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Labour scratches surface on race review
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 4:53 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Labour is only scratching the surface in its review of race-based funding which, among other things, has found major flaws with the funding formula for PHOs. More >>
Don Brash Writes No. 61, 23 June 2005
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 4:23 pm | New Zealand National Party
At the time of the 2002 election, National campaigned against the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. We argued that it made no sense for a country which contributes just one-quarter of one percent to the global emissions of greenhouse gases to impose ... More >>
Labour scratches surface on race review
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 4:10 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Labour is only scratching the surface in its review of race-based funding which, among other things, has found major flaws with the funding formula for PHOs. More >>
Aged-care providers still waiting for cash
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 3:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
Despite Labour promising more money to aged-care providers, they still have not received it, says National's Senior Citizens spokeswoman, Lynda Scott. More >>
Race-based funding won't change under Labour
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 3:52 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash says Helen Clark has been in denial for the past five years about the funding issues identified in the Labour-designed review of race-based funding released today. More >>
Unions using fees for partisan political campaigns
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 3:04 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Industrial Relations spokesman, Wayne Mapp, says union members should be told their fees are going towards partisan political campaigns. More >>
National will not let Labour walk over rural NZ
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 2:46 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash has pledged to end the erosion of private property rights and says a National Government will ensure farmers maintain the right to determine who has access to their land and under what circumstances. More >>
Panicked Labour executes U-turn on road funding
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 11:24 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman John Key is pleased that Michael Cullen has executed a U-turn on road funding, but suspects it has more to do with Labour's poor polling. More >>
Truancy prevention will pay big welfare dividends
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 12:39 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins, says a focus on truancy prevention in education will pay big dividends in welfare. More >>
Don Brash Writes
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 12:18 am | New Zealand National Party
At the time of the 2002 election, National campaigned against the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. We argued that it made no sense for a country which contributes just one-quarter of one percent to the global emissions of greenhouse gases to impose ... More >>
NCEA: the nightmare continues...
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 4:57 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokesman Bill English revealed in Parliament today that schools where 100% of students sitting NCEA Level 1 Technology failed have since found, on having the papers reassessed, that 70% actually passed. More >>
Political correctness in public institutions
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 4:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party MP Wayne Mapp says political correctness is deeply imbedded in New Zealand's public institutions and the next National Government will get rid of it. More >>
National will take apples dispute 'to the top'
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 3:23 pm | New Zealand National Party
The next National Government will invoke the WTO dispute resolution process against Australia for refusing to allow New Zealand apples into the Australian market. More >>
Economist damages his own credibility
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 1:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Peter Harris' report 'The Myth of the Exploding Public Sector' is a highly slanted document that uses selective data, and when properly analysed is found sadly wanting," says National Party Finance spokesman John Key. More >>
Labour's Treaty deadline is nonsense
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 11:18 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says no one should be conned by Labour's double speak on Treaty deadlines. More >>
Conflict looms over Labour’s whaling policy
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 9:08 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Conservation spokesman, Simon Power, says there is a problem looming for Labour because the man picked by many to be their next leader does not agree with their stance on maintaining the moratorium on whaling. More >>
Health and welfare rorts uncovered in race review
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 12:22 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says the Ministers of Health and Social Development must be held accountable for the rorts uncovered in Labour's race based funding review. More >>
Labour claims integrated schools' assets
Wednesday, 22 June 2005, 12:20 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Education spokesman, Bill English, says Labour is using a technical breach of accounting rules to claim $35 million worth of education facilities paid for by integrated schools. More >>
New trade licensing will cost consumers
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 5:22 pm | New Zealand National Party
Competence-based licensing in the plumbing and drainlaying industry will hit consumers in the pocket, says National's Consumer Affairs spokeswoman, Sandra Goudie. More >>
Hodgson puts New Zealand in the red
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 5:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
Pete Hodgson must be wishing he'd never got out of bed last week. The Minister's billion-dollar bungle has left him pale faced, with tail firmly lodged between his legs. More >>
