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Cutting speed limits could put handbrake on NZ
Wednesday, 5 June 2019, 10:03 am | New Zealand National Party
A wholesale reduction in speed limits could do more harm than good by further isolating regional New Zealand and weakening the economy, National’s Transport spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. More >>
More evidence Govt to blame for slowing economy
Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 2:34 pm | New Zealand National Party
The release of today’s Terms of Trade data shows more evidence that New Zealand’s economic slowdown is due to domestic factors like Government policy, National’s Finance spokeswoman Amy Adams says. More >>
Sport funding at risk from rushed Racing Bill
Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 10:30 am | New Zealand National Party
Sport and Recreation Minister Grant Robertson needs to give assurances there will be no net loss to sporting organisations as a result of the Government’s Racing Reform Bill, National’s Sport and Recreation spokesperson Nikki Kaye says. More >>
National calls for Budget inquiry to be widened
Monday, 3 June 2019, 2:05 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Prime Minister must be open and transparent about what questions she has asked her Finance Minister since spurious allegations were made that National acquired Budget documents through criminal activity, Deputy Leader of the Opposition Paula ... More >>
Govt reduces funding for people with disabilities
Monday, 3 June 2019, 9:30 am | New Zealand National Party
The Botched Budget is a bitter pill to swallow for people with disabilities who have been completely ignored, National Disability Issues spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Disability advocates requested a $250 million increase, but received $7 million ... More >>
Predator Free funding freeze - ideology before environment
Sunday, 2 June 2019, 5:10 pm | New Zealand National Party
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has again let her ideology cloud her judgement by not upping the ante with more money for Predator Free 2050 in the Botched Budget, National’s Conservation spokesperson Sarah Dowie says. More >>
Govt admits defeat on Social Housing in Botched Budget
Saturday, 1 June 2019, 1:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Botched Budget has revealed the Government has no solutions to the increasing state housing waiting list and the exploding numbers of people needing emergency housing help makes a mockery of its so-called wellbeing focus, National’s Social ... More >>
School donations policy full of holes
Saturday, 1 June 2019, 12:34 pm | New Zealand National Party
This week Labour scaled back on another promise, this time on ending school donations, National’s Education spokesperson Nikki Kaye says. More >>
More perverse logic from Jones on capital gains tax
Friday, 31 May 2019, 5:00 pm | New Zealand National Party
‘You should thank us for not punching you in the face’, is the analogy Shane Jones seems to be using to justify the absence of a solid economic plan in the Botched Budget, National’s Economic and Regional Development spokesperson, Paul Goldsmith ... More >>
Funding for Technology Valley in Hutt is good news
Friday, 31 May 2019, 4:17 pm | New Zealand National Party
MP for Hutt South Chris Bishop is welcoming funding to rejuvenate the Gracefield Innovation Quarter in Lower Hutt, the ‘Technology Valley’ of New Zealand. Budget 2019 contains $25 million in operating funding and $50 million in capital funding ... More >>
DoC failing to take stakeholders into account on West Coast
Friday, 31 May 2019, 3:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
The news that the Department of Conservation has halted the West Coast Te Tai o Poutini Conservation Management Strategy (CMS) Amendment process due to concerns over legal robustness is yet another example of failures to take into account key stakeholders’ ... More >>
Budget to hammer farmers with regulations and red tape
Friday, 31 May 2019, 2:23 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Botched Budget includes a $200 million fund to drown farmers in tough regulations and excessive bureaucracy, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Nathan Guy says. More >>
Budget sees taxpayers picking up tab for deadbeat dads
Friday, 31 May 2019, 12:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
Absentee fathers are being let off the hook following the Botched Budget, National’s Social Development spokesperson Louise Upston says. More >>
Botched Budget has motorists paying more for less
Friday, 31 May 2019, 11:20 am | New Zealand National Party
The first legislation passed after the so-called wellbeing Budget is to legislate for an extra $360 million worth of fuel taxes over two years, National’s Transport spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. More >>
More taxes hit hardworking NZers in Botched Budget
Friday, 31 May 2019, 10:16 am | New Zealand National Party
Despite claiming to prioritise wellbeing, the Botched Budget offers nothing but more taxes for hardworking New Zealanders struggling with the rising cost of living, National’s Finance spokeswoman Amy Adams says. More >>
Health budget littered with broken promises
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 4:58 pm | New Zealand National Party
Today’s Budget announcements for Vote Health amount to nothing more than another failure in this Government’s self-proclaimed ‘year of delivery’, National’s Health spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. More >>
Broken promises and bad priorities
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 4:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
This year’s botched Budget has failed to deliver on many of the promises the Government made to parents, teachers and students showing education is not the high priority the Government has previously promised, National’s Education spokesperson Nikki ... More >>
Botched budget sees economy continue to weaken
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 4:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
Today’s botched budget reinforces that you can’t trust this Government with the economy, National’s Finance spokeswoman Amy Adams says. “Today’s budget continues the Government’s song sheet of more taxes, more debt and a slowing economy. “The ... More >>
Botched budget disappointment to New Zealanders
Thursday, 30 May 2019, 2:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
The botched budget is just another example of the Government failing to deliver in its self-proclaimed year of delivery, Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges says. “This is not a wellbeing budget. Most New Zealanders will be left asking themselves ... More >>
Minister should apologise twice to independent midwives
Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 2:52 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Ministry of Health’s quiet apology to the New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM) for failing to secure adequate remuneration in Budget 2018 should have come from the Minister himself, says National’s Health spokesperson Michael Woodhouse. More >>
