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Mallard Must Clarify School Fee Guidelines
Friday, 19 April 2002, 3:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata today wrote to Trevor Mallard urging him to clarify school fee guidelines to ensure schools that are currently breaking the law do not continue to do so. More >>
Mallard's Sick Comments are Not On
Friday, 19 April 2002, 2:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Women's Affairs Spokesman MP Penny Webster said Trevor Mallard's bully-boy joke about `what he'd like to do to John O'Neill and Vernon Pugh' is distasteful and poorly timed. More >>
What Has Been Mr Mallard's Role?
Friday, 19 April 2002, 1:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
As part of the inquiry into the loss of the Rugby World Cup, we need to find out what the Sports Minister’s role has been, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Electoral Boundaries Favour Labour
Thursday, 18 April 2002, 3:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
"This is because the Electoral Commission has used the constituency quota to the limit, to keep electoral boundaries unchanged," Mr Prebble said. More >>
Govt Slashes Aid For Long-Term Unemployed
Thursday, 18 April 2002, 3:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today accused the Government of abandoning the country's growing numbers of long term unemployed. More >>
Rising Number Of Strikes Causes Concern
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 11:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
The doubling of the number of work stoppages last year, is a matter of concern, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Immigration Behind Interest Rate Rises
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 10:43 am | ACT New Zealand
Today's interest rate rise by the Reserve Bank is dramatic and has serious implications, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Govt To Block Shareholders' Access To Justice
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 10:40 am | ACT New Zealand
Efforts to bring insider traders to justice will be a great deal harder in future if the Securities Markets and Institutions Bill becomes law. More >>
Wool Company Succeeds Despite Wool Board
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 10:17 am | ACT New Zealand
The Canterbury based wool company Escorial has scored an internationally recognised victory of notable proportions with its winning bale of fine wool. More >>
Hike In Interest Rates Shows Low Growth Path
Wednesday, 17 April 2002, 10:05 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that Reserve Bank Governor Dr Don Brash's hike in interest rates shows New Zealand's prospects for sustainable growth under current policies remains at best 2.5 percent a year. More >>
Pensioner Housing Issue Aimed At Saving Alliance
Tuesday, 16 April 2002, 11:49 am | ACT New Zealand
The Government edict that pensioner houses can't be sold without local councils replacing them is nothing more than a skirmish between two warring factions of what was once the Alliance Party, ACT Local Government Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
NZ Lose Access to Neutral Legal Umpires
Monday, 15 April 2002, 3:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks says the move by the Government for New Zealand to sever links with the Privy Council means we will lose a unique competitive advantage for a small remote country - access to neutral international referees to uphold impartial ... More >>
Why Does National Want To Put Off Prosperity?
Monday, 15 April 2002, 11:40 am | ACT New Zealand
The National Party has acknowledged what most business leaders already know - that New Zealand needs a tax cut to promote prosperity and reach the goal of 4 percent growth, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Franks Proposes Remedy For Legal Aid Blow-Out
Monday, 15 April 2002, 10:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks wants changes to the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill to block - before it gets up speed - a new legal aid industry in sentencing hearings. "The Bill has strong new incentives for offenders and their lawyers ... More >>
National Should Immediately Reverse Labour's Tax
Monday, 15 April 2002, 12:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said to day that he was thrilled National had recommitted to tax cuts under the leadership of Bill English. More >>
Wickliffe Case Illustrates Lack Of Accountability
Friday, 12 April 2002, 3:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble has expressed surprise at a decision yesterday by Tauranga magistrates to release without conviction Dean Wickliffe, one of New Zealand's most notorious criminals, after he was found driving while disqualified and with 12 grams ... More >>
Goff Creates New Legal Aid Industry
Thursday, 11 April 2002, 3:04 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today it was hypocritical of Phil Goff to rail about an Auckland family running up a $1.1 million legal aid bill when proposals in Mr Goff's Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill will lead to substantial increases ... More >>
Government Has Lost Control Of Immigration
Thursday, 11 April 2002, 1:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Department's forecast that an extra 7000 people will be unemployed by September, due mainly to immigration, is yet another proof of my claim that the government has lost control of immigration, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Franks Speech: What Is Cultural Liberalism?
Thursday, 11 April 2002, 10:56 am | ACT New Zealand
This could be about an Arts Policy for ACT. We could discuss lots of interesting questions. Such as was the virgin in a condom art? What is the role of the State in relation to people just out to shock? Is the `artists on the dole' scheme a vital ... More >>
Prebble Speech: A 28 Cent Company And Personal Tax
Wednesday, 10 April 2002, 11:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Calls For National to Adopt a 28 Cent Company and Personal Tax Rate Policy More >>
