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New Zealand Reform Party - Definition, explanation The Liberal Party, founded by John Ballance and fortified by Richard Seddon, was highly dominant in New Zealand politics at the beginning of the 20th century. The foundation of the Reform Party was closely associated with this return of the opposition to political significance, and with growing agitation against the Liberal Party's alleged socialism. Reform also demonstrated its tough line against "socialism" with its responses to a number of notable strikes — the Waihi miners' strike, led by left-wing unions which Massey condemned as "enemies of order", was harshly suppressed, and one worker died. www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/ne/new_zealand_reform_party.php   (1074 words)

Reform Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reform Party of the United States of America, founded by Ross Perot. American Reform Party, founded by former members of the Reform Party of the United States of America. Reform Party of Canada, Reform Party (pre-Confederation), Manitoba Reform Party - all in Canada en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_Party   (130 words)

New Zealand Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The New Zealand Party's motto was "Freedom and Prosperity", and it has sometimes been classified as libertarian (although that term is not particularly common in New Zealand). One example was the party's unorthodox defence policy, which advocated a large reduction in military expenditure and the abandonment of New Zealand's defence links with Australia and the United States (particularly the ANZUS alliance). The name "New Zealand Party" was used by others beyond that point, however, and some members of the party eventually ended up as part of a supposedly centrist coalition led by Bruce Beetham. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_Party   (1350 words)

Hoover Institution - Policy Review - Market Reform: Lessons from New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) New Zealand should be one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, a magnet for ambitious people looking for a better life. New Zealand remains the only developed country to have scrapped farm support, a political achievement all the greater given that agriculture is New Zealand’s largest sector. But the right in New Zealand assisted the left’s recovery and current ascendancy by rendering their own market principles inoperable, as these bore a diminishing resemblance to what they actually did when they were in government and to their policies when in opposition. www.hoover.org /publications/policyreview/3449581.html   (4584 words)

EH.Net Encyclopedia: New Zealand in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries New Zealand’s banks, which were not used to managing risk in a deregulated environment, scrambled to lend to speculators in an effort not to miss out on big profits. New Zealand’s economic decline relative to the rest of the OECD was halted, though it was not reversed. New Zealand was a long way from the world’s economic powerhouses, and it was difficult for its firms to establish and maintain contact with potential customers and collaborators in Europe, North America, or Asia. www.eh.net /encyclopedia/article/Singleton.NZ   (3441 words)

New Zealand Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is currently the dominant party in the country's ruling coalition, holding 50 of the 121 seats in the New Zealand Parliament. After the 1928 election, however, the party was left in an advantageous position — the Reform Party and the new United Party (a revival of the Liberals) were tied on 27 seats each, and neither could govern without Labour support. There were significant internal tensions within the party, eventually culminating in the resignation of junior minister Tariana Turia and her establishment of the new Māori Party. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party   (2336 words)

Don Brash.com || New Zealand's Remarkable Reform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) The non-trading elements of New Zealand's public sector were reformed by the State Sector Act 1988 and the Public Finance Act 1989, both of which aim to discipline the bureaucracy by introducing incentives to eliminate the bias towards waste, including the incentives flowing from transparency. New Zealand's credit rating, which had already slipped over the 1980s to AA despite all that had been accomplished, and which was downgraded to AA- very early in 1991, would almost certainly have dropped to A+ had action not been taken to contain the growth of spending. The reform of the monetary policy framework was one of the most important elements in the whole reform programme, and it is significant that the legislation which established it was passed by Parliament with the support of Government and Opposition, without a single vote being registered against it. www.donbrash.com /Speeches/NZs_remarkable_reform.htm   (9619 words)

Market Reform: Lessons from New Zealand by Rupert Darwall - Policy Review, No. 118   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) New Zealand should be one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, a magnet for ambitious people looking for a better life. New Zealand remains the only developed country to have scrapped farm support, a political achievement all the greater given that agriculture is New Zealand’s largest sector. But the right in New Zealand assisted the left’s recovery and current ascendancy by rendering their own market principles inoperable, as these bore a diminishing resemblance to what they actually did when they were in government and to their policies when in opposition. www.policyreview.org /apr03/darwall.html   (4591 words)

New Zealand National Party The New Zealand National Party was formed in Wellington on the 13th and 14th of May 1936. The Reform Party had been essentially a rural based party, whereas the Liberals were dominated by city based concerns. George Forbes, the Reform Party Leader opened the conference which formed the National Party in May 1936 and was Leader of the Opposition until October 1936 when Adam Hamilton was elected as the first Leader of the National Party. www.national.org.nz /About/history.aspx   (2540 words)

POLITICAL PARTIES - REFORM PARTY - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand The Reform Party, the full title of which was “the New Zealand Political Reform League”, was a conservative body, but that term must be understood in the light of our history and environment. Reform was not a party of historically-minded “Conservatives”, but a political defence for “men in possession” in a new country. In 1928 Reform lost conservative votes in both city and country to United, and could not maintain its claim to be the one authentic anti-Labour party. www.teara.govt.nz /1966/P/PoliticalParties/ReformParty/en   (1673 words)

Local Government Reform in New Zealand Social services in New Zealand are the prime responsibility of central government and consequently government agencies labour to involve the locals or secure “buy-in” to their programmes. New Zealand must draw into the community sector as many individuals as possible and allow them to participate and profit from their interaction with others. New Zealand ratepayers are the hardest hit group of all OECD countries — they provide 56% of local government funding. www.robertshaw.orcon.net.nz /lg.html   (2394 words)

New Zealand's Economic Reform Programme Was A Failure The lesson from New Zealand is that its ‘big bang’ economic reform programme involved an enormous sacrifice of output during the late 1980s that showed no sign of being compensated for by higher growth rates in the 1990s. New Zealand’s experience of ‘Big Bang’ economic reform suggests that Australia and the rest of the OECD were sensible to implement their market liberalisation programmes more cautiously. Reform of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to give it a sole statutory objective of maintaining price stability (in contrast to the Charter of the Reserve Bank of Australia which also allows an output stabilisation role) was, of course, one of the core components of New Zealand’s reform programme. www.casi.org.nz /politicaleconomy/dalziel99.htm   (3886 words)

Commanding Heights : New Zealand Overview | on PBS William Massey of the Reform Party, conservative despite its name, is elected prime minister in 1912. New Zealand is a founding member of the United Nations. New Zealand expands its international contacts in Southeast Asia and enters a limited free-trade agreement with Australia. www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/nz/nz_overview.html   (1250 words)

Early Political Career - Keith Holyoake The New Zealand Reform Party, which had strong rural support, selected Holyoake as its candidate for the Motueka seat in the New Zealand general election 1931. In the New Zealand general election 1935, Holyoake retained his seat despite a massive swing against the Reform-United coalition. In the New Zealand general election 1938, however, Holyoake lost his seat to a challenger from the governing New Zealand Labour Party. mywebpage.netscape.com /Academia5271/keith-holyoake-early-political-career.html   (208 words)

The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Optimists : Kate Sheppard : www.nzedge.com By the end of the 1870’s the women’s suffrage movement was well-established in New Zealand, drawing attention from overseas suffragists, notably the liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill, a strong supporter of the British suffrage movement. New Zealand’s victory would predate that of her larger allies by decades: British women were not granted suffrage until 1918 and American women were not granted it across the whole country until 1920. Therefore all Maori men over the age of 21 actually got the vote in New Zealand some ten years before the franchise was extended to all 'white' men over that age, with the qualification that Maori were able to vote only for their own members of parliament. www.nzedge.com /heroes/sheppard.html   (3182 words)

New Zealand First Only on a vote of confidence in a Government (in which New Zealand First is a member) will New Zealand First's Members of Parliament be required to vote with the party. New Zealand foreign aid will focus on the region in which we live. All policies not contained in the party manifesto, where no national emergency clearly exists, will first be referred to the electorate for a mandate. www.nzfirst.org.nz /principles/index.php   (493 words)

Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal The party itself crystallised around a farmer-turned-politician named William Massey, who became the leader of most conservatives in Parliament in 1903. Supporters of the Liberals denied that Reform had won a mandate to rule, however, pointing out that the country quota (a system in which rural electorates were smaller than urban ones, meaning that rural areas were slightly over-represented in Parliament) worked to "inflate" Reform's vote. After a period under interim leader Francis Bell (New Zealand Prime Minister), Reform chose Gordon Coates as its new leader. www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=New_Zealand_Reform_Party   (1065 words)

Radio Australia - News - New Zealand First Party launches re-election bid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) As Gillian Bradford reports, New Zealand First is hoping to hold the balance of power in the next parliament. Neither Labour or the Opposition national party are expecting to win government in their own right on September 17. So New Zealand first is telling voters it can be trusted with the balance of power, despite a troubled coalition with National in the mid 1990's. www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1426719.htm   (216 words)

NZ pot reform gets shafted New Zealand's recent federal election produced bad results for the Kiwi cannabis culture. The boost to its fortunes was largely the result of party leader Peter Dunne capturing the media spotlight in a televised party leaders debate. New Zealand's cannabis community had pinned its hopes on the Green Party, the only party of the seven in Parliament to adopt cannabis law reform as its policy. www.cannabisculture.com /articles/2779.html   (584 words)

NORML New Zealand - party pills pass test With the EACD playing a crucial role in New Zealand's drug policy as the statutory body charged with classifying drugs, this recent decision has potentially significant consequences for recreational drug use in Aotearoa. In fairness, however, at least in the case of the piperazinebased party pills, the committee seems to have gone for less heavy-handed regulation, possibly in part due to previous industry liaising with Ministry of Health officials. Party pill industry sources point out their products are already covered by the dietary supplements regulations, and the industry has begun developing a code of practice which would see selfregulation address concerns. www.norml.org.nz /article457.html   (1189 words)

Prostitution 'Reform' Bill Passes in New Zealand -- 06/25/2003 Lawmakers were given a conscience vote on the Prostitution Reform Bill, which makes it legal for those over 18 to solicit sex, while removing the offenses of pimping, brothel-keeping and living off the earnings of a prostitute. Major political parties were split, and women's groups came down on both sides of the issue. In fact, one of the bill's most vociferous opponents was one of Barnett's colleagues, Labor lawmaker Diane Yates, who arranged for an Australian academic opposed to decriminalizing prostitution to visit parliament to outline her concerns. www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200306%5CFOR20030625c.html   (914 words)

Newsbrief: Marijuana Reform Stalled in New Zealand The New Zealand Labor government is blocking any consideration of marijuana law reform, according to New Zealand Wire. While the New Zealand Green Party, with Member of Parliament Nandor Tanczos leading the charge, had hoped to move toward marijuana decriminalization, Labor's post-election alliance with the conservative United Future has most likely dealt those hopes a death blow. Newsbrief: Marijuana Reform Stalled in New Zealand stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/299/newzealand.shtml   (582 words)

Scoop: NZ supports law and order, reform process in Tonga New Zealand police and defence force personnel are in Tonga to help authorities maintain law and order so the reform process can proceed peacefully, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said today. Mr Peters rejected suggestions that New Zealand had effectively sided with the government by deploying personnel to Tonga. "New Zealand is willing to provide further support for the political reconciliation and reform process if this is considered useful in the current circumstances. www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0611/S00425.htm   (1152 words)

Scoop: Students Vote To Support Cannabis Law Reform The Coalition for Cannabis Law Reform (CCLR) is proud to announce that the New Zealand University Students Association have formally endorsed the coalition, and its cannabis law reform and education accord. Speaking at the New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA) annual conference in Dunedin today, Nandor Tanczos encouraged student representatives to support the cannabis law reform campaign and issued a challenge to all New Zealanders, including the National party. Everyday New Zealanders, young and old are considering the issues and can see quite clearly for themselves that the current approach is both counter productive and a complete failure" said Les Gray, educational psychologist and CCLR spokesperson. www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO0009/S00009.htm   (1280 words)

Scoop: Sharples: Business Law Reform Bill The Maori Party is a business-friendly party that does, however, consider there is a need to strike a balance between maximising profits on the one hand, and maintaining the integrity of our natural environment on the other. Mr Speaker, the Maori Party comes to this Bill, absolutely inspired by the hard-working and devoted commitment of our people out there, doing the hard yards, making their business work, and most of all providing that tautoko; that support that is so necessary to keep a good business afloat. The latest 2006 KPMG fraud survey revealed that 53% of New Zealand organisations had experienced at least one fraud with an average loss of $479,000. www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0610/S00509.htm   (2076 words)

NZ Greens: Campaigns: Drug Law Reform New Scientist marijuana report - evidence on the effects of cannabis, updated with the latest research. Activist tips and the latest NZ drugs and drug law reform news with their excellent free quarterly magazine, (now with a print run of 30,000) called NORML News. MAP NZ News - A good Web source of NZ drugs and drug law reform news, You can display the NZ news on the MAP site as headlines only or with brief descriptions and search it in a variety of ways. www.greens.org.nz /campaigns/cannabis   (1171 words)

National to play ball on election law reform - 06 Dec 2006 - Political News - New Zealand Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) But National deputy leader Bill English today said the party would draw the line at supporting greater state funding of political parties and also wanted to see stiffer penalties for parties breaching spending limits - like Labour did at the last election. But Mr English today said National was prepared to take part in a bi-partisan electoral law reform process, as long as it could bring its own suite of issues to the table and final changes did not favour Labour. There was also a need for a 90-day pre-election ban on government departments using advertising to promote "the pet policies of the government of the day". www.nzherald.co.nz /category/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10414111   (628 words)

FT.com / In depth News, analysis and background information on key stories and issues Brazil, the fifth most populous country in the world and the dominant economic force in South America, will hold presidential and senate elections in October 2006. With little sign of an end to the Iraqi insurgency, fears are rising that the government of Nuri al-Maliki will not be able to contain sectarian violence or Shia militia activity and that the country will slip further into civil war. www.ft.com /indepth   (153 words)

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