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Foreign Minister blustering over facts
Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 4:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
Foreign Minister Winston Peters should stop blustering and start providing some straightforward answers about the role played by his office in the Air NZ charter fiasco, says National’s Foreign Affairs spokesman, Murray McCully. More >>
Peters’ office knew about Air NZ flights
Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 2:15 pm | New Zealand National Party
Helen Clark’s Foreign Minister must explain why he told Parliament neither he nor his office received reports on the Air NZ flights to Kuwait when emails reveal his office got the information, says National Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Murray ... More >>
IHC axes jobs thanks to Labour's legislation
Monday, 8 October 2007, 3:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Disability Issues spokesman, Dr Paul Hutchison, is describing as tragic the loss of hundreds of IHC jobs because of changes to the law. More >>
Transparent environmental reporting needed
Sunday, 7 October 2007, 1:50 pm | New Zealand National Party
National will introduce new environmental reporting laws to ensure New Zealand lives up to its clean, green image. More >>
Wayne Mapp: Doing What We Do Best
Friday, 5 October 2007, 4:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
This week National released its discussion paper on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. This is the first time the Party has linked all three areas with a common approach. More >>
Immigration Dept 'least helpful' - survey
Friday, 5 October 2007, 2:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Immigration spokesman Lockwood Smith says unfortunately he is not surprised that Immigration NZ has been deemed the least helpful government department in the KPMG compliance survey of businesses. More >>
Credible tax programme pillar to future growth
Friday, 5 October 2007, 2:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says a credible tax programme which includes phased personal tax cuts will be a pillar to National's platform for growth in New Zealand. More >>
Labour still suffocating small business
Friday, 5 October 2007, 11:15 am | New Zealand National Party
The Labour-led Government is still failing to address the suffocating burden of compliance costs on small business, says National’s Small Business spokesman, Lindsay Tisch. More >>
www.mccully.co.nz - 5 October 2007
Friday, 5 October 2007, 11:05 am | New Zealand National Party
The prospect of a bi-partisan framework for foreign policy in this country was a central feature of the National Party discussion paper on foreign affairs, defence and trade released this week. More >>
Cancer treatment delays a life sentence?
Friday, 5 October 2007, 11:02 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says Health Minister Pete Hodgson needs to front up to patients and explain his Government’s cancer treatment failure. More >>
Labour ignores calls for RMA reform
Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:37 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government needs to heed the latest calls for reform of the Resource Management Act, says National’s Environment spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>
North Shore Hospital crisis – where’s the fix?
Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:35 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party North Shore MP Wayne Mapp says Pete Hodgson needs to honour his promise to fix the problems plaguing North Shore Hospital. More >>
Pansy Wong: Things that bind us
Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:21 am | New Zealand National Party
The image of big, burly Chinese rugby players is one that not many people would take seriously. Even recent migrants from China don’t know there are 10,000 rugby players in China. However, the tour of New Zealand by the People’s Liberation Army team ... More >>
Exodus to Australia worse since 2001
Friday, 5 October 2007, 12:16 am | New Zealand National Party
The net outflow of New Zealand citizens continues to escalate, with more people leaving in the past 12 months than in any year since 2001. More >>
Crèches keep closing while Govt review drags on
Thursday, 4 October 2007, 2:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
A review that Labour claims could amend regulations that are seeing crèches in gyms and swimming pools closing down has been dragging on for four years, says Nationals' Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
National supports nurses' call for more say
Thursday, 4 October 2007, 2:00 pm | New Zealand National Party
"The Nurses Organisation is right in promoting the potential for nurses to have a much greater role in the provision and accessibility of primary care," says National Health Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
Seven-year legacy of HNZ fraud exposed
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 4:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley is alarmed by a massive seven-fold increase in fraud by HNZ tenants which has been tolerated by the Labour Government. More >>
National pledges research on Operation Grapple
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 2:45 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Veterans' Affairs spokeswoman, Judith Collins, says National will consider a further inquiry into Operation Grapple. More >>
Too easy to get bail under Labour
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 2:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government's new bail law means bail is not only easier to get, it is also easier to remain on bail if conditions are breached, says National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
National to put New Zealand's interests first
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 1:38 pm | New Zealand National Party
National intends putting the best interests of New Zealand first in its foreign affairs, defence, and trade policy, says National Party Leader John Key. More >>
