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Scrapping Work Testing for the DPB - Kids Lose
Tuesday, 4 December 2001, 3:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
When all the evidence shows that children do better in families where there is a working parent, it is clear that scrapping work testing for the DPB will hurt the children of sole parents, ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Victory For Freedom Of The Press
Tuesday, 4 December 2001, 9:44 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks tonight welcomed the Prime Minister's apparent over-riding of the Attorney General in signalling that the criminal defamation provision is unlikely to surface. More >>
Labour Now a Moribund Party with Limited Future
Monday, 3 December 2001, 4:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour Party conferences have reached an all-time low when interjecting party members have to be forcibly removed, says ACT New Zealand Deputy Leader and former Labour MP and Minister, Ken Shirley. More >>
Richard Prebble's Letter from Wellington – 3 Dec.
Monday, 3 December 2001, 2:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
Three reports during the past week have cast doubt on the direction of the New Zealand economy. Macquarie Bank notes that year-on-year export growth has been steadily falling all year, from 30.5% in January to 0.2% in October. October year-on-year imports ... More >>
Reports Show Serious Economic Damage to NZ
Monday, 3 December 2001, 1:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT deputy leader Ken Shirley says the government must heed the advice of economists and business leaders who are urging caution with ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. More >>
Inept Handling Of Health Sector Has Led To Crisis
Monday, 3 December 2001, 11:22 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT's health spokesman, Ken Shirley, says the government's mishandling of the health sector has caused the current funding crisis. More >>
Hide To Test Parliament's Confidence In Bathgate
Monday, 3 December 2001, 9:42 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman MP Rodney Hide today attacked the cosy and secret deal that saw Ms Bathgate last week suddenly resign from the Employment Relations Authority in return for holding on to her other warrants and keeping John Upton's report secret. More >>
ACT Lawyer Helps The Government
Monday, 3 December 2001, 9:41 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT wants to help ensure this week's debate on criminal defamation leaves us with the best law we can get in the circumstances, Justice Spokesman MP Stephen Franks said today. More >>
ACT Welcomes John Palmer as Air NZ Head
Friday, 30 November 2001, 2:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government's nomination of John Palmer to chair Air New Zealand is a good sign for the airline, ACT Commerce Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
ACT Leader Part Of Solomons Election Monitor
Friday, 30 November 2001, 10:15 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble will leave this morning for the Solomon Islands with two other New Zealand MPs - Wyatt Creech and Chris Carter - as part of an international team to monitor the upcoming elections in the Islands. The team also includes High ... More >>
Wilson Must Accept Responsibility for Bathgategate
Thursday, 29 November 2001, 6:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said he was pleased that Ms Susan Bathgate had finally accepted the inevitable and resigned her warrant on the Employment Relations Authority. The only disappointing thing is that it has taken so long and that she ... More >>
Children's Minds
Thursday, 29 November 2001, 4:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government's decision to target children's impressionable minds about climate change is a scandalous abuse of power, ACT Environment Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. He was responding to the Government's announced consultation project on climate ... More >>
Teenage Arson Could be Cheaper in the Future
Thursday, 29 November 2001, 1:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
There is no reason for the Judge to apologise for jailing the Hamilton teenagers who burnt down their school gymnasium, says ACT's Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks. More >>
ACT To Bring Back Kiwis From Overseas
Thursday, 29 November 2001, 10:42 am | ACT New Zealand
It's two years since the election of the Labour/Alliance government. Two years since Jim Anderton promised that the Labour/Alliance government would bring home the talented New Zealanders who have migrated. More >>
Selling A Vision for New Zealand
Wednesday, 28 November 2001, 6:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
Thank you for inviting me to address you today. Before becoming involved in politics, I spent 9 years working with Michael Hill Jeweller, as his Assistant General Manager for New Zealand. In that arm of retail, the product we sold was jewellery. But we ... More >>
ACT Stands By Workplace Death Figures
Tuesday, 27 November 2001, 5:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ACT Party is standing by its claim that official figures show 39 people were killed in workplace accidents last year - not the 500 claimed by the Council of Trade Unions. More >>
Minister Proves to be a Failure on Termite Issue
Tuesday, 27 November 2001, 4:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
Once again Marian Hobbs has proved a failure in understanding a simple practical issue, and has denied residents compensation for termite damage following wrong advice given by Government bureaucrats, ACT MP Owen Jennings said today. More >>
Loony Wetsuit Law Sparks Warning
Tuesday, 27 November 2001, 4:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
Government plans to give Local Authorities "powers of general competence" are loopy, but the wetsuit law shows how ominous they could become under a law change planned by Sandra Lee, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Greens Now Knowingly Support Press Gag
Tuesday, 27 November 2001, 11:02 am | ACT New Zealand
Continuing to support the Wilson-Clark press gag law has turned the Greens into political poodles, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Richard Prebble's Letter from Wellington
Tuesday, 27 November 2001, 9:05 am | ACT New Zealand
Jim Anderton has lost control of the Alliance Party. The executive has pledged to support Matt McCarten and tomorrow's showdown caucus meeting won't solve the crisis - it just illustrates how weak Anderton's position has become. The caucus doesn't ... More >>
