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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 >>
Media Must Test National On Its Treaty Policy
Monday, 24 June 2002, 9:08 am | ACT New Zealand
Last month Bill English gave a good speech on Treaty issues. It started to move National back from its complicity in the Treaty industry's tide of segregation and race discrimination in our law, says ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks. More >>
Every Young Child Is Neglected by Labour
Saturday, 22 June 2002, 5:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT's education spokesman, Donna Awatere Huata, today launched the party's early childhood education policy to the national Kindergarten meeting in Napier. More >>
At Last: Official Comparison of Crime Rates
Saturday, 22 June 2002, 5:53 pm | ACT New Zealand
"At last the Justice Minister has released some official comparison of New Zealand's crime rates with those of Canada, the United States, England, Wales and Australia," says ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks. More >>
Awatere Huata Will Stand for ACT in Napier
Saturday, 22 June 2002, 5:51 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman and member of parliament Donna Awatere Huata today announced she will stand for ACT New Zealand in the electorate of Napier. More >>
Split PPTA Vote Spells Trouble
Friday, 21 June 2002, 4:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
The even-split vote by secondary teachers on a short-term deal with the Government will create even more trouble for students, ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Owen Jennings Stands For Taranaki-King Country
Friday, 21 June 2002, 11:43 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Defence and Rural Issues Spokesman and member of parliament Owen Jennings has been selected to stand in Taranaki-King Country this election. More >>
One Academic's Opinion Is Not Fact
Friday, 21 June 2002, 9:21 am | ACT New Zealand
Presenting one academic's opinion on ACT's Crime and Justice policy as fact is extraordinarily biased journalism, ACT Justice Spokesman MP Stephen Franks said today. He was responding to the Evening Post's report of a university lecturer's views, without any attempt ... More >>
Life Valued More in Brazil than New Zealand?
Thursday, 20 June 2002, 5:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
The sentences given to the Brazilian killers of Sir Peter Blake contrast starkly with murder penalties in New Zealand, ACT Women's Affairs Spokesman MP Penny Webster said today. More >>
