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Jones Overseeing A ‘treacle-riddled’ PGF
Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 6:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
It’s been three years and despite many, many questions, New Zealanders still have no idea whether the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) has created the jobs it was intended to, National’s Regional Economic Development spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. ... More >>
Collins Hits Back At KiwiSaver Funds Manager
Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 4:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Leader Judith Collins has hit back at funds manager Rupert Carlyon of Kōura Wealth KiwiSaver, for his criticisms of National’s BusinessStart plan, which allow Kiwis to access $20,000 of their own money to start a new business. “I’d like ... More >>
Release The List, Grant
Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 3:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
Grant Robertson’s repeated refusal to tell Parliament how many shovel-ready projects have been through due diligence but are yet to be announced by the Government is the height of arrogance, National’s Transport and Infrastructure spokesperson Chris ... More >>
Collins Claims Victory Over RMA
Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 10:04 am | New Zealand National Party
National Leader Judith Collins is claiming victory after Labour’s Resource Management Act (RMA) Working Group has finally recommended this morning to scrap the RMA and replacing it with a Natural and Built Environments Act and a Strategic Planning Act. ... More >>
National Leader’s Speech at BusinessStart launch
Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 9:45 am | New Zealand National Party
First, thank you to Chris Bishop for arranging today’s visit, and getting me out to the Hutt once again. It is great to be in Petone today to announce the next stage of National’s Plan to Get New Zealand Working. Today’s policy is called BusinessStart. ... More >>
National To Unleash Entrepreneurial And Job-creation Explosion
Wednesday, 29 July 2020, 9:35 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s plan will unleash an entrepreneurial and job-creation explosion over the next 17 months, which economists say will be the toughest times any living New Zealand has ever known, National Party Leader Judith Collins says. Ms Collins was ... More >>
Govt Fails To Deliver Roadside Drug Testing
Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 4:30 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government has failed to introduce promised legislation for roadside drug testing, which will cost dozens of lives and must precede the referendum on cannabis, National’s Drug Reform spokesperson Nick Smith says. “It is a tragedy that this Government ... More >>
International Students Funding Just A Band Aid
Monday, 27 July 2020, 5:53 pm | New Zealand National Party
Today’s announcement from the Government on funding for international students is confirmation thousands of jobs will be lost in the education sector in coming months. “Labour have offered just a band aid and have no plan to address the billions ... More >>
National Will Fast-track Palmerston North Ring Road
Monday, 27 July 2020, 1:45 pm | New Zealand National Party
National will begin work on Palmerston’s North’s long-awaited rural ring road within six months of forming Government to stimulate the Manawatū economy and create new jobs, National Party Leader Judith Collins has announced. On a visit to Palmerston ... More >>
Labour/Green Govt Certain To Raise Tax & Destroy Jobs
Monday, 27 July 2020, 8:35 am | New Zealand National Party
The one certainty about a Labour-Green Government is that it would raise the taxes Kiwi families and small businesses are forced to pay - and destroy jobs in the process, National’s Finance Spokesman Paul Goldsmith says. Mr Goldsmith was responding to ... More >>
Brownlee Dismisses Poll As ‘Rogue’
Sunday, 26 July 2020, 6:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Campaign Chairman Gerry Brownlee says tonight’s Newshub poll is a rogue. “These numbers aren’t even in the same ballpark as our internal polls, other public polls and the hugely positive public response to our Leader Judith Collins, ... More >>
Time For Ardern To Come Clean On Ihumātao
Sunday, 26 July 2020, 8:19 am | New Zealand National Party
Opposition Leader Judith Collins is calling on Jacinda Ardern to be upfront with New Zealanders before the election and say whether a Crown deal for Ihumātao is on the table. “New Zealand is in the grip of a jobs crisis with more than 200,000 ... More >>
Quarantine Absconders Should Meet Cost Of Apprehension
Saturday, 25 July 2020, 12:34 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Hamilton 5 quarantine breakout is alarming and the absconders must foot the bill, National’s COVID-19 Border Response spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says. “Assurances from the Government that all five absconders’ day three tests were negative means ... More >>
Increasing Mistakes Compromise Coronavirus Safety
Friday, 24 July 2020, 4:31 pm | New Zealand National Party
This incompetent Government’s poor management of coronavirus isolation facilities is continuing to put New Zealanders at risk, National’s Health spokesperson Shane Reti says. It has been revealed that nurses at Auckland hospitals have been working ... More >>
National To Adopt Parliamentary Code Of Conduct
Friday, 24 July 2020, 3:18 pm | New Zealand National Party
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins will recommend to her National Party caucus colleagues that the party signs up to Parliament’s code of conduct. “The Francis Report and more recent situations have pointed to a lack of respect for the power ... More >>
National Announces Bay Of Plenty/Coromandel Transport Package
Friday, 24 July 2020, 1:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Bay of Plenty and Coromandel transport package will create hundreds of jobs and drive economic growth across this fast-growing region, National’s Transport spokesperson Chris Bishop says. While visiting Katikati today with MP Scott Simpson, ... More >>
National OIA’s Prime Minister To Release The List
Friday, 24 July 2020, 12:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Leader has issued an Official Information Act request demanding that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her government release the remaining list of shovel-ready projects immediately. “This government is using taxpayer money to make political ... More >>
It’s About Growth And Disciplined Spending, Not Borrow, Borrow, Borrow
Friday, 24 July 2020, 11:31 am | New Zealand National Party
The best path back to prudent levels of debt in a decade or more is an absolute focus on economic growth, combined with disciplined spending, National’s Finance Spokesperson Paul Goldsmith said today . “National recognises that during an economic ... More >>
Shovels Sit Idle In Wellington
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 5:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
Nicola Willis, National’s List MP based in Wellington is calling on Labour to fully release the list of shovel ready projects and get Kiwis back to work. “Despite submitting a substantial list of potential projects in April, the people of Wellington ... More >>
Govt’s Border Exceptions Are Costing Kiwis Jobs
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 4:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s current border exceptions are failing to respond to the needs of New Zealand businesses and it’s costing Kiwis jobs, National’s Immigration spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “When a business can’t get critical skilled workers ... More >>
