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Labour’s red tape causes mass closure of crèches
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 4:19 pm | New Zealand National Party
Crèches at swimming pools and gyms around New Zealand are closing their doors because Labour’s out-of-control bureaucracy has deemed them unlawful, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
ACC hits employer with $1m bill for shoot-out
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 4:15 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party East Coast MP Anne Tolley says it is unfair that AFFCO is being slapped with a $1 million bill for a gang shoot-out outside its premises. More >>
Labour plans tax-funded propaganda blitz
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 4:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall is appalled that Labour is already planning to exploit the loop-holes it has left itself in the electoral reform bill, with a tax-funded propaganda blitz on health in election year. More >>
Ill-disciplined Ministers cost Kiwis a tax cut
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 2:00 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says the reason New Zealanders were denied a tax cut in the last Budget is because of Labour Ministers and their ill-disciplined spending. More >>
Minister hides South Auckland teacher crisis
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:34 am | New Zealand National Party
Steve Maharey's blithe assurances that while teacher numbers are tight there is nothing to worry about, are coming back to haunt him, says National's Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
Enrolment rules frustrate special schools
Monday, 17 September 2007, 1:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
Barring special schools from entering their own school enrolment information discriminates against them and leads to frustrating delays and entry errors, says National's Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
114 years since suffrage - but still work to do
Monday, 17 September 2007, 9:12 am | New Zealand National Party
It is 114 years since women were given the vote, but there is still work to do, says National's Women's Affairs spokeswoman, Dr Jackie Blue. More >>
Bureaucratic bungle over climate change bid
Sunday, 16 September 2007, 5:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
It is no wonder New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions are growing at record rates, when major budget bids to offset emissions are lost in bureaucratic bungles, says National's Climate Change spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>
Suspended cop rewarded with new car
Sunday, 16 September 2007, 5:10 pm | New Zealand National Party
News that suspended Police Commander Clint Rickards has been given a two-month-old, top-of-the-line Holden Commodore as part of his salary package, has struck a sour note with National's Police spokesman, Chester Borrows. More >>
Wood promo no substitute for carbon credits
Friday, 14 September 2007, 4:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government needs to do much more than run a promotional campaign on the merits of wood to reverse the massive deforestation taking place, says National's Climate Change spokesman, Nick Smith More >>
Strategy and guidelines on prostate cancer MIA
Friday, 14 September 2007, 4:25 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Health Minister Pete Hodgson must explain the lack of progress in issuing guidelines on prostate cancer testing. The long-promised guidelines are simply Missing In Action," says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
The Mapp Report: Defence Of The Realm
Friday, 14 September 2007, 4:07 pm | New Zealand National Party
National recognises NZers' commitment to having an independent foreign policy and being able to express our particular views to friends and allies. John Key said, "we will have an independent foreign policy that has NZ's best interests at heart." More >>
mccully.co.nz - Zaoui and Parliamentary Rugby
Friday, 14 September 2007, 2:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
Yesterday’s decision by SIS Director Dr Tucker to lift the security risk certificate issued against Algerian refugee-status claimant Ahmed Zaoui has been greeted with predictable sanctimony by the nation’s leftie/civil liberties brigade. Some have ... More >>
IRD phone delays a symptom of culture
Friday, 14 September 2007, 12:32 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Revenue spokesman Lockwood Smith says an informal poll published today shows Inland Revenue still has much work to do when it comes to looking after public inquiries. More >>
O’Connor’s judgment found wanting again
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 4:46 pm | New Zealand National Party
Caretaker Corrections Minister Damien O’Connor proved again in Parliament today just why he doesn’t have the judgment required of a Minister, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Better systems to avoid repeat of Zaoui case
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 4:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
The long-running Ahmed Zaoui case illustrates the need for better systems to avoid such cases dragging on for years and costing taxpayers millions of dollars, says National Party Immigration spokesman Dr Lockwood Smith. More >>
Cabinet paper fails to justify new election period
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 3:36 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English has released a Cabinet paper which shows Labour arbitrarily decided to set a January 1 election campaign start date without any reason being offered as to why. More >>
Army coal burner embarrasses carbon neutral Govt
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 3:23 pm | New Zealand National Party
The army’s commissioning of a massive new coal-fired boiler at Waiouru makes a mockery of the Government’s commitment to a carbon neutral public service, says National’s Climate Change spokesman Nick Smith. More >>
Smith welcomes Ministerial inquiry
Thursday, 13 September 2007, 1:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
Nelson MP Nick Smith has welcomed the decision by the Minister of State Services, Annette King, to instigate a Ministerial inquiry into the Police, Department of Corrections, and Courts over the management of a man who, while on parole, killed Nelson woman ... More >>
Maharey deluded over reducing class sizes
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 4:48 pm | New Zealand National Party
Steve Maharey’s continued belief that Labour will deliver on its 2005 election policy that by 2008 ‘there are no more than 15 students in a class’ flies in the face of the advice from his own officials, says National’s Education spokeswoman, ... More >>
