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The Law Should Have Supported Judge's First Try
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 4:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said law should have let the Judge in the trial of four Wellington grave-robbers to tailor the sentence to fit the nature of the crime. More >>
Huata Calls for Dalziel to Support Rape Victim
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 3:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
Women throughout New Zealand will be horrified to learn that if they get attacked, the Minister of ACC won't defend their rights, ACT MP Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Labour Fails Economy By Its Own Measure
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 1:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today that the Labour/Alliance government had failed in its economic management by its own measures. More >>
More Discriminatory Legislation In The Statutes
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 1:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman says today will mark the sad passing into law of yet another piece of ill considered, hastily drafted and discriminatory legislation from this Government. More >>
Unseemly Haste In Sale Of Animal Health Labs
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 12:51 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff today accused the Government of a lack of transparency in the way it is going about selling its Animal Health Laboratories Business. More >>
Rape Victim Was Failed By Minister And ACC
Wednesday, 27 March 2002, 10:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
The bureaucratic Accident Compensation Corporation treated a rape victim with contempt, and the Minister in charge is blaming the woman and her doctor for failing to fill out her ACC forms correctly. More >>
What's Happening With The Dole-For-Art Scheme?
Wednesday, 27 March 2002, 11:17 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Services Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today questioned why the Government is withholding information regarding the number of people who have gone on to its PACE programme under which aspiring artists can receive the dole. More >>
I Was The First To Tell You
Wednesday, 27 March 2002, 11:05 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble said today he was a member of the Lange government Cabinet Security Committee. More >>
Okarito Declaration Is Unmitigated Cheek
Tuesday, 26 March 2002, 11:11 am | ACT New Zealand
Commitment with someone else's money is shallow posturing. The Okarito Declaration is a high sounding commitment but in no way does it offer practical protection as claimed by Dr McSweeney, ACT Conservation Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said. More >>
Forced 'Voluntary' Quotas Are Blackmail
Tuesday, 26 March 2002, 10:49 am | ACT New Zealand
Broadcasting Minister Marian Hobbs has forced radio stations to introduce `Kiwi' quotas to get around advice that New Zealand would face international legal action if mandatory quotas were introduced, ACT Broadcasting Spokesman MP Penny Webster ... More >>
No Partnership, No False Principles
Monday, 25 March 2002, 5:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
There is no good future for New Zealand in the cult of Treaty worship, ACT New Zealand's Justice Spokesman ,Stephen Franks, told the IIR Public Law forum in Wellington today. More >>
The Greens: Here Come the Dark Ages
Monday, 25 March 2002, 2:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons is aiming to take New Zealand back into the Dark Ages with her suggestion that Possum ashes be used as a means of controlling the pest, ACT Environment Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
Failure to Pay POW Vet Shows Clark Doesn't Care
Monday, 25 March 2002, 9:09 am | ACT New Zealand
Defence Minister Mark Burton's treatment of a World War II prisoner of war exposes the true values of Helen Clark's government, ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today. More >>
Maharey Unable To Deal With Child Abuse
Friday, 22 March 2002, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Services Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman says the fact that as many as 40 percent of potential child abuse cases notified to CYFS involve children who have previously been notified as at risk is a clear indication that the Minister Steve ... More >>
Crime Figures Confirm Need For Zero Tolerance
Friday, 22 March 2002, 11:22 am | ACT New Zealand
Latest figures showing violent crime rose by 5.9 percent last year come on top of an 8.5 percent increase in the previous year, meaning violent crime has gone up more than 14 percent under this government, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
It's Official: You're Less Safe from Violent Crime
Friday, 22 March 2002, 11:02 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Police Spokesman Ken Shirley says new crime figures out today show that the chances of being a victim of a violent crime in New Zealand are now the highest they have ever been. More >>
Auckland Policing Crisis Escalates
Friday, 22 March 2002, 12:08 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Police Spokesman Ken Shirley said the latest crime statistics released today show that Auckland policing is in crisis. More >>
ACT Renews Call For DNA Sampling Of Criminals
Thursday, 21 March 2002, 5:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand's Police Spokesman Ken Shirley today renewed his call for the Government to move quickly to pass legislation necessary to permit the routine collection of DNA samples for profiling all convicted criminals. More >>
Temporary Brain Gain Ending Says Webster
Thursday, 21 March 2002, 5:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
Latest migration figures indicate the brain drain reversal has ended, and is poised to start again after a blip caused by September 11, ACT Immigration Spokesman MP Penny Webster said today. More >>
ACT MPs Publish New Book
Thursday, 21 March 2002, 5:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ACT Party's nine MPs have jointly authored a new book called "Old Values, New Ideas". More >>
