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Monday, 12 September 2005, 10:44 am | New Zealand National Party

The nation’s unions have launched a final campaign blitz to get their Sisterhood mates across the electoral finish line. Remember, a full 24 of the current government caucus are former union officials. More >>

Brash: Debate the real issues during final days

Monday, 12 September 2005, 10:21 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party Leader Don Brash today issued a challenge to Prime Minister Helen Clark to direct her party to spend the final days of the election campaign debating the issues that are important to New Zealanders. More >>

Hutchison: No appointment after a year of waiting

Monday, 12 September 2005, 10:08 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party Health spokesman Paul Hutchison says a Tauranga woman with multiple sclerosis and a bowel and bladder prolapse has waited more than a year for a surgical appointment with no hope of treatment in sight. More >>

Was the file of police prospect flagged or not?

Monday, 12 September 2005, 9:42 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party Police spokesman Tony Ryall says the Police Minister still has questions to answer over the case of a police prospect who was linked by TV3 with the terrorist cell responsible for the Bali bombings. More >>

Labour should reveal details of air force deal

Monday, 12 September 2005, 9:40 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party Defence spokesman John Carter says if the Prime Minister signs-off on a deal to sell the air force's strike-wing on Monday, she must make all the papers public. More >>

Labour caught in double standard on notices

Monday, 12 September 2005, 9:38 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party MP Katherine Rich says the Labour Party has been caught out contradicting itself in a double standard on its offensive eviction notices sent to some of the most vulnerable members of our community. More >>

Deplorable behaviour from Tizard at local meeting

Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:45 am | New Zealand National Party

“Judith Tizard should be ashamed of her deplorable and arrogant behaviour”, said Dr Jackie Blue, National candidate for Mt Roskill, after Tizard stormed out of a public meeting because there were no media present. More >>

Silence from Minister on CYF not a good look

Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:26 am | New Zealand National Party

National Party MP Katherine Rich is appalled by the deafening silence from the Minister's office over the disastrous way CYF handled the disappearance of a boy in its care. More >>

Labour lets crims back onto streets

Monday, 12 September 2005, 12:24 am | New Zealand National Party

National's Law and Order spokesman, Tony Ryall, says home detention is not working properly and must be scrapped immediately for violent and sex offenders. More >>

Better on dole doing art than gutting hoki

Saturday, 10 September 2005, 12:00 am | New Zealand National Party

The fishing industry is right to be up in arms about statements by Labour and the Greens that people are better off doing art on the dole than gutting hoki, says National's Fisheries spokesman, Phil Heatley. More >>

National Education

Friday, 9 September 2005, 3:20 pm | New Zealand National Party

Schools will be better funded under National than under Labour. In recent years tertiary education has chewed up hundreds of millions, and so has the bureaucracy. I told a tertiary audience in Auckland this week that tertiary funding will be frozen while ... More >>

Helen Clark taking economic tips from CTU?

Friday, 9 September 2005, 3:18 pm | New Zealand National Party

“Helen Clark’s ‘hand-in-glove’ relationship with the CTU took a strange turn last night, after she used the Leader’s Debate to repeat a falsehood being spread by the union,” says National Party Finance spokesman John Key. More >>

The Mapp Report

Friday, 9 September 2005, 2:40 pm | New Zealand National Party

NATIONAL'S ACTION PLAN FOR GOVERNMENT Yesterday, National Leader Don Brash launched National's action plan for the 10 things National will do first in Government. It sets out the key priorities for a National Government, as below: More >>

Union abandons workers to campaign for Labour

Friday, 9 September 2005, 2:37 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party Industrial Relations spokesman Wayne Mapp is calling on the Service and Food Workers Union to explain to its members why it has abandoned them in order to campaign for the Labour Party. More >>

Helen Clark confesses deceit over Peter Doone

Friday, 9 September 2005, 2:26 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party Law & Order spokesman Tony Ryall says at long last Helen Clark has nearly come clean on her deceit in the Peter Doone case. More >>

Labour stalling on more papers

Friday, 9 September 2005, 1:06 pm | New Zealand National Party

National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Labour is stalling on the release of important papers just days out from the election. More >>

ACC politically motivated?

Friday, 9 September 2005, 10:45 am | New Zealand National Party

The Accident Compensation Corporation has not released draft levies in August as it has done in the past two years - the only credible reason for this being an instruction from the Labour Government not to do so, says National's Agriculture spokesman, David ... More >>