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New Zealand's Children Deserve The Best
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 12:19 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Leader Hon Richard Prebble and Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata today launched ACT's education policy at Otara's Ferguson Intermediate School in South Auckland. More >>
ACT Agrees With Employers On Holidays Act
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 4:00 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said ACT agreed with the country's employers that the Holidays Act is outdated, inflexible and must be changed as an urgent priority. More >>
PSA Frustration With IRD Boss Understandable
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 3:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that he fully sympathised with the PSA's frustration with the Commissioner of Inland Revenue's rejection of the Parliamentary Select Committee's Inquiry Report that there is a need for a fundamental change in ... More >>
Labour to Axe Successful Welfare Programmes
Tuesday, 26 October 1999, 3:15 pm | ACT New Zealand
The worst fears of the people of Otara working to get into real jobs have today been realised with Labour confirming that it will scrap the community wage. More >>
Labour Resurrects Muldoonist Failure
Tuesday, 26 October 1999, 2:21 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour is today promising more big spending plans and more red tape to tie up jobs and growth with the release of its employment policy today according to ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide. More >>
Ministry Will Do Nothing For Small Business
Monday, 25 October 1999, 8:31 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that Labour's plan to have a Minister of Small Business and an Office of Small Business was no compensation for higher taxes, a return to old-style unionism and increased red tape. More >>
The Race For Epsom
Monday, 25 October 1999, 8:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman and Epsom candidate Rodney Hide today said that he had been overwhelmed by the support of Epsom voters following ACT leader Richard Prebble's announcement yesterday that ACT will go all the way to contest the seat of Epsom. More >>
ACT Nationwide Bus Tour On The Road
Monday, 25 October 1999, 8:29 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand MPs and supporters today set off on their five-week, nationwide bus tour that will cover more than 100 towns and cities in the North and South Islands over the next 33 days. More >>
Top Sportsman Slams Alliance Sports Policy
Sunday, 24 October 1999, 3:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
The Alliance's Sports policy has today come under fire from Olympic medallist and ACT candidate Dick Quax who says the party's idea to set up sports academies in remote parts of the country is '"bizarre beyond belief". "The Sports Academies ... More >>
Trust Act - Speech -- Richard Prebble
Sunday, 24 October 1999, 2:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
Ladies and gentlemen. In just five weeks the country votes to decide what direction New Zealand is to take. More >>
ACT the Party You Can Trust for Positive Change
Sunday, 24 October 1999, 2:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble today reaffirmed ACT's priorities for the election, the economy, low tax, welfare reform, truth in sentencing, and raising education standards. Richard Prebble also confirmed that Rodney Hide would run flat out for ... More >>
Labour's Law and Order bribe not worth accepting
Friday, 22 October 1999, 8:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACTÆs Rongotai candidate Stephen Franks said today ô Victims should be outraged by LabourÆs pretence of concern.ö More >>
ACT personalities feature in 100 most influential
Friday, 22 October 1999, 8:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble has hailed Time magazine's choice of two ACT figures in Time's '100 Most Influential People of the South Pacific'. More >>
Greens Wishful Thinking In Coromandel
Friday, 22 October 1999, 8:38 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Campaign Director Nick Stravs today said ACT New Zealand has not selected a candidate for the Coromandel seat and has until nomination day to make that decision. More >>
Pulse of rural NZ - people are angry
Friday, 22 October 1999, 8:37 pm | ACT New Zealand
The real problem facing rural New Zealand is not enough profit for farming families and rural communities to live on. More >>
Welfare, Extortion and the Treaty
Friday, 22 October 1999, 3:23 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT chairman Sir Roger Douglas and ACT Rongotai candidate Stephen Franks will be arguing that 'New Zealand is in serious trouble and it's time to do something about it.' in Seatoun this Tuesday night. More >>
ACT queries Animal Health Board management
Friday, 22 October 1999, 11:58 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand rural spokesman Owen Jennings said today that there is widespread concern among farmers about the hidden levy incorporated in ear tags which farmers are required to purchase for all stock. More >>
Anger in Canterbury – Owen Jennings
Thursday, 21 October 1999, 5:11 pm | ACT New Zealand
Canterbury farmers today expressed their anger at the way environmental issues have been taken to the extreme by DOC and environmental interests, threatening the development of dam and irrigation systems on the Canterbury plains. More >>
ACT requests fairer broadcasting allocation
Thursday, 21 October 1999, 10:46 am | ACT New Zealand
The ACT Party, which the polls now say is the third party and rising rapidly, is requesting a review of the fairness of the broadcasting allocations. More >>
Fiscal Update Shows Winston Effect
Thursday, 21 October 1999, 12:15 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that the Pre-Election Fiscal Update revealed the disastrous effect Winston Peters' spend-up has had on New Zealand. More >>
