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Jail bed crisis back
Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 1:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
Only six months after Labour claimed to have fixed the jail bed crisis, official figures show it is back. More >>
Clark putting politics ahead of country
Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 10:36 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman, Lockwood Smith, says Prime Minister Helen Clark is putting politics ahead of New Zealand’s interests in calling for Tim Groser to step down as chairman of the Agriculture Committee at The World Trade Organisation. More >>
Helen Clark’s panic attack
Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 8:37 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party leader Don Brash says Helen Clark’s comments on Tim Groser are “playing petty politics with New Zealand’s future.” More >>
Schools Openly Defy Mallard
Monday, 23 May 2005, 4:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
Education Minister Trevor Mallard is facing yet another embarrassing conflict as many schools plan to flout unwanted changes to the school year, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English. More >>
Michael Cullen can't have it both ways
Monday, 23 May 2005, 3:37 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Michael Cullen should wake up to the fact that people are seeing through his nonsensical argument that it's okay for Labour to spend up large, but it's not okay to give some of that money back to workers in the form of tax relief," says ... More >>
Brash: Tax Cuts Key to a Spirit of Enterprise
Monday, 23 May 2005, 1:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
Nearly 600 people get on a plane and leave New Zealand to move permanently to Australia each week - 30,000 in the past year - the equivalent of losing the city of Gisborne each year. They go because they can see a better life with better rewards for themselves ... More >>
Biosecurity funding more Labour spin
Monday, 23 May 2005, 9:15 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Biosecurity spokesman, Shane Ardern, says yesterday’s Budget announcements for biosecurity are blatant Labour spin and do not even keep pace with inflation. More >>
Labour ignores poor A&E performance
Monday, 23 May 2005, 8:44 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour is still ignoring its consistently poor performing Accident and Emergency departments, says National Party Health spokesman Paul Hutchison. More >>
WTO Ambassador standing for National
Monday, 23 May 2005, 8:42 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party President Judy Kirk has announced that Tim Groser, New Zealand’s Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation, will be standing for the National Party at the upcoming General Election. More >>
National Party names WTO rep as list candidate
Monday, 23 May 2005, 8:41 am | New Zealand National Party
Tim Groser, currently New Zealand’s World Trade Organisation Ambassador and Chair of the Agriculture Negotiations, has accepted an offer from the President of the National Party to stand as a List Candidate at the forthcoming General Election. More >>
A billion dollar debt to the Kiwi taxpayer
Monday, 23 May 2005, 8:40 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins has released a breakdown of where liable parents are going to avoid paying their debts to their children and the Kiwi taxpayer. More >>
Serious questions about Labour’s Steven Ching
Monday, 23 May 2005, 8:39 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Justice spokesman Richard Worth says the Government must start asking some serious questions about the alleged behaviour of Labour list candidate Steven Ching. More >>
Brash Address: New Government And A New Direction
Monday, 23 May 2005, 8:39 am | New Zealand National Party
On Thursday, Michael Cullen read his sixth and final Budget in Parliament. What an opportunity lost for New Zealand! More >>
Budget 2005 - the Big Fizzer
Friday, 20 May 2005, 4:55 pm | New Zealand National Party
After days of whisperings up and down the country about some form of tax relief, all we got were tax threshold adjustments, in line with inflation (really an economic necessity), in 2008 - whoopee! This is an insult to hard-working Kiwis who have spent ... More >>
Budget '05: Labour ignores justice needs
Friday, 20 May 2005, 3:35 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Justice spokesman, Richard Worth, says Labour's additional $156.5 million for the Justice Ministry over the next four years falls well short of what is needed. More >>
Budget '05: Biosecurity funding more Labour spin
Friday, 20 May 2005, 1:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Biosecurity spokesman, Shane Ardern, says yesterday's Budget announcements for biosecurity are blatant Labour spin and do not even keep pace with inflation. More >>
Transport increase barely covers exiting projects
Friday, 20 May 2005, 10:10 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Transport spokesman, Maurice Williamson, says the extra $300 million over three years that the Government has put into roading is a start but goes nowhere near far enough. More >>
Budget ‘05: Gone before it arrives
Friday, 20 May 2005, 10:09 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman John Key says hard working Kiwis will still be losing money under the small, insulting changes to tax thresholds which Labour has put off for three years. More >>
Education bureaucracy big Budget winner
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 6:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Education spokesman, Bill English, says education bureaucracy is the big winner in this year's Budget, with the Ministry of Education getting a bigger funding increase than the country's 2,700 schools. More >>
Budget 2005: Police Get Too Little, Too Late
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 6:17 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Law and Order spokesman, Tony Ryall, says the Budget does nothing to restore the public's confidence in the police that has been shattered by the Labour Government. More >>
