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ACT – Getting New Zealanders Working Again

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 11:55 am | ACT New Zealand

Job creation and welfare assistance targeted to meet the needs of individuals and give a ‘hand-up’ to work have today been launched as ACT New Zealand’s policies to get New Zealanders off welfare and back into work. More >>

Tau's $15m deal breaks constitutional conventions

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 11:33 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Richard Prebble says Tau Henare's announcement of an extra $15 million to be spent on Maori language and culture breaks constitutional conventions. More >>

Full force of law needed for citizenship scam

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 11:10 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Richard Prebble supports the action of Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere in referring a Maori citizenship scam to the police. More >>

ACT: A Hand-up Into Real Jobs

Thursday, 14 October 1999, 12:02 am | ACT New Zealand

New Zealanders are hard workers and employment is central to our society. It underpins stable families and strong communities. Unemployment saps potential and its human cost is too high; in the long term unemployment can be a factor in dependency, family ... More >>

Otago mothers deserve more choice, not less

Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 8:05 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT health spokesman Ken Shirley says it would be a backward step if the Health Funding Authority denied choice in maternity care services to Otago mothers. More >>

Victory for ACT over IRD Inquiry

Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 2:11 pm | ACT New Zealand

“This is the first ever parliament Select Committee Inquiry into the IRD in New Zealand history and its findings are a victory for the ACT party said ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble today. More >>

ACT: New solutions for apple crisis

Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 10:52 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT is the only party that recognises that the country's apple growers are facing the most serious crisis in the industry's history, says ACT rural spokesman Owen Jennings. More >>

FEC Key Findings on IRD

Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 12:33 am | ACT New Zealand

“The Finance and Expenditure Select Committee's Inquiry into IRD’s culture and operation vindicates ACT’s long-running complaint that the IRD has a “bully-boy” culture and needs major overhaul. The FEC says amongst other things: More >>

FEC Report : Victory for all Taxpayers

Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 12:31 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide said today that the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee’s report into IRD's operation and culture was pleasing for taxpayers but didn’t go far enough in its recommendations. More >>

ACT Speech: Campaign a cliff-hanger

Tuesday, 12 October 1999, 3:54 pm | ACT New Zealand

If an election was held last Saturday, according to polling commissioned by ACT, the result would have been a hung Parliament and NZ First would have held the balance of power. More >>

Alliance proposal 'de facto compulsory unionism'

Tuesday, 12 October 1999, 2:25 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Richard Prebble says the Alliance proposal for good faith collective bargaining is dangerous nonsense. He says good faith is essentially in the mind of the person making the judgement, and difficult to prove. More >>

Heartland Tour turns through Bay of Plenty

Tuesday, 12 October 1999, 11:38 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT farmers visiting the Bay of Plenty are learning the extent to which local government costs are damaging Bay of Plenty farms and businesses, says ACT rural spokesman Owen Jennings. More >>

Mauri Pacific justice policy 'separatist nonsense'

Tuesday, 12 October 1999, 12:55 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Richard Prebble says Mauri Pacific's justice policy, including Maori-run prisons for Maori offenders, is separatist nonsense. More >>

ACT Vows to Cut Red Tape Bureaucracy

Monday, 11 October 1999, 3:51 pm | ACT New Zealand

"Business in New Zealand is drowning in red tape. Much of the red tape is new. Over 5,200 new laws have been passed by the National Government. More >>

Labour offers Jim Sutton and a chicken farmer

Monday, 11 October 1999, 1:49 pm | ACT New Zealand

The Labour party is claiming to represent rural New Zealand but has only two farmer candidates - Jim Sutton and a chicken farmer, says ACT Leader Richard Prebble. More >>

Labour's rural claims not credible

Monday, 11 October 1999, 12:03 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Leader Richard Prebble said claims by the Labour party to be able to represent the farmers of New Zealand were not credible. He said Jim Sutton's statement that a desire for change in rural communities will lead them to vote Labour was based ... More >>