Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
New Zealand National Party - Latest News [Page 575]
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 >>
Where’s the progress on PlunketLine?
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 1:46 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Associate Health spokeswoman Katherine Rich is calling on the Health Minister to repeat her assurance that PlunketLine will be up to scratch by the end of the month. More >>
Labour hiring binge continues
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 11:37 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman John Key says new figures out today show Labour’s hiring binge is showing no sign of letting up. More >>
Foreshore and Seabed Act haunts NZ First
Tuesday, 21 June 2005, 11:36 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Winston Peters has some explaining to do about the Foreshore and Seabed Act when he re-launches his Maori policy today. More >>
Massive Labour U-turns on RMA
Monday, 20 June 2005, 5:35 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour has become so desperate and vulnerable over problems with the Resource Management Act that it has had to do massive U-turns to try to stop the political tide going out on them, says National's Environment spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>
Cullen needs to have a lie-down
Monday, 20 June 2005, 4:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Finance spokesman, John Key, says Michael Cullen is inventing nonsense around tax in an attempt to put up a smokescreen to disguise his own Budget failings. More >>
Ryall: 180,000 calls to police abandoned
Monday, 20 June 2005, 8:21 am | New Zealand National Party
One in ten calls to police communications centres are abandoned as callers give up waiting, says National Party Law and Order spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
Benefit fraud must be repaid by community service
Monday, 20 June 2005, 8:20 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Welfare spokeswoman, Judith Collins, says welfare fraud is reaching scandalous levels and fraudsters must be made to repay their debt through community service. More >>
Campbell now a Kiwi sporting legend
Monday, 20 June 2005, 12:45 am | New Zealand National Party
Michael Campbell has today cemented his place as a New Zealand sporting legend by winning the United States Golf Open, says National’s Sport, Fitness and Leisure spokesman, Murray McCully. More >>
Gerry In The House -17 June 2005
Friday, 17 June 2005, 4:35 pm | New Zealand National Party
Many of you would have seen today's reports on the botch-up of carbon emissions and the additional cost that New Zealand will face as one of the countries that has ratified the Kyoto Protocol. More >>
Kyoto: National lodges privileges complaint
Friday, 17 June 2005, 3:23 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Environment Spokesman Nick Smith today lodged a privileges complaint with Speaker Margaret Wilson, alleging that Michael Cullen deliberately misled Parliament over the $1 billion Kyoto bungle. More >>
Plain English June 2005
Friday, 17 June 2005, 2:33 pm | New Zealand National Party
Clutha Southland voters are telling me it's time for National's careful use of taxpayer's money. Good management of public money is about the basics - setting priorities, holding people accountable, getting more service for more resource. More >>
Brash - Electricity Engineers Association Speech
Friday, 17 June 2005, 11:04 am | New Zealand National Party
Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for inviting me here today to open the 76th Electricity Engineers Association Annual Conference. I wish you all the best for the rest of your conference. More >>
ACC must clarify role in abuse conference
Friday, 17 June 2005, 10:53 am | New Zealand National Party
"ACC needs to clarify its sponsorship role in the questionable "Many Faces of Abuse" conference scheduled for later this year," says National Party ACC spokeswoman Katherine Rich. More >>
Brash Announces Lines Company Moves
Friday, 17 June 2005, 10:51 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party leader Don Brash announced today that National intends to look closely at allowing electricity lines companies to move into electricity retailing. More >>
Complaint to Auditor-Gen on taxpayer-funded unions
Friday, 17 June 2005, 12:56 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Justice spokesman, Richard Worth, has lodged a formal complaint with the Auditor-General relating to decisions by the Ministry of Justice and Work & Income to make incentive payments to staff to join the Public Service Association. More >>
News Worthy, 17 June 2005
Friday, 17 June 2005, 12:51 am | New Zealand National Party
Political hypocrisy On Australian relationships A ban on smacking? A flood of migrants More >>
Benson-Pope’s Fisheries outburst laughable
Friday, 17 June 2005, 12:44 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s outburst at National’s fisheries policy is laughable, given that Labour still refuses to release its report on customary fishing abuse because it fears isolating its Maori vote, says National’s Fisheries spokesman, Phil Heatley. More >>
Culture of Extravagance Alive & Well
Friday, 17 June 2005, 12:41 am | New Zealand National Party
The blatant abuse of taxpayer’s money for political purposes is ongoing. I am in receipt of papers that reveal the Labour government is offering pay-offs for people in the public service to join the PSA. More >>
Hodgson must resign over billion-dollar cock-up
Thursday, 16 June 2005, 3:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Environment spokesman, Nick Smith, says Pete Hodgson must accept responsibility and resign over the billion-dollar error made in calculating New Zealand's carbon credit balance. More >>
