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Labour Must Ensure Cops Investigate Serious Crime

Sunday, 23 December 2007, 4:35 pm | New Zealand National Party

Labour needs to reassure the public that the Police will treat seriously complaints about crimes of dishonesty. In the past 18 months we have seen Police send civilian officers to respond to property crimes such as burglaries and car thefts. More >>

Labour Ensures Miserable Xmas For Elderly Couple

Sunday, 23 December 2007, 12:46 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party Disability Issues spokesman Paul Hutchison says the Labour Government could have delivered a sick, elderly Takanini couple the best Christmas present they could wish for, but it has refused to. More >>

Labour Just Keeps Hiring More Decoy Cops

Sunday, 23 December 2007, 12:43 am | New Zealand National Party

The Labour Government continues to allow the police to employ more and more 'decoy cops', despite the chance that these relatively untrained personnel could be placed in dangerous situations, says National's Police spokesman, Chester Borrows. More >>

Labour Grinch Puts Rural Teachers’ Rents Up

Friday, 21 December 2007, 11:07 am | New Zealand National Party

Labour should stop being a Grinch and back-off huge rent hikes for a group of rural teachers living in hard to staff areas, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. “In the antithesis of Christmas spirit, the Government’s property ... More >>

Canterbury Inquiry Must Be Thorough

Friday, 21 December 2007, 11:04 am | New Zealand National Party

National’s Defence spokesman Wayne Mapp says the proposed review of the Navy’s multi-role ship HMNZS Canterbury must be thorough. More >>

OECD report shames NZ sickness/invalid numbers

Friday, 21 December 2007, 11:02 am | New Zealand National Party

A new OECD report on sickness and invalid benefits lays bare New Zealand’s woeful record when it comes to sickness and invalid benefits, says National’s Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins. More >>

Counting Down To Christmas

Friday, 21 December 2007, 10:29 am | New Zealand National Party

Final act The last act of Parliament that the government passed into law this year was the Electoral Finance Act, which has now received the Royal Assent. It is now therefore the law of the land. What a sorry saga this whole business has been and ... More >>

Plenty of victims in Labour attack on neutrality

Friday, 21 December 2007, 12:55 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee says he deeply regrets that Labour has chosen to make scapegoats of officials and others in its attempts to cover up the pressure it is applying to supposedly neutral departments. More >>

Corrections dogged by staff problems

Friday, 21 December 2007, 12:21 am | New Zealand National Party

The Corrections Department continues to have severe issues with staffing, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. He is releasing figures that show: • The number of staff who ceased employment for disciplinary reasons increased ... More >>

Anderton Wrong To Seek Laws To Control Body-Taking

Friday, 21 December 2007, 12:09 am | New Zealand National Party

Jim Anderton has been a Member of Parliament for long enough to know better than to seek more laws to deal with body-taking, says Wairarapa MP John Hayes. More >>

Curran inquiry findings 'incomprehensible'

Thursday, 20 December 2007, 4:44 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee says an inquiry into the employment of Labour Party activist Clare Curran at the Environment Ministry is incomprehensible on a scale that Sir Humphrey Appleby would be proud of. More >>

PM congratulates new Solomon Islands PM

Thursday, 20 December 2007, 3:34 pm | New Zealand National Party

Prime Minister Helen Clark today extended her congratulations to the new Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Dr Derek Sikua, who was elected today. More >>

Labour delivers billion dollar Kyoto blowout

Thursday, 20 December 2007, 2:39 pm | New Zealand National Party

The nearly $1billion bill for Kyoto revealed by Treasury exposes just how badly the Government’s climate change policies have failed, says National’s Climate Change spokesman Nick Smith. More >>

Hugh Logan falls on sword ahead of report

Thursday, 20 December 2007, 12:02 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Environment Ministry boss Hugh Logan has paid the ultimate price for doing what he was asked and providing a dirt file on Erin Leigh to Minister Trevor Mallard. More >>

Labour hikes ACC levies in Xmas rush of bad news

Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 4:37 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party ACC spokeswoman Pansy Wong says the Government's Christmas present to New Zealand workers, is effectively a tax increase by way of increased ACC levies. More >>

Labour hikes ACC levies in Xmas rush of bad news

Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 3:48 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party ACC spokeswoman Pansy Wong says the Government's Christmas present to New Zealander workers, is effectively a tax increase by way of increased ACC levies. More >>

Hodgson deceptive over tertiary funding

Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 2:04 pm | New Zealand National Party

Pete Hodgson had the gall to tell Parliament yesterday that the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) had increased funding to Southland Institute of Technology (SIT) by 12%, when he’s actually slashing millions, says National’s Tertiary Education ... More >>