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Minister’s and Commissioner’s credibility is shot
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 11:25 am | New Zealand National Party
“The credibility of the Police Minister and his Commissioner is in tatters. It is now only a matter of time before both will go,” says National Party Police spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
Education leadership in chaos
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 4:09 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Education spokesman, Bill English, says school closures could be back on the agenda now that Helen Clark has given Trevor Mallard all responsibilities for education in a desperate attempt to stabilise leadership in the sector. More >>
Finance Minister disowns Labour's lay-by Budget
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 3:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
"It's looking increasingly like Labour is planning to make some minor inflation adjustments to tax thresholds to be applied at some point in the conveniently distant future," says National Party Finance spokesman John Key. More >>
Waiting lists grow despite billions in extra funds
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 10:59 am | New Zealand National Party
Ministry of Health waiting list figures for March continue to show serious problems with Labour’s health bureaucracy, says National’s Health spokesman, Paul Hutchison. More >>
Rising costs to consumers unnecessary
Monday, 16 May 2005, 4:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
Moves to require competence-based licensing in the plumbing and drainlaying industry will hit consumers hard in the pocket, says National’s Consumer Affairs spokeswoman, Sandra Goudie. More >>
Van Rooyen's resignation won't fix NCEA
Monday, 16 May 2005, 3:57 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Education spokesman, Bill English, says Karen Van Rooyen's resignation will make no difference to the 130,000 students sitting NCEA this year. More >>
Transpower overhead AC 400kV project unacceptable
Monday, 16 May 2005, 8:36 am | New Zealand National Party
Transpower's announcement that it wants to use the western route through the Waikato to get extra power to Auckland using alternating current (AC) overlooks alternatives, says Lindsay Tisch, the National MP for Piako. More >>
Brash Speech: A new government and a new direction
Monday, 16 May 2005, 8:35 am | New Zealand National Party
I must say it’s great to be back here in the South, where I have been a frequent visitor in recent weeks. More >>
V8 resource consent fiasco shows need for reform
Monday, 16 May 2005, 8:34 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Environment spokesman, Nick Smith, says the decision to abandon the Wellington V8 street race highlights the need to substantially change the Resource Management Act. More >>
Bulk funding: PPTA should be ashamed
Monday, 16 May 2005, 12:08 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Education spokesman, Bill English, says the PPTA's arguments against bulk funding are absolute nonsense and the union should be ashamed of itself for blatantly misleading its members. More >>
Gerry In The House: Wheels Fall Off Labour Bus
Friday, 13 May 2005, 4:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
At a time when pre-Budget announcements usually shore up shaky backbench majorities, all we have seen this week have been labour's wheels well and truly falling off. The body language of Labour MPs says it all. And here's what's been causing it: the ... More >>
Release the transcripts
Friday, 13 May 2005, 2:43 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash says the latest selective leaks around the Doonegate affair have the "trademark Helen Clark feel about them". More >>
What's Going W - May 13 2005
Friday, 13 May 2005, 2:34 pm | New Zealand National Party
The news for our Police isn't getting any better. The independent review into the state of our 111 call centres was released on May 11 with damning results for Police Minister George Hawkins and Police Commissioner Rob Robinson. More >>
Reconsideration of the Drinking Age Needed
Friday, 13 May 2005, 2:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
It is now six years since the drinking age was lowered from 20 years to 18 (Actually it is mostly a purchase age, rather than a drinking age, but everyone refers to it as the drinking age). More >>
Labour tolerates hypocrisy in Ferguson case
Friday, 13 May 2005, 11:24 am | New Zealand National Party
“Both the Defence Minister and his Defence chief must now consider whether they can continue in their jobs given the decision by the Solicitor-General in relation to a recent employment court case,” says National Party Defence spokesman John Carter. More >>
Helen Clark should say if George Hawkins is hiding
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 11:19 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee is calling on Helen Clark to tell the New Zealand public whether George Hawkins plans to front up to questions in Parliament today over the damning Police Comms report. More >>
Bill English Comments
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 9:01 am | New Zealand National Party
The NCEA Review has some way to go with the final report due in July, but the signs aren't good. The report on Scholarship was a mixed bag. It exposed a saga of incompetence and arrogance, but concluded the central issue was that the NZQA didn't tell everyone ... More >>
Helen Clark gives herself sweeping new powers
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 4:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash says Helen Clark appears to have granted herself sweeping new powers to leak confidential information to whomever she likes, whenever she likes, about whatever she likes. More >>
Don Brash Writes No. 58, 11 May 2005
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 3:19 pm | New Zealand National Party
When Helen Clark became Prime Minister in late 1999, she made lots of bold claims about how her Labour Government was going to be honest and transparent. And despite Paintergate and Corngate, many New Zealanders still feel Helen Clark is a person ... More >>
Police review a bombshell
Wednesday, 11 May 2005, 2:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Police spokesman, Tony Ryall, says the report into the police communications centre is “a bombshell” that shows the public and frontline police are at risk. More >>
