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Broaden terms of Housing NZ boarder review
Monday, 5 December 2005, 12:06 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley is urging the Minister to broaden the terms of a review into the circumstances and number of state house tenants with paying boarders. More >>
The Mapp Report - 2 December 2005
Friday, 2 December 2005, 4:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
Over the last couple of years The Independent's political commentator, Chris Trotter, has attracted quite a following. For a business paper this is quite an achievement. Chris Trotter is a well-known left-winger, often regarded as being to the left of ... More >>
National Education, 2 December 2005
Friday, 2 December 2005, 4:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
School resources are running dry and budgets for 2005 are tight. So for those who sell the raffle tickets and organise the fundraisers it would be a shock to see just how much spending on education has increased in recent years. Ministry of Education ... More >>
New Worthy, 2 December 2005
Friday, 2 December 2005, 4:23 pm | New Zealand National Party
The suggestion by Ministry of Justice officials to extend the retirement age of judges to 70 has merit but it completely overlooks the more pressing need to improve our court processes. More >>
www.mccully.co.nz 2 December 2005
Friday, 2 December 2005, 4:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Terrorism Suppression Act was passed in 2002, in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The legislation complies with United Nations' resolutions designed to suppress terrorist organisations and attack their funding, recruitment and access to weapons. ... More >>
More costs for small business
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 2:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
“The Government should stop hammering small business and allow choice in accident insurance”, says National Party Economic Development spokeswoman Katherine Rich. More >>
National launches ‘axe carbon tax’ campaign
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 10:58 am | New Zealand National Party
National Leader Don Brash today launched a campaign to defeat Labour’s carbon tax that would see all New Zealanders pay 6c more per litre of petrol, 6% more for electricity, 7% more for gas, 7c more per litre of diesel, 1.3% more for groceries and 1.4% more ... More >>
A&E departments failing to see patients in time
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 5:17 pm | New Zealand National Party
All of New Zealand's major hospitals are failing to see emergency patients soon enough, according to National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Human Rights Commission should act, says Mapp
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 5:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's spokesman for Political Correctness Eradication, Wayne Mapp, has asked the Human Rights Commission to investigate whether the policy of Air New Zealand and Qantas not to seat men beside unaccompanied children is a breach of the Human ... More >>
Missed opportunity to advance NZ’s cause
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 1:22 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Murray McCully says Helen Clark’s governing arrangements are a distraction to the serious business that should be on the agenda in Brussels. More >>
Time to get serious with small business
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 11:31 am | New Zealand National Party
"The Government has to stop paying lip service to the recommendations of the Small Business Action Group (SBAG) and respond to its first report," says National Party Economic Development spokeswoman Katherine Rich. More >>
National to thank for loan loophole closure
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 8:12 am | New Zealand National Party
National to thank for loan loophole closure National Party Finance spokesman John Key says the public of New Zealand have National to thank for identifying a student loan loophole which could have seen students profiting off the generosity of the ... More >>
Log jam in courts gets worse
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 12:40 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power, says the Government needs to get off its backside and deal with New Zealand's huge and worsening log jam of court cases. More >>
Flooded farmers shafted by Labour
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 12:21 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Agriculture spokesman David Carter is appalled that the Labour-led Government is turning its back on flooded Gisborne farmers, some who have been hit for the second time in as many months. More >>
Groundhog Day for tertiary sector
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 3:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
Despite six years of thinking about it and more than $500 million spent on it, Michael Cullen’s plans for tertiary education are depressingly familiar, says National Party Education spokesman Bill English. More >>
Benson-Pope must do his job
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 11:19 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says David Benson-Pope can't avoid his Ministerial responsibilities forever. More >>
NZ First duped big-time over police
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 12:56 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power, says it is now clearer than ever that Labour has duped NZ First over the extra police staff agreed to in its confidence and supply agreement. More >>
Labour's no-show at conference speaks volumes
Monday, 28 November 2005, 10:32 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Associate Education spokeswoman for International Education, Pansy Wong, says she is concerned at the Clark/Peters Government's snubbing of a major international education conference. More >>
Ngawha Prison staffing cause for concern
Monday, 28 November 2005, 8:24 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Law and Order spokesman, Simon Power, says it is indicative of the mess that the prisons system is in when 84 of the 126 staff at the state-of-the-art Ngawha Prison in Northland have less than one year’s experience working in Corrections. More >>
Time to make Civil Defence work
Monday, 28 November 2005, 8:22 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Civil Defence spokesman, John Carter, says Labour will have to get its act together if its new Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan is going to work. More >>
