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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 >>
Nothing In Budget For Secondary Education
Tuesday, 30 April 2002, 11:11 am | ACT New Zealand
Trevor Mallard has pre-released Budget education announcements so that teachers and principals make less fuss closer to an election when they discover there's next-to-nothing for them, ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Was Maori TV Set Up To Fail?
Monday, 29 April 2002, 6:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
John Davy's appointment and dismissal show why the Government should not be involved in broadcasting, ACT Broadcasting Spokesman MP Penny Webster said today. More >>
Hide Welcomes National Support For Treaty Bill
Monday, 29 April 2002, 12:38 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman MP Rodney Hide today welcomed the National Party's endorsement of his private member's Bill to place a time-limit on Treaty of Waitangi claims. More >>
Treaty Policy Leaves Unanswered Questions
Monday, 29 April 2002, 12:26 am | ACT New Zealand
National's Treaty of Waitangi policy is a good start but it leaves many questions unanswered, ACT's justice spokesman Stephen Franks says. More >>
Youth Crime Strategy Is A Defence Of Status Quo
Friday, 26 April 2002, 6:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
After taking nearly three years to develop a so-called Youth Crime Strategy, the Government has produced totally predictable rhetoric that simply perpetuates the status quo, ACT Justice Spokesman MP Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Securities Commission Air NZ Report Embarrassing
Friday, 26 April 2002, 6:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Securities Commission report into comments made by Helen Clark is a gift to those who claim that New Zealand securities regulation lacks integrity, ACT Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks said. More >>
Public Meeting On Crime And Justice
Friday, 26 April 2002, 6:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
Norm Withers, whose referendum for tougher sentences for violent crime won overwhelming support from voters at the last election, will share a platform with ACT's justice spokesman, Stephen Franks, at a public meeting in Christchurch next Tuesday. More >>
Youth Crime Strategy Politically-Correct Nonsense
Friday, 26 April 2002, 4:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
The government's so-called strategy to deal with youth crime is more politically-correct, ineffective nonsense, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
