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Our Place, Not Your Place, Helen

Tuesday, 28 March 2000, 12:18 am | ACT New Zealand

Helen Clark wants to allocate tax payer funds for the benefit of the selected few, said ACT Culture and Heritage spokesperson Penny Webster. Ms Clark has announced a review of Te Papa's scholarly shortcomings, and has stated that she does not believe ... More >>

ACT On Privileges Inquiry Into Waipareira Trust

Tuesday, 28 March 2000, 12:11 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Richard Prebble today said that he welcomes the suggestion that Parliament's powerful Privileges Committee look into the Waipareira Trust. More >>

New tax breaches Labour’s election pledge

Monday, 27 March 2000, 3:55 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that the Government’s special “fund withdrawal tax” broke Labour’s promise of no new taxes. More >>

Cullen should keep his hands-off a good thing

Monday, 27 March 2000, 3:54 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that the GDP growth figures gave a lie to Michael Cullen’s dire warnings of the state of the economy all through last year. More >>

ENZA Deserves To Lose Statutory Powers

Monday, 27 March 2000, 3:46 pm | ACT New Zealand

The apple industry is rushing toward disaster, in major part caused by ENZA, the statutory backed apple marketer, ACT’s Rural Spokesman, Owen Jennings said today. More >>

Minister Misleads To Axe Community Work

Monday, 27 March 2000, 10:35 am | ACT New Zealand

The Minister of Social Services is being taken to task for his dishonest and misleading use of a July 1999 report to justify his move to axe the Community Work programme. More >>

Government Answers More Questions on 14,000 Father

Monday, 27 March 2000, 9:05 am | ACT New Zealand

Government figures released today answer some questions surrounding the 14,000 fathers escaping financial responsibility for their children under section 70A of the Domestic Purposes Benefit. More >>

Sustainable Funding for Te Papa & NZSO Needed

Friday, 24 March 2000, 3:04 pm | ACT New Zealand

Te Papa and the NZSO will continue to face ‘deep financial trouble’ unless alternative and sustainable funding sources are secured according to ACT Culture and Heritage Spokesman, Penny Webster. More >>

CYFS Review Only Looking at Repairing Ambulance

Friday, 24 March 2000, 11:19 am | ACT New Zealand

The Minister of Social Services is today being reminded that the inquiry into CYFS is only looking at repairing the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff and the wider problem of why so many children are neglected and at risk must not be ignored. More >>

Goff Should Put Robson On Notice Not Judges

Friday, 24 March 2000, 11:14 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Justice spokesperson Stephen Franks today said that instead of attacking the Judges Justice Minister, Phil Goff should be questioning the Minister of Corrections, Matt Robson, over his soft stand against criminals. More >>

Prebble Offers Government Truth In Sentencing

Friday, 24 March 2000, 11:08 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble has today invited Justice Minister Phil Goff to make the Prebble Truth in Sentencing Bill a Government measure. More >>

Sound Policy Key to Current Account Deficit

Friday, 24 March 2000, 12:44 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that good economic policy was the key to improving New Zealand’s current account deficit. More >>

Still No Action From Minister On Rodney Council

Friday, 24 March 2000, 12:39 am | ACT New Zealand

Concern is being raised by ACT over the Minister of Local Government’s continued lack of leadership on the future of the Rodney District Council. More >>

ACT To Seek Parliamentary Inquiry

Friday, 24 March 2000, 12:35 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Richard Prebble today stated that he was drawing up the documents needed for a formal Parliamentary inquiry by the Maori Affairs Select Committee into the Waipareira Trust. More >>

Judges Should Call the Government’s Bluff

Friday, 24 March 2000, 12:31 am | ACT New Zealand

“Justice Minister Phil Goff’s attacks on judges’ sentencing practices are highly questionable, not because punishment is adequate, but because trendy politicians are responsible for leaving the beasts on the streets, not the judges,” said ACT ... More >>

Government Can’t Keep Families Apart

Thursday, 23 March 2000, 3:27 pm | ACT New Zealand

The Government has today added to the heartbreak of separated families by saying that while it does not intend to support Shared Parenting it has no plan of its own to safeguard the rights of children to keep contact with both of their parents following ... More >>