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Hipkins fails to front on decile-scrapping bill
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 5:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
Education Minister Chris Hipkins has refused to meet with Erica Stanford to discuss her Member’s Bill to replace the decile system with a needs index to more accurately target funding to disadvantaged students. More >>
Child exploitation investigators to be slashed
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 3:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s need to put Winston Peters first might be responsible for a major reduction in the number of inspectors charged with investigating child sex offences, National’s Finance Spokesperson Amy Adams says. More >>
The time to legalise vaping is now
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 3:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
The New Zealand Initiative’s report on tobacco harm reduction further highlights the urgent need for vaping legalisation, National MP Nicky Wagner says. More >>
Govt at fault for social housing waitlist increase
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 1:18 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s axing of tenancy reviews and lack of support for social housing tenants wanting to move out of Auckland is ramping up pressure on the social housing waiting list, National’s Social Housing spokesperson Simon O’Connor says. More >>
High expectations for education budget
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 12:33 pm | New Zealand National Party
Parents and teachers will be expecting a lot from the Budget following Labour’s many big promises, National’s Education Spokesperson Nikki Kaye says. More >>
Farmer suicide research not a priority for Govt
Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 10:37 am | New Zealand National Party
A release of official documents confirms the Ardern-Peters Government does not consider further research into farmer suicide to be a high priority, National’s Associate Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. More >>
Triple whammy broken promise on extra police
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 6:15 pm | New Zealand National Party
Budget 2018 looks set to be the Budget of Broken Promises, with the Government not only downsizing its promise of 1800 extra cops to 1100, but it’s also looking to phase the promise in over five years instead of three, National’s Police Spokesperson ... More >>
KiwiBuild houses $50,000 more than Govt claimed
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 4:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government has hiked the price of its three-bedroom KiwiBuild houses in Auckland by 8 per cent, or $50,000, in spite of average house prices growing by less than 1 per cent, National’s Housing and Urban Development spokesperson Judith Collins ... More >>
Fact check: number of judges has not decreased
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 4:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
It is wrong to suggest that the former Government had somehow created a crisis in the judiciary and that the number of District Court judges had decreased, Shadow Attorney General Chris Finlayson says More >>
Govt blame-game getting tired
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 3:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s claims the Ministry for Primary Industries was under-resourced to handle the Mycoplasma Bovis incursion are patently untrue, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Nathan Guy says. More >>
MP encourages farmers to attend MPI meeting
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 3:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
MP for Wairarapa, Alastair Scott is encouraging farmers within the Wairarapa electorate to attend this week’s Ministry of Primary Industries meeting in Pahiatua. More >>
Community pleas fall on deaf ears
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 3:19 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s decision to leave the fate of 380 traumatised children to chance, despite pleas from the community, is a failure of government, leadership, and priorities National’s spokesperson for Children Alfred Ngaro says. More >>
“No New Taxes” Govt plans to make Kiwis pay more
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 2:25 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government that promised not to increase the tax burden on Kiwis is already setting out to suck up the spare cash of Kiwi families and load more debt onto future generations, National’s Finance Spokesperson Amy Adams says. More >>
Minister rides roughshod over partnership schools
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 2:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
Education Minister Chris Hipkins has engaged in a terrible process over partnership schools, ruling out changes to allow the schools to maintain aspects of the partnership school model that enable the success of their students before the Select Committee ... More >>
When will they start listening?
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 1:36 pm | New Zealand National Party
Yet another negative business confidence survey out today shows it is time for the Government to start listening to small and medium sized businesses, National’s Economic Development Spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. More >>
Leadership, not more reviews, needed for local govt
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 11:23 am | New Zealand National Party
Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta should show some leadership on funding for councils rather than establishing yet another review to gather dust, National’s Local Government Spokesperson Jacqui Dean says. More >>
Working groups and reviews - 100 and counting
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 8:22 am | New Zealand National Party
The Ardern-Peters Government has just announced its 100th working group or review after just 200 days in office, National Party Leader Simon Bridges says. More >>
Govt’s inaction risks NZ being shut out of US
Monday, 14 May 2018, 4:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
New Zealand exporters risk being shut out of the US market because of the Government inaction, given it’s made no effort to build a relationship with its US counterpart, National’s Trade spokesperson Todd McClay says. More >>
Mycoplasma Bovis confirmed in Waikato
Monday, 14 May 2018, 3:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
The cattle disease Mycoplasma Bovis continues to rampage across New Zealand with the Waikato region the latest to be declared, Waikato MP Tim van de Molen says. More >>
Income gap with Australia about to widen
Monday, 14 May 2018, 1:33 pm | New Zealand National Party
Completely opposite approaches to family incomes from Governments on either side of the Tasman risk re-starting the brain drain to Australia with the income gap for middle-income earners about to start widening for the first time in a decade, Leader ... More >>
