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Government funding the wrong helpline
Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 12:30 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Families spokeswoman, Judith Collins, is calling on the Government to divert funding from its wasteful 211 helpline to youth telephone counselling services. More >>
Funding rules for low-level courses wasteful
Monday, 7 August 2006, 5:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
A Tertiary Education Commission investigation into a computer course at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology shows how wasteful the Government’s rules are for low-level tertiary courses, says National’s Education spokesman, Bill English. More >>
Maori option costs $308 for each new voter
Monday, 7 August 2006, 2:57 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says the stunning lack of success of the Maori electoral option shows that the only way forward is through a one-person, one-vote system, not a race-based approach. More >>
Clark says Audit Office, Solicitor-General wrong
Monday, 7 August 2006, 2:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
Helen Clark continues to be in denial about her office spending $446,000 improperly on her election pledge card and brochure, says National Leader Don Brash. More >>
Minister not listening to concerns over GP crisis
Monday, 7 August 2006, 11:44 am | New Zealand National Party
Health Minister Pete Hodgson must start listening to communities and health professionals alarmed by the growing shortage of GPs, says National’s Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Cancer patients’ dangerous wait in Wellington
Monday, 7 August 2006, 10:17 am | New Zealand National Party
Wellington cancer services are in crisis as patients wait more than twice the Ministry of Health standard to begin treatment, says National’s Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Musical prisoners takes its toll
Monday, 7 August 2006, 10:14 am | New Zealand National Party
The increasing number of prisoners being shuffled around the country's prisons because of overcrowding has been accompanied by a sharp rise in complaints, says National's Law and Order spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Pledge card rort: Labour in the gun
Monday, 7 August 2006, 9:55 am | New Zealand National Party
National will demand Labour pays back the $446,000 spent on its pledge card and brochure if the Auditor-General finds Labour unlawfully spent taxpayers’ money on the advertising. More >>
Ewen-Street wants to contribute to National
Monday, 7 August 2006, 9:35 am | New Zealand National Party
"I'm looking forward to the challenge of assisting National build a stronger environmental platform," says former Green MP Ian Ewen-Street. More >>
National welcomes Ewen-Street
Monday, 7 August 2006, 9:31 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash today welcomed the decision by former Green MP Ian Ewen-Street to join the National Party and assist its Bluegreens develop environmental policy. More >>
Labour in fantasyland over local content
Friday, 4 August 2006, 4:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Broadcasting spokeswoman Georgina te Heuheu says Labour is starring in its own fantasy show if it thinks the TVNZ charter is working. More >>
www.mccully.co.nz 04 August 2006
Friday, 4 August 2006, 3:51 pm | New Zealand National Party
A Weekly Report from the Keyboard of Murray McCully MP for East Coast Bays More >>
Mapp Report Helping hand for failing health system
Friday, 4 August 2006, 2:53 pm | New Zealand National Party
Health is a hot topic for New Zealand at the moment. It has been a cause for concern for some time now after a year full of delayed surgeries, increased waiting lists and hospital staff strikes. More >>
Newsworthy 4 August 2006 - No. 82
Friday, 4 August 2006, 9:42 am | New Zealand National Party
The rates furore continues without proper consideration of the funding mechanisms available to local authorities. Caught up in the argument are a range of issues. The present Government changed the law to provide local authorities with a power ... More >>
Worsening mental health despite millions more
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 4:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
The mental health of New Zealanders is getting worse despite millions more in government funding, says Dr Jonathan Coleman, National's Associate Health spokesman responsible for mental health. More >>
Notice of motion on Field
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 11:23 am | New Zealand National Party
The National Party plans to put its own notice of motion on Taito Phillip Field before Parliament today. More >>
Who's calling the shots at HNZ?
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 11:22 am | New Zealand National Party
"Why won't Chris Carter admit that a review of inspection procedures has been launched at Housing New Zealand?" asks National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley. More >>
Greens are the masters of their own misfortune
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 8:53 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee says if the Green Party were really serious about restoring the integrity of Parliament, they would not have cooked up a shabby deal with Labour over the Taito Phillip Field affair. More >>
Varroa decision blow to pastoral sector
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 5:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government’s dismissal of eradication as an option to fight the Varroa bee mite is yet another blow to the beekeeping industry and New Zealand’s pastoral sector, says National’s Biosecurity spokesman, Shane Ardern. More >>
Labour insurance plan is idiocy
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 4:31 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley says a Labour Private Members' Bill that would force landlords to insure their tenants' guests is simple idiocy. More >>
