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Toned Down ECE Strategy is Still Frightening
Thursday, 12 September 2002, 11:59 am | ACT New Zealand
The Early Childhood Education Strategy "Pathways to the Future: Nga Huarahi Arataki", although a back down from earlier extreme plans, still has the potential to drive private providers out of business, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere ... More >>
Frustrated Truancy Service Lashes Out at Schools
Thursday, 12 September 2002, 11:58 am | ACT New Zealand
The Truancy Service's criticism of schools for failing to keep tabs on children reveals the frustration felt by truancy officers around the country, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
GPs are Offered One Weekend Off Every Year
Thursday, 12 September 2002, 12:22 am | ACT New Zealand
The much-vaunted rural doctor retention fund is proving to be nothing more than an insulting gesture, ACT Rural Affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
Health Inquiry is Good News for Consumers
Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 5:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
The decision by the Health Select Committee to hold an inquiry into Labour's proposed Trans-Tasman Agency to regulate therapeutic products is a step in the right direction, ACT Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Transport briefing paper outlines problems
Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 4:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission's briefing to the Transport Minister is a bold document clearly outlining the problems faced when governments both own a business and are responsible for the safety regulations governing the industry, ... More >>
New Zealand pays nothing for a final appeal court
Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 3:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson today gave away the only rational argument Privy Court abolitionists have been using when she acknowledged that New Zealand presently pays nothing for a final appeal court, and gave estimates of $10 million in set-up ... More >>
United Future Fails First Test
Tuesday, 10 September 2002, 5:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
The parliamentary vote for landmark legislation to remove work-testing for parents on the domestic purposes benefit reveals how parties will be split this term, ACT Social Services and Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Bailey Kurariki's CYF File Shows Inquiry Needed
Tuesday, 10 September 2002, 8:40 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today renewed her call for an independent investigation into what involvement Child, Youth and Family had with convicted murderer Bailey Kurariki. More >>
Tamihere Prepares for Major New Land Grab
Monday, 9 September 2002, 4:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government is preparing for a major land grab that will take property from rural land owners using the excuse that the public needs greater access to streams and lakes, ACT Conservation Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff warned today. More >>
Rural Landowners Must Stand Up and Fight
Monday, 9 September 2002, 4:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
Rural landowners should be putting five percent of their taxable income aside to fight against district plans and abuse of property rights, ACT Rural Affairs Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
Richard Prebble's Letter from Wellington
Monday, 9 September 2002, 2:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
War with Iraq: US military action against Iraq will have worldwide ramifications. So our Parliament has ignored it. It seems for the first time our traditional allies - the US, UK and Australia - will be involved in a war without the support of NZ. More >>
Knowledge Wave Not Even A Ripple
Monday, 9 September 2002, 11:36 am | ACT New Zealand
The Government's much-vaunted "Knowledge Wave" launched with much fanfare has proved not even a ripple on the marketplace. The reason is simple enough. The Government's "hands on partnership" approach to the economy is at loggerheads with making use ... More >>
Justice Minister Plays 'Yes Minister' With Himself
Monday, 9 September 2002, 9:23 am | ACT New Zealand
Phil Goff's announcement that the Ministry of Justice has sole leadership in the area of youth justice takes spin and cynicism to new heights, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
PHO Establishment in Disarray
Monday, 9 September 2002, 9:22 am | ACT New Zealand
The Minister of Health's plan to turn general practitioners into civil servants appears to be unravelling, ACT Health Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
Newman: Why the Left Wants to Destroy the Family
Monday, 9 September 2002, 9:13 am | ACT New Zealand
The two-parent married family is the most successful child rearing institution ever invented. That is not to say that other family forms do not do well; it's just that population trends clearly show that children who are not raised in an intact, married ... More >>
Minister Warned to Leave Childhood Education Alone
Friday, 6 September 2002, 3:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
The best thing the Government can do for early childhood education providers is to leave them alone, Act New Zealand Associate Spokesman Deborah Coddington said today. More >>
Labour Pushes Vulnerable Into Welfare Trap
Friday, 6 September 2002, 3:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government has failed to help the most vulnerable members of society - mothers and their children - to escape the trap of welfare dependency, ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Poll Shows Mallard Out Of Touch
Friday, 6 September 2002, 11:27 am | ACT New Zealand
Revelations that over two-thirds of New Zealanders reject the centralised pay system for secondary teachers shows how hopelessly out of touch Minister of Education Trevor Mallard is, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Papers Reveal Education System In "Stress"
Friday, 6 September 2002, 12:06 am | ACT New Zealand
Briefing papers for the Education Minister bluntly reveal he has run down the schooling system after three years in office, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Taxpayers Taken For a Ride
Friday, 6 September 2002, 12:03 am | ACT New Zealand
If the Rail Freight Action Group wants cheaper freight prices from Tranz Rail then its corporate members - particularly Solid Energy, Carter Holt Harvey, Fletcher Forests and Fonterra - should put their collective millions where their mouths are and buy ... More >>
