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Loss Of Edge In Cost Of Milk Production Alarming
Friday, 11 March 2005, 3:22 pm | New Zealand National Party
The announcement from AgResearch that New Zealand has lost its competitive edge in the cost of milk production should set off alarm bells, says National's agriculture spokesman, David Carter. More >>
Workers keep paying for Labour’s mismanagement
Friday, 11 March 2005, 1:52 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman John Key says workers and homeowners can blame Michael Cullen and the ‘tax and spend’ Labour Government for the rising costs of borrowing and the stagnation of Kiwi incomes. More >>
NZ’s wage growth half that of Australia’s
Friday, 11 March 2005, 11:14 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Finance spokesman, John Key, says OECD average production wage data issued today contain some alarming statistics for New Zealand. More >>
Concern over parts of NZ-Thailand FTA
Friday, 11 March 2005, 9:56 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Foreign Affairs and Trade Spokesman, Lockwood Smith, says he is concerned that the free trade agreement with Thailand, due to come into effect on July 1, has no commitment to liberalise trade in services. More >>
Cancer drugs stopped mid-treatment
Friday, 11 March 2005, 9:40 am | New Zealand National Party
The Minister of Health must stop the callous treatment of cancer patients having their drugs switched mid-therapy because of Government policy, says National’s Health spokesman, Paul Hutchison. More >>
111 staff numbers drop despite crisis
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 4:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Law and Order spokesman, Tony Ryall, says police communications centre staff numbers have been dropping since the month before Iraena Asher went missing after her 111 calls in October last year. More >>
Court of Appeal goes too far on lawyer liability
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 4:46 pm | New Zealand National Party
The decision by the Court of Appeal to substantially change well-settled law relating to the liability of barristers for the work they do in court goes too far and crosses well understood constitutional lines says, Richard Worth, National’s Justice sspokesman. More >>
Building and Construction spokesman
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 1:50 pm | New Zealand National Party
A parliamentary select committee was today told that Labour is to spend $5.9m fighting owners of leaky homes, and that it will not participate in weathertight homes resolution service mediations, despite evidence of failings by the Building Industry Authority. More >>
Labour budgets $6m to fight owners of leaky homes
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 1:48 pm | New Zealand National Party
A parliamentary select committee was today told that Labour is to spend $5.9m fighting owners of leaky homes, and that it will not participate in weathertight homes resolution service mediations, despite evidence of failings by the Building Industry Authority. More >>
John Key speech to Super Funds Summit
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 11:19 am | New Zealand National Party
If there is one consistency in the area of superannuation – and savings in general – it is that this is a contentious area. More >>
Trade deal exposes Labour’s hypocrisy
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 12:34 am | New Zealand National Party
The national interest analysis released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade this week reveals Labour’s hypocrisy on Treaty of Waitangi policy, says National’s Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman, Lockwood Smith. More >>
Lahar police: more nonsense from Labour
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 5:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
Stationing six police officers at Tangiwai to wait for the Ruapehu lahar is just another chapter in Labour’s farcical management of the lahar risk, says National’s Environment spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>
Courts debt hits record $602 million
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 2:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Law and Order spokesman, Tony Ryall, says a record $602 million was owed to the courts in outstanding fines and reparation debt at December 2004. The debt ballooned by $65 million in the past year. More >>
National Candidate calls for 'School Gardens'
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 11:58 am | New Zealand National Party
National candidate for Mt Roskill and breast cancer campaigner Dr Jackie Blue supports the fruit in schools programme to combat cancer but is also calling for the widespread introduction of school gardens, particularly in urban areas. More >>
More Labour deceit over NCEA inquiry
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 9:26 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour Ministers have resorted to being economical with the truth to downplay the seriousness of the inquiry into NCEA, says National’s Education spokesman, Bill English. Trevor Mallard told Parliament today that the Government decided to hold an inquiry ... More >>
John Key stands by comments
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 9:17 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman John Key says Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey can’t argue with the claim that four out of five households will get nothing from Working For Families, because it’s true. More >>
5% in ’05 won’t go far under high-tax Labour
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 3:55 pm | New Zealand National Party
“A 5% wage rise in the current high tax climate won’t go far, and trade unions would be better targeting Labour for tax cuts,” says National Party Finance spokesman John Key. More >>
Building Act rules a nightmare for hospitals
Monday, 7 March 2005, 5:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
Huge unnecessary building costs and delays will result from Labour's new Building Act for building redevelopments such as Wellington's Kenepuru Hospital, says National's Building and Construction spokesman, Nick Smith. More >>
Time to tighten up on inmates getting ACC
Monday, 7 March 2005, 4:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's ACC spokeswoman Katherine Rich has released figures showing more than 60 prison inmates wrongly received weekly ACC payments in the past eight months worth in total $35,000. More >>
Rush job on benefits done in Orewa's wake
Monday, 7 March 2005, 2:50 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash says Labour has admitted that its plan for a universal benefit was put back on the agenda in the aftermath of Orewa. More >>
