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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 >>
Budget 2005: Poor Health Legacy Continues
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 6:10 pm | New Zealand National Party
A legacy of five years of poor quality spending in the health sector is a significant shadow on Labour's health Budget announcement, says National Party Health spokesman Paul Hutchison. More >>
Budget ‘05: Opportunity Lost For NZers
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 6:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
“Budget 2005 is an opportunity lost for all New Zealanders,” says National Party Leader Don Brash. More >>
Budget ’05: Opportunity Lost For All NZers
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 4:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
Speech Notes by National Party Leader Don Brash on Budget 2005, 19 May 2005. Madam Speaker, this is a Budget about lost opportunity. I move that all the words after "that" be omitted and the following inserted: More >>
Budget 2005: Insult to working NZers
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 3:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
“This Budget is slow Punch and no Judy. Frankly, working New Zealanders should feel insulted they’ve had to wait so long, to be promised so little,” says National Party Finance spokesman John Key. More >>
Another Labour whitewash
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 8:42 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Families spokeswoman Judith Collins says the appointment of Police Commissioner Rob Robinson to inquire into the actions of stood-down Education Minister David Benson Pope had whitewash written all over it. More >>
National reveals $800,000 personal grievance case
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 4:59 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins has revealed that CYF is facing an $800,000 personal grievance claim. More >>
Families Commissioner defied Labour on handshake
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 4:17 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Families Spokeswoman Judith Collins says it appears Families Commissioner Rajen Prasad openly defied instructions from the Government and went ahead to hand out a golden handshake regardless. More >>
Culled patients wait in agony
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 3:37 pm | New Zealand National Party
One of the 2000 patients 'culled' from the Counties Manukau DHB waiting list is "sitting in agony, not even able to get across the floor", says National's Health spokesman, Paul Hutchison. More >>
Parenting courses pale imitation of Don Brash plan
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 3:35 pm | New Zealand National Party
Parenting courses unveiled by Labour as pre-Budget propaganda are little more than a "pale imitation of the plan announced by Don Brash earlier this year," says National Party Families spokeswoman Judith Collins. More >>
Budget must boost investment in roading
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 3:07 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Transport spokesman Maurice Williamson agrees with the NZ Council for Infrastructure Development in saying that Thursday's Budget must significantly lift the level of investment in roading. More >>
Near quadrupling in CYF legal bills under Labour
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 1:15 pm | New Zealand National Party
There has been a near quadrupling of legal bills at CYF since the Labour Party took office, says National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins. More >>
