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Greens Ignore Election Promise To Public
Thursday, 22 June 2000, 9:04 am | ACT New Zealand
The Greens supported a land sale to foreign owners today, despite its direct contradiction of their election promises, said ACT Agriculture spokesman Gerry Eckhoff. More >>
Government WINZ Response PR Exercise As Predicted
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 5:26 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Government’s response to the damning Hunn Report into WINZ is a weak PR Exercise that simply re-states initiatives already announced, according to ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman. More >>
Dubious Details Show Greens True Form
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 2:19 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Greens desperate attempts at censorship prove they are strongly opposed to informed public debate, said ACT Agriculture spokesman Gerry Eckhoff. More >>
Greens Attempting To Spin GE Truth
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 11:04 am | ACT New Zealand
The Greens are subverting the course of democracy with their continued rhetoric on biotechnology issues, said ACT Agriculture spokesman Gerry Eckhoff. More >>
‘Culture of Extravagance’ Alive & Well
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 10:58 am | ACT New Zealand
The ‘culture of extravagance’ within WINZ is alive and well under the leadership of Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey despite his Opposition bluster against the Department’s spending. More >>
Govt Plough On With Racially Divisive Bill
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 9:13 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata has slammed a Select Committee Report into the Government’s Education Amendment Bill saying it’s simply a vehicle for the Government to ram through the ‘racially divisive’ Bill. More >>
Immigration changes skydiving without a parachute
Tuesday, 20 June 2000, 12:10 am | ACT New Zealand
“Information is needed before embarking on any reforms of immigration law, especially an amnesty”, said ACT Immigration spokesman Penny Webster. More >>
Defence Policy More Confused
Monday, 19 June 2000, 10:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
The newly released Defence Policy Framework is “confused” and shows an “abysmal lack of knowledge of defence issues by the coalition,” ACT leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
Greens Attempting To Spin GE Truth
Monday, 19 June 2000, 10:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Greens are subverting the course of democracy with their continued rhetoric on biotechnology issues, said ACT Agriculture spokesman Gerry Eckhoff. More >>
Govt To Plough On With Racially Divisive Bill
Monday, 19 June 2000, 10:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata has slammed a Select Committee Report into the Government’s Education Amendment Bill saying it’s simply a vehicle for the Government to ram through the ‘racially divisive’ Bill. More >>
People’s Bank Just To Keep Jim Happy
Monday, 19 June 2000, 3:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today described Jim Anderton’s plans to have a “people’s bank” as “daft” and called on Helen Clark to put the interests of the country and taxpayers ahead of coalition politics. More >>
Awatere-Huata Concerned At Planned School Merger
Monday, 19 June 2000, 11:43 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata today said she was extremely concerned that Maori girls attending Queen Victoria would lose out under a plan to merge the school with troubled St Stephens School. More >>
Cullen’s first Budget his last?
Monday, 19 June 2000, 11:42 am | ACT New Zealand
No government can afford to have a Minister of Finance that business despises, doesn’t trust and doesn’t like. That’s Helen Clark’s problem. A fresh, new Finance Minister is her only hope of salvaging economic credibility. More >>
Maharey’s WINZ Relaunch A Nonsense
Monday, 19 June 2000, 10:41 am | ACT New Zealand
The Government is planning a major PR exercise this week to relaunch WINZ under the leadership of Christine Rankin, a move ACT Social Welfare Spokesman, Muriel Newman says is like ‘trying to relaunch the Fire Service afresh under Roger Estall’. More >>
Maharey’s WINZ Relaunch A Nonsense
Monday, 19 June 2000, 9:20 am | ACT New Zealand
The Government is planning a major PR exercise this week to relaunch WINZ under the leadership of Christine Rankin, a move ACT Social Welfare Spokesman, Muriel Newman says is like ‘trying to relaunch the Fire Service afresh under Roger Estall’. The ... More >>
Waipareira Inquiry Referred to Finance Committee
Monday, 19 June 2000, 9:00 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble said today that he had referred the inquiry into the Waipareira Trust's handling of taxpayers' money to the Finance and Expenditure select committee. More >>
Guarantee Needed That Customs Won’t Cry Wolf Again
Monday, 19 June 2000, 8:58 am | ACT New Zealand
Customs had put on a ‘frightening show of incompetence’ in Northland alerting health authorities that a boatload of illegal immigrants was trying to land on a far North Beach on Tuesday night, according to ACT Customs Spokesman Penny Webster. More >>
Work For The Dole Will Still Be Compulsory
Friday, 16 June 2000, 4:55 pm | ACT New Zealand
With government officials revealing yesterday that work for the dole would still be compulsory, Social Services Minister Steve Maharey’s grand plans to ‘reinvent the welfare state’ now appear to be nothing more than a mere name change for the ... More >>
What's Not In The Budget? Bugs and Bandwidth
Friday, 16 June 2000, 1:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
WHAT’S NOT IN THE BUDGET? BUGS & BANDWIDTH Extracts from Hon Richard Prebble’s post-budget speech Auckland Centra, 12-2pm June 16 2000 More >>
Maharey The Big Loser In The Budget
Thursday, 15 June 2000, 5:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
“Examination of the Welfare and Employment initiatives announced in the Budget reveals that the Minister of Social Services and Employment has failed to deliver on his promises,” says ACT Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman. More >>
