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Where Is The Competitive Power Market?
Tuesday, 5 March 2002, 3:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Energy Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today accused Pete Hodgson of having a bob each way with the electricity market. More >>
ACT Supports PM's Tough Line on Zimbabwe
Tuesday, 5 March 2002, 11:39 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble has written to the Prime Minister offering the ACT Party's support for any sanctions against Zimbabwe. More >>
Tuvalu Claims Disputed
Tuesday, 5 March 2002, 12:44 am | ACT New Zealand
"The Prime Minister of Tuvalu, Koloa Talake, should check his facts before threatening to take legal action against major countries and corporations who he claims are causing sea levels to rise and drown his island nation," says ACT Deputy Leader Ken ... More >>
PSA Entitlements Are Corrupt And Disgusting
Monday, 4 March 2002, 5:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman MP Rodney Hide today reiterated his criticism of Government-funded perks for bureaucrats who are members of a Labour-friendly union. More >>
Will PM's Market Manipulation Cost Us More?
Monday, 4 March 2002, 5:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks says Helen Clark's recommendation to Air New Zealand Shareholders to hang on to their shares could end up costing taxpayers even more money, following news that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ... More >>
Richard Prebble's Letter from Wellington
Monday, 4 March 2002, 3:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
Last week Labour broke its clearest promise - "read my lips, no new taxes" - to impose a 4.7c petrol tax. Why? Labour's polls say Auckland traffic has become an election issue. More >>
Govt Takes Futile Stance On Diabetes Treatment
Monday, 4 March 2002, 11:50 am | ACT New Zealand
"The transferral to the Cook Islands of xeno transplantation clinical trials associated with diabetes treatment reveals the futility of this Government's reluctance to embrace new biological technologies," says ACT Health Spokesman Ken Shirley. More >>
Government Making Refugee Policy On The Run
Monday, 4 March 2002, 10:30 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble says he's concerned the government is continuing to make refugee policy in an ad hoc way while on tour overseas. More >>
Government Making Refugee Policy On The Run
Monday, 4 March 2002, 10:29 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble says he's concerned the government is continuing to make refugee policy in an ad hoc way while on tour overseas. More >>
Taxpayer Pays Civil Servants To Join PSA
Monday, 4 March 2002, 9:36 am | ACT New Zealand
The Labour Government is dolling out cash and perks to public servants for joining a Labour-friendly union, ACT Finance Spokesman MP Rodney Hide revealed today. More >>
Privilege Case Can't Deal With The Real Scandals
Monday, 4 March 2002, 9:30 am | ACT New Zealand
The breach of privilege case against Corrections Minister Matt Robson can't deal with the real scandals in payments to prisoners, says ACT's Justice spokesman Stephen Franks. More >>
Student Debt Worse, Not Better
Monday, 4 March 2002, 12:53 am | ACT New Zealand
Auckland students' total debt is set to double under the Labour/Alliance government, said ACT leader Richard Richard Prebble who is visiting Auckland University today. More >>
Sinister Add-Ons To Terrorism, Boat People Bills
Friday, 1 March 2002, 2:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks agreed last night with the Auckland Council for Civil Liberties that the Labour/Alliance Government is using hysteria about foreigner dangers to slide through unnecessary threats to New Zealanders' freedoms and the ... More >>
Does Spitting Wild Cat Show Good Faith?
Friday, 1 March 2002, 2:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
"I have been waiting to hear the Minister of Labour, Margaret Wilson show good faith under her new employment law by announcing the prosecution of the commuter train staff who inconvenienced and frustrated thousands with yesterday's unlawful ... More >>
New Figures Show Deepening Health Crisis
Friday, 1 March 2002, 9:10 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Health Spokesman Ken Shirley says today's latest official public health figures show that the country's hospitals are spiralling dangerously further and further into the red and only a major change in Government policy will address the crisis. More >>
Privileges Referral Is Huge Setback To NZ Post
Friday, 1 March 2002, 9:07 am | ACT New Zealand
Before New Zealand Post, no state-owned enterprise or government department has ever been referred to parliament's Privileges Committee for "misleading" a Select Committee, ACT Finance Spokesman MP Rodney Hide said today. More >>
Auckland Conned
Friday, 1 March 2002, 9:04 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Transport Spokesman MP Penny Webster said this evening that Auckland mayor John Banks is the victim of a con job by the Labour Government whose transport package is just a sop to the Greens. More >>
New Tax Flogs Rural New Zealanders
Friday, 1 March 2002, 8:57 am | ACT New Zealand
Rural New Zealanders will be bitterly angry to learn that they will pay an extra five cents per litre for petrol after the Government's disastrous Transport Package was announced today, ACT Rural Affairs Spokesman Owen Jennings said today. More >>
Transport Package Has No Answers
Friday, 1 March 2002, 8:56 am | ACT New Zealand
The $227 million transport package throws money at the Greens, but fails to deliver to New Zealand's motorists, ACT Transport Spokesman MP Penny Webster said today. More >>
Clarkistan - Helen Clark's Third Way
Friday, 1 March 2002, 12:43 am | ACT New Zealand
Rodney Hide Speech to the Nelson Club, Nelson at 12.30pm on Friday, March 1, 2002 More >>
