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Parents, students to get straight answers
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 2:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Education spokeswoman Anne Tolley says reports from concerned parents about the performance of the school system are a key driver of National's plan to introduce new standards that promote best practice and encourage children to succeed. More >>
Violent crime up 47% since Labour became Govt
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 2:43 pm | New Zealand National Party
The latest crime statistics show that violent crime has continued to worsen markedly under Helen Clark's Government, says National Party Leader John Key. More >>
Labour's broken promise No 3 on law & order:
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 2:41 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government has failed to deliver the big hit it promised to prevent contraband entering prisons and enabling prisoners to run crime from behind bars, says National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Labour desperate over long-term energy crisis
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 11:08 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Energy spokesman, Gerry Brownlee, says after nine years, routine electricity crises, and domestic price rises of 48% in the past five years, Labour is in desperate damage control over the state of the energy sector. More >>
Huge increase in office space for bureaucrats
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 10:16 am | New Zealand National Party
In the past five years Labour has overseen an increase in the amount of extra floor space leased for bureaucrats in central Wellington equivalent to almost four Te Papas, says National's State Services spokesman, Gerry Brownlee. More >>
Health workforce crisis deepens
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 12:57 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party health spokesman Tony Ryall says new figures showing the number of medical practices which are closing their books should add fresh urgency to any Government response. More >>
Clark & Cullen can't be trusted on tax
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 12:03 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says Helen Clark and Michael Cullen have had so many different stories on tax that they can't be trusted. More >>
Labour embarrassed by power price record
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 5:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Energy spokesman Gerry Brownlee says a statement from two senior Labour Ministers on power prices today is a damning indictment on the current Government's cynical approach to the 2008 election. More >>
More smart solutions to health workforce crisis
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 4:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
A National-led Government will lift the number of funded medical student places by a further 200 students over five years, Health spokesman Tony Ryall and Education spokeswoman Anne Tolley announced today. More >>
Cullen puts any future Labour tax cuts in doubt
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 2:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says Helen Clark’s promise of a ‘pay jolt’ in education coupled with Michael Cullen’s comments that he is beyond his comfort zone, clearly mean Labour’s future tax cuts are in doubt. More >>
Key says NZ will weather economic storm
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 2:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key says New Zealand will weather the global credit storm and National has a carefully balanced economic package that will help get the country growing again. More >>
RMA reforms will get business moving again
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 2:19 pm | New Zealand National Party
National will introduce into Parliament, within 100 days of forming a new Government, a Resource Management Amendment Bill to streamline and simplify the Act, and advance this into law within six months. More >>
Labour’s broken promise No 2: Proceeds of crime
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 1:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government has failed to deliver on its 2005 election promise to hit gangs where it hurts by removing the proceeds of their crimes, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
www.mccully.co.nz - 30 September 2008
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 10:52 am | New Zealand National Party
The division bells have rung for the last time. Speaker Margaret Wilson has shrieked “order” glaring balefully at the opposition benches, for the final time. Valedictory speeches have been given by the voluntary retirees. And many more MPs have departed ... More >>
“Human timebombs” need defusing
Tuesday, 30 September 2008, 12:47 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key is welcoming the wake-up call delivered by Principal Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft who has stressed the importance of defusing young "human timebombs" before they explode. More >>
Labour's broken promise No 1: Sentencing for gangs
Monday, 29 September 2008, 2:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
Today’s escalating gang problems and the burgeoning manufacture and trade in the evil drug methamphetamine can be laid fairly and squarely at the feet of a lazy Labour Government, says National Party Justice spokesman Simon Power More >>
NZ security of energy supply in trouble
Monday, 29 September 2008, 2:04 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Energy spokesman Gerry Brownlee says the security of New Zealand’s energy supply continues to be a significant issue and a driver of significant costs to both householders and business. More >>
Teacher Council improvements slow in coming
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 3:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokeswoman Anne Tolley says the Education Minister must say whether he is satisfied with the way the Teachers Council is enforcing the competency among those in front of our classrooms. More >>
Repealing the EFA & reinstating free speech
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 3:26 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says all New Zealanders with an interest in free speech will welcome John Key's confirmation today that a National-led Government will repeal the oppressive Electoral Finance Act. More >>
Rise in youth violence needs National answers
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 3:25 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Justice & Corrections spokesman Simon Power says the surge in knife violence is one more reason why the country needs "National answers" to law and order. More >>
