vital for Nation to Stop Slide
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
Speech by ACT New Zealand Social Welfare and Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman to the ACT Auckland North Regional Conference, Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna, Auckland, on Sunday December 1, 2002 More >>
Value the Fourth Estate -- Stephen Franks
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:46 am | ACT New Zealand
Speech by ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks to the ACT Auckland North Regional Conference, Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna, Auckland, on Sunday December 1, 2002 More >>
PSA Bounties and NZEI Perks -- Rodney Hide
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:46 am | ACT New Zealand
Why They Are Against the Law, and Why They Are Going to Cost Taxpayers Many More Millions More >>
NZ Post Asked to "Please Explain"
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:43 am | ACT New Zealand
National's Murray McCully and ACT's Rodney Hide have written to the Finance and Expenditure Committee asking that New Zealand Post CEO Elmar Toime be asked to explain why he told the committee that Transend had "made a good profit" when apparently ... More >>
"A Political Paradigm" -- Richard Prebble
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:42 am | ACT New Zealand
Speech by Richard Prebble MP, Leader ACT NZ, to Auckland North Conference Bruce Mason Theatre, Takapuna Date 1:15 pm, Sunday 1 December 2002 More >>
"Why Act Opposes The Qantas/Air NZTakeover
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:39 am | ACT New Zealand
Speech by Richard Prebble, ACT NZ Leader To North Shore ACT Electorate Refinery Café, Unit 5, 162 Mokoia Rd, Birkenhead Date 7.30 pm, Friday 29 November 2002 More >>
Here's Three Dollars And a Free Magazine
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:38 am | ACT New Zealand
Industry New Zealand spends $41,750 every time it puts out an issue of its loss-making magazine that prints only 13,000 copies, ACT Commerce Spokesman Deborah Coddington revealed today. More >>
Country Club Prisons On The Way
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:37 am | ACT New Zealand
Providing prison inmates with bleach for the sterilisation of needles tells us all that the Government has lost control of prisons and their inmates. To prisoners, the message can only be that it condones the use of Class A drugs in New Zealand ... More >>
Muriel Newman: The Pandora's Box of Immigration
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:36 am | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand is an immigrant nation. Each wave of immigrants is somewhat suspicious of the next. In the beginning, Moriori didn't trust the Maori, and history shows their concerns were justified. More >>
Who Loses Out?
Monday, 2 December 2002, 8:33 am | ACT New Zealand
The only real potential losers in the ongoing PPCS Richmond battle are shareholder farmers - on both sides. More >>
Harvard Business Review Slams Cullen Super Fund
Friday, 29 November 2002, 3:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that the prestigious Harvard Business Review was quite right in slamming the Cullen Super Fund for its sloppy accountability. More >>
More Taxpayer-Supplied Perks for Joining Union
Friday, 29 November 2002, 1:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today revealed that Helen Clark's government has supplied further taxpayer subsidies to employees signing up with government-friendly unions. More >>
Failure Imminent On Government Path
Friday, 29 November 2002, 1:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
Until the Labour Government ceases to contradict its own policies and aims, District Health Boards will continue to fail to meet the needs of their communities, as highlighted by the potential loss of beds at Kenepuru Hospital, ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman ... More >>
Kids Sit the Wrong NCEA Exam
Friday, 29 November 2002, 12:25 am | ACT New Zealand
As predicted, failure to implement NCEA smoothly has resulted in children sitting the wrong exam paper, ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Wine Fuhrers On The Way
Friday, 29 November 2002, 12:24 am | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government is trying to regulate the success of the wine industry, ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
WINZ?s Pathways To Welfare Dependency
Thursday, 28 November 2002, 5:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
Work and Income New Zealand's Pathways to Arts and Cultural Employment (PACE) scheme is offering more and more people the opportunity not to work, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Inquiry into Government Immigration Policy
Thursday, 28 November 2002, 2:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble has written to the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee seeking a parliamentary inquiry into the government's recent imposition of a university level English language test on new immigrants and those on temporary ... More >>
Wintringham Must Front with Legal Advice - Fast!
Thursday, 28 November 2002, 1:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today that State Services Commissioner Michael Wintringham better have rock solid legal advise that PSA bounty payments to civil servants are lawful. More >>
