New Zealand National Party

New Zealand National Party - Latest News [Page 366]

Exodus from NZ reaches new high

Wednesday, 19 December 2007, 12:32 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party Immigration spokesman Lockwood Smith says the exodus of people leaving New Zealand continues to grow. More >>

New cancer think tank welcomed

Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 5:04 pm | New Zealand National Party

National’s Associate Health spokesman Jackie Blue is welcoming the launch of the Cancer Standards Institute (CSI), a charitable trust with the aim of providing independent advice on cancer issues such as screening, treatment and research. More >>

Has Trevor Mallard got a steer on SSC report?

Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 4:54 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Trevor Mallard needs to explain why he waited until today to apologise to Environment Ministry whistleblower Erin Leigh. More >>

Air quality debacle threatens ECE centres

Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 3:25 pm | New Zealand National Party

The astonishing saga that has seen Kidicorp’s Jump & Jive early childhood centre in Auckland remain closed since its official opening in March now threatens to see other schools and early childhood centres shut down, says National’s Associate ... More >>

So where is PM’s response to Ombudsman’s report?

Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 3:24 pm | New Zealand National Party

National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power, is asking why the Government has still not responded to the Ombudsman’s report into the criminal justice sector nearly two weeks after it was released. More >>

Facts Askew as EFB Clouds Gather

Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 9:38 am | New Zealand National Party

Invercargill MP and Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) supporter Eric Roy has said the excitement over the Support SIT campaign and its relationship to the Electoral Finance Bill (EFB) has overshadowed some glaring misapprehensions over the effects ... More >>

Labour still not listening – even to its own

Monday, 17 December 2007, 9:56 am | New Zealand National Party

Outspoken criticism of the Electoral Finance Bill by former Labour Prime Minister Mike Moore shows Labour needs to dump it, says National Party Leader John Key. More >>

Cabinet must move on million-dollar state houses

Monday, 17 December 2007, 9:55 am | New Zealand National Party

It’s a scandal that Housing NZ is still sitting on million-dollar houses and refusing to sell them until tenants move out, says National’s Housing spokesman, Phil Heatley. More >>

Desperate Labour out of ideas on tackling violence

Monday, 17 December 2007, 9:54 am | New Zealand National Party

After eight years, the Labour Government is so bereft of ideas on how to tackle violent crime that it has resorted to picking up National’s policies, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>

Duynhoven fools public over noisy cars

Monday, 17 December 2007, 9:52 am | New Zealand National Party

National MP Nicky Wagner says Transport Safety Minister Harry Duynhoven has fooled the public into believing he has introduced tighter rules for noisy exhausts. More >>

Labour Ministers at odds over tertiary education

Sunday, 16 December 2007, 4:09 pm | New Zealand National Party

The obvious weakness of Labour’s tertiary education policy is illustrated by one Cabinet Minister now advocating that provincial polytechnics should be able to offer courses outside their region – a position totally at odds with that of the Minister, ... More >>

Young Nats Secure IYDU Conference 2008

Sunday, 16 December 2007, 12:42 am | New Zealand National Party

Young Nats Secure IYDU Conference 2008 The Young Nationals today announced they have been successful in a bid to hold the 2008 International Young Democrat Union (“IYDU”) Conference in Wellington. The IYDU is a global alliance of 80 centre right political ... More >>

www.mccully.co.nz - 14 December

Friday, 14 December 2007, 4:11 pm | New Zealand National Party

The Cullen plan for the final week of the 2007 Parliament was way too cute. The ugly spectacle of passing the hated Electoral Finance Bill (EFB) under urgency had to be avoided at all costs. More >>

Dr Richard Worth: Electoral Finance Bill

Friday, 14 December 2007, 2:53 pm | New Zealand National Party

Electoral Finance Bill The Electoral Finance Bill which is a direct assault on the democratic rights of all New Zealanders completed its committee stages on Tuesday. However one looks at this legislation three points are clear: More >>

Shadbolt may feel wrath of Labour's election law

Friday, 14 December 2007, 2:45 pm | New Zealand National Party

National's opposition to the Electoral Finance Bill is being vindicated by today's nationwide newspaper ads from Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt and others opposing tertiary funding cuts, says National Party Leader John Key More >>

Farewell to the Year of the Pig

Friday, 14 December 2007, 2:37 pm | New Zealand National Party

The lunar Year of the Pig will officially end on February 6, and there can be no better description for 2007 under a Labour Government that has grown fat by overtaxing hard-working Kiwis. They’ve been laughing all the way to the bank with a surplus ... More >>

The Mapp Report

Friday, 14 December 2007, 2:35 pm | New Zealand National Party

Following last week’s Mapp Report, I received numerous e-mails and comments on cycleways, as well as the busway. I have questioned the idea of using existing lane width on the harbour bridge to create cycle lanes. The lanes are already narrow ... More >>