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Labour’s Day of Shame - Workers’ Day of Sadness
Monday, 6 March 2000, 12:58 am | ACT New Zealand
It’s the day of reckoning today for over 5,000 low-paid workers about to lose their jobs as a result of new Labour Government policy. More >>
All share in victory
Thursday, 2 March 2000, 5:49 pm | ACT New Zealand
"Today's victory by Team New Zealand has got everything - skill, enterprise, sportsmanship and technology development," Richard Prebble, leader of ACT, said. More >>
Shared Parenting Gaining Strong Backing
Thursday, 2 March 2000, 4:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
A Bill to put children's needs first when parents separate is gaining strong support within the community and its sponsor, ACT's Muriel Newman, says the next three weeks are critical to the Shared Parenting Bill making it to a Parliamentary Select Committee. More >>
ACT MP Wins Inquiry Into Reading
Thursday, 2 March 2000, 4:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education spokesman Donna Awatere Huata has today won a three-year battle for a full scale Select Committee inquiry into the teaching of reading in New Zealand schools. More >>
Real Reason For Maharey's U-turn Now Clear
Thursday, 2 March 2000, 4:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
The real explanation for the Minister of Social Services and Employment's bizarre U-turn on the performance and capability of his WINZ Chief Executive from "no confidence" to describing her as a ''dedicated and impressive public servant" ... More >>
Cullen's Promises No Match for ACC Evidence
Thursday, 2 March 2000, 12:48 am | ACT New Zealand
Promises from Dr Cullen that a state monopoly ACC will perform are no match for the legacy of the past 25 years of chaos under ACC, according to ACT's ACC spokesman Hon Ken Shirley. More >>
Justice At Last for Hauraki Gulf Residents- ACT
Wednesday, 1 March 2000, 5:46 pm | ACT New Zealand
Residents of the Hauraki Gulf will be delighted and relieved today to learn that the Auditor-General will be conducting an in-depth investigation into cases of alleged abuses of power by the Auckland City Council. More >>
Testing Only Way To Close Gaps For Maori - ACT
Tuesday, 29 February 2000, 3:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
Government initiatives to close the gaps between Maori and Non-Maori will fail because Labour refuses to implement national testing and assessment in schools according to ACT Maori Affairs and Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata. More >>
Government Package "Regional Cronyism - ACT
Tuesday, 29 February 2000, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ghosts of Matai industries and the Development Finance Corporation lurked behind the Deputy Prime Minister today as he unveiled another version of failed central Government funding of regional development. More >>
$800,000 Inquiry Should Be Canned - ACT
Tuesday, 29 February 2000, 10:52 am | ACT New Zealand
"The billion dollar joint venture announced between Saturn and the Australian company Telstra shows that the Government's expensive Ministerial Inquiry into telecommunications is now entirely unnecessary," said Dr Muriel Newman, ACT spokesman on telecommunications. More >>
Govt breaking sanctity of contract - ACT
Friday, 25 February 2000, 2:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education spokesperson Donna Awatere Huata today called on the Minister of Education to confirm or deny rumours that he is intending to introduce legislation into the house that will allow the Government to break 830 contracts with boards of trustees ... More >>
Government discourteous to bulk funded schools
Thursday, 24 February 2000, 6:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
The news that the Government has not yet informed bulk funded schools of their intentions and their timetable for implementing changes to the bulk funding option is regrettable, says ACT education spokesman Donna Awatere Huata.. More >>
Mayor Fletcher's fury wrongly directed - ACT
Thursday, 24 February 2000, 11:04 am | ACT New Zealand
Mayor Christine Fletcher fury toward me over the allegations made in Parliament yesterday concerning her Council staff should be better directed toward those involved and the Council leadership in Auckland that has ignored the problem for so long, says ... More >>
Govt. Responsible For Increase In Student Debt
Thursday, 24 February 2000, 10:22 am | ACT New Zealand
New Government policies look set to bankrupt the next generation, says ACT MP Dr Muriel Newman. More >>
Caygill's Comments Contradict Government - ACT
Thursday, 24 February 2000, 10:19 am | ACT New Zealand
"The Chairman of ACC, Hon David Caygill's, reported comments in today's Independent gives some hope that commonsense may yet prevail" says Ken Shirley, ACT Deputy Leader and member of the Accident Insurance Select Committee. More >>
Labour's TVNZ Proposals Don't Stand Analysis
Tuesday, 22 February 2000, 10:28 am | ACT New Zealand
Labour's announced policy for TVNZ is poorly thought through and lacks critical analysis, says ACT Leader and former Broadcasting Minister Richard Prebble. More >>
Teachers' unions only winners
Friday, 18 February 2000, 2:07 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT education spokesperson Donna Awatere Huata said in an address to the Association of Bulk Funded Schools' executive committee today that the Minister of Education had buckled to teachers' union terrorism. More >>
Awatere Huata urges class action against Minister
Friday, 18 February 2000, 1:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT education spokesperson Donna Awatere Huata wants the School Trustees Association to organise boards of trustees to bring a class action against the Minister of Education Trevor Mallard. She says Mr Mallard has broken the sanctity of contract by making ... More >>
The importance of bulk funding
Friday, 18 February 2000, 1:32 pm | ACT New Zealand
In the past 20 years, New Zealand has gone from being number one in the world in maths and science to midtable. If Maori results were taken out and put into a separate category, then Maori would be the 46th county in the world. There were only 45 countries ... More >>
Tax changes draconian, costly and unnecessary
Friday, 18 February 2000, 1:10 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that the tax changes Dr Cullen proposed today were "draconian, costly and unnecessary". "The ACT party told Hon Dr Michael Cullen of these problems when he rushed his silly tax hike through ... More >>
