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Health: A Fresh Look
Monday, 26 June 2006, 3:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
Doctors strikes, long waiting lists for operations and the huge cost of bureaucracy has made health a highlight of New Zealand news recently. More >>
Labour ignores Treasury on private prisons
Monday, 26 June 2006, 1:46 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power, has today revealed that Treasury has consistently advocated private management of prisons but Labour continues to ignore its advice. More >>
$400 an hour wasted on unnecessary consultants
Monday, 26 June 2006, 9:39 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Industrial Relations spokesman, Wayne Mapp, says the Department of Labour is hosing away $400 an hour on consultants to design a 'gender neutral job evaluation tool' when it has a whole team of people employed to do the job. More >>
Questions over spend of scarce CYF money
Monday, 26 June 2006, 9:22 am | New Zealand National Party
The National Party Associate Welfare spokeswoman Anne Tolley is concerned that scarce CYF money has been wasted securing an adoption agreement with Lithuania. More >>
Pharmac urgently in need of reform
Monday, 26 June 2006, 9:19 am | New Zealand National Party
Pharmac's culture and way of doing business urgently needs reform, says National's Associate Health spokeswoman Jackie Blue. More >>
National Education - 23 June 2006
Friday, 23 June 2006, 4:26 pm | New Zealand National Party
Talk about a hospital pass. Karen Poutasi has to implement a decision by Steve Maharey, Karen Sewell and the NZQA board to cut NZQA spending by $9 million or 11%. An internal staff memo puts a stop to all hiring, tells staff to wind up contractors earlier ... More >>
www.mccully.co.nz 23 June 2006
Friday, 23 June 2006, 2:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
The massive gap between the Australian and New Zealand views of international security were highlighted by an exchange at question time on Thursday of this week. Asked what New Zealand had done to convey concerns to the Indonesian government over the ... More >>
Cullen does little to prepare for economy slowdown
Friday, 23 June 2006, 1:26 pm | New Zealand National Party
Michael Cullen has sat on his hands for the past six years and done little to prepare the economy for the economic slowdown, says National Finance spokesman John Key. “The anaemic growth figure for the March quarter is hardly something Dr Cullen can ... More >>
Cullen's tertiary reassurances hollow
Friday, 23 June 2006, 11:35 am | New Zealand National Party
Tertiary Education Minister Michael Cullen's reassurances that the tertiary sector is coping are meaningless when they are contradicted by official papers, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English. More >>
News Worthy - 23 June 2006
Friday, 23 June 2006, 10:03 am | New Zealand National Party
There have been significant increases in health spending by the present Government. In 1999 the spend was $6.47 billion; in 2005 it was $9.7 billion. That represents an average compound increase of 7% per year. More >>
Kiwi meets Kangaroo - the single market challenge
Friday, 23 June 2006, 12:03 am | New Zealand National Party
Earlier this year I committed to giving a series of speeches exploring some of the issues in the finance portfolio. The first of these, in February, was a retrospective look at the six years of this Labour Government. More >>
Dyson drags the chain on child abuse
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 4:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says Ruth Dyson must release a report into child homicides that is more than a year overdue. More >>
Anderton a fraud on microchipping
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 4:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Agriculture spokesman David Carter says Agriculture Minister Jim Anderton has shown himself to be an absolute fraud when it comes to representing the interests of the rural community. More >>
Peters failed New Zealanders over Bashir
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 3:34 pm | New Zealand National Party
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has failed New Zealanders by refusing to raise with his Indonesian counterpart concerns over the release of Bali bombing architect Abu Bakar Bashir, says National Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Murray McCully. More >>
Why put bee industry at further risk?
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 11:09 am | New Zealand National Party
Biosecurity NZ should bring in independent scientists to review MAF’s risk analysis of European foulbrood, says National’s Biosecurity spokesman, Shane Ardern. More >>
The Mapp Report: 15 June 2006
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 10:44 am | New Zealand National Party
The recently announced settlement with Ngati Whatua raises some serious questions. They must be answered if the community is to have any confidence about the future of the Navy housing in North Shore. More >>
Labour puts councils between rock and hard place
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 10:40 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Local Government spokesman John Carter expects councils will be forced to devote scarce ratepayer resources to enforcing Labour’s toothless dog microchipping legislation. More >>
New prison example of Labour's waste
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 10:39 am | New Zealand National Party
Auckland Region Women’s Prison, which opens today, is another monument to the Labour Government’s irresponsible use of taxpayers’ money, says National’s Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Victory for common sense - farm dogs get exemption
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 9:02 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Agriculture spokesman David Carter is delighted that common sense has prevailed in the fight to get farm dogs exempted from Labour’s draconian microchipping measures. More >>
Quick BBQ tax backtrack points to policy chaos
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 12:43 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Transport spokesman Maurice Williamson says Labour needs to come clean about its on-again off-again barbeque and heater tax. More >>
