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National Answers Horticulture Sector’s Call For Help
Saturday, 20 March 2021, 2:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
Allowing seasonal workers from Covid-free countries to enter New Zealand without quarantine needs to happen fast to plug the yawning gap in our horticulture sector’s workforce, National’s Horticulture spokesperson David Bennett says. National Leader ... More >>
Re-opening NZ To The Pacific Must Be A Priority
Saturday, 20 March 2021, 2:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
National is calling on the Government to allow quarantine-free travel from Samoa, Tonga and Fiji into New Zealand, Leader of the Opposition and National’s Pacific Peoples spokesperson Judith Collins says. “Samoa and Tonga have never had a community ... More >>
Nash Acting Like A Tourist Rather Than The Tourism Minister
Friday, 19 March 2021, 12:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
After 12 months of neglect our tourism sector needs more than a few hints and ‘maybes’ at what support might come from the Government in the future, National’s Tourism spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Tourism Minister Stuart Nash needs to stop acting ... More >>
Government Hiding Our Student Attendance Crisis
Friday, 19 March 2021, 9:58 am | New Zealand National Party
The only way we can fix New Zealand’s appalling school attendance levels is by first knowing the full extent of the problem, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. The Ministry of Education told the Education and Workforce Select ... More >>
Emergency Motels Have Taxpayers Over A Barrel
Friday, 19 March 2021, 5:22 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s lack of solutions to the housing shortage has seen the Government fork out millions in emergency housing grants to some motels and hotels, which are raking it in at the expense of taxpayers. New figures released to National show the ten ... More >>
Govt Needs To Tell Us Which DHBs Are Getting The Chop
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 2:57 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government needs to be honest with the public about which DHBs it plans to scrap, given the pace of these reforms, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “The Labour Government knows that culling DHBs will fare poorly, which may be why ... More >>
GDP Decline A Wakeup Call For Government
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 12:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
Today’s GDP result is particularly disappointing because it appears the biggest contributor is the decline in the infrastructure sector, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “According to Stats NZ 2.9 per cent is the largest annual fall ... More >>
Government Facing The Reality Of Importing Gas
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 3:50 pm | New Zealand National Party
A flurry of revelations in the past month show the oil and gas ban is unfolding exactly as officials predicted, National’s Energy and Resources spokesperson Barbara Kuriger says. Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods told Parliament today that ... More >>
Parker Playing For Time On Winter Grazing
Wednesday, 17 March 2021, 10:16 am | New Zealand National Party
Environment Minister David Parker has had no choice but to defer the implementation of the intensive winter grazing in Southland for one year, National’s Agriculture spokesperson David Bennett says. “This is the third time there’s been changes ... More >>
Auditor-General Should Investigate Ihumātao Funding
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 1:38 pm | New Zealand National Party
National has written to the Auditor-General, requesting that he investigate the apparent misuse of millions in taxpayer dollars used to settle the Ihumātao land dispute. National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says he was alarmed ... More >>
National Launches Trans-Tasman Bubble Petition
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 9:00 am | New Zealand National Party
The National Party has launched a petition calling on the Government to get a move on with the trans-Tasman travel bubble, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “There’s no good reason why we can’t have quarantine-free travel with Australia ... More >>
Prison Violence Out Of Control On Labour’s Watch
Sunday, 14 March 2021, 2:53 pm | New Zealand National Party
The number of prisoner assaults on corrections officers has skyrocketed in recent years with more than 2000 incidents taking place on the Labour Government’s watch, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. Figures released to National ... More >>
No Jail Time For Serious Offences
Saturday, 13 March 2021, 2:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s restorative justice programme Te Pae Oranga is taking preventing imprisonment to a new level with more serious offences sent to the Iwi Community Panel, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “I don’t think many ... More >>
Harbour Crossing Should Be A Priority, Not An Afterthought
Friday, 12 March 2021, 1:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s lack of urgency with a second harbour crossing for Auckland shows how misguided it is when it comes to the needs of the city and New Zealand’s economy. “Auckland desperately needs investment in a second harbour crossing but the Government ... More >>
Govt’s IT Systems Aren’t Ready For Vaccine Rollout
Friday, 12 March 2021, 11:30 am | New Zealand National Party
It is worrying that on the eve of the largest vaccination programme New Zealand has ever seen, three of the four key parts to our vaccine IT system aren’t ready to go, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “We’re ... More >>
Businesses Deserve Certainty On Australia Bubble
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 4:58 pm | New Zealand National Party
Reports that Tourism Minister Stuart Nash has said a travel bubble with Australia won’t happen until January next year if we’re lucky is creating confusion and will mean many more businesses face closure, National’s Tourism spokesperson Todd ... More >>
Stronger Sunscreen Standards On The Horizon
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 12:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
A Member’s Bill that would make sure all sunscreens on the shelf meet our standards and provide the protection they claim has been pulled from the ballot today, Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller says. The Sunscreen Product Safety Standard Bill would require ... More >>
Travel Bubble With Aus Would Help Migrant Workers
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 12:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi has failed to act on reuniting highly skilled migrant workers with their families, but if his Government just opened a travel bubble with Australia then the issue could be resolved, National’s Immigration spokesperson ... More >>
NZ Govt Must Act Unilaterally On Travel Bubble
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 12:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government should make a unilateral decision to have quarantine-free travel with Australia now that we know talks between the two countries have collapsed, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. In Parliament on Wednesday, Covid-19 ... More >>
Two Years And Still No Medicinal Cannabis
Thursday, 11 March 2021, 6:05 am | New Zealand National Party
A Member’s Bill that would make New Zealand’s medicinal cannabis scheme more affordable and more accessible to those that need it has been voted down by the Labour Government. “National first announced this legislation in 2018 and encouraged the ... More >>
