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Brownlee - Address to National's Northern Region
Monday, 1 May 2006, 9:53 am | New Zealand National Party
Delegates, we meet again at this Northern Regional Conference in our 70th year as strong as the National Party has ever been, and committed to the National Party because: More >>
Corrections spends $31m on consultants
Monday, 1 May 2006, 9:49 am | New Zealand National Party
The Corrections Department spent $31.7 million on consultants over the same period that it was increasing its staff by 19%, says National's Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Suspected murderers should not be in schools
Monday, 1 May 2006, 9:47 am | New Zealand National Party
Education Minister Steve Maharey should not make Tamaki College accept a student who has been charged with murder, says National’s Education spokesman, Bill English. More >>
John Key - Hitching our Waka to their Rickshaw
Monday, 1 May 2006, 9:45 am | New Zealand National Party
Last week I visited Singapore. It’s a country I have a strong emotional attachment to, and one that has long fascinated me. In part, this is because I lived there while working for Merrill Lynch in 1995. More >>
Housing policy contributing to poor health stats
Monday, 1 May 2006, 12:00 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour's policy of allowing people with surprisingly high incomes to stay in state houses indefinitely is contributing to an out-of-control waiting list and poor health statistics among those waiting for state housing, says National's Housing spokesman, ... More >>
Labour last to recognise war heroine
Friday, 28 April 2006, 1:26 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government is the last to recognise the actions of New Zealand’s greatest living war heroine, says National’s Veterans Affairs spokeswoman, Judith Collins. More >>
Civil defence report should be alarmist
Friday, 28 April 2006, 11:15 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Civil Defence spokesman John Carter says Rick Barker should be ashamed of the way he has tried to minimise the risks outlined in a damning report on Auckland's readiness for a major disaster. More >>
National will scrutinise costs of new courthouse
Friday, 28 April 2006, 12:51 am | New Zealand National Party
The National Party’s Shadow Attorney General, Christopher Finlayson, says he expects the costs of the new Supreme Court building in Wellington will be closely scrutinised. More >>
Back-down on Treaty Committee a small first step
Friday, 28 April 2006, 12:15 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says the back-down by the Manukau City Council on candidate and voter eligibility to its Treaty of Waitangi Committee is a small first step. More >>
www.mccully.co.nz 28 April 2006
Friday, 28 April 2006, 12:08 am | New Zealand National Party
Last week’s two-day US/New Zealand Business Forum in Washington provided a high powered opportunity to reinforce key trade relationships in the US. The presence of two former New Zealand Prime Ministers (Bolger and Moore), the Leader of the Opposition Don ... More >>
Mismanagement and mayhem in mental health
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 4:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Associate Health spokesman, Dr Jonathan Coleman, is asking why DHBs are failing to spend all of their allocated funding for mental health services when the mental health sector is in so much trouble. More >>
Plea for building standards check-up unanswered
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 3:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley says Labour may be putting the safety of the public at risk by refusing to take advice from industry experts on building standards in New Zealand. More >>
Single benefit hits another snag?
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 2:37 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says it appears a 17-year-old Labour Party plan for a single benefit has hit yet another snag. More >>
Govt can't keep deferring infrastructure questions
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 11:20 am | New Zealand National Party
New Zealand cannot go on deferring difficult decisions on major infrastructure upgrades, says National's Energy spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>
Pansy Speak 26 April 2006
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 2:51 pm | New Zealand National Party
The first woman Prime Minister for the Republic of Korea was sworn in on 20th April 2006 almost sixty years after the Republic was founded. This was a powerful and significant moment for Madam Han Myeong-sook, Korean women and Korea. It's remarkable that this ... More >>
Labour propaganda at Te Papa unacceptable
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 2:25 pm | New Zealand National Party
An interactive computer display at Te Papa which gives the user the option of joining the Labour Party but no other political group is unacceptable propaganda, says National's State Services spokesman, Gerry Brownlee. More >>
Truth in sentencing needed
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 9:29 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Law & Order spokesman Simon Power has welcomed the Law Commission's view that prisoners should get less time taken off their sentences in parole. More >>
Labour will struggle to get 1,000 extra police
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 9:25 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government will struggle to deliver on its promise of 1,000 extra frontline police before the next election, says National's Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
MidCentral patients face the axe
Monday, 24 April 2006, 3:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
Another DHB has revealed it is under instruction to cull its waiting lists, with reports today that Palmerston North-based MidCentral Health may send up to 1,100 patients back to their GPs, says National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
More disturbing revelations at Corrections
Monday, 24 April 2006, 9:42 am | New Zealand National Party
Revelations that over the past four years the Corrections Department spent $31 million on consultants, at least one whom was a staff member it had just laid off, make it even more imperative there is a select committee inquiry, says National’s Law & ... More >>
