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MP Welcomes Investigation
Thursday, 25 November 1999, 3:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT MP Donna Awatere Huata today said she welcomed the ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble's instruction to the Cabinet Office to investigate the files relating to the former Minister of Immigration's granting, as an exception to policy, permanent resident ... More >>
Prebble on Awatere-Huata & Delamere Debacle
Thursday, 25 November 1999, 10:33 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble tonight said that the Prime Minister Jenny Shipley's sacking of Mr Delamere was constitutionally correct. More >>
Anderton Tries To Hide Behind Pact With Labour
Wednesday, 24 November 1999, 3:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble today said Jim Anderton is using the non-hostility pact with Labour to hide serious policy differences with the Labour Party. More >>
Prebble welcomes Jonah's move to Wellington
Wednesday, 24 November 1999, 2:59 pm | ACT New Zealand
Wellington Central MP Richard Prebble has welcomed Jonah Lomu's signing for the Wellington RFU. More >>
Labour's WINZ attack backfires
Tuesday, 23 November 1999, 1:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
"Labour's attack on WINZ for making a $100,000 payout to a disgruntled employee is misguided, as the situation is the fault of the employment laws supported by Labour and the Alliance," ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today. More >>
ACT: Toughest On Crime
Tuesday, 23 November 1999, 1:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
Crime is a growth industry that needs to be bankrupted. One in seven New Zealanders have reported a crime against themselves or their property - more than half a million offences each year. Around 93% of prison inmates were on an unemployment benefit ... More >>
ACT - for the Rule of Law
Tuesday, 23 November 1999, 1:08 pm | ACT New Zealand
Richard Prebble Speech To Launch ACT's Law & Order Policy 1.00pm Tuesday November 23 1999 Ascot Park Hotel, Invercargill. More >>
The Way Out Of Poverty Is Work
Tuesday, 23 November 1999, 10:05 am | ACT New Zealand
A woman who has worked for Plunket for 30 years recently contacted me about the need for social welfare reform. She said that if welfare was working, families who had been on welfare the longest would have the best gardens, their homes would smell ... More >>
Parties Against Truth In Sentencing Must Front Up
Tuesday, 23 November 1999, 9:13 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble held a press conference in Wellington's Bolton Street Park today to highlight the violent crimes being committed by offenders released early from prison. More >>
Land Bank Holding $125 Million of Property
Monday, 22 November 1999, 1:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble today said over $125 million of land is now being held in Government's land bank for the settlement of Treaty of Waitangi claims according to the Justice Department. More >>
ACT’s Campaign Message Hits the Big Screen
Monday, 22 November 1999, 11:46 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT is taking its ‘Treaty’ and ‘Law and Order’ messages to Auckland’s Imax Theatre. The advertisements will run throughout this week, on a screen which is nearly eight storeys tall. More >>
To GST … or not to GST
Monday, 22 November 1999, 12:20 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today “it was time the Labour/Alliance block came clean on their tax policy.” More >>
Twenty-one regulations down – a good start
Monday, 22 November 1999, 12:19 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today “that the weeding out of 21 redundant regulations was a ‘good start’.” More >>
The Real Cost of Red Tape
Sunday, 21 November 1999, 3:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
On Great Barrier Island today to release ACT New Zealand's policy to cut red tape and regulation ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble said red tape and bureaucracy is costing New Zealand jobs and businesses. More >>
Getting Government Off the Backs Of Business
Sunday, 21 November 1999, 3:20 pm | ACT New Zealand
New Zealand benefited greatly from the elimination of wage, price, interest rate controls and import licensing in the 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, however, governments have found other ways of smothering productive people with red tape and ... More >>
ACT calls for Government Assistance for Alexandra.
Sunday, 21 November 1999, 3:09 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Otago Candidate Gerry Eckhoff has written a letter to Otago MP Gavin Herlily in a bid to encourage the government to provide financial assistance to the residents of Alexandra. More >>
Hodgson Out Of Touch With Employers - ACT
Friday, 19 November 1999, 3:06 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble today said Pete Hodgson and the Labour Party had again been embarrassed by their lack contact with employers and small business people. More >>
Prebble critical of hospital management
Friday, 19 November 1999, 2:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
Wellington Central MP Richard Prebble today expressed criticism of Capital Coast Health's management of its child cancer facility. More >>
Why NZ First supporters should vote ACT
Friday, 19 November 1999, 11:56 am | ACT New Zealand
This election the polls say the people of Tauranga want a change in representation. It's not just that you are tired of Mr Peters, it's the company he keeps. Last election it was the NZ First Party that introduced us to $89.00 underwear and to MPs who swap ... More >>
Winston Trades Policy For Personal Abuse
Thursday, 18 November 1999, 4:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble today said Winston Peters had no economic policy and instead had to resort to personal abuse to fill up the time at his economic policy launch. More >>
