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Who Will Pay For Alliance Promises?

Saturday, 11 September 1999, 12:59 am | ACT New Zealand

"The Alliance promise to abolish interest payments on Student Loans for current and former students is yet another example of plundering some people to benefit others," said ACT Party President Sir Roger Douglas. More >>

Anderton Does It Again With Tariff Policy

Saturday, 11 September 1999, 12:58 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Party President Sir Roger Douglas today said Jim Anderton's call for a 5% tariff on all goods imported from any country other than Australia is yet another example of a politician looking just one day ahead and ignoring the long-term results of ... More >>

Greens/Alliance Not Working For Low Income Earners

Saturday, 11 September 1999, 12:56 am | ACT New Zealand

The Green Party and the Alliance Party protests about Free Trade are pointless and if implemented, would hurt working class New Zealanders most, according to ACT Party President Sir Roger Douglas More >>

Palmer's Council Proposal Muddle Headed - Douglas

Friday, 10 September 1999, 5:03 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Party President Sir Roger Douglas today said Geoffrey Palmer's call for Auckland to be run by a single council funded by rates and another form of finance (possibly the right to raise taxes) is yet another example of the muddle headed thinking that ... More >>

Serious Split In Labour's Ranks

Friday, 10 September 1999, 11:47 am | ACT New Zealand

The public should not underestimate seriousness of a Labour front bench MP resigning a portfolio over policy differences less than 100 days before an election, says ACT Leader Richard Prebble More >>

Clark Betrays West Coast - ACT

Friday, 10 September 1999, 10:54 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Deputy Leader Hon Ken Shirley today slammed Labour Leader Helen Clark for her betrayal of the West Coast Forest Accord that has today opened a major split in Labour's ranks. More >>

Greens split cynically timed - Prebble

Thursday, 9 September 1999, 1:51 pm | ACT New Zealand

The Greens have gained approximately $65,000 worth of taxpayers' money following their split from the Alliance, says ACT Leader Richard Prebble. More >>

Quigley Speech On Defence Review

Thursday, 9 September 1999, 1:23 pm | ACT New Zealand

The report of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee "Defence Beyond 2000" presented to Parliament last week was the product of an exhaustive two year inquiry on the part of the Committee. More >>

Prebble Speech: Freedom & Choice - The Real Issues

Thursday, 9 September 1999, 11:34 am | ACT New Zealand

The ACT Party's whole raison d'être is freedom and choice. The ACT Party is the only party in Parliament that believes that you should be free to choose. Of course there are limits, but in essence the limitation is that with freedom to choose comes responsibility ... More >>

Will The Wool Board Chief Resign This Time?

Thursday, 9 September 1999, 11:31 am | ACT New Zealand

Wool Board Chairman, Bruce Munro is saying he will step down if remits calling for a vote of no confidence in the Wool Board at the Board's AGM on October 19 proved to be representative of grower feeling. More >>

ACT Opposes Government On Cockpit Voice Recorders

Thursday, 9 September 1999, 11:28 am | ACT New Zealand

ACT Transport Spokesman Owen Jennings today said ACT disagreed with the position taken by National and Labour on Cockpit Voice recorders in legislation rushed through the House last night. More >>

Labour Will Give Unions $150 Million A Year

Thursday, 9 September 1999, 12:28 am | ACT New Zealand

Freedom and choice are at the heart of every political decision. You must decide whether you support freedom or whether you support the collective making your life decisions for you. More >>

Hawkes Bay woman's pain shows failure of hospital

Wednesday, 8 September 1999, 6:27 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT MP Donna Awatere Huata said today she was appalled by the plight of a Hastings woman suffering intolerable pain because of waiting list delays at Hawkes Bay Hospital. More >>

Adult Literacy - New Zealand's Dark Secret

Wednesday, 8 September 1999, 4:32 pm | ACT New Zealand

ACT Education spokesperson Donna Awatere Huata today said she supported Education Minister Nick Smith's plans to develop a comprehensive Adult Literacy Strategy. More >>

Labour: No Hope, No Vision

Wednesday, 8 September 1999, 2:25 pm | ACT New Zealand

"Labour's welfare policy is 'a blueprint for failure' and promises nothing more for those on welfare than the status quo," said ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman. "There is no vision for a better future and the policy offers ... More >>

Labour's Industrial Policy Bad News For Rural NZ

Tuesday, 7 September 1999, 5:20 pm | ACT New Zealand

"New Zealand's major primary processors will be shocked to read Labour's industrial policy released today," said ACT Rural Spokesman Owen Jennings. More >>

Prebble Predictions On Union Bill Proved Correct

Tuesday, 7 September 1999, 4:00 pm | ACT New Zealand

The fears of employers and businesses about the return of militant unions under Labour's industrial relations policy had today been proved correct according to ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble. He said the copy leaked to ACT had proved to be accurate. More >>