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Government Gives Landlords A Raw Deal
Friday, 3 May 2002, 2:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Housing Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman says today is a bad day for New Zealand's estimated 170,000 landlords with the first reading in Parliament of the Government's flawed Residential Tenancy Amendment Bill. More >>
OECD Report Endorses Act's Policies
Friday, 3 May 2002, 11:40 am | ACT New Zealand
The latest OECD report on New Zealand validates ACT's criticisms of the government's economic direction, and endorses ACT's positive solutions, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Shirley Speech: Geothermal Energy - The Cinderella
Friday, 3 May 2002, 11:05 am | ACT New Zealand
The development of geothermal power is part of New Zealand's technological expertise. Pioneering efforts at Wairakei during the 1950's followed by several decades of refinement and innovation gave rise to New Zealand's international reputation in this field. More >>
Minister Sutton Carries Big Responsibility
Friday, 3 May 2002, 10:00 am | ACT New Zealand
Minister Jim Sutton has a Herculean task ahead of him in his meeting with the United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellich, ACT Trade and Negotiations Spokesman MP Owen Jennings said today. More >>
ACT Opposes Aussie Rules For Dietary Supplements
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 11:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand is opposed to the New Zealand Government's proposal to establish a joint Trans Tasman body to regulate therapeutic products including among other things dietary supplements. More >>
Deputy PM's Personal Attacks Undignified
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 4:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
"Jim Anderton's personal attack earlier today is from a man who publicly said he was leaving politics as a protest against politics being a bear pit," ACT Leader Richard Prebble said. More >>
Government 'Clean Slate' Bill Will be Opposed
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 3:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks says ACT will vigorously oppose Justice Minister Goff's Clean Slate Bill to wipe ten-year-old criminal convictions from people's records. More >>
New Register Just More Red Tape
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 3:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble confirmed today that he had not been consulted by the Prime Minister prior to Helen Clark's announcement of the introduction of an MPs' register of pecuniary interests. More >>
Suspensions Are Down Because Kids Aren't In School
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 2:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Ministers of Education and Maori Affairs shouldn't be trumpeting reduced suspension rates for Maori students when the reality is that increasing numbers of Maori children simply aren't turning up to school, ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata ... More >>
ACT Launches Zero Tolerance For Crime Campaign
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 10:43 am | ACT New Zealand
Thursday 2 May 2002 ACT Leader Richard Prebble will tonight begin ACT's election campaign with a public meeting calling for Zero Tolerance for Crime at a public meeting at the ASB Bank Netball complex in Northcote on Auckland's North Shore. More >>
Auditor General Strays Outside His Role
Thursday, 2 May 2002, 10:38 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Transport Spokesman Penny Webster says it is shocking that the Auditor General thinks it is part of his role to tell the Police to issue speeding fines to motorists. More >>
Clark Encouraging People-Smuggling
Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 8:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Prime Minister Helen Clark's decision to take 140 refugees from Indonesia is reckless and the worst sort of short-term politics, ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
Final Betrayal Of 92 Percent Of Voters
Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 8:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said the Government committed its final betrayal of 92 percent of New Zealand voters tonight when it pushed through the final stages of its Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill. More >>
Body Blow for Farm Forestry
Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 4:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
Farm forestry has taken a low body blow from the Labour Government announcement over their decision to appropriate the carbon credits from this industry, ACT Environment Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
Shopkeeper Killer Would Duck Hate Crime Penalty
Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 12:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
Today's 10 year "life sentence" for William Holtz for murdering an Indian shopkeeper shows the unprincipled nature of the government's new "hate crime" provisions in the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill, says ACT's justice spokesman ... More >>
Prebble Speech: Zero Tolerance For Crime
Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 10:53 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT is going to make your right to be safe the issue in this year's election. I am determined that we are going to claim back our community from the violence that threatens us. More >>
Shirley Speech: Zero Tolerance For Crime
Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 10:19 am | ACT New Zealand
For the first half of the century the crime rate in New Zealand was very low compared with other societies and most prosecutions were for offences against public order such as drunkenness. This low crime rate remained stable for many decades. More >>
Kyoto Arrangements Much Worse Than Most Realise
Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 12:05 am | ACT New Zealand
A not-very-clever piece of Muldoonist trickery has lulled most commentators into thinking the farming community has got off lightly in the Government's Kyoto announcement yesterday, ACT Rural Affairs Spokesman Owen Jennings said today. More >>
Climate Change Policies Move NZ To Command Economy
Tuesday, 30 April 2002, 1:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Government's determination to ratify the Kyoto Protocol ahead of the USA, Japan, Australia and Canada and other trading partners is bad in itself but their announced policy mix will be disastrous for the New Zealand economy," says ACT ... More >>
Why did Maori TV use Millennium People?
Tuesday, 30 April 2002, 1:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
Shareholding Ministers must explain why the Maori Television Service used Millennium People to head hunt John Davy, ACT Broadcasting Spokesman MP Penny Webster said today. More >>
