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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 >>

Drop Super Scheme, Cut Tax to Boost Confidence

Thursday, 11 October 2001, 12:06 am | ACT New Zealand

The dramatic fall in business confidence during the September quarter is serious, ACT leader Richard Prebble says. More >>

Govt Abandons Those Most Needing Help Finding Jobs

Thursday, 11 October 2001, 12:05 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman today released figures which reveal that the number of number of long term unemployed who most need Government help to get jobs has shot up over 40 percent since this Labour Government came into power. More >>

Nothing to Celebrate in Kindergarten Week

Wednesday, 10 October 2001, 6:14 pm | ACT New Zealand

The Government has placed preschool education at the bottom of its agenda, leaving New Zealanders with little to celebrate in kindergarten awareness week, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>

Why Should Business Trust This Government?

Wednesday, 10 October 2001, 4:52 pm | ACT New Zealand

The Government is again showing its disdain for business through its plan to drive through hasty last minute changes to telecommunications regulations to benefit a company associated with Maori interests, ACT Telecommunications Spokesman Dr Muriel ... More >>