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Inflation up, Growth down - It's the Economy
Monday, 16 October 2000, 3:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that New Zealand is now in the worst of all worlds - with inflation topping the upper limit and the economy for the last quarter shrinking. More >>
Prebble's Letter from Wellington - 16 October
Monday, 16 October 2000, 1:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
Michael Cullen attended a special ACT caucus on Friday to explain his proposed superannuation scheme. The caucus spent the rest of Friday with Sir Roger Douglas exploring superannuation issues. More >>
Dumbing Down New Zealand: Richard Prebble Speech
Monday, 16 October 2000, 10:16 am | ACT New Zealand
The ACT Party has been leading the debate over the migration of skilled New Zealanders. ACT has raised the subject of migration because it is the most important issue facing our nation. The young are our future. More >>
ACT Clarifies Position On Student Union Membership
Friday, 13 October 2000, 9:07 am | ACT New Zealand
Last night NZUSA claimed that ACT Tertiary Education spokesman Stephen Franks had admitted flaws in ACT’s stance on voluntary membership of student unions. “The NZUSA release is deceptive,” responded Mr Franks. More >>
Casino Report Time Wasting Exercise
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 5:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
“The report into the Sky City Casino seems to highlight staff infringements that are no different from any large firm with a number of staff,” said ACT Internal Affairs spokesman Penny Webster. More >>
Shared Parenting
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 4:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
The tragic murder-suicide of Rosemary Perkins and her three daughters Alice, Maria and Cherie, aged 8 6, and 23 months, is a shocking reminder of the urgency of the need for change to New Zealand’s family laws. More >>
Housing NZ Salaries Soar As Profits Plummet
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 4:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
Housing New Zealand's plummeting profit and its renewed social housing focus as prescribed by the Government has been accompanied by increases to salary packages for senior staff, said Act Housing Spokesman, Dr Muriel Newman. More >>
"Please Explain Stupid Training" - Awatere Huata
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 4:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
Making paper planes appears to be the best training teachers can get to come to grips with the new National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) system, ACT Education Spokeswoman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
ACT Leader Announces Media Unit Changes
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 3:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble said Wellington journalist David Hargreaves has joined ACT New Zealand’s Parliamentary Office as a Caucus Press Secretary. David has joined from The Independent Business Weekly and has previously worked for a number of publications ... More >>
ACT Parole Offenders Bill To Go Before Parliament
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 3:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
A Bill which would restore honesty to the law’s descriptions of the early release of prisoners from their sentences is to be put to Parliament by ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks. More >>
"Take Aussies To WTO" Says Eckhoff
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 3:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton should take a case to the World Trade Organisation over Australia’s continued determination to block imports of New Zealand fruit, ACT Agriculture Spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today. More >>
ACT Letter to Editor Otago Daily Times
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 1:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Otago Daily Times Editorial (Monday 9th October) aptly labels the proposed lowering of the road speed limit as "one of the dottier ideas" contained in the National Road Safety Committee's strategy. More >>
Fallout From Dawn Raid Fiasco
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 11:21 am | ACT New Zealand
The fiasco of the botched “dawn raid” on a Filipino family in Auckland, signals the immigration system and Minister Lianne Dalziel was under immense pressure, ACT immigration spokesman Penny Webster said today. More >>
Rattled Government Thwarts Firearms Owners
Wednesday, 11 October 2000, 7:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government is condemning rural New Zealand to mass disobedience and circulation of ‘unlawful’ firearms through its unexpected announcement of a go-ahead for gun registration, said Act Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks. More >>
ACT Will Support International Treaties Bill
Wednesday, 11 October 2000, 6:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand will support Green MP Keith Locke’s Private Members Bill on international treaties, ACT’s Deputy Leader Ken Shirley said today. More >>
ACT Dismisses Lawyers' Jail Term Claims
Wednesday, 11 October 2000, 5:54 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks has dismissed claims by lawyers that longer sentences and more preventative detention are not the cure-all for violent crime. More >>
Auck City Council Should Front Up To Parliament
Wednesday, 11 October 2000, 4:40 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Owen Jennings says the Auditor General has vindicated his allegations of “shocking mismanagement by “the Auckland City Council, and the council should front up and tell people what it has done to fix a “staggering level of irresponsibility.” More >>
Parole System Should Go
Wednesday, 11 October 2000, 1:01 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Stephen Franks has launched a new attack on New Zealand’s deplorable parole and early release system. More >>
Enrolments From Low Decile Schools a Worry
Wednesday, 11 October 2000, 11:58 am | ACT New Zealand
“Abysmal” first-year university enrolments from low-decile schools is a good reason for the Government to again consider introducing a Targeted Individual Entitlement scheme, ACT Education spokeswoman Donna Awatere Huata said today. More >>
Auckland City Council Mismanagement Claims True
Wednesday, 11 October 2000, 11:16 am | ACT New Zealand
The allegations I made in Parliament, 23rd February 2000, of Auckland City Council’s mismanagement of their responsibilities in the Hauraki Gulf have been vindicated by the Auditor General Report released today, said ACT Local Government spokesman ... More >>
