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Hodgson still silent on open uni access
Friday, 14 December 2007, 12:25 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Tertiary Education spokesman, Paul Hutchison, says Pete Hodgson must come clean over his stand on open entrance to universities. More >>
Patients still waiting in long lines for attention
Friday, 14 December 2007, 12:24 am | New Zealand National Party
The crisis in the country’s emergency departments is getting worse, despite trumpeting from Labour today that it is improving, says National’s Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Culture change needed at Capital Coast
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 5:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
“More than half of the new Capital and Coast District Health Board will be the same old faces,” says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
Nearly one year to ban gaming consoles in prisons
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 4:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Corrections Department has finally developed a policy that bans gaming consoles from prisons – the best part of a year after National exposed that it was buying them, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Labour fails teenage beneficiaries
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 4:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour has broken its promise to get teenagers into some form of education or work, says National’s Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins. More >>
Practise what you preach on deforestation
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 3:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
Climate Change Minister David Parker’s calls in Bali for an end to global deforestation ring hollow, when at home deforestation is at an all-time high, says National’s Climate Change spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>
Minister refuses to answer basic questions
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 2:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
Education Minister Chris Carter’s stubborn refusal to answer parliamentary questions on the way his Ministry and the Hato Paora school board handled allegations of serious sexual abuse against its principal speaks volumes about the mess he’s got himself ... More >>
Skyhawk sale done and dusted – yeah, right
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 2:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
The ongoing Skyhawk sale fiasco looks set to make history as one of the most embarrassing and costly blunders of this Labour Government, says National’s Defence spokesman, Wayne Mapp. “After all the hoopla surrounding the announcement of the sale by then ... More >>
Shadbolt right, TEC wrong on tertiary reforms
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 11:42 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Tertiary Education spokesman, Paul Hutchison, says Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt is absolutely right that the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) will be punishing success if it removes $8 million of funding from the Southern Institute ... More >>
Henare calls for more respect over body-napping
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 11:35 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Maori Affairs spokesman, Tau Henare, is calling for both Maori and Pakeha to have more respect for each other’s cultural issues. “The recent body-napping incidents have highlighted a lack of respect for the wishes of families, and of individual ... More >>
Rinky-dink housing no substitute for good law
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 10:11 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley says the Government’s plan to standardise low cost housing designs to get around costly Labour-imposed red tape is more cosmetic than practical. More >>
Hodgson can’t hide PM’s broken promise
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 9:28 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says Pete Hodgson’s silly sophistry on New Zealand’s growth rate can’t disguise the fact that New Zealand has dropped two places on the OECD ladder in two years. More >>
Duynhoven gives green light to boy racers
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 4:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
National MP Nicky Wagner is alarmed that instead of tightening rules around noisy exhausts, the Transport Safety Minister appears to have given boy racers licence to make more noise. More >>
No chance of Clark achieving her OECD promise
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 3:53 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says the Government’s economic indicators report out today shows Helen Clark has no chance of delivering on her promise to get New Zealand back into the top half of the OECD within a decade. More >>
Bad start for latest tertiary reforms
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 12:15 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s latest attempt to reform tertiary education is now almost law and there is already significant distrust from the sector, says National’s Tertiary Education spokesman, Paul Hutchison. More >>
What are prisons for, Mr Goff?
Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 12:01 am | New Zealand National Party
Corrections Minister Phil Goff needs to tell the public if he backs his department’s claim that prisons are not there to punish people, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Labour loses more than 6,000 children from school
Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 5:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
An admission by the Education Ministry that it has ‘lost’ 6,334 school-aged children by their parents’ failure to enrol them is staggering, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
Labour must listen to victims of crime
Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 4:33 pm | New Zealand National Party
Corrections Minister Phil Goff has not explained what the Government is going to do to prevent recurrences of prisoners being paroled to live next to their victims, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Navy retention figures make for grim reading
Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 2:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s promise to fix personnel problems in the Navy are proving empty, says National’s Defence spokesman, Wayne Mapp. Dr Mapp is commenting on fresh reports that the Navy faces the likelihood that one of its two frigates will not be put to ... More >>
More pie in the sky goals from Labour
Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 11:45 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s Update of the New Zealand Transport Strategy reeks of the same sort of puffery which has come to characterise transport policy under Labour, says National’s Transport spokesman, Maurice Williamson. More >>
