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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 >>