A photo essay follows from the Welfare Symposium held by ACT Deputy Leader Muriel Newman in the Beehive Theatrette on Saturday. For further background concerning ACT and Tommy Thompson's views on welfare see… An Audience With ACT's Muriel Newman (Part 2), An Audience With ACT's Welfare Guru Muriel Newman (Part 1) and Muriel Newman's column... Wisconsin, Setting The Standard For Welfare Reform
Images by Kevin List

Click for big version
Muriel Newman with a slide of Rt Hon. Frank Field, British Labour Party MP and former (fired) Welfare Minister from the 1st Blair Govt (Mr Field is accompanied by a TV character of unknown parentage).

Click for big
version
Muriel Newman recreates her interview
(in the style of a "Polish two-way") with Tommy Thompson via
US Embassy provided video link.

Click for big
version
ACT Leader Rodney Hide takes a
picture of the "Polish two-way".

Click for big
version
ACT Founder Roger Douglas watches the
"Polish two-way".

Symposium attendees in the
Beehive Theatrette.

The conference suited these
young men well.

Click for big
version
Former All Black Norm Hewitt talks as
Mark Stevens and Sam Chapman look
on.

Ian Powell: Inhumanity Of US Economic Sanctions Against Cuba – Infant Mortality And Starvation; Time To End NZ’s Silence
Ramzy Baroud: Subjects Of Empire - Breaking The Cycle Of Arab Dependency On US Elections
Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - The Pragmatic Food For Fuel Deal With Singapore
Eugene Doyle: After Israel’s Brutal Attack On Kiwis, Our Government Does Nothing
Keith Rankin: Has Sweden Become A De Facto Apartheid Narco State?
Bruce Mahalski: Change In The Weather #194