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Auditor-General slates Govt polytech reforms
Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 9:43 am | New Zealand National Party
The Office of the Auditor-General yesterday released a damaging submission on the Government’s plans to dissolve regional polytechnics and merge them into one central body, National’s spokesperson for Tertiary Education Shane Reti says. More >>
Double Trouble with Census 2018
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 6:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
Stats NZ’s confirmation that the problems with Census 2018 is not just with the record low response rate, but a doubling in the partial response rate compounds the problems for the State Sector, says National’s State Services Spokesperson Nick ... More >>
From Maggie Barry on End of Life Choice bill
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 5:36 pm | New Zealand National Party
After 16 months of working through a record 39,000 written submissions and hearing from1350 submitters at 42 public hearings in 14 towns, the Justice Select Committee today tabled its report on the ‘End of Life’ bill. More >>
Jones quizzed NZTA about conduct of prosecution
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 4:36 pm | New Zealand National Party
Shane Jones has inserted himself into a court case between the NZ Transport Agency and a Northland trucking firm by quizzing NZTA’s top executive about the conduct of the case, National’s Economic and Regional Development spokesperson Paul Goldsmith ... More >>
‘Wellbeing’ indicators impossible to deliver
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 3:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
The 100+ ‘wellbeing’ indicators released by Stats NZ today are not achievable and will not improve the wellbeing of New Zealand families, Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges says. More >>
Govt putting rural ambulance services at risk
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 1:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
The week after St John held its annual appeal and called on the Government to fully fund the organisation, it’s ironic that it’s the Government who may end up axing funding for St John volunteers and placing its rural ambulance service at risk, National’s ... More >>
Tomorrow’s Schools needs strengthening not restructuring
Tuesday, 9 April 2019, 12:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
Eight weeks of public meetings across New Zealand on Tomorrow’s Schools show many people see room to improve our education system but they don’t want it radically restructured into a hub model, National’s Education spokesperson Nikki Kaye says. More >>
‘Significant disruption’ signalled for primary schools
Monday, 8 April 2019, 1:07 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s spokesperson for Education Nikki Kaye is concerned for students and parents potentially facing continued strikes in 2019 as the Government has yet again failed to reach an agreement with primary teachers. More >>
Capital Gains Tax would hit 500,000 businesses
Sunday, 7 April 2019, 1:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
Capital Gains Tax would hit 500,000 businesses National can reveal that more than 500,000 small businesses would be hit by the Government’s proposed Capital Gains Tax and no region of New Zealand would escape this damaging new tax, Leader of the ... More >>
The census isn’t adding up, what’s Stats NZ hiding?
Saturday, 6 April 2019, 10:46 am | New Zealand National Party
Statistics NZ is refusing to disclose the proposition of completed responses to Census 2018 in an extraordinary standoff with Parliament, National’s Statistics spokesperson Jian Yang says. More >>
Capital Gains Tax would hit 56,000 Wellington businesses
Friday, 5 April 2019, 4:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s proposed Capital Gains Tax would hit more than 56,000 businesses in Wellington, discouraging the region’s entrepreneurs and innovators, Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges says. “The Tax Working Group’s proposed Capital Gains Tax would ... More >>
Capital Gains Tax would hit 13,000 Southland businesses
Friday, 5 April 2019, 4:04 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s proposed Capital Gains Tax would hit more than 13,000 businesses in Southland, discouraging the region’s entrepreneurs and innovators, Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges says. “The Tax Working Group’s proposed Capital Gains Tax would ... More >>
Government taxes driving up rents for Kiwis
Friday, 5 April 2019, 10:50 am | New Zealand National Party
This tax-happy Government is piling more costs onto New Zealanders like rising rents and it is only going to get worse with a Capital Gains Tax, Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges says. “New data out today from the Ministry of Business, Innovation ... More >>
Minister doing farmers a disservice over TWG report
Thursday, 4 April 2019, 3:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor’s dismissive attitude to the Tax Working Group’s (TWG) report is doing a disservice to the primary sector, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Nathan Guy says. “The Minister has already signalled his ... More >>
Bill drawn to protect victims of insane offenders
Thursday, 4 April 2019, 1:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
A new Bill pulled from the ballot today would ensure that the victims of legally insane offenders are treated the same as other victims of crime, MP for Tāupo Louise Upston says. More >>
Fiji must not interfere with journalists
Thursday, 4 April 2019, 11:37 am | New Zealand National Party
The detention of Newsroom journalists by Fijian Authorities was unacceptable, National’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Todd McClay says. More >>
More serious questions to answer for Jones
Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 3:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
Shane Jones’ revelation that he talked to the chief of the NZ Transport Agency about a court case in which he had a distant family connection raises further serious questions for this minister, National’s Economic and Regional Development spokesperson ... More >>
Capital Gains Tax would deter savers, investors
Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 2:49 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government would be gambling with New Zealand’s future prosperity if it made good on its threats to impose a Capital Gains Tax, which would be a tax on both savers and investors, National’s Finance spokesperson Amy Adams says. More >>
New attempt to get guns off gangs
Wednesday, 3 April 2019, 11:32 am | New Zealand National Party
National is reaching out to the Government to ask it to take another look at laws that would help police take firearms off gang members and make it clear gang members can never get a firearms license, National’s Police spokesperson Chris Bishop says. More >>
