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Maori "Same" As Everyone Else - ACT
Monday, 21 June 1999, 6:24 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Deputy Leader Hon Ken Shirley today said New Zealanders would be extremely upset by the Minister of Maori Affairs claims that Maori have a superior status to everyone else. More >>
Shipley Leadership Government By Committee - ACT
Monday, 21 June 1999, 5:58 pm | ACT New Zealand
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley's latest Cabinet changes shows the Prime Minister's call for renewal and leadership has become government by committee, according to ACT Leader Richard Prebble. More >>
ACT Mobilises Drivers Over Licence Fees
Monday, 21 June 1999, 2:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT is mobilising the country's commercial drivers this week as part of the Party's campaign to reduce the LTSA's fee hikes for renewing licences. More >>
Tax Cuts First Job For New Treasurer
Monday, 21 June 1999, 1:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said the first job for the country's new Treasurer must be setting out a programme of tax cuts. More >>
ACT moves to drive down licence fees
Monday, 21 June 1999, 9:19 am | ACT New Zealand
ACT is moving to drive down the cost of licences saying the charges imposed by the LTSA on commercial drivers are a constitutional outrage. More >>
Prebble: Why Energy Regulation Won't Work
Friday, 18 June 1999, 1:25 pm | ACT New Zealand
Thank you for the invitation to speak and to give my views on the electricity reforms. More >>
Wool Board Plan Extravagant
Friday, 18 June 1999, 9:37 am | ACT New Zealand
The proposal by the Wool Board to spend 12% of its multi-million dollar budget on accountability is yet another sign of how out of touch with reality the Wool Board is, says ACT Leader Richard Prebble. More >>
Oral Question: Inland Revenue Department
Thursday, 17 June 1999, 11:14 am | ACT New Zealand
9. RODNEY HIDE (ACT NZ) to the Minister of Revenue: Has he any concerns that IRD officers with hardened attitudes may be driving taxpayers to suicide by the over-vigorous pursuit of debt; if not, why not? More >>
Article: Hide - IRD Officers Should Pay
Thursday, 17 June 1999, 12:35 am | ACT New Zealand
The distinction that government has over the rest of us is the useful facility to make magnificent and colossal mistakes without cost or consequence to the authors. More >>
Proxy Voting A Scandal - Prebble
Thursday, 17 June 1999, 12:24 am | ACT New Zealand
The decision of the Labour party to cast Alliance renegade Frank Grover's Parliamentary proxy for him shows how corrupt the New Zealand Parliamentary voting system has become, says ACT Leader Richard Prebble. More >>
Lamb case should be taken to WTO
Wednesday, 16 June 1999, 7:14 pm | ACT New Zealand
ACT Rural Spokesman Owen Jennings today said New Zealand farmers should not roll over and accept US trade sanctions against New Zealand lamb. ôThis is unthinkably bad. It is outrageous that the US is even considering imposing sanctions on our lamb. ... More >>
Article: Prebble - Where Hopes Come From
Wednesday, 16 June 1999, 2:30 pm | ACT New Zealand
I'm often asked, "How can you be confident, positive and hopeful about the New Zealand economy?" More >>
Full, Fair and Final Treaty Settlements
Tuesday, 15 June 1999, 4:28 pm | ACT New Zealand
Throughout New Zealand the Waitangi Claims grievance industry is causing bewilderment and anger. More >>
Prebble Letter To Clark: Deceptive Advertising?
Sunday, 13 June 1999, 10:50 pm | ACT New Zealand
I keep reading material from your party where you are claiming to be similar to Tony Blair's New Labour government in the UK. More >>
HIV scare shows stupidity of Privacy Act: Schnauer
Sunday, 13 June 1999, 10:47 pm | ACT New Zealand
Reports that an Auckland primary school did not inform parents that one of its pupils had HIV because the school was not allowed to under the Privacy Act highlights the impractical stupidity of that Act, Patricia Schnauer ACT Justice Spokesman said today. More >>
Prebble Letter To PM On Tax Cuts
Sunday, 13 June 1999, 10:45 pm | ACT New Zealand
I write on behalf of ACT New Zealand in response to the hints of further tax cuts that Bill English, Treasurer designate, has been making. More >>
