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Speech: Quigley - Maori Language Debate
Wednesday, 28 July 1999, 4:43 pm | ACT New Zealand
Text of Speech to Urgent Parliamentary Debate on Maori Language - Te Reo Parliament, Tuesday 27 July 1999 More >>
Bail Figures "Appalling": ACT MP
Wednesday, 28 July 1999, 2:57 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Patricia Schnauer is raising questions about whether criminals who commit crimes while on bail are actually being punished for those crimes. More >>
Families Urged To Take TIE Opportunity
Wednesday, 28 July 1999, 11:06 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Whangarei based MP and Associate Education Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman is urging Northland families to take the opportunity to apply for the Targeted Individual Entitlement Scheme that gives parents earning less than $25,000 a year the choice of sending ... More >>
ACT: Government Gets Housing Wake Up Call
Tuesday, 27 July 1999, 4:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT's Housing spokesperson Muriel Newman says "the plight of state housing tenants in Auckland's eastern suburbs is a wake up call to the Government, to get out of Housing." More >>
Reform Needed To Deal With Legal Aid Blowout
Tuesday, 27 July 1999, 2:16 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Patricia Schnauer is calling on the Minister of Justice to immediately announce his reform package to restore public confidence in the legal aid system and to ensure it doesn't buckle further under the weight of the flood ... More >>
Labour Plans To Drag Schools Back To The Seventies
Tuesday, 27 July 1999, 10:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education and Spokesperson Donna Awatere Huata has strongly attacked Labour's proposed Education policies saying " a Labour Government will drag New Zealand Schools back into the Seventies." More >>
Compensation Must Be Fair To All Landowners
Tuesday, 27 July 1999, 12:56 am | ACT New Zealand
The announcement by the Minister of Conservation Nick Smith to compensate the Maori owners of the Lord River block in Stewart Island is today being welcomed by ACT Otago Candidate Gerrard Eckhoff. More >>
Gang Terrorism Completely Unacceptable - Prebble
Monday, 26 July 1999, 5:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble says a current affairs programme which broadcast Mongrel Mob threats against an Invercargill family shows things which are seriously wrong in New Zealand. More >>
Roading Commitment Welcomed - Shirley
Monday, 26 July 1999, 11:29 am | ACT New Zealand
Transfund's approval for State Highway 2 Route J bypass of Waihi Road is great news for Tauranga, particularly when coupled with Tauranga District Council's commitment to proceed with Route K, according to local ACT MP Ken Shirley. More >>
Tax Debate Needs An Audit
Monday, 26 July 1999, 11:19 am | ACT New Zealand
Both National and Labour are using shonky figures in the tax debate, according to ACT Leader and former Associate Finance Minister Richard Prebble. More >>
Tax debate needs an audit
Sunday, 25 July 1999, 6:44 pm | ACT New Zealand
Both National and Labour are using shonky figures in the tax debate, according to ACT Leader and former Associate Finance Minister Richard Prebble. More >>
Allblack and ACT Party Fever hits Auckland
Friday, 23 July 1999, 1:13 pm | ACT New Zealand
Allblack fever and ACT party fever will hit the city of sails this weekend with the relaunch of Auckland Central Candidate Donna Awatere Huata's 1999 Election campaign. More >>
Wool Board out of step
Friday, 23 July 1999, 10:33 am | ACT New Zealand
Legislation introduced into the House yesterday for freeing up and commercialising the apple and kiwifruit industries demonstrated how far out of step the Wool Board is with its plan to go in the opposite direction, ACT rural spokesman Owen Jennings ... More >>
Wool Growers Have No Confidence In Wool Board
Thursday, 22 July 1999, 6:35 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT's Otago Candidate Gerry Eckhoff today said the New Zealand Wool Board must accept it has lost the confidence of wool-growers. More >>
Kohunga Must Be 100% Sure of Children's Safety
Thursday, 22 July 1999, 6:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman said a Stokes Valley kohunga reo must be 100% certain that the children in its care are safe. More >>
MMP needs certainty - ACT opposes NZ First
Thursday, 22 July 1999, 5:33 pm | ACT New Zealand
Extract from Richard Prebble speech to Life Brokers Assn Conference Copthorne Rutherford Hotel Nelson 8.00pm Thursday 22nd July 1999 More >>
Maori Leading Innovation in Education - ACT
Thursday, 22 July 1999, 5:27 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education and Maori Affairs Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata is welcoming the Maori Education Strategy announced today saying Maori are leading innovation in education. More >>
Maori Leading Innovation In Education - ACT
Thursday, 22 July 1999, 4:52 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Education and Maori Affairs Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata is welcoming the Maori Education Strategy announced today saying Maori are leading innovation in education. More >>
ACT Wants Tougher Prison Call Monitoring
Thursday, 22 July 1999, 4:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Patricia Schnauer today said the monitoring of prisoners phone calls is an urgent priority. More >>
Innovation Needed To Lift Maori
Thursday, 22 July 1999, 11:38 am | ACT New Zealand
National education monitoring project test results showing poor writing, listening and viewing performances by Maori students, are further indication of the need for innovation in State Education, according to ACT Education Spokesperson Donna Awatere ... More >>
