ACT New Zealand – the real alternative
Weekly Column by Dr Muriel Newman MP
“Muriel Newman is a parliamentarian worth her salary. She constantly takes up a cause that more circumspect, not to say
politically correct, MPs would leave alone. She doggedly pursues the issue, often to the point of having a member’s bill
presented to the House. That is sometimes sufficient to ensure the vastly superior legislative resources of the
Government are directed to the subject.” Editorial, New Zealand Herald February 5, 2001
This Saturday you have two votes – an electorate vote for your local MP and a Party Vote for the party that best
represents your concerns. If you have agreed with my weekly columns and with ACT’s vision for a free, safe and
prosperous society then please support my re-election to parliament by giving ACT your party vote.
If re-elected, I will continue to fight for:
Stronger families to ensure that children have a better future
Reform of our family law systems including introducing Shared Parenting, opening up the Family Court and making the
Child Support Act fairer
Welfare reform giving security to those who cannot work, while requiring those who are able-bodied to move into work,
independence and a better future
To get the fundamentals right to ensure jobs, growth and a rising standard of living, through tax cuts for every
worker, lower taxes than Australia and a dramatic reduction in red tape and compliance costs that hold back small
business.
A safer society through a zero tolerance approach to policing, truth in sentencing and prison reform so that prisons
are more like work camps than hotels.
One law for all, with time limits on Treaty claims and the abolition of Maori seats.
World class education standards by replacing the experimental NCEA with external exams, by introducing bulk funding
and paying good teachers more
Cutting hospital waiting lists through a Patient Guarantee for private treatment as well as fast-tracking the
certification of appropriately trained overseas doctors
Re-building our defense capability with an air-strike force and a closer relationship with ANZUS
A better deal for private property owners
Equality for private tertiary training providers
Writing The Column is an on-going privilege and pleasure, and I would like to thank you most sincerely for your support
for The Column and for your feedback.
Muriel Newman