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Minister silent on City Rail Link cost blowout

Saturday, 26 January 2019, 10:55 am | New Zealand National Party

Leaked information that the cost of Auckland’s City Rail link, New Zealand’s largest transport project, has blown out by $500 million is deeply concerning and raises questions about the Government’s ability to manage its finances, National’s ... More >>

‘Wellbeing’ budget masks economic policy vacuum

Thursday, 24 January 2019, 12:45 pm | New Zealand National Party

The Government is going all out to hype its well-being budget but New Zealanders will rightly wonder if it will differ in substance from previous budgets or just be a fluffy PR exercise masking the lack of an economic plan, National’s Finance ... More >>

Where’s Westland Milk loan as bidders circle?

Thursday, 24 January 2019, 11:01 am | New Zealand National Party

Reports that Westland Milk is talking to well-financed potential bidders for the company raise serious questions about the $9.9 million soft loan from Shane Jones’ Regional Slush Fund, National’s Economic and Regional Development spokesperson ... More >>

Govt’s ‘fair pay’ agenda is unionisation by stealth

Thursday, 24 January 2019, 10:13 am | New Zealand National Party

The recommendations of Iain Lees-Galloway’s Fair Pay Agreement Working Group show the Government’s industrial relations agenda amounts to compulsory unionism by stealth, National’s Workplace Relations and Safety spokesperson Scott Simpson says. More >>

Govt sets NZ up for epic year of strikes

Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 1:34 pm | New Zealand National Party

Less than a month into 2019 the signs are that New Zealand is facing another epic year of strikes thanks to a Government that seesaws between egging on the unions and arguing with them, National’s Workplace Relations and Safety spokesperson Scott ... More >>

United Nations address an insult to New Zealand

Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 1:16 pm | New Zealand National Party

In a move typical of a Government which wants to tell New Zealanders we are failing, Justice Minister Andrew Little has sold New Zealand short at the United Nations when we should be promoting ourselves proudly on the world stage, National’s Justice ... More >>

Defeated Housing Minister drops KiwiBuild target

Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 10:19 am | New Zealand National Party

Housing Minister Phil Twyford’s outstanding admission today his policy of building 1000 KiwiBuild houses by July this is year is just ‘a target’, and further he can’t guarantee he will hit that target shows just how muddled this Government ... More >>

Govt in denial as most coal burned in five years

Wednesday, 23 January 2019, 9:48 am | New Zealand National Party

It is a sad irony that in the first year of a Government that talks a big game on climate change, New Zealand burned the most coal in five years to keep the lights on, National’s Energy and Resources spokesperson Jonathan Young says. More >>

Coordinated approach to drug reform needed

Tuesday, 22 January 2019, 11:13 am | New Zealand National Party

A coordinated approach across health, education, law and order and border control is needed to counter the complex issues around drugs in New Zealand, National’s new spokesperson for Drug Reform Paula Bennett says. More >>

National announces spokesperson for Drug Reform

Tuesday, 22 January 2019, 11:10 am | New Zealand National Party

National Leader Simon Bridges has appointed Paula Bennett to the new position of Spokesperson for Drug Reform as the Government pushes ahead with its agenda of drug decriminalisation, to signal National’s commitment to holding them to account. More >>

Commuters victims of Govt’s questionable priorities

Monday, 21 January 2019, 4:03 pm | New Zealand National Party

A substantial increase in fares for Auckland commuters is not going to help the Government’s goal of increasing public transport patronage and is yet another added cost to hardworking Kiwi families, National’s Transport spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. More >>

Govt’s Small Business Council missing in action

Sunday, 20 January 2019, 10:35 am | New Zealand National Party

Small business owners are still waiting for the Government’s Small Business Council to do something for a sector struggling with rising costs and prescriptive labour law changes, National’s Small Business spokesperson Jacqui Dean says. “It has ... More >>

PM’s ties to Karel Sroubek decision deepen

Friday, 18 January 2019, 2:49 pm | New Zealand National Party

The Prime Minister must explain her ties to convicted criminal Karel Sroubek and her role in allowing him to stay, as newly released text messages suggest a closer role than she’s let on, National’s Immigration spokesperson Michael Woodhouse ... More >>

Health Minister hiding state of DHB finances

Friday, 18 January 2019, 12:05 pm | New Zealand National Party

The refusal of the Minister of Health, David Clark, to publish the financial performance of DHBs is a cynical attempt at masking their precarious financial situation, National’s Health spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says. More >>

Benefits up as Govt makes it easier to do nothing

Thursday, 17 January 2019, 12:16 pm | New Zealand National Party

The number of people claiming the job seeker benefit has increased by 11,000 because the Government is going soft on benefit sanctions and those who don’t want to work, National’s Social Development spokesperson Louise Upston says. More >>

Govt must act to support smoking cessation

Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 8:39 am | New Zealand National Party

The recent increase to cigarettes provides another incentive for smokers to quit but the Government must now ensure that smoking cessation tools are appropriately regulated and able to be used to encourage smokers to quit, National MP Nicky Wagner ... More >>