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Overseas Investment Amendment a dog of a Bill
Tuesday, 19 June 2018, 5:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s Bill to ban foreign buyers is a textbook example of bad law-making and the changes made at select committee will do nothing to alter the fact it’s a dog, National’s Finance Spokesperson Amy Adams says. More >>
Government adding $100 a week to cost of living
Tuesday, 19 June 2018, 2:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government needs to start thinking about the impact of its tax and bad economic policies on Kiwi families and stop loading the costs on to their weekly bills, Opposition Leader Simon Bridges says. More >>
Thousands sign to save regional roads
Tuesday, 19 June 2018, 2:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
National has today lodged petitions in Parliament showing significant public support for key regional roading projects under threat as a result of the Government’s bad transport policies, says National Party Transport spokesperson, Jami-Lee Ross. More >>
Govt has responsibility to avoid nurses strikes
Monday, 18 June 2018, 3:35 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government must intervene urgently and ensure that mediation with nurses and midwives takes place to prevent industrial action so that patients get the care they need, National Party spokesperson for Health Michael Woodhouse says. More >>
Government needs to rethink Landcorp
Monday, 18 June 2018, 10:38 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government needs to shrink their ownership of farms through Landcorp and use them to give young Kiwi farmers the opportunity to lease and ultimately own some of these farms, National Party spokesperson for Agriculture Nathan Guy says. More >>
Law and Order targets sent to waste paper bin
Monday, 18 June 2018, 9:21 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s pledge to put fewer people in prison is already starting to bite, as it drops previous targets aimed at solving more crime and keeping New Zealanders safe, National’s Police spokesperson Chris Bishop says. More >>
Class A drug dealers to be let off the hook by Little
Saturday, 16 June 2018, 12:52 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s justice reforms continue to become more dangerous, with Justice Minister Andrew Little suggesting non-violent dealers of P and other Class A drugs should not be in prison and left in our communities instead, National’s Justice ... More >>
Government driving land into foreign ownership
Saturday, 16 June 2018, 11:23 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s backward and ill-thought through changes to overseas investment regulations are having a perverse affect and driving more land into the hands of overseas investors, National’s Spokesperson for Viticulture Stuart Smith says. More >>
Minister needs to get Wellington moving
Friday, 15 June 2018, 3:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
Following the release of the preferred Let’s Get Wellington Moving plan, the Government needs to quit stalling and be upfront with Wellingtonians about what funding they will commit to our transport system, Wellington based MPs Brett Hudson, Christopher ... More >>
Govt must take opportunity to fix broken LGOIMA
Friday, 15 June 2018, 2:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
The escalating transparency issues at Auckland Council are a sign that the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act is broken, and central Government must take steps towards reform by supporting National MP Denise Lee’s Member’s ... More >>
Green Party abandoning its ‘principles’
Friday, 15 June 2018, 12:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
Green Party voters are feeling rightfully ripped off after Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage’s extraordinary U-turn to allow an overseas bottling plant to purchase more land to expand their operation, National’s Land Information Spokesperson David ... More >>
Tourists latest target for Labour’s new taxes
Friday, 15 June 2018, 11:39 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour has turned its tax sights on tourists with its proposal to impose new taxes up to $35 each on visitors coming to New Zealand, National’s Tourism Spokesperson Todd McClay says. More >>
National calls for common ground on climate policy
Friday, 15 June 2018, 9:36 am | New Zealand National Party
Today in a keynote speech at the 50th Annual Agricultural Fieldays Opposition Leader Simon Bridges has taken a significant step toward a bipartisan approach to climate change policy. “Today I have written to the Prime Minister and Minister for Climate ... More >>
Simon Bridges: Speech to Fieldays on climate change
Friday, 15 June 2018, 9:26 am | New Zealand National Party
My time as Economic Development Minister underlined for me the importance of the primary sector and regional New Zealand. More >>
Govt has no plan for solving emerging energy gap
Friday, 15 June 2018, 8:17 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government has confirmed it has little idea on how to solve the emerging energy challenges, in spite of its plan to phase down non-renewable electricity generation around the country, National’s Energy and Resources spokesperson Jonathan Young ... More >>
Did Minister offer jobs in exchange for silence?
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 8:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
Did Minister offer jobs in exchange for silence? Health Minister David Clark has attempted to gag public servants, appearing to offer them jobs in return for their silence, National’s MP for Botany Jami-Lee Ross says. “In a voicemail obtained ... More >>
Curran avoids select committee questions
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 6:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran refused to answer crucial questions about her portfolio at select committee today leaving the committee at a loss to know what is happening in the area, National’s Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media ... More >>
Davis’ school conflicts raise serious questions
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 4:55 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Education spokesperson Nikki Kaye says the extraordinary admission by Kelvin Davis that he will not answer questions regarding the impact of his Government’s policies on young Māori raises more serious questions about the Government’s handling ... More >>
Indecent assault not violent, according to Little
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 4:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
Indecent assault not violent, according to Little In a remarkable admission today, Justice Minister Andrew Little has dismissed an indecent assault on a Corrections Officer as ‘not violent’, National’s Justice Spokesperson Mark Mitchell says. ... More >>
Clumsy and chaotic Kelvin clutching at straws
Thursday, 14 June 2018, 4:30 pm | New Zealand National Party
The incompetent and bumbling Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis is being forced to sell a lie that National’s plans for Waikeria Prison were like a ‘US-style mega prison’ but is failing miserably to do it convincingly, National’s Corrections ... More >>
