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Govt ignored officials' advice on KiwiSaver
Monday, 30 October 2006, 9:35 am | New Zealand National Party
Officials repeatedly told the Labour Government not to introduce mortgage diversion into KiwiSaver and, after initially agreeing, Cabinet did a U-turn, says National Party Associate Finance spokesman Craig Foss. More >>
Nanny state denying parents choice in education
Monday, 30 October 2006, 8:48 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokesman Bill English says Labour’s nanny state approach to education is to blame for a $1 million law suit against the Education Ministry. More >>
Worrying ignorance displayed on welfare
Monday, 30 October 2006, 8:47 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says David Benson-Pope has shown a worrying ignorance about the number of people collecting various benefits. More >>
Labour “utterly fails” on climate change policy
Monday, 30 October 2006, 8:46 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Environment spokesman Nick Smith says Labour has “utterly failed” to deliver a coherent climate change policy and the public will be “justifiably dubious” about Helen Clark’s ability to deliver. More >>
Brash: Time to Stop Failing our Boys
Sunday, 29 October 2006, 2:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
28 October 2006 From the Cradle to the Jail: It’s Time to Stop Failing our Boys More >>
Prisons buy Playstations, Xboxes for inmates
Sunday, 29 October 2006, 1:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
An admission by Corrections that some prisons have bought Playstations and Xboxes out of operational funding is unbelievable, says National’s Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Mapp seeks to amend 90-day bill
Friday, 27 October 2006, 5:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Industrial Relations spokesman, Wayne Mapp, is seeking to amend his Member's Bill to address concerns raised by submitters to the select committee process. More >>
Minister Ignoring Voluntary Sector Worries
Friday, 27 October 2006, 3:51 pm | New Zealand National Party
PRESS RELEASE FROM ERIC ROY, MP FOR INVERCARGILL Friday, 27 October 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More >>
Mapp Report - 27 October 2006
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
Over the last 12 months I have been campaigning for my 90-Day Probation Bill to allow employees easier access into the workforce. This week the Bill was finally deliberated on in the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee. The next major event ... More >>
Make welfare report on Kahui household public
Friday, 27 October 2006, 1:38 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says David Benson-Pope must promise to make public the report into welfare dependency at the Kahui household. More >>
Sickness and Invalids numbers reach record high
Friday, 27 October 2006, 1:37 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says the number of people collecting the sickness or invalids benefits has soared to record highs. More >>
www.mccully.co.nz - 27 October 2006
Friday, 27 October 2006, 11:52 am | New Zealand National Party
There has been a distracted air around Parliament this week. It’s not just been the coming one-week recess, or the proximity of the end of the year parties and the Christmas break. The machinery of Parliament and all its bureaucratic entrails have ... More >>
Time for Hodgson to focus on health
Friday, 27 October 2006, 11:41 am | New Zealand National Party
National is calling on Health Minister Pete Hodgson to focus less on his party's political problems and more on the pressing issues in the health system. More >>
Newsworthy 27 October 2006
Friday, 27 October 2006, 11:19 am | New Zealand National Party
Light fingered crooks In a hard hitting article published in the Parnell Business Association newsletter, the author noted that up to $1.9 million is shoplifted every day in New Zealand. Amongst the statistics: More >>
Justice crisis deserves better than personal abuse
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 5:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Associate Welfare spokeswoman Anne Tolley is amazed that rather than face up to the realities of the critical shortage in youth justice beds Ruth Dyson has resorted to petty mud slinging. More >>
Hodgson dodgy on Lake Alice payout
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 2:34 pm | New Zealand National Party
Continued delays in paying out compensation to Paul Zentfeld, a claimant in the Lake Alice compensation case, are completely unsatisfactory, says National's Associate Health spokesman (Mental Health), Dr Jonathan Coleman. More >>
Labour backtracks on universal benefit
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 2:09 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says David Benson-Pope has sent the clearest signal yet that the Government's pledge to deliver a universal benefit to welfare recipients has hit the rocks. More >>
ACC fails in key areas
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 1:19 pm | New Zealand National Party
ACC’s Annual Report, released late yesterday, is an indictment on the Labour Government’s monopoly model as both injury claims and costs continue to grow, says National’s ACC spokesman, Dr Paul Hutchison. More >>
Bed shortage at crisis point for at-risk youth
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 10:31 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Associate Welfare spokeswoman Anne Tolley says Labour’s been well aware about the looming crisis in safe beds for at-risk youth, but has done virtually nothing to stop it happening. More >>
Ministry U-turn on meningococcal vaccine
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 10:21 am | New Zealand National Party
Parents are entitled to be fully informed of the risks and benefits of the meningococcal vaccination, says National’s Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. "The Government should not be sanitising the information it gives parents. This is an issue of informed ... More >>
