Act Archive

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  “Choice” versus fairness in education - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  Why is it that this country continues to adopt failed models from elsewhere instead of strengthening our own structures based on our own experience? The schools and communities of South Auckland and Eastern Christchurch are being used to justify ideological experimentation. After all there are many good schools doing their best in these regions and [...] read more
  December 7, 2011 5:08 pm - 71 Comments
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  Ohariu: deal or no deal? - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  There’s been a lot of talk lately on electorate deals and I’d like to put myself on the record as the Green Party candidate standing in Ōhariu. read more
  July 24, 2011 7:51 pm - 15 Comments
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  I’m pretty sceptical about Boscawen - by Gareth Hughes

  
  
  
  I am embarrassed we now have another out-and-out climate denier in our Executive. I’m talking about the new Consumer Affairs Minister, ACT MP John Boscawen who has been sworn in as a Minister as a result of the internal ACT Party ructions. The climate science is so compelling and the need to act to reduce [...] read more
  August 19, 2010 11:45 am - 13 Comments
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  School boards bill another Douglas dinosaur - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  There is something weird about the way Sir Roger Douglas’s outdated views about the education system keep landing on my Select Committee via his bizarre Member’s Bills. His latest, drawn last week, is an attempt to return us to the days of bulk funding by handing teachers’ pay over to Boards of Trustees. The Act [...] read more
  June 21, 2010 9:55 am - 16 Comments
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  The Ghost of Budgets Past - by David Clendon

  
  
  
  Like someone watching a bad zombie movie, we have now been subjected to the unnerving sight of Don the Undead emerging from the darkness, rattling the chains of thoroughly discredited twenty-five year-old Treasury advice, and offering a prescription for putting the Government on a diet that would make a supermodel blush. I’m talking about the first [...] read more
  December 2, 2009 1:57 pm - 9 Comments
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  Greens want Winston on Board - by frog

  
  
  
  Green Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman today formally invited Winston Peters to join the Green Party, saying it would help the Greens broaden their voter base. “More  than  four percent of voters at the last election voted for New Zealand First,” Dr Norman said. “I am confident that a large proportion of those voters would give their [...] read more
  April 1, 2009 11:46 am - 23 Comments
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  Upton warns of a laughing stock - by frog

  
  
  
  Simon Upton writes a good critique of New Zealand’s climate change situation in today’s Dom Post. It must be amazing for the former National Party Minister who got us involved with the Kyoto process in the first place to watch as once again, we go back to square one in terms of our response to [...] read more
  December 2, 2008 12:01 pm - 23 Comments
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  NZ red-faced over climate change - by Jeanette Fitzsimons

  
  
  
  Why would someone who believes climate change is a hoax and human activity is not contributing to climate change, want a carbon tax? Why would you tax fossil fuels if you don’t believe they are doing any harm? Why would a party that has campaigned on a carbon tax since 1993 and accepted the ETS [...] read more
  November 30, 2008 4:31 pm - 89 Comments
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  NZ now a joke in Europe - by frog

  
  
  
  Thanks Rodney. Thanks John. From Scoop: Specialist news service Carbon News this morning reports broker Nigel Brunel, of OMF Financial, as saying New Zealand is “a bit of a joke in Europe at the moment” following the National-Act agreement to suspend the emissions trading scheme. “This was New Zealand’s opportunity to reinvent its financial markets [...] read more
  November 22, 2008 4:13 pm - 69 Comments
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  Belief - by frog

  
  
  
  Gareth Renowden from Hot Topic has this video which he has titled Exclusive: ACT release election video explaining climate policy: It could be their campaign theme song perhaps? read more
  October 22, 2008 8:16 am - 6 Comments
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  Canberra gets ready for Green government - by frog

  
  
  
  In Australia’s Capital Territory the Green Party has just 15 percent of the vote and 3 of the territory’s 17 seats and with those seats the balance of power – the Liberals and Labor are likely to hold seven seats each.  All of which led The Australian to write: Labor is struggling in a rising [...] read more
  October 20, 2008 2:16 pm - 1 Comment
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  It’s not winner take all - by frog

  
  
  
  There’s a misconception in some corners of political coverage that this election is ‘winner takes all. For instance yesterday Deborah Coddington writes: If Key keeps on smiling through personal attacks – and reassuring New Zealanders that, under his watch, this country won’t go belly up – National might win the election. Which, in these crazy [...] read more
  September 22, 2008 9:28 am - 11 Comments
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  Sir Roger Re-emerges - by Sue Bradford

  
  
  
  Last Friday 8 August I had the interesting experience of sharing  a political platform with Sir Roger Douglas, nearly 20 years after our last encounter when I was part of an unemployed workers’ demonstration challenging what he and his Labour colleagues had done to the country. Like a ghost from Christmas past, Sir Roger re-emerged in the somewhat [...] read more
  August 11, 2008 2:45 pm - 54 Comments
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  Outrageous impositions - by frog

  
  
  
   A member spotted this ad in a Hamilton newspaper to attend a lunch with Rodney Hide and Roger Douglas : The authorisation statement looks like a clever, if somewhat grumpy little dig by Act.  But the reality was that Act had to authorise electoral advertisements even before the Electoral Finance Act passed this year. Not [...] read more
  July 10, 2008 10:36 pm - 29 Comments
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  Metiria on Close Up - by frog

  
  
  
  Close Up featured Metiria last night being put through her recycling paces (all five of them that it took her to walk to the paper recycling bin).  Then Rodney Hide came on to complain that it was all too much work and he had more important things to do.  Isn’t  it ironic (as Dangermoose noted) [...] read more
  June 12, 2008 8:38 am - 27 Comments
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  Act’s BZP promotion - by frog

  
  
  
  I wonder if Act on Campus Auckland put electoral authorisation stamps on their cut-price party pills? read more
  March 20, 2008 12:48 pm - 11 Comments