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Gerry In The House: The Greens Walk The Plank
Friday, 27 May 2005, 5:31 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Green Party this week announced their core plank for the election campaign - energy. Because the election campaign begins in earnest over the next few months, and because the Greens pitch themselves as Labour's coalition partner, the consequences ... More >>
What's Going Wong: Cullen's Tax Crumbs A Joke
Friday, 27 May 2005, 4:19 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour and its master illusionist, Finance Minister Michael Cullen, raised expectations so high in the lead-up to the Budget that they crashed faster than you could say 'what tax cuts'? Obviously it has become too difficult for Labour to take their greedy ... More >>
National Education
Friday, 27 May 2005, 9:43 am | New Zealand National Party
Comments From Bill English, National's Education Spokesman : Bureaucrats Beat Budget : Parents beat Teachers : Fear and Loathing In Polytechland More >>
The Budget Fallout continues
Friday, 27 May 2005, 12:36 am | New Zealand National Party
The Budget Fallout continues. It is clear that Labour will argue that they have spent the surplus, and that everyone else's proposals are not workable. As I indicated last week, this is based on the false premise that all capital spending has come ... More >>
Labour is irresponsible and out of touch
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 2:52 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash has accused Labour of being irresponsible and out of touch, during a speech in Napier. More >>
Labour Govt overrides $200 million commission
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 2:33 pm | New Zealand National Party
Confidential plans for changes in tertiary funding demonstrate that even Labour believes the $200 million Tertiary Education Commission has been a huge waste of taxpayer dollars, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English. More >>
The Budget and Fiscal Irresponsibility
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 1:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
Don Brash Leader of the National Party Wednesday 25 May 2005 Address to the Napier Chamber of Commerce Mission Estate, Taradale The Budget and Fiscal Irresponsibility More >>
Don Brash Writes No. 59, 25 May 2005
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 1:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
The President of the Labour Party hinted at a "deep dark secret" and fed the speculation that it would contain some worthwhile adjustments to either tax rates or the thresholds at which those rates apply. In the event, it provoked the Dominion-Post to run a ... More >>
OECD report confirms rampant Labour spending
Wednesday, 25 May 2005, 11:48 am | New Zealand National Party
"The Finance Minster must feel embarrassed by the way he has tried to manipulate today's OECD report which confirms that Labour spending is out of control," says National Party Finance spokesman John Key. More >>
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 >>
