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Labour’s ineffective community sentences
Monday, 11 June 2007, 9:24 am | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government has allowed community sentences to become largely ineffective when 40% of offenders are convicted for breaching their sentences, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Malignant spread of bureaucracy hits senior docs
Monday, 11 June 2007, 8:37 am | New Zealand National Party
New Zealand’s health system may be lurching toward another crisis as the malignant spread of bureaucracy drives senior doctors to the edge of industrial action, says National’s Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Private health sector picking up cancer surgery
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 1:33 pm | New Zealand National Party
More and more men are electing to have prostate cancer surgery with private specialists, says National’s Associate Health spokeswoman, Dr Jackie Blue More >>
Consent delays likely as deadline looms
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 1:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Local Government spokesman John Carter is questioning labour’s “regulate first ask questions later” approach to local government building regulations. More >>
At least $1 million down the tubes on jobs site?
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 1:30 pm | New Zealand National Party
“New Zealand’s most expensive job website is to be dumped - at the cost of $1 million to the taxpayer,” says National Party ACC spokeswoman Pansy Wong. More >>
One fifth of cops from UK have left
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 1:25 pm | New Zealand National Party
Nearly one fifth of officers recruited from the United Kingdom who have served in the New Zealand Police have left, says National’s Police spokesman, Chester Borrows. More >>
HNZ must start collecting data on gang houses
Friday, 8 June 2007, 4:57 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley says Housing New Zealand must start collecting data about the number of its homes found to be used as bases for criminal activity. More >>
Cancer patients caught in bureaucratic bungle
Friday, 8 June 2007, 3:43 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Less than 24 hours after Clayton Cosgrove was promising improved cancer treatment times, Wellington cancer patients have been warned of delays because of bureaucratic 'heel-dragging'," says National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Corrections' culture must change
Friday, 8 June 2007, 3:18 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Corrections Department's culture of denial and its inability to follow its own procedures will have to change if the Ombudsman's investigation into prisoner transportation is to make any difference, says National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon ... More >>
Mapp Report: Time For Economic Boost, Not Boot
Friday, 8 June 2007, 1:31 pm | New Zealand National Party
Yesterday's Reserve Bank announcement to increase the Official Cash Rate to 8.0% will worry all homeowners with mortgages and businesses requiring credit. New Zealand has the highest interest rates in the developed world and it surely affects our economic ... More >>
www.mccully.co.nz - 8 June 2007
Friday, 8 June 2007, 11:03 am | New Zealand National Party
The circumstances behind the early departure of Secretary of Labour, Dr James Bewildered may have escaped the scrutiny of the nation’s media. But regular readers of this journal will be aware that the Bewildered Era at the Department of Labour was brought ... More >>
National endorses Fiji report
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 5:26 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Murray McCully is endorsing the call by Foreign Minister Winston Peters for Fiji's interim government to respond positively to the report of the Joint Working Group released today. More >>
Cullen doesn’t care any more
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 5:22 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English is surprised that Michael Cullen is refusing to show any compassion or empathy towards the homeowners and exporters hurting after today’s interest rate rise. More >>
PM Aquaculture launch hypocritical
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 3:38 pm | New Zealand National Party
It is hypocritical of the Prime Minister to be launching Aquaculture NZ in Nelson today when her Government's policies have frozen growth in the industry, says National's Fisheries spokesman, Phil Heatley. More >>
Labour's prints all over interest rate hat-trick
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:07 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Reserve Bank Governor has given his strongest warning yet that Labour's increased spending will keep interest rates higher for longer says National Party Finance spokesman Bill English. More >>
Cullen must say why he dumped coroner
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 11:46 am | New Zealand National Party
“Michael Cullen must restore confidence in the judicial appointment process by declaring who he consulted before deciding to sack long-serving Wellington coroner Garry Evans,” says National’s Shadow Attorney-General Chris Finlayson. More >>
Education Minister has credibility problem
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 11:09 am | New Zealand National Party
The Education Minister’s latest outpourings on NCEA are a pinnacle of desperation, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. Steve Maharey has called on educationalists to help ‘build confidence in our national qualification’ which ... More >>
National applauds Team NZ
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 9:46 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key has congratulated Team New Zealand on winning the right to challenge for the America’s Cup after winning the Louis Vuitton Cup final today. More >>
Immigration policy a fix it job
Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 5:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government is finally taking steps to clean up its bungled Active Investor Migration policy, says National’s Immigration spokesman, Dr Lockwood Smith. More >>
Collins' Comments
Wednesday, 6 June 2007, 4:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
Counties Manukau residents can expect insufficient Police staff even after 5,503 petitioners sought an increase in Police numbers to bring them in line with the national average. In July 2006, I presented my petition, requesting that the numbers of full-time ... More >>
