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Brash: A responsible middle course
Tuesday, 9 August 2005, 1:31 pm | New Zealand National Party
Ladies and gentlemen, in the very last speech which Helen Clark made in Parliament as Leader of the Opposition she said she was "not prepared to stand back and see the best and brightest of New Zealanders leave this country, taking their ideas and ... More >>
Clean the dog dish daily, says nanny state Labour
Monday, 8 August 2005, 8:50 pm | New Zealand National Party
New regulations stating that dog owners must clean their dog's dish every day and dry it with a disposable paper towel show Labour's nanny state policies have no limit, says National's Local Government spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>
Farm dogs to be strangled by Labour's red tape
Monday, 8 August 2005, 8:48 pm | New Zealand National Party
New regulations that tell farmers to clean dog dishes daily with detergent and then dry them with a paper towel show how out of touch Labour is with rural New Zealand, says National's Agriculture spokesman, David Carter. More >>
Greens’ traffic solution will create chaos
Monday, 8 August 2005, 4:59 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Transport spokesman, Maurice Williamson, says the Green Party’s plan to divert money for new motorways in Auckland into public transport would lead to even more traffic chaos. More >>
National: free local calls will stay in place
Monday, 8 August 2005, 4:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Communications spokesman Maurice Williamson gave a categoric undertaking today that the free local phone calls regime would stay in place under a National Government. More >>
Midwife shortage after six long years of Labour
Monday, 8 August 2005, 2:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Health spokesman, Paul Hutchison, says despite Helen Clark and Annette King’s rhetoric over health workforce planning in the 1990s, as well as the huge amount of money they’ve poured into health in the past six years, expecting mothers ... More >>
Dyson hiding from fallout on another CYF failure
Monday, 8 August 2005, 11:34 am | New Zealand National Party
“Ruth Dyson continues to dodge her responsibilities to the children of New Zealand, given her latest sidestep on yet another CYF tragedy,” says National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins. More >>
Clark deceptive and misleading on motorcade
Monday, 8 August 2005, 11:00 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee says Helen Clark has been deceptive and misleading about the speeding convoy that has landed her minders in the dock facing serious driving charges. More >>
Loans scheme favours the few
Monday, 8 August 2005, 9:02 am | New Zealand National Party
“20% of student borrowers get 75% of the benefit from Labour’s irresponsible election-year interest free loans bribe,” according to figures released by National Party Education spokesman Bill English. More >>
Labour bureaucrats force principals out of jobs
Monday, 8 August 2005, 9:01 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokesman Bill English says Labour bureaucrats are forcing principals out of their jobs. More >>
The paper over the cracks at CYF is peeling off
Monday, 8 August 2005, 9:00 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says most New Zealanders will be shocked to learn that CYF sat on a report about a missing teenager for two days before going to the police. More >>
Gerry: In the House
Friday, 5 August 2005, 5:18 pm | New Zealand National Party
Parliament adjourns. Labour releases another cynical election-year ‘pledge’. The Clark motorcade saga. More >>
Brash: Meeting the Demand
Friday, 5 August 2005, 4:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for inviting me to address you this afternoon. I trust you’ve had a productive and enjoyable conference. More >>
How desperate will Labour get?
Friday, 5 August 2005, 4:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
“The claim today that National will spend less on roading than a Labour/Green government borders on the laughable,” says National Party Transport spokesman Maurice Williamson. More >>
Defence must be rebuilt in face of new threats
Friday, 5 August 2005, 4:18 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Defence spokesman, John Carter, says New Zealand's armed forces must be rebuilt in the face of new global and regional threats from terrorism and from rogue and failing states. More >>
The Mapp Report
Friday, 5 August 2005, 4:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour's Treaty policy shows that 15 years from now, we will still be mired in settling Treaty of Waitangi claims. National will do a lot better. We will settle all claims by 2010, so the nation can move on. More >>
PM's story falls apart
Friday, 5 August 2005, 3:59 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee says Helen Clark’s story on her high-speed convoy through the South Island has fallen apart. More >>
Labour plans write-off of liable parent debt
Friday, 5 August 2005, 3:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins is appalled that Labour’s only answer to the ballooning debt owed by liable parents is a Bill to write some of it off. More >>
Labour rejected chance to speed up Treaty process
Friday, 5 August 2005, 1:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Labour's Treaty deadlines are a cynical election-year sham. More >>
Clark must come clean on Mallard’s future
Friday, 5 August 2005, 11:42 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash says Helen Clark owes it to parents to divulge, upfront, whether or not she has confidence in Education Minister Trevor Mallard, in light of the latest damning State Services Commission report into the education system. ... More >>
