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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 >>
Look Back and Wonder
Thursday, 28 November 2002, 10:03 am | ACT New Zealand
Three years down the track and what is this Government's standout feature? Cronyism, according to ACT's Economic Development Spokesman, Deborah Coddington. More >>
Government Kickbacks Break Their Own Law
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 5:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks said today that IRD and other government department payments to employees simply because they are members of the PSA is in breach of section 9 of the Employment Relations Act. More >>
Labour?s Sentencing Act Strikes Again
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 5:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
Yesterday's paltry sentence for a schoolteacher who preyed upon his pupils highlights the dramatic failures in the Government's sentencing laws, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Dunne Leads Voters Up the Garden Path
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 4:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
Just how long can Peter Dunne keep promising his supporters that Transmission Gully's completion is just around the corner so long as they vote for him, ACT New Zealand Transport Spokesman Deborah Coddington asked today. More >>
National considers future immigration Policy
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 3:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
A tighter focus on ‘net benefit to New Zealand’ is the theme of a discussion paper released by National’s Immigration spokesperson, Murray McCully, today. More >>
Labour's Legacy: The Education Gap
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 3:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Minister of Education must respond to new international research showing New Zealand has the second biggest gulf in educational achievement in the developed world, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Govt Pays Union Kickbacks
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 12:15 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that it was outrageous that Helen Clark was using taxpayers' money to bribe civil servants to join the PSA union. More >>
Rodney Hide Speech: Best Team Parliament Has Seen
Tuesday, 26 November 2002, 2:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
I want to thank you for something else because you have seen the calibre of your MPs. You have delivered to Parliament the most outstanding team of MPs ever seen in our Parliament. We spend long hours in Parliament and MPs from every party talk ... More >>
Poor Families, Poor Health
Tuesday, 26 November 2002, 9:53 am | ACT New Zealand
A recent study highlighting the long-term health outcomes for children raised in low socio-economic families should set Government alarm bells ringing, ACT New Zealand Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
