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Government Suppresses 2001 Victims of Crime Survey
Thursday, 4 July 2002, 2:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Ministry of Justice has refused to release any data from last year's victims of crime household survey. More >>
Labour Must Deny Secret Health Tax Plans
Thursday, 4 July 2002, 2:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader and Health Spokesman Ken Shirley today called on the Prime Minister to deny that she has a secret agenda to further hike taxes through a so-called designated health tax of 8 percent if Labour is re-elected. More >>
Health Tax Would Be Crippling For Workers
Thursday, 4 July 2002, 2:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour's proposed 8 percent health tax would be the biggest increase in income tax in New Zealand's history, ACT leader Richard Prebble said. More >>
Do One Crime and Get the Second for Free
Thursday, 4 July 2002, 1:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
I've come here today to the pizza parlour where Marcus Doig was brutally murdered. I've come to register the country's outrage, not just at the senseless crime but also the fact that the man who did this evil act will receive no punishment. More >>
Workplace Accidents Increase Under Labour
Thursday, 4 July 2002, 1:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT ACC Spokesman Ken Shirley said appalling workplace accident figures show that the Government's excessive regulatory approach is not working. More >>
Cullen Has Run Out of Ideas, ACT has Plenty
Thursday, 4 July 2002, 9:44 am | ACT New Zealand
Speech by ACT Finance Spokesman MP Rodney Hide, 4:30pm, Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce, WestpacTrust Room, 57 Kilmore Street, Christchurch: More >>
Mallard's Last Act
Wednesday, 3 July 2002, 1:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
The release of Labour's mediocre "vision" for education will be Trevor Mallard's last act as Education Minister, ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Self-Described Eminent NZers Raise Suspicions
Wednesday, 3 July 2002, 1:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
The credibility of Sir Peter Elworthy's grandly named "Sustainability Council" has to be challenged, ACT Environment Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said. More >>
ACT: Last Party To Represent All Of New Zealand
Wednesday, 3 July 2002, 1:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT's proposal to fast-track Treaty settlements is a great policy for Maori and for all New Zealanders, ACT Education and Maori Affairs Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata said today from One Tree Hill. More >>
One Law for All - Richard Prebble Speech
Wednesday, 3 July 2002, 1:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
Wednesday 3 Jul 2002 ACT's Waitangi Treaty Policy Launch, Speech by Richard Prebble, One Tree Hill, 11am, Wednesday, July 3, 2002 More >>
Wet Sentencing Act Won't Stop Fires
Wednesday, 3 July 2002, 9:09 am | ACT New Zealand
The prospect of a serial arsonist in Masterton shows why Labour was wrong to reject ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks' attempt to extend preventive detention to arsonists in the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill. More >>
Youth Crime Rates Must Be Tackled
Wednesday, 3 July 2002, 9:07 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Northland-based MP Dr Muriel Newman told a Grey Power meeting in Whangarei that ACT was committed to stamping out youth crime - which has been soaring in Northland. More >>
Parole Act an Insulting Memorial to Nan Withers
Wednesday, 3 July 2002, 9:06 am | ACT New Zealand
The commencement of the Sentencing and Parole Act is an insulting memorial to the memory of Nan Withers who was attacked while alone in her shop five years ago today, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Images: The Debit Card
Tuesday, 2 July 2002, 2:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
These images go with Richard's Speech titled, "ACT Leads e-Politics Campaign" More >>
Crime Figures Just Wrong
Tuesday, 2 July 2002, 9:31 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that Helen Clark was just out of touch if she believed that crime was at a 13-year low. More >>
ACT Leads e-Politics Campaign
Tuesday, 2 July 2002, 12:06 am | ACT New Zealand
Welcome to the first e-politics news conference. This news conference is being live-streamed on to ACT's website www.act.org.nz (http://www.act.org.nz/) It will be posted on our website this afternoon. More >>
Brain Drain in Full Flight
Monday, 1 July 2002, 4:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble today attacked Helen Clark's statements concerning immigration at Labour's party launch as dishonest campaigning. More >>
PM’s Statement on Taxes as Fake as her Paintings
Monday, 1 July 2002, 3:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide MP said today that Helen Clark's statement on Morning Report this morning that New Zealand has tax rates `lower than anywhere in the western world, in fact lower than anywhere in the whole OECD except Mexico' was ... More >>
Huata Addresses Sensible Sentencing Rally
Monday, 1 July 2002, 11:45 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata today spoke to a Sensible Sentencing Rally of victims' families and concerned New Zealanders outside the Napier court appearance of the man accused with murdering Teresa Cormack. More >>
Together, We Can Rebuild New Zealand
Monday, 1 July 2002, 10:39 am | ACT New Zealand
I recently received a letter from a family who had visited New Zealand in 1991 and had become "enchanted with the slower pace of life, the lack of traffic, the friendliness of people, the racial harmony, good education, low crime and general ... More >>
