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Come Clean On The Welfare Reforms, Mr Maharey
Monday, 26 March 2001, 11:28 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman is demanding a full explanation of proposed welfare restructuring plans from Social Services Minister Steve Maharey this week. More >>
Arrogant Line Companies Provoke Rural Backlash
Monday, 26 March 2001, 8:58 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Gerry Eckhoff today urged landowners to follow the example of Otago farmer Bill Simpson and lock out electrical line companies if the companies and the Government do not show a more reasonable attitude toward property rights. More >>
Longterm Unemployment Jumps 26 Percent
Monday, 26 March 2001, 8:56 am | ACT New Zealand
Steve Maharey must stop ignoring the human cost of his political manipulation of unemployment figures, ACT Employment Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Auditor-General’s Report Presents a Poser for PM
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 6:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Auditor-General’s report on accommodation allowances for MPs living in Wellington has posed a problem for the Prime Minister, ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble said. More >>
Failure to Teach Reading Inexcusable
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 6:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman MP Donna Awatere Huata today condemned the failure of schools to teach children how to read. More >>
Government Reinvents Wheel to Get Rid of Rankin
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 5:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said the Government’s reported plans to undertake a massive restructuring of social welfare are simply an enormous smokescreen through which it can get rid of Department of Work and Income head Christine Rankin. More >>
Free Trade – New Zealand’s Lifeblood
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 3:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
Thank you for the invitation to speak to the New Zealand Hong Kong Business Association. I applaud business associations such as yours. More >>
Nelson And Gisborne Have Fled, Ms Dalziel
Thursday, 22 March 2001, 11:29 am | ACT New Zealand
Braindrain Minister Lianne Dalziel should be put in charge of switching off the lights after every other New Zealander has left, ACT MP Penny Webster said today. More >>
Human Rights Office Politicised
Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 8:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble says the minority coalition government’s intention to appoint trade union official Rosslyn Noonan as Chief Human Rights Commissioner, breaks a pledge by Prime Minister Helen Clark. More >>
Don’t Touch The Reserves
Wednesday, 21 March 2001, 12:30 am | ACT New Zealand
The Wool Board’s rumoured plan to take up to $60 million of grower’s reserve funds to finance its own version of the McKinsey restructuring is tantamount to theft, ACT Rural Affairs Spokesman Owen Jennings said today. More >>
Education for Poor Fails the Grade
Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 5:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Parents need a better deal. If they live in poor areas, they shouldn’t have to accept a poor standard of education for their children. More >>
Government Finally Delivers on ACC Double Charging
Tuesday, 20 March 2001, 5:02 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader Hon Ken Shirley welcomed today’s announcement that the Government would act on ACC double charging. More >>
Summer of Steve: No ‘Real Jobs’
Monday, 19 March 2001, 6:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
Employment Minister Steve Maharey has yet again attempted to spin success out of abject failure, ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Arrogant PPTA is Out of Touch With Reality
Friday, 16 March 2001, 5:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education spokesman Donna Awatere Huata today slammed the PPTA’s bid to freeze interest rates on student loans for teachers working in state schools. More >>
Sentencing Reform Spin Sucks In Victims’ Reps
Friday, 16 March 2001, 2:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
The announced headline features of the Sentencing and Parole Reform are sensible, ACT Justice Spokesman MP Stephen Franks said today. More >>
Double Charging By ACC: Government Theft
Friday, 16 March 2001, 9:35 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley is calling on Michael Cullen to direct ACC to review all double charging and repay the aggrieved parties. More >>
Have Fun in the Water, But Do What You Oughta
Friday, 16 March 2001, 9:33 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Transport Spokesman Penny Webster today welcomed Ian MacKay’s shipping industry report, but expressed her strong concern at some union-inspired ideas within the review. More >>
Why Wait?
Thursday, 15 March 2001, 5:36 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today questioned why the Labour Government was going to delay bringing in the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill for a year. More >>
Northland Prison Decision Shows Common Sense
Thursday, 15 March 2001, 4:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Northland-based MP Dr Muriel Newman says the Northland Regional Council’s decision to decline resource consent for a new prison on the Ngawha site is a victory for common sense. More >>
Sentencing Review Is Gravely Mistaken
Thursday, 15 March 2001, 3:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
"As a result New Zealanders will be robbed, raped and killed unnecessarily, because it is political risk management, not genuine reform. It does not abandon our failed 30-year, offender-centred experiment. More >>
