Roger Douglas MP.

The report released today by the New Zealand Institute highlights the failure of our education system to adequately cater for those at the bottom end of education achievement, ACT Education Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas said today.

The drop in labour productivity growth by 1.5 percent in the year to March 2009 – as released by Statistics New Zealand today – highlights the ever-widening gulf between the promise to improve our living standards and catch Australia, and the stark reality, ACT New Zealand Economic Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas said today.

Cabinet is today discussing plans to consolidate the state sector with mergers planned in three sectors – Internal Affairs, Research, Science and Technology, and the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry. It is also considering the possibility of amalgamating the Ministry of Women’s Affairs into either the Labour Department or the Social Development Ministry (why not just [...]

The claims by students’ associations yesterday that my Voluntary Student Membership Bill is going to decimate membership and cripple services merely highlights how poor the current services provided to students must be, ACT New Zealand VSM Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas said today.

It’s not surprising that the Government’s initiatives to tackle truancy in schools has had no real effect on the 30,000 students cutting class every day, as truancy is the symptom – not the cause – of a broken school system, ACT MP Sir Roger Douglas said today.