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No credits will mean no new forests
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 4:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government's refusal to state whether trees planted this winter will gain carbon credits is environmental and economic madness, says National's Environment Minister, Nick Smith. More >>
Single benefit = broken promise
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 4:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
"David Benson-Pope is unable to explain why the single core benefit still hasn't been implemented, despite repeated promises by Labour stretching back two decades," says National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins. More >>
Cullen trips on cuts
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 3:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
Michael Cullen has shot down his own argument against tax cuts, says National Party Finance spokesman Bill English. More >>
Fewer people getting specialist health care
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 3:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
Fewer people are getting appointments with hospital specialists despite billions of dollars of extra health spending, says National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Corrections' attitude to bribes concerning
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 2:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor must clarify his department's attitude to prison guards bribing prisoners with food to do private work for them, says National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Labour finally acts on early exemptions
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 1:22 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour is finally listening after National raised concerns about the number of exemptions being granted to students to leave school before they turn 16, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
Labour fails victims of crime - again
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 12:55 am | New Zealand National Party
Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor must assure the public that victims of crime are not being threatened from prison, says National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Is Labour planning more prisons?
Monday, 21 May 2007, 11:56 am | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government should come clean about whether or not it's planning to build more prisons, says National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
DHBNZ under the microscope
Monday, 21 May 2007, 10:37 am | New Zealand National Party
A secretive organisation that works for the country’s 21 district health boards is a step closer to becoming accountable to the public that funds it, says National’s Associate Health spokeswoman, Dr Jackie Blue. More >>
John Key: National's Agenda
Monday, 21 May 2007, 10:27 am | New Zealand National Party
John Key: Party Leader National's Agenda Speech to the Canterbury-Westland Regional Conference, Hamner Springs More >>
Police recruitment campaign falters
Monday, 21 May 2007, 9:36 am | New Zealand National Party
Despite the Labour NZ-First Government’s pledge to hire 1,000 more frontline police, the number of people making inquiries about joining is declining, according to information obtained by National’s Police spokesman, Chester Borrows. More >>
Epidemic of sickness and injury forecast
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 5:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
“The epidemic of sickness and injury gripping New Zealand is forecast to continue under this Labour Government,” says National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins. More >>
Labour strikes new low in prison corruption
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 5:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
Corruption in our prisons has sunk to a new low when guards use prisoners to work at their homes or on their pet projects, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Trans-Tasman proposal bad for local consumers
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 5:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
The proposed Trans-Tasman regulation of natural health products will be bad for New Zealand consumers and business, National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall told a rally of 250 people in Tauranga this morning. More >>
Joyhn Key: speech
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 5:09 pm | New Zealand National Party
It's a real pleasure to be addressing the Canterbury-Westland Regional Conference as Leader of the National Party. More >>
Survey - young women putting themselves at risk
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 5:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
Shocking new figures showing a high level of early and frequent sexual encounters among young women should be a wake up call for all New Zealanders, says National’s Youth Affairs spokeswoman, Nicky Wagner. More >>
Correspondence – the school of last resort
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 5:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
Consecutive Labour Ministers of Education have turned the Correspondence School into the ‘school of last resort’ for children not able to learn in main stream education, says National’s Associate Education spokesman, Colin King. More >>
Action on illiteracy long overdue
Friday, 18 May 2007, 4:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s announcement of $9.7 million to fund a national assessment of adult literacy, numeracy and language is an admission National was right to criticise the failings of the education system under this Government, says National’s Tertiary Education ... More >>
www.mccully.co.nz - 18 May 2007
Friday, 18 May 2007, 2:25 pm | New Zealand National Party
It is useful, as Finance Ministers sit down to write their Budgets, if said Ministers turn their minds in passing to the nature of the challenge their Budget is designed to address. For much of the 80s and 90s New Zealand had a debt problem. Reducing ... More >>
Pansy Speak: More surpluses - more taxes
Friday, 18 May 2007, 2:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
Oops! The forecast cash deficit of $1.5 billion has instead turned out to be a surplus of $1.7 billion instead. The Finance Minister claims this is due to stronger economic growth, combined with strong investment performance and under-spending against budgets. More >>
