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White Paper Not Worth The Paper It’s Written On
Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 11:57 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s long awaited research, science and innovation reforms are underwhelming and a lost opportunity, National’s Research, Science, Innovation, AI and Technology spokesperson Judith Collins says. “When Labour announced they ... More >>
Transport Funds Used For Blatant Pork Barrel Politics
Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 7:03 am | New Zealand National Party
Transport Minister Michael Wood has been caught using hundreds of millions of dollars from the Transport Choices Programme to serve Labour’s political purposes, National Party Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “The $350m Transport Choices programme ... More >>
Five Years Of Organ Donation Compensation
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 6:49 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Compensation for Live Organ Donors Act recently celebrated its fifth birthday yesterday, and has been a big success for generous New Zealanders, National’s List MP based in Hutt South Chris Bishop says. “Five years ago yesterday, the Compensation ... More >>
Member’s Bill To Protect State Highways
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 6:46 pm | New Zealand National Party
A member’s bill to create a new crime for damaging or obstructing our State Highways and other major roads, tunnels, and bridges will be lodged in the ballot following significant disruption caused by rail protesters, says National’s Transport spokesperson ... More >>
Royal Commission’s Economic Snowjob
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 1:34 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s terms of reference for the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s examination of the COVID-19 economic response are a complete snowjob and show a contempt for New Zealanders struggling through a deepening cost of living crisis, National’s ... More >>
Streamlining Compliance Essential For Competition
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 1:04 pm | New Zealand National Party
National supports the recommendations in the final Commerce Commission report into building materials, National’s Building and Construction spokesperson Andrew Bayly says. “The final report concluded that the sector was not working for competition ... More >>
ED Nurse Shortage Hits Provincial Areas
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 9:53 am | New Zealand National Party
Emergency department’s will continue to be under immense pressure this summer as the health workforce shortage remains, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Every day, our emergency department staff go to work to provide critical ... More >>
National Welcomes Covid-19 Royal Commission
Monday, 5 December 2022, 5:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
After first calling for a Royal Commission into the Government’s response to Covid-19 more than a year ago, National welcomes today’s announcement, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “Covid-19 has affected every New Zealander and ... More >>
Government Dithering On Partner Work Rights
Monday, 5 December 2022, 4:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
Instead of deferring the removal of open work rights for partners of skilled migrants until April, the Government should ditch the changes entirely, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “National has consistently opposed Labour’s ... More >>
Govt’s Embarrassing U-Turn On Three Waters Bill
Sunday, 4 December 2022, 2:51 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour was today shamed into an embarrassing U-turn after the Government and the Greens were caught out trying to make the unpopular Three Waters legislation harder to overturn, National’s Shadow Leader of the House Chris Bishop says. “It’s ... More >>
Minister Jackson Gives No Reassurance On Merger
Sunday, 4 December 2022, 2:43 pm | New Zealand National Party
New Zealanders worried about the TVNZ and RNZ merger won’t be reassured by Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson’s wild display on Q&A today, National’s Broadcasting and Media spokesperson Melissa Lee says. “Minister Jackson’s interview was a ... More >>
Law Society Investigates Entrenchment Debacle
Friday, 2 December 2022, 10:12 am | New Zealand National Party
Two committees of the New Zealand Law Society are now investigating the Three Waters entrenchment debacle, National Justice spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Law Points, the NZ Law Society weekly newsletter, today reported that the Public & Administrative ... More >>
54 Contractors, One Employee Working On Light Rail
Thursday, 1 December 2022, 12:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
After five years of Labour failing to deliver a single metre of light rail in Auckland, figures show that 54 highly-paid contractors are working on the project and just a single full-time employee, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. ... More >>
Govt Climate U-turn Better Late Than Never
Thursday, 1 December 2022, 11:12 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s decision to allow full recognition of carbon sequestration in agriculture is overdue and a victory for farmers, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Todd Muller says. “This is a U-turn that took far too long. It should never have ... More >>
PM Dissembles Over Entrenchment Debacle
Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 3:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Prime Minister is deliberately dissembling over the Three Waters entrenchment debacle and should simply admit Labour’s mistake and fix it, Shadow Leader of the House Chris Bishop says. “After constitutional law experts publicly admonished ... More >>
More Money, More Talk, No Consequences
Monday, 28 November 2022, 4:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
More money for retail crime is welcome, but today’s announcement fails to address the core of the issue, that criminals believe that they can operate with impunity under this Government, National's Police spokesperson Mark Mitchell says. “On Saturday, ... More >>
Prime Minister Misleads On Crime
Monday, 28 November 2022, 12:05 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government must acknowledge the key role it has played in the current crime wave before it can fix it, National’s Justice spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. "The Prime Minister constantly sounds surprised by the increase in violent retail ... More >>
Labour Must Reverse Three Waters Skulduggery
Saturday, 26 November 2022, 2:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government has been caught sneaking a rarely-used legal provision into the proposed Three Waters legislation which will make it harder for Parliament to overturn, National Justice Spokesperson Paul Goldsmith and Local Government spokesperson Simon Watts ... More >>
Almost $5m Spent Advertising Failed Road To Zero
Friday, 25 November 2022, 12:18 pm | New Zealand National Party
Figures released to National show that the Government has spent almost $5 million promoting its Road to Zero campaign which has failed to meet four out of five targets in the last financial year, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. ... More >>
Benefit Numbers Remain Extremely High
Friday, 25 November 2022, 11:39 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government is failing to address benefit dependency, with new data revealing the number of Kiwis on a main benefit has barely budged in the last six months, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. Data released ... More >>
