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Assurance needed after Police station burgled
Monday, 12 February 2007, 8:38 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Police spokesman, Chester Borrows, is calling for an assurance that members of the public are not at risk following a break in at the Dargaville Police Station. More >>
Small business hit by benefit message
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 4:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
Small business hit by benefit message National Party Associate Small Business spokesman, Chris Tremain, is appalled that Work and Income is recommending that some beneficiaries are better off on the benefit than in paid employment. More >>
Corrections struggles to attract overseas staff
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 3:50 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Corrections Department’s litany of incompetence which breeds low staff morale is the main factor behind the high attrition rate of staff recruited from overseas, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Clark must explain why inquiry set up to fail
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 3:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
Helen Clark must explain to the public why she set up the Ingram inquiry into Taito Phillip Field when it was obviously designed to fail, says National Party Leader John Key. More >>
Agent Orange clean up welcomed
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 3:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Veteran’s Affairs spokeswoman, Judith Collins, has welcomed a move by the United States to help clean an Agent Orange storage site in Vietnam. More >>
Maharey needs to act
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 3:43 pm | New Zealand National Party
If Steve Maharey’s not too busy denying hungry children numbers, he should indicate whether he’ll seek an enquiry into the slow demise of Waverley High School, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
Labour bullies IHC
Saturday, 10 February 2007, 12:50 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour has used bullyboy tactics to pressure IHC into abandoning its sheltered workshops, says National’s Disability spokesman, Dr Paul Hutchison. More >>
TVNZ Should Stick To Its Knitting
Friday, 9 February 2007, 2:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
“Broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey needs to say whether he supports a suggestion that the state television broadcaster is looking to expand into commercial radio,” says National Party Broadcasting spokesman Jonathan Coleman. More >>
Dr Cullen’s new mortgage tax
Friday, 9 February 2007, 9:47 am | New Zealand National Party
“Michael Cullen should fix his own high taxing, big spending polices before he levies a new tax on fixed interest mortgages,” says National Party Finance spokesman Bill English. More >>
Govt obsessed with prison numbers, murder rate up
Friday, 9 February 2007, 12:47 am | New Zealand National Party
The rate of two murders each week so far this year is an indictment on the ineffective policies of the Labour-NZ First Government, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Labour complacency on unemployment ill founded
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 4:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says the Labour Government’s complacency on employment is ill founded. More >>
Tribute for a Kiwi scientist
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 3:34 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Research, Science & Technology spokesman, Dr Paul Hutchison, has today paid tribute to Nobel Prize winner, Professor Alan MacDiarmid. “New Zealand and the scientific community around the world have lost an eminent scientist. More >>
Celebrate the life of a can-do Kiwi
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 2:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key says all New Zealanders should celebrate the life of Professor Alan MacDiarmid, who he describes as a ‘can-do Kiwi’. More >>
Teen death highlights need for early intervention
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 2:37 pm | New Zealand National Party
The grandmother of a dead Rotorua boy has highlighted the need for high quality, co-ordinated and effective early intervention when she says he had been a problem child from the age of three, says National’s Child Policy spokesman, Dr Paul Hutchison. More >>
Steve Maharey caught out fiddling teacher numbers
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 10:46 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokeswoman Katherine Rich says Steve Maharey should apologise for trying to deceive the public over the number of teacher vacancies at the beginning of the school year. More >>
‘Tory charity’ gaffe cold and out of touch
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 12:20 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key says he is shocked and appalled that senior Labour Minister Steve Maharey has described a plan to feed children in our poorest schools as ‘Tory charity’. More >>
Labour’s standover tactics won’t work
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 12:51 am | New Zealand National Party
National will not stand for bullying and will carry on with its Foods in Schools initiative by not identifying the schools involved, says National Party Leader John Key. More >>
Why wasn’t the Parole Board told?
Monday, 5 February 2007, 1:09 pm | New Zealand National Party
Questions have to be asked as to why the Corrections Department didn’t pass on all relevant information to the Parole Board which was considering parole for convicted murderer Graeme Burton, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon ... More >>
Vehicles still noisy
Monday, 5 February 2007, 8:28 am | New Zealand National Party
The first phase of the Labour Government’s project to test excessively noisy vehicles has failed, says National MP Nicky Wagner. More >>
‘Gross professional incompetence’ at CYF
Sunday, 4 February 2007, 1:50 pm | New Zealand National Party
Ruth Dyson needs to take a long hard look at her department, says National’s Associate Welfare spokeswoman Anne Tolley. More >>
