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National And ACT To Meet During Caucus Retreats
Thursday, 25 January 2001, 2:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
National leader Rt Hon Jenny Shipley and ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble today announced that their MPs will meet for a joint session during their respective caucus retreats in Napier early in February. More >>
PM Should Say Just What Closing the Gaps Means
Wednesday, 24 January 2001, 9:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT’s Acting Leader Ken Shirley said tonight the Prime Minister should stop playing with words and honestly tell all New Zealanders what the coalition Government’s flagship Closing the Gaps Policy really means for them. More >>
Coalition To Blame For Civil Unrest On Wharves
Wednesday, 24 January 2001, 11:38 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble said today that New Zealand hasn't seen a ‘flying wedge' of police since the 1981 Springbok tour. “The civil unrest on the country's wharves is a direct result of the coalition’s Employment Relations Act, where there ... More >>
Return to Militant Union Control Would Cost Jobs
Tuesday, 23 January 2001, 2:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The viability and success of New Zealand's forestry sector is dependent upon an efficient waterfront industry and any return to the militant union controls of the past would cost thousands of forestry jobs and many more servicing jobs” says Ken ... More >>
Inquiry Sought into Youth Violence
Tuesday, 23 January 2001, 2:53 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT's Deputy Leader Ken Shirley is calling for Parliament’s Law and Order Select Committee to undertake an inquiry into the adequacy of the law relating to youth offending, with particular reference to civil disorder in resort centres. More >>
Wellington Accommodation Affair
Tuesday, 23 January 2001, 8:39 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble has questioned the handling of the inquiry into out-of-town living expenses claimed by Cabinet Ministers Marian Hobbs and Phillida Bunkle. More >>
Shared Parenting
Friday, 19 January 2001, 3:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
I would like to use this opportunity to share with you an issue of huge importance to New Zealand, one that is destroying the social fabric of society, eroding our values and our families. The issue is family law. More >>
Family Courts Should Follow Youth Court Example
Friday, 19 January 2001, 9:43 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said the openness and desire for public scrutiny demonstrated by the Chief Youth Court Judge served as a good example for how the Family Court could operate. More >>
Housing Tenant Figures Raise Questions
Thursday, 18 January 2001, 3:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
The fact that a number of people have lived in the same Housing New Zealand home for about 60 years highlights the problem of an income-related rent policy, ACT Housing Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said today. More >>
Government's School Zoning Leads To Elitist Ed
Thursday, 18 January 2001, 1:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
The rush of parents to buy and rent houses in certain areas to get around the school zoning regulations proves that this Government is developing an elitist and racially divisive education system, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Sealord - Time to Start Fishing and Stop Haggling
Wednesday, 17 January 2001, 5:41 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Fisheries Spokesman Rodney Hide has welcomed the deal for the Japan’s Nissui and the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission (TE Ohu Kai Moana) to buy Brierley Investments’ 50 percent stake in Sealord and says it is time to stop the haggling ... More >>
Workers Slip Behind, Govt Reaps Inflation Windfall
Wednesday, 17 January 2001, 1:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that four percent inflation for the year ending December was a savage “kick in the guts” for working New Zealanders. More >>
More Bumbling from Minister Hobbs - Or Is It?
Tuesday, 16 January 2001, 4:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Minister of the Environment, Marion Hobbs, has once again demonstrated her capacity for sensational public comments, making extraordinary remarks about the Resource Management Act and one of the country’s unitary authorities, ACT Environment Spokesman ... More >>
Government Report Critical Of Hobbs’ Leadership
Tuesday, 16 January 2001, 11:00 am | ACT New Zealand
A lack of leadership by Environment Minister Marian Hobbs has been criticised in the final report of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Bio-diversity and Private Land, said ACT Conservation spokesman Gerry Eckhoff. More >>
Hon Richard Prebble’s State Of The Nation Address
Tuesday, 16 January 2001, 12:50 am | ACT New Zealand
A state of the nation speech is a time for a politician to reflect on a year past, the successes, the failures and the shared experiences that bond us together as a nation More >>
Prebble’s State Of The Nation Address - Teaser Two
Monday, 15 January 2001, 2:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble will be giving a State of the Nation address at 12pm this Tuesday 16 January at the Centra Hotel, Auckland. More >>
Hon Richard Prebble’s State Of The Nation Address
Monday, 15 January 2001, 11:11 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble will be giving a State of the Nation address at 12pm this Tuesday 16 January at the Centra Hotel, Auckland. More >>
Richard Prebble's Letter from Wellington #1 (2001)
Monday, 15 January 2001, 12:31 am | ACT New Zealand
A rising dollar and falling petrol prices have given New Zealand a New Year confidence lift. With retailers predicting Christmas sales up five per cent, and the coalition's popularity rising every time it promises to do nothing, 2001 will be a very interesting ... More >>
Acting Prime Minister’s Claim Defamatory
Friday, 22 December 2000, 4:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Hon Richard Prebble said today that he had been read a press statement from Acting Prime Minister Jim Anderton claiming he had filled out an enrolment card for Wellington Central on 15 October this year and was therefore claiming a wrongful allowance for ... More >>
It Appears Marian Hobbs Was Rorting As Well
Friday, 22 December 2000, 10:01 am | ACT New Zealand
I am shocked to learn that at the same time Marian Hobbs was campaigning for Wellington Central and claiming she lived in Willis St, was enrolled on the Wellington Central electoral roll and was calling me a ‘carpet bagger’, she was claiming $15,000 tax ... More >>
