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Corrections Minister must explain escape

Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 4:33 pm | New Zealand National Party

The Corrections Minister must explain to the public how a convicted axe murderer was working in an unsupervised work party outside prison walls when he escaped, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>

Cunliffe offers more of the same

Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 4:31 pm | New Zealand National Party

The new Health Minister has shown no new ideas to deal with the problems confronting New Zealanders who use the public health system. More >>

Coastal shipping strategy bereft of detail

Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 3:05 pm | New Zealand National Party

The Government's draft coastal shipping strategy, 'Sea Change' is disappointing in its lack of detail, says National's Associate Transport spokesman, David Bennett. More >>

Immigration Changes Wrong For Queenstown

Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 9:57 am | New Zealand National Party

Otago MP Jacqui Dean said she was concerned that a tightening of immigration regulations could see Queenstown’s supply of hospitality staff cut off at the knees and she intended to make the region’s case known. More >>

Backdown over real estate agents sensible

Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 12:34 am | New Zealand National Party

The Government’s backdown on its proposal to change the employment status of real estate agents is a sensible move, says National’s Justice spokesman, Simon Power. More >>

Labour talks tax as accounts bulge

Monday, 5 November 2007, 4:28 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says new Treasury figures highlighting the level of over-taxation explain why Labour is talking up its U-turn on tax. More >>

Labour plans to railroad law allowing card rort

Monday, 5 November 2007, 3:24 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party Shadow Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee says Labour is planning to railroad a law that legitimises the 2005 pledge card rort through Parliament under urgency. More >>

Cullen says ‘me-too’ on health

Monday, 5 November 2007, 11:51 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says Michael Cullen’s announcements on future health spending directly contradict his position before the 2005 election. More >>

Dean – Govt Sits Back On Salvia Divinorum Sales

Monday, 5 November 2007, 11:21 am | New Zealand National Party

National MP Jacqui Dean said it was unfair to expect communities to police the sale of drugs like Salvia Divinorum while the Government sat back and watched. More >>

What’s happened to the Minister for CRI’s?

Monday, 5 November 2007, 8:11 am | New Zealand National Party

Prime Minister Helen Clark must explain what she meant by ‘tidying things up’ when she said the ‘Minister for Crown Research Institutes (CRI’s) would be subsumed’, says National Party Science spokesman Paul Hutchison. More >>

Lack of information on prostate cancer inexcusable

Sunday, 4 November 2007, 2:42 pm | New Zealand National Party

It’s a disgrace that two years on there’s still no action on Labour’s promised prostate guidelines to help advise doctors and men to make informed decisions about prostate cancer testing, says National Party Associate Health spokeswoman, Dr Jackie ... More >>

CYFS paperwork takes precedence over young lives

Sunday, 4 November 2007, 2:41 pm | New Zealand National Party

Child Youth & Family social workers are again showing they are more worried about case management than effective interventions for young offenders, says National Party Police and Youth Justice spokesman Chester Borrows. More >>

TEC doubles number of staff on over $100,000

Sunday, 4 November 2007, 2:39 pm | New Zealand National Party

The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) is yet another government agency rewarding its staff with rocketing salaries, says National’s Tertiary Education spokesman, Paul Hutchison. More >>

National wants inquiry into collapse of services

Sunday, 4 November 2007, 2:36 pm | New Zealand National Party

National wants inquiry into collapse of child cancer services National wants Parliament's Health Select Committee to investigate the collapse of child cancer services at Wellington Hospital. More >>

Wayne Mapp: Law And Order Policies

Saturday, 3 November 2007, 3:02 pm | New Zealand National Party

This week John Key announced major elements of National’s law and order policies. The safety of our society, and freedom from crime is a huge concern to New Zealanders. They want to know that National has effective policies to deal with crime, and also ... More >>

Pansy Wong: Safe communities are top priority

Saturday, 3 November 2007, 2:55 pm | New Zealand National Party

National’s recent special AGM in the newly established seat of Botany buzzed with excitement. The room was full of people of all ages from diverse ethnic and professional backgrounds. Executive committee spots were hotly contested and the meeting and ... More >>