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Australian Election: Challenge ahead for NZ
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 6:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says the Australian election presents New Zealand’s economy with new challenges in the global competition for human capital. More >>
Goff should intervene on Corrections bungle
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 6:15 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Justice & Corrections spokesman Simon Power says Phil Goff should make it his personal mission to make sure victims are given more input into the parole process in light of the latest departmental bungle. More >>
Does the PM support Trevor or not?
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 6:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party State Services spokesman Gerry Brownlee says the Prime Minister should require Trevor Mallard’s apology for trying to influence an inquiry into Ministerial meddling at the Environment Ministry. More >>
White Ribbon day – let’s end the violence
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 6:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Woman’s Affairs spokeswoman Jackie Blue is urging all New Zealanders to get behind White Ribbon day today, which marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. More >>
‘Please explain’ sought on minor with baby
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 6:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Associate Welfare (CYF) spokeswoman Anne Tolley wants an explanation from the police about the decision not to lay charges against a 21-year-old man who fathered a child with a 13-year-old girl. More >>
Minister must explain breakdown on sex case
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 1:35 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokeswoman Katherine Rich says Education Minister Chris Carter needs to explain his staunch defence of the processes around his Ministry’s handling of alleged sex abuse at a Manawatu school. More >>
Labour pays lip-service to crime victims
Saturday, 24 November 2007, 1:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
“Buck passing is the last thing Corrections and the Probation Service should be doing following the latest debacle to land in their laps,” says National Party Justice & Corrections spokesman Simon Power. More >>
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 >>
