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ACT to Hold Three-Day Caucus in Hamilton
Tuesday, 23 October 2001, 3:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Members of Parliament are holding a three-day Caucus at the Anglesea Motel (36 Liverpool Street) in Hamilton starting at midday Wednesday, October 24 and running to Friday, ACT leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
Maharey: Encouraging Real Jobs? Or Real Rorts?
Tuesday, 23 October 2001, 9:23 am | ACT New Zealand
One of the community organisations involved in Steve Maharey's 'flagship' employment programme received $30,000 of taxpayers' money in return for targeting the creation of just one job, ACT Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman revealed today. More >>
Children Commit Crime When They Aren't In School
Tuesday, 23 October 2001, 9:21 am | ACT New Zealand
Rising youth crime is the inevitable counterpart to sky-rocketing long-term truancy, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Farmers Fall Victim to Grubby Politics
Friday, 19 October 2001, 10:01 am | ACT New Zealand
Farmers have everything to fear from the short-sighted, grubby politics being played out by the Labour-Alliance coalition and the Greens over Genetic Engineering trials, ACT Agriculture Spokesman MP Owen Jennings said today. More >>
The Face of the Crisis: Young, Poor and Brown
Friday, 19 October 2001, 12:19 am | ACT New Zealand
Children allowed to drop out of school are almost three times as likely to come from poverty-stricken schools than wealthy schools, ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata revealed today. More >>
Government Deals Bad Hand to New Zealanders
Thursday, 18 October 2001, 5:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Penny Webster today slated the Government's heavy-handed and arbitrary decisions on the Gaming Review. More >>
NZ Should Have Been Able to Stand Alongside Aussie
Thursday, 18 October 2001, 9:48 am | ACT New Zealand
Australia's decision to send 1550 troops plus four F/A-18 jet strike fighters and two long-range P3 Orion reconnaissance aircraft to the war against terrorism, is a significant commitment, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Keep Our Strike Force Squadron by Rejoining ANZUS
Wednesday, 17 October 2001, 3:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand can keep an air strike capacity only by rejoining ANZUS, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
Govt Dithering on GE More Serious Than Air NZ
Wednesday, 17 October 2001, 9:48 am | ACT New Zealand
"I am glad to see people agitating on the genetic modification issues. There is no doubt at all where ACT stands. We think the Government should have announced, within a week of receiving the Royal Commission's report that it accepted the process ... More >>
Govt Tries to Hide Truth on Welfare Time Limits
Tuesday, 16 October 2001, 5:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Services Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today that the Government appeared to be going to extraordinary lengths to stop the people of New Zealand hearing about the advantages of applying time limits on welfare benefits. More >>
Marian Deforms TVNZ
Tuesday, 16 October 2001, 3:17 pm | ACT New Zealand
The new structure of TVNZ confirms that future Governments will be forced to annually inject more cash into the state broadcaster, ACT Leader and former Broadcasting Minister Hon Richard Prebble said today. More >>
New Zealand the Way it Could Be
Tuesday, 16 October 2001, 9:46 am | ACT New Zealand
During the weekend my 80 year old mother was asking me why the country had changed so much since we emigrated here in the fifties. She didn't mean the environment - New Zealand is still, in our minds, the most beautiful country in the world - she ... More >>
Education Ministry Database Breaks Down
Tuesday, 16 October 2001, 9:45 am | ACT New Zealand
The Ministry of Education's student-tracking system is in such disarray that it is no longer possible to predict truancy numbers, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata revealed today. More >>
Ideology Doesn't Fill Supermarket Trolleys
Monday, 15 October 2001, 4:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand families are experiencing the effects of the largest jump in food prices in almost twenty years, ACT Consumer Affairs Spokesman Penny Webster said today. More >>
Is New Zealand Ready For Anthrax?
Monday, 15 October 2001, 4:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
"The Prime Minister is employing delaying tactics to avoid answering a number of questions I have asked about the Government's and the country's readiness for any outbreak of Anthrax, or other forms of bio-terrorism" ACT MP Dr Muriel Newman ... More >>
Local Government Should Not Get Greater Powers
Monday, 15 October 2001, 1:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
The exceedingly low turnout of voters in the local body elections illustrates why councils must not be given powers of general competence, ACT Local Government Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said. More >>
Anti-smoking Zealots Exhibit Hypocrisy
Monday, 15 October 2001, 9:26 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Rodney Hide today accused Labour, Alliance and the Greens of gross hypocrisy for attempting to ram through legislation effectively banning smoking in most pubs. More >>
Why the model contracting out agreement is useless
Thursday, 11 October 2001, 6:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
On 12 July 2001 the Government gazetted a model agreement for opting out of mandatory sharing under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976. Section 21E of the Act provided for it. The model is utterly useless. This paper sets out why s 21E was recommended ... More >>
Minister's Refusal to Defend COAS is Outrageous
Thursday, 11 October 2001, 6:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
Phil Goff's refusal to defend the honour of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshall Donald Hamilton, is outrageous, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>
DoC Mismanagement Threatens Brown Teal
Thursday, 11 October 2001, 11:32 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Conservation Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff is urging the Government to call the Department of Conservation to account over its gross mismanagement of the endangered Brown Teal. More >>
