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Electoral Finance Bill is all about Labour
Friday, 23 November 2007, 3:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says the Electoral Finance Bill is all about Labour’s lust for power, not fair elections or free speech. More >>
www.mccully.co.nz - 23rd November 2007
Friday, 23 November 2007, 1:43 pm | New Zealand National Party
It’s been just like watching a large train wreck in slow motion. We don’t yet know how many victims there will be. But it is very clear now just what the Labour Party 2008 election strategy looked like. It goes like this: More >>
Does PM back Mallard's personal attack?
Friday, 23 November 2007, 1:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Helen Clark should state whether she supports the personal attack launched by Trevor Mallard against Environment Ministry whistleblower Erin Leigh. More >>
Richard Worth - NewsWorthy - No. 233
Friday, 23 November 2007, 11:24 am | New Zealand National Party
Sucky spelln rools, ok? The Labour-led Government’s tolerance of plummeting literacy standards has sunk to a new low after revelations that plumbing, gasfitting, and drainlaying apprentices do not have to meet any spelling or writing standards when ... More >>
Carter orders report into school allegations
Friday, 23 November 2007, 10:52 am | New Zealand National Party
A report has been ordered into allegations that Hato Paora’s board of trustees was given information about the school’s principal before he was appointed to the job, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
Mapp Report - 23 November 2007
Friday, 23 November 2007, 12:23 am | New Zealand National Party
www.waynemapp.co.nz The Mapp Report MUZZLING THE PEOPLE – LABOUR’S PLAN FOR ELECTION YEAR The High Priestess of Common Sense; a new role for the Minister of Justice, in charge of the Electoral Finance Bill. Legislators and judges will be ... More >>
Neutral public service? Yeah right!
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 4:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
"The acting State Services Minister has confirmed that in Labour's view, Ministers have the right to 'insist' on placements in the supposedly neutral public service," says National's State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee. More >>
Suicides increase between 2002 & 2005
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 3:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Associate Health spokesman (Mental Health) Jonathan Coleman says the number of Kiwis who died in suicides increased between 2002 and 2005. More >>
Minister shuffles his feet on activist's job
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 2:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Climate Change Minister David Parker has now all-but admitted interfering in the appointment of a Labour Party activist at the Environment Ministry. More >>
Electoral Finance Bill: clear as mud
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 11:56 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says New Zealanders deserve to see in advance the 11th hour amendments that Labour will bolt on to its anti-democratic Electoral Finance Bill. More >>
Labour plans more changes to election bill
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 10:03 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Labour has finally admitted that even more changes to the Electoral Finance Bill are expected at the eleventh hour. More >>
Alarming claims of political interference at MfE
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 10:02 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee says he is alarmed by claims made tonight about the scale of political interference in the communications unit at the Environment Ministry. More >>
UN highlights ongoing climate change failure
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 9:58 am | New Zealand National Party
New Zealand’s record of ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions in the just released United Nations report makes a sick joke of the Government’s carbon neutral rhetoric, says National’s Climate Change spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>
Labour's bad planning, budget blowouts hit prisons
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 4:59 pm | New Zealand National Party
Bad planning and budget blowouts are forcing the Corrections Department to keep prisoners in cells for much longer than normal, says National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Carter's convolutions over college continue
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 4:51 pm | New Zealand National Party
Education Minister Chris Carter has changed his story yet again about his Ministry's inaction over serious sexual abuse allegations against the principal of Hato Paora College, says National's Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
TVNZ banned from running election ads
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 4:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says that in Labour's anger and haste to railroad the draconian Electoral Finance Bill through Parliament, it has banned TVNZ from running election ads next year. More >>
National welcomes new inquiry into public service
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 4:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee is welcoming news that the State Services Commission is to conduct another inquiry into Ministerial influence exercised over the Environment Ministry's hiring and firing. More >>
Lack Of Support For Special Schools Concerning
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 3:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Associate Education spokesman, Allan Peachey, has questioned the lack of provision of special schooling for children with disabilities. More >>
Farmers call for RMA reform welcomed
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 2:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Agriculture spokesman David Carter has welcomed calls from Federated Farmers to substantially reform the 16-year-old Resource Management Act. More >>
Sucky spelln rools, ok?
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 11:29 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s appalling tolerance of plummeting literacy standards has sunk to a new low after revelations that plumbing, gasfitting, and drainlaying apprentices do not have to meet any spelling or writing standards when taking exams for plumbing registration, ... More >>
