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National Takes First Step on Education
Friday, 28 June 2002, 10:57 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata today said the National Party education policies are a firm step in the right direction. More >>
Labour's Secret Agenda -- Richard Prebble
Friday, 28 June 2002, 10:18 am | ACT New Zealand
If you log on to Labour's website, you could be forgiven for thinking there is no election. There's nothing on the site to indicate that Labour is campaigning. More >>
Transport Decisions Highlight Flawed Labour Policy
Friday, 28 June 2002, 10:13 am | ACT New Zealand
Transfund decisions reflect Labour's lack of direction on transport, and may not even be legal given the Government's failure to introduce crucial legislation to parliament, ACT Transport Spokesman MP Penny Webster said today. More >>
Anderton Spends $80m to Mow Down Small Business
Friday, 28 June 2002, 9:14 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today that Jim Anderton should take personal responsibility for the state of Kiwibank and NZ Post franchises. More >>
Confidence Drop Makes Company Tax Cut Vital
Friday, 28 June 2002, 12:14 am | ACT New Zealand
The rapid drop in business confidence makes a cut in company tax essential, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Franks' Treaty Position Absolutely Clear
Thursday, 27 June 2002, 2:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today corrected a report in Wellington's Evening Post newspaper which said, in effect that he had refused to comment on whether he supported ACT's Treaty of Waitangi Policy. More >>
ACT Will Restore Air Strike Wing
Thursday, 27 June 2002, 1:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ACT Party will reconstitute an airforce strike capability, ACT leader Richard Prebble said today, in response to a call from the Save our Squadrons Campaign. More >>
Labour Breaks Health Promises
Thursday, 27 June 2002, 1:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Labour Governments promise that hospital services would not be cut is as hollow as their promise that surgery waiting lists would be slashed," says ACT New Zealand's Deputy Leader and Health Spokesman Ken Shirley. More >>
Anti-Zoning Pressure Group Launch
Thursday, 27 June 2002, 1:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata will tonight launch a pressure group of concerned parents and education professionals who want to eliminate unfair school zoning. More >>
Let's Have an Election - Richard Prebble Speech
Thursday, 27 June 2002, 10:47 am | ACT New Zealand
This is the election you have when you are not having an election. Labour, with its mile-high polling, is trying to do as little campaigning as possible. I have checked Labour's website. The only item that would tell you that there is an election ... More >>
Govt Suppressed Crime Survey - Prebble Speech
Thursday, 27 June 2002, 10:45 am | ACT New Zealand
The Justice Ministry did a household survey on violent crime at the end of last year. The survey was to have been released last month. More >>
PPTA Should Use Holidays To Reach Deal
Wednesday, 26 June 2002, 1:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
It is appalling that the PPTA will waste the school holidays instead of using them to work on a deal with the Government, ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Rejection Of NCEA Is Just Starting
Wednesday, 26 June 2002, 10:28 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata today congratulated the principal of Carey Baptist College for rejecting the NCEA. More >>
Election Update Reveals True Size of Government
Tuesday, 25 June 2002, 6:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said that the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update (Pre-EFU) revealed that the Government in New Zealand is consuming a staggering 43.2 percent of the New Zealand economy. More >>
Jennings Speech For Candidate Selection Rangitikei
Tuesday, 25 June 2002, 3:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
The forthcoming election is not some sort of artificial contest between Labour governing on their own and Labour with a minority party coalition partner. Labour spin doctors are doing their damnest to keep the focus on what is a sideshow - the GE debate More >>
Government Has Suppressed Crime Survey
Tuesday, 25 June 2002, 10:48 am | ACT New Zealand
The Justice Ministry did a household survey on violent crime at the end of last year. The survey was to have been released last month. More >>
ACT For Your Party Vote! -- Rodney Hide
Tuesday, 25 June 2002, 9:18 am | ACT New Zealand
There's only one way to return ACT to Parliament this election -- give your party vote to ACT. More >>
ACT Seeks Release of Crime Survey
Tuesday, 25 June 2002, 12:46 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble has written to Justice Minister Phil Goff, seeking the immediate release, under the Official Information Act, of results of a household crime victim survey carried out by the Justice Ministry at the end of last year. More >>
ACT Reiterates Support For Progress On GM
Monday, 24 June 2002, 1:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Environment Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff says a public debate arranged at very short notice between Labour and the Greens for Dunedin this week further highlights the level of contrivance in the apparent "conflict" between the two parties. More >>
A Vision For New Zealand
Monday, 24 June 2002, 10:42 am | ACT New Zealand
See ACT’s manifesto online: http://www.act.org.nz/action/campaigns/manifesto2002/index.html More >>
