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National Will Let KiwiSaver Be Used For Rent Bonds
Monday, 17 July 2023, 12:37 pm | New Zealand National Party
The next National government will allow people under 30 to draw down on their KiwiSaver savings to help them get together bond payments for tenancy agreements, says National’s Housing Spokesperson Chris Bishop. “Getting together up to four weeks rent in advance ... More >>
National To Create Pothole Repair Fund
Sunday, 16 July 2023, 1:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
National will establish a Pothole Repair Fund to urgently address the shocking state of our local roads and state highways, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. $500m fund to be established for state highway and local roading repairs ... More >>
Still No Emergency Department Data
Thursday, 13 July 2023, 3:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
Flawed data reporting is emblematic of the failed health restructure, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “A review into Health NZ’s data botch-up earlier this year, which embarrassingly lead to the mega bureaucracy pulling pages ... More >>
Food Prices Hit Second Peak
Thursday, 13 July 2023, 11:48 am | New Zealand National Party
Food inflation has re-peaked at 12.5 per cent, smashing families struggling with the cost of living, says National finance spokesperson Nicola Willis. “Kiwis are being pummelled every time they shop for food, with hard working people being forced ... More >>
Labour Knew Its ECE Policy Was Doomed To Fail
Wednesday, 12 July 2023, 3:31 pm | New Zealand National Party
Warnings that Labour’s so-called “20 hours free” early childhood education for 2-year-olds policy may not result in parents paying lower fees shows its Budget centrepiece was a farce from the beginning, National’s Early Childhood Education ... More >>
Mortgage Carnage Continues
Wednesday, 12 July 2023, 3:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
Today’s decision by the Reserve Bank to keep interest rates at their super high levels will be difficult news for Kiwis struggling to pay their mortgages, National’s Finance spokesperson Nicola Willis says. “This latest OCR decision by the Reserve ... More >>
Labour Simply Cannot Be Trusted On Tax
Wednesday, 12 July 2023, 12:58 pm | New Zealand National Party
Confirmation that Labour considered a wealth tax and a capital gains tax, but then flip-flopped, shows Labour simply cannot be trusted on tax, National Leader Christopher Luxon says. “As National has been saying for months, Labour has been cooking up ... More >>
Chaotic Courts A Billion-dollar Shambles
Wednesday, 12 July 2023, 10:31 am | New Zealand National Party
“The Labour government is now pouring more than a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money per year into the court system, while its outcomes remain as bad as ever,” says National’s spokesperson for Courts Chris Penk. Recently released data shows ... More >>
No Resource Consents For Winter Grazing
Monday, 10 July 2023, 3:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
Farmers and their stock have been caught in a stressful bureaucratic nightmare created by Labour, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Todd McClay says. “As part of Labour’s regulatory war on agriculture, farmers must have a farm plan for winter ... More >>
Min Of Health Contracts Raise New Conflict Questions
Monday, 10 July 2023, 2:57 pm | New Zealand National Party
Revelations that the immediate family of a senior Minister has received at least a quarter of a million dollars from a ministry for which he had responsibility – and yet no conflict of interest was declared - raises serious questions that require ... More >>
Auckland’s Roading Repair Backlog Hits 1000km
Sunday, 9 July 2023, 2:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
Around 1000 kilometres of Auckland’s roading network is due for repairs, with Labour’s mismanagement likely to impact New Zealand’s largest city for the next decade, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Documents released ... More >>
Labour Ignored Rules On Half-billion IT Contract
Friday, 7 July 2023, 3:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour ignored its own procurement rules in awarding a half a billion-dollar IT contract for Three Waters in an effort to save time, only to delay the project, National's Local Government spokesperson Simon Watts says. “Buried in hundreds of documents ... More >>
National Will Deliver For Dunedin Hospital
Friday, 7 July 2023, 11:48 am | New Zealand National Party
A National government will build the hospital Dunedin needs, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti and List MP based in Dunedin Michael Woodhouse say. “If elected in October, National will deliver all the beds, operating theatres and radiology ... More >>
$10 Million Wasted On Temporary Back Room Staff
Friday, 7 July 2023, 11:43 am | New Zealand National Party
An eye-watering $10 million bill for temporary back office staff at the Ministry of Education is unacceptable and demonstrates Labour's tolerance of wasteful spending, National’s Education spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “In 2022 the Ministry ... More >>
EQC Assessments At A Snail’s Pace
Friday, 7 July 2023, 11:37 am | New Zealand National Party
The Labour government needs to move much faster to help the thousands of flood and cyclone-affected residents who have now been waiting months for answers on their EQC claims, Cyclone Recovery spokesperson Chris Penk says. “Data from EQC Minister ... More >>
Te Pūkenga Staff Kept In The Dark
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 2:53 pm | New Zealand National Party
Poor communication from management is keeping Te Pūkenga staff in the dark about job losses at the mega-polytechnic, National’s Tertiary Education spokesperson Penny Simmonds says. “It is disgraceful that amid this major restructuring staff ... More >>
Labour’s Mortgage Heartbreak
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 2:51 pm | New Zealand National Party
New polling shows Labour’s economic mismanagement is wreaking havoc on New Zealanders, with tens of thousands being forced to consider selling their home, National’s Finance spokesperson Nicola Willis says. HorizonPoll’s Banking Monitor released ... More >>
Labour’s Science Curriculum A Failure In The Making
Thursday, 6 July 2023, 12:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s new science curriculum will have a detrimental impact on student outcomes and achievement and should be scrapped right now, National’s Education spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “Teachers who have seen Labour’s proposed curriculum have ... More >>
Labour Blows The Books
Wednesday, 5 July 2023, 11:53 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s failure to manage the economy is translating into to more debt and bigger deficits, says National finance spokesperson Nicola Willis. “Treasury’s ‘Interim Financial Statements of the Government of New Zealand for the eleven months ended ... More >>
New Medical School Will Deliver More Doctors
Wednesday, 5 July 2023, 11:21 am | New Zealand National Party
National will deliver more doctors by creating a medical school at the University of Waikato and increasing medical school placements, National Leader Christopher Luxon says. “The health sector is experiencing a workforce crisis. Sick and injured ... More >>
