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National’s Plan To Get New Zealand Working
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 12:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Todd Muller has revealed the framework for the party’s Plan to create more jobs and a better economy. At a speech to the Christchurch Employers’ Chamber of Commerce today, Mr Muller outlined the five elements of National’s Plan. ... More >>
National Will Build Christchurch To Ashburton Expressway
Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 2:34 pm | New Zealand National Party
The next National Government will drive our economy forward and create hundreds of jobs by delivering a new four-lane expressway between Christchurch and Ashburton, National Party Leader Todd Muller has announced. “This will be a transformational ... More >>
Statement From Peter Goodfellow, National Party President
Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 1:57 pm | New Zealand National Party
Yesterday evening I received a letter from Leader Todd Muller, asking the National Party Board of Directors to urgently meet and consider some very serious, publicly reported, issues concerning Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker. The Board met at midday ... More >>
Todd Muller Accepts Hamish Walker’s Decision Not To Stand In 2020
Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 12:19 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Todd Muller has today accepted Hamish Walker’s decision to withdraw his candidacy for the seat of Southland and not stand at the upcoming election. “Rachel Bird, the National Party’s Southern Regional Chair, has received ... More >>
Personal Statement From Hamish Walker
Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 12:18 pm | New Zealand National Party
Today I am announcing that I will not be standing for re-election for the Southland electorate at the upcoming 2020 election. I wish to thank the people of Clutha-Southland who I have loved meeting, assisting and representing over the past two and a half ... More >>
Hamish Walker - A Personal Statement And An Apology
Tuesday, 7 July 2020, 5:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
I have spoken to National Party Leader Todd Muller and informed him that I passed to members of the media, by email, information containing Covid-19 patient details that was given to me by a source. I did this to expose the Government’s shortcomings ... More >>
Todd Muller - Statement On Hamish Walker
Tuesday, 7 July 2020, 5:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
Hamish Walker has informed me that he received and then disclosed health information regarding active Covid-19 cases to members of the media. I have asked Hamish to acknowledge this to Michael Heron QC and cooperate fully with his inquiry into how the information More >>
Govt’s Vision Fails To Address Today’s Issues
Tuesday, 7 July 2020, 1:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s ‘Fit For a Better World’ vision for the primary sector fails to address the myriad of issues they’ve created for farmers over the past three years, Leader of the Opposition Todd Muller and National’s Agriculture spokesperson ... More >>
More Than A Third Of Businesses Plan To Lay Off Staff
Tuesday, 7 July 2020, 11:19 am | New Zealand National Party
More than a third of businesses plan to lay off staff over the next three months, National’s Finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith said today. Mr Goldsmith was commenting on today’s NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, which shows a collapse in ... More >>
Minister For Children At The Centre Of Another Bungle
Tuesday, 7 July 2020, 8:43 am | New Zealand National Party
The government has proved they’re not fit to protect the needs of at risk youth, National MP Alfred Ngaro says. Ngaro was responding to the escape of Haami Hanara (16) and Sean Ratu (17) from South Auckland youth justice facility, Korowai Manaaki, ... More >>
Public Housing Figures Another Failure For Labour
Monday, 6 July 2020, 5:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
The number of families who need homes continue to grow at an alarming rate as public housing figures soar from 5844 in 2017 to 17982 as at May this year, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “The waiting-list for a state house has ... More >>
Labour Admits It Has No Plan
Monday, 6 July 2020, 10:09 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Todd Muller says the admission by Labour Party Leader Jacinda Ardern yesterday that her Government has run the country for three years “without a playbook” comes as no surprise. “The Labour Leader told her party rally yesterday ... More >>
Labour Promises Are “just More KiwiBuild”
Sunday, 5 July 2020, 2:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Leader Todd Muller says Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern’s promises today are “just more KiwiBuild”. “Nothing Labour promises you this election will be delivered – except more tax for you to pay. “Labour promised three years ago ... More >>
Thousands Of Kiwis Need Help Getting Back To Work
Sunday, 5 July 2020, 10:55 am | New Zealand National Party
Recent Jobseeker figures illustrates the economic and job crisis New Zealand is facing and Labour has no plan on how to lower them, National’s Social Development spokesperson Louise Upston says. “200,000 New Zealanders are now on Jobseeker or ... More >>
This Government Can’t Be Trusted With Anything
Saturday, 4 July 2020, 1:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
Yet another mistake just goes to prove that this Government is not fit to manage the Covid-19 recovery, National’s Health spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. “Reports coming in this morning of personal details being leaked which reveals the identity ... More >>
Todd Muller - Labour Can’t And Won’t Deliver Anything
Saturday, 4 July 2020, 1:05 pm | New Zealand National Party
Jacinda Ardern’s big talk today is yet more empty promises from a clumsy and incompetent Government, National Leader Todd Muller said today. “You cannot believe anything that this Prime Minister promises will be delivered except more tax,” Mr Muller ... More >>
National Commits To Extending Waikato Expressway
Friday, 3 July 2020, 11:34 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s plan to create jobs and boost the economy will include a new four-lane expressway between Cambridge and Piarere, National Party Leader Todd Muller has announced. The new 16-kilometre, four-lane motorway will connect the Cambridge section of the ... More >>
Jobs Crisis Laid Bare
Friday, 3 July 2020, 10:37 am | New Zealand National Party
“The scale of our economic and jobs crisis is starting to become clear,” National Leader Todd Muller said today. "Data released this week by leading employment website, SEEK, shows jobs advertising has collapsed by nearly a half since February ... More >>
Davis Continues To Let Criminals Off The Hook
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 4:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis continues to reduce community service sentence hours, showing he clearly doesn’t believe that offenders who do the crime, should do the time, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Since entering ... More >>
Apartment Reform Is Now A Realistic Opportunity
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 3:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
It was great to see the Unit Titles (Strengthening Body Corporate Governance and Other Matters) Amendment Bill pulled from the member’s bill ballot today, National’s MP for Papakura Judith Collins and Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye both say. “This ... More >>
