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Land tenure land grab gathers pace
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 1:43 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Agriculture spokesman David Carter says the Labour Government needs to say how many properties in total it plans to take back under Crown control as part of its tenure review process. More >>
Taxpayers foot the bill to train miners in China
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 1:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Labour & Industrial Relations spokeswoman Kate Wilkinson says taxpayers will be surprised to learn that their money is being used to train coal miners in China. More >>
Minister slammed for slashing SeniorNet funding
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 9:50 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour has slashed SeniorNet funding by half, jeopardising the future of the organisation and ignoring the intention of the Positive Ageing Strategy, which it claims to support, says National’s Senior Citizens spokeswoman, Sandra Goudie. More >>
Anderton confirms public service ‘blacklist’
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 9:44 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee is alarmed that Cabinet Minister Jim Anderton is today defending a new low standard in public service employment, effectively confirming a “blacklist” of candidates. More >>
Labour should admit it botched teacher sex inquiry
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 5:09 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government should just give up and admit that the Ministry of Education made a mistake and should have advised the board of Hato Paora College to direct serious allegations of sexual abuse by a principal to the police, says National's Education ... More >>
Wheels are spinning but ambulances going nowhere
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 2:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
Despite eight years of taxpayer-funded reports into ambulance services in New Zealand, ACC cannot say what the public has got for those millions of dollars, says National Party Associate Health spokesman Jonathan Coleman. More >>
Alarm bells over public service neutrality
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 11:58 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee says there are glaring gaps in the reports issued today relating to the politically motivated sacking of Madeleine Setchell. More >>
Labour plays fast and loose with taxpayer money
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 11:36 am | New Zealand National Party
Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton needs to explain why valuable contracts at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry are not being tendered on the open market, says National’s Associate Agriculture spokesman, Nathan Guy. More >>
Taxpayers fund Anderton's million-dollar talkfest
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 5:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
Jim Anderton's Primary Industries 2020 Summit, his flagship Budget initiative, is nothing more than a million-dollar Ministerial talkfest, say National Party Agriculture spokesman David Carter and Associate Agriculture spokesman Nathan Guy. More >>
Minister fails to understand parent concerns
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 4:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
Chris Carter should stop defending the indefensible and just admit his Ministry failed to offer basic advice to the board of trustees at Hato Paoro College to take serious sex abuse allegations against the principal straight to the police, says National’s ... More >>
Govt ad contracts not exempt from electoral law
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 4:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
“The new Justice Minister has shown today she will be just as incompetent as the last minister on the Electoral Finance Bill,” says National Party Deputy Leader Bill English. More >>
Are Sunday schools safe? Yes or no, Minister.
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 2:07 pm | New Zealand National Party
It's time for Chris Carter to give an unequivocal assurance that Sunday schools and gym crèches are going to be safe from the meddling of his Ministry, says National's Associate Education (Early Childhood) spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
Greens logic on flawed bill - flawed
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 9:23 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Greens co-leader Russell Norman needs to say when he thinks ‘legitimate concerns regarding freedom of speech can be easily corrected in the [Electoral Finance] Bill’ . More >>
Labour should apologise for schools stuff-up
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 12:09 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s plan for a ‘super school’ in Upper Hutt has proven to be an abject disaster, and parents, teachers and students deserve an apology, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
Pharmac’s made friendly noises before
Monday, 12 November 2007, 4:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
“Pharmac’s been talking for years about improving relationships with those it deals with, but platitudes simply don’t cut it any longer,” says National’s Associate Health (Pharmacare) spokeswoman Jackie Blue. More >>
Dr Cullen maintains tradition of tax-cut denial
Monday, 12 November 2007, 3:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman says Michael Cullen's strongly held view that tax cuts make no difference to the trans-Tasman brain-drain is not new. More >>
Labour lets more prisoners avoid work
Monday, 12 November 2007, 1:59 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government is allowing more and more prisoners to get away with not working, says National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
National will dump draconian law
Monday, 12 November 2007, 11:03 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key says a National Government will scrap the draconian electoral finance legislation. More >>
Cullen's true stance on tax cuts revealed
Monday, 12 November 2007, 8:35 am | New Zealand National Party
Michael Cullen has sowed further doubts on Labour's promised tax cuts today when he made it clear he believes there is no good reason to give New Zealanders more of their own money back, says National's Finance spokesman, Bill English. More >>
Answers needed on damning AG report
Monday, 12 November 2007, 8:28 am | New Zealand National Party
The Health Minister needs to provide the public with explanations about the way the Auckland District Health Board is managing conflicts of interest, says National Party Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
