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Didymo Shows Wider Crisis In Biosecurity

Monday, 31 October 2005, 9:03 am | New Zealand National Party

The lack of leadership in the didymo crisis shows a much wider crisis facing biosecurity in New Zealand, according to National’s Associate Conservation Spokesman Eric Roy. More >>

Bad week for Labour, law and order

Monday, 31 October 2005, 9:00 am | New Zealand National Party

National's Law and Order spokesman, Simon Power, says two damning reports on the state of law and order in two days makes a bad first week for Labour's new Police and Justice Ministers. More >>

National calls for a full review of TPK

Monday, 31 October 2005, 8:56 am | New Zealand National Party

National calls for a full review of TPK National's Maori Affairs spokesman, Gerry Brownlee, is calling for a full review of Te Puni Kökiri, following revelations today of "frivolous and excessive expenditure" at the Ministry. More >>

'MPs for Transmission Gully' launched

Monday, 31 October 2005, 8:54 am | New Zealand National Party

Wellington-based National MPs Mark Blumsky, Chris Finlayson and Nathan Guy today launched 'MPs for Transmission Gully', a parliamentary lobby group designed to provide the leadership to get Transmission Gully built. More >>

Labour relegates major roading projects

Monday, 31 October 2005, 8:53 am | New Zealand National Party

National's Associate Transport spokesman, David Bennett, says Labour has relegated essential roading plans in Auckland and the Waikato to hold on to power. More >>

Police consumed by political management

Monday, 31 October 2005, 8:38 am | New Zealand National Party

National's Law and Order spokesman, Simon Power, says Labour's stewardship of the police force has seen it become consumed by political management, at the expense of fighting crime. More >>

Case highlights folly of smacking ban

Monday, 31 October 2005, 12:47 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party Families spokeswoman Judith Collins says a court case highlights the folly of the Greens/Labour push to change the laws that protect parents who might lightly smack their children. More >>

Speak up, Mr Peters

Friday, 28 October 2005, 3:24 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Murray McCully has urged Labour's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, to condemn the call by the President of Iran for the destruction of Israel. More >>

Labour plans to cut provincial tenancy services

Friday, 28 October 2005, 2:51 pm | New Zealand National Party

New Building Minister Clayton Cosgrove must reject plans to gut provincial tenancy services if Labour is to heed the election message from heartland New Zealand, says National's Building spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>

Barker fails to deliver timely justice

Friday, 28 October 2005, 2:42 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party Justice spokesman Richard Worth says the case logjam in the courts is getting worse and is unlikely to change as long as Rick Barker is Courts Minister. More >>

www.mccully.co.nz 28 October 2005

Friday, 28 October 2005, 1:42 pm | New Zealand National Party

It was payday for the nation's top bureaucrats this week with the unveiling of huge salary increases for departmental heads. And State Services Commissioner Dr Mark Prebble warned there is more payolla on the way. "I am now at a point where I need ... More >>

News Worthy

Friday, 28 October 2005, 11:30 am | New Zealand National Party

A giant sucking sound from across the Tasman; A Vote Of No Confidence; ACC Targets the Self-Employed; Plans To Protect Newmarket Rail Station; Volte-face on MMP; New Zealand heroes - Part 3 of a continuing series - Nancy Wake More >>

What's Going wONg

Friday, 28 October 2005, 11:28 am | New Zealand National Party

Nobody likes queuing - waiting leads to impatience, grumpiness and at times tears. Yes, even tears! A couple of years ago an article in the New Zealand Herald drew a lot of attention for reporting that a woman burst into tears at a bank in Howick ... More >>

Time to end ‘dial a kaumatua’

Friday, 28 October 2005, 11:22 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party Associate Maori Affairs spokesman, Tau Henare, wants Maori leaders to end the “dial a kaumatua” culture promoted by the Labour Government when opening foreign ministries overseas. More >>

Ransom not way to get Pania back

Friday, 28 October 2005, 10:01 am | New Zealand National Party

A suggestion supported by former Napier MP Russell Fairbrother that a ransom be paid for the retrieval of the statue of Pania of the Reef is the wrong way to go, say two National MPs. More >>

The Mapp Report

Friday, 28 October 2005, 12:46 am | New Zealand National Party

My appointment in respect to Political Correctness will be a fascinating challenge. Everyone rails against it, but no one has a coherent plan to first stop it, and then roll it back. I have been concerned for some time at the creeping political correctness ... More >>