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Commissioner Holland Must Go - Hide
Friday, 16 July 1999, 3:39 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that IRD boss Commissioner Graham Holland continues to stagger from debacle to debacle and must now resign to preserve the tax revenue base. More >>
Speech: Prebble - The One Per Cent Election
Thursday, 15 July 1999, 6:56 pm | ACT New Zealand
SPEECH TO AUCKLAND BRANCH OF THE PLASTICS INSTITUTE OF NEW ZEALAND Tamaki Yacht Club Tamaki Drive Auckland More >>
High Time Government Broke Golden Handshakes
Thursday, 15 July 1999, 2:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
The MP who sparked the Auditor General's inquiry into golden handshakes for Tourism Board Directors today welcomed the Government's package on Crown Entities. More >>
Farmers Won't Be Rushed Through Submissions - ACT
Thursday, 15 July 1999, 10:48 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Agriculture Spokesman Owen Jennings today said he wouldn't allow farmer submissions on the Dairy Industry Reform to be rushed through Select Committee. More >>
Gun Registration Won't Address Real Cause of Crime
Thursday, 15 July 1999, 12:46 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Justice Spokesman Patricia Schnauer today said politicians had today taken the easy option in voting to send the Arms Amendment Bill to Select Committee. More >>
National's Move to Sell TVNZ Welcomed
Wednesday, 14 July 1999, 5:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that Bill English's commitment to sell TVNZ, New Zealand Post and other state assets was welcome news. More >>
ACT Cautious Support For Dairy Industry Changes
Wednesday, 14 July 1999, 4:12 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ACT Party, whose vote will be needed if the Government's Dairy Industry restructuring is to pass, has given cautious support to the first reading of the Bill. More >>
Mana Has Taken a Beating
Wednesday, 14 July 1999, 12:49 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Maori Affairs Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata today said the concept of Mana had been violated through being linked to domestic violence. More >>
Speech: Shirley - Governance & Constitution
Tuesday, 13 July 1999, 2:53 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader Hon Ken Shirley MP Speech to: Local Government New Zealand Conference Aotea Centre, 1.00pm Tuesday 13 July 1999 More >>
Another Electric Shock For Bradford - ACT
Tuesday, 13 July 1999, 2:03 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT's principled stand against allowing politicians to meddle in the electricity sector has today been vindicated by another back-flip by Energy Minister Max Bradford and Labour's refusal to support the legislation to impose price controls on lines ... More >>
Broadcasting Allocation 'Bizarre' - Prebble
Tuesday, 13 July 1999, 11:50 am | ACT New Zealand
"The ACT Party is prepared to pay for its own electronic advertising but isn't allowed to," Mr Prebble said. "We are forced to accept money from the taxpayer." More >>
Racial Preferment Leads To Racism - Prebble
Tuesday, 13 July 1999, 9:40 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble says recent calls by Tuariki Delamere and Tau Henare show the link between racial preferment and racism. More >>
Procedural Tinkering With RMA Not Good Enough -ACT
Tuesday, 13 July 1999, 12:50 am | ACT New Zealand
New Zealanders expecting Government to this week put an end to the nonsense of the Resource Management Act will be bitterly disappointed with National's RMA Amendment Act. More >>
MP Calls For Review of Library Restructuring
Tuesday, 13 July 1999, 12:08 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT Cultural Affairs Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata is calling for an independent review to be launched into the proposed restructuring of National Library Services. More >>
ACT seeks rural vote
Monday, 12 July 1999, 8:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
The ACT New Zealand Party has set itself the goal of replacing National as the party to represent rural New Zealand. National has taken the rural vote for granted for too long. Over the last ten years National has consistently put winning votes in ... More >>
Fiddling with tax code not wanted
Sunday, 11 July 1999, 3:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT leader Richard Prebble says National's preoccupation with fiddling with the tax code is missing the electorate's real concerns. More >>
Labour's Industrial Relations Policy Draws Fire
Sunday, 11 July 1999, 2:18 pm | ACT New Zealand
Labour's industrial relations policy is again under fire from ACT's Patricia Schnauer who says its vital New Zealanders know just what Labour is proposing. More >>
Treasurer fails to lift National's game - ACT
Sunday, 11 July 1999, 1:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide today said that farmers, manufacturers, employers and the productive sector were looking to the Treasurer's speech today for a clear statement that National was working to lift its game, to set a clear programme of ... More >>
ACT leader shocked by personal attack
Friday, 9 July 1999, 6:34 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today that he was shocked by Sir William Birch's very personal attack on ACT MP Rodney Hide. More >>
Watercare Credit Watch Highlights Local Body Folly
Friday, 9 July 1999, 1:22 pm | ACT New Zealand
The folly of local body politicians interfering with management processes, unable to understand the difference between shareholders and customers, governance and service delivery has been born out in Watercare's new dilemma, said ACT Local Body Spokesman ... More >>
