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Govt must make immigration inquiry urgent
Monday, 12 November 2007, 8:27 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government must make urgent its investigation into claims at least one senior Immigration Department official is involved in an elaborate scam which has seen hundreds of international student graduates ripped off, says National's Immigration spokesman ... More >>
'Aspirational' cancer target a cop out
Monday, 12 November 2007, 8:26 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government's new radiation treatment target of eight weeks has been described as 'aspirational ' by the country's top health official. More >>
Births Deaths & Marriages bill slammed by Law Com.
Monday, 12 November 2007, 12:38 am | New Zealand National Party
Law Commission President Sir Geoffrey Palmer has come out with scathing criticism of Labour’s ill-thought out amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM) Act. More >>
142 murderers considered ‘minimum security’
Sunday, 11 November 2007, 1:17 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Corrections spokesman Simon Power says revelations that 142 convicted murderers are classified as minimum security prisoners demonstrates Labour’s rhetoric on crime is a joke. More >>
New Minister should clarify answers
Friday, 9 November 2007, 5:04 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Associate Education spokeswoman Paula Bennett says Chris Carter is dissembling. More >>
Key - Speech to Federation of Maori Authorities
Friday, 9 November 2007, 4:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
Speech to the Federation of Maori Authorities Conference Kingsgate Hotel, Hamilton, 8.30pm E nga mana, e nga reo, e nga rangatira ma, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. It’s a pleasure to be here today at the opening of your conference. ... More >>
John Key: Speech To FOMA
Friday, 9 November 2007, 4:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
E nga mana, e nga reo, e nga rangatira ma, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. It’s a pleasure to be here today at the opening of your conference. Thank you for your invitation. I would like to acknowledge your chairman Peter Charleton ... More >>
Inaction over sexual abuse claims beggars belief
Friday, 9 November 2007, 4:00 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Education spokeswoman Katherine Rich says Education Minister Chris Carter needs to explain his inaction over sexual abuse allegations at Hato Paora College. More >>
Appropriation Bill: Chilling effect on democracy
Friday, 9 November 2007, 2:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says a bill introduced to Parliament yesterday paves the way for incumbent electorate MPs to spend at least four times more money than an unelected challenger in election year. More >>
Committee agrees to Correspondence School inquiry
Friday, 9 November 2007, 11:04 am | New Zealand National Party
National has renewed its call for a halt to the Correspondence School’s fourth restructure in 10 years in light of the Education and Science Select Committee’s decision to call in ministry officials and representatives of the school board to ... More >>
Learn to count, Minister
Friday, 9 November 2007, 10:56 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Welfare Spokeswoman Judith Collins says new Social Development Minister Ruth Dyson needs to face the facts over the growing number of sickness and invalid beneficiaries. More >>
Capital’s child cancer service needs help
Friday, 9 November 2007, 10:23 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall is pleased that the campaign to rescue Wellington’s child cancer services is gathering momentum. More >>
Inquiry sought into tin-based timber treatment
Friday, 9 November 2007, 10:04 am | New Zealand National Party
National has called for an inquiry into the health and environmental risks of tin-based timber treatment chemicals in response to widespread complaints from builders. More >>
Richard Worth's NewsWorthy : 9 Nov. 2007 – No. 231
Friday, 9 November 2007, 12:27 am | New Zealand National Party
Last year, on average, six New Zealand police officers were assaulted every day. That number is higher than at any time in New Zealand’s history. More >>
MAF shows gross negligence towards farmers
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 5:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Agriculture spokesman, David Carter, is very concerned that the head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has no idea how Labour's emissions trading scheme will impact financially on farmers. More >>
NZ to get two standards of free speech
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 5:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Labour has given itself and the other political parties a super-sized megaphone to bludgeon the public of New Zealand with in election year," says National Party Deputy Leader Bill English. More >>
New Minister continues cynicism over benefit
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 4:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour is still playing politics with its mythical single core benefit, says National's Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins. More >>
Sunday schools will be closed under Labour
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 4:50 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour has confirmed that Sunday schools are also at risk of closure if they do not meet strict regulations to become licensed early childhood education centres, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
HNZ waiting list - 6,000 will never be housed
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 4:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley is surprised that the new Housing Minister is already giving up trying to find accommodation for 6,298 of the almost 10,000 people on the HNZ waiting list. More >>
Promise on class sizes a hoax
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 4:35 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s policy to reduce new entrant classes ‘to ensure that by 2008 there are no more than 15 students in a class’ is a hoax and will never be fully implemented by the promised date, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
