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King ‘relaxed’ on 87% Unanswered PlunketLine Calls
Monday, 7 March 2005, 8:22 am | New Zealand National Party
Parents who use the PlunketLine number will be appalled at Annette King’s shoulder-shrugging at official figures showing 87% of calls in January went unanswered, says National’s Associate Health spokeswoman Katherine Rich. More >>
Labour ignored early warnings about scholarship
Monday, 7 March 2005, 8:14 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Education spokesman, Bill English, says Labour chose to ignore repeated early warnings from leading educators about NCEA scholarship exams. More >>
Security needed for online banking
Monday, 7 March 2005, 8:13 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Commerce spokesman, Brian Connell, says Labour must step in to ensure the security of the bank accounts of more than one million New Zealanders, from internet hackers. More >>
National targets red tape in building sector
Monday, 7 March 2005, 8:11 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash has appointed Nelson MP Nick Smith as the party’s spokesman on Building and Construction. More >>
Will people die waiting while King remains idle?
Friday, 4 March 2005, 3:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Health Minister must act before the crises at Auckland District Health Board cause unnecessary deaths, says National's Health spokesman, Paul Hutchison. More >>
Burton opens monument to political correctness
Friday, 4 March 2005, 3:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
Spending $5 million on a new road bridge at Tangiwai, when doing $200,000 of earthworks at the crater lake could have eliminated the lahar risk, shows the extent to which Labour will waste public money in the name of political correctness, says National's ... More >>
John Key Speech: State Sector Under National
Friday, 4 March 2005, 11:07 am | New Zealand National Party
For an incoming National Government to simply unwind this on the basis of ideology would cause unnecessary disruption... It is therefore our intention to keep the bank for at least our first term in office so that any final decisions on its future can ... More >>
News Worthy - 4 March 2005 - No. 21
Friday, 4 March 2005, 10:01 am | New Zealand National Party
At the end of January I returned from climbing Kilimanjaro which is close to Arusha in Tanzania. There I met up with Jonathan Moses a New Zealand lawyer who is a senior trial attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. More >>
Brash wants ambassador recalled
Friday, 4 March 2005, 12:39 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash is calling for New Zealand to urgently recall its ambassador to Indonesia for consultations in protest at the "pathetic" sentence handed down on Bali bombing terror leader Abu Bakar Bashir. More >>
'Independent expert' was NCEA architect
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 4:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour has named one of the architects of the NCEA as the independent expert brought in to review dodgy NCEA exam results, says National's Education spokesman Bill English. More >>
From watch-dog to lap-dog on Treaty clauses
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 3:26 pm | New Zealand National Party
"He was supposed to be the watchdog from Wainuiomata on race issues, instead he's become the lap-dog to Labour's double standard on the Treaty," says National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee. More >>
Boosting productivity and pay
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 2:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Industrial Relations spokesman, Wayne Mapp, says boosting productivity and reducing the tax burden are the best ways to increase income in a sustainable way. More >>
What's the story with Plunketline?
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 1:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Annette King has some explaining to do after the latest set of figures appear to show major problems with a taxpayer-funded phone service that new parents depend on," says National Party Associate Health spokeswoman Katherine Rich. More >>
‘P’ scourge casts ever-darkening shadow
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 8:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Law and Order spokesman, Tony Ryall, says the scourge of methamphetamine is casting a dark shadow across crime in New Zealand. More >>
NCEA ‘expert’ a political poodle
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 8:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
Teachers, parents and students can have no faith in the overseas ‘expert’ hired to review the NCEA because he is one of the architects of the system, says National’s Education spokesman Bill English. More >>
Labour bungles NCEA backdown
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 4:45 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Education spokesman Bill English says Labour's inquiry into the NCEA looks set to be as reliable as the exam results it is investigating. More >>
Got piles? Go private
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 4:00 pm | New Zealand National Party
Patients with simple conditions such as piles face a choice: wait until your condition is so severe that surgery is finally warranted, or go private, says National's Health spokesman, Paul Hutchison. More >>
Too many Kiwi kids caught in poverty trap
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 1:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says the damage done by Labour's ham-fisted approach to welfare has been highlighted in a new report that shows New Zealand has some of the worst child poverty rates in the world. More >>
National Leader Welcomes List Decision
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 1:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash is welcoming the announcement today that current standing MPs will be ranked within the top 30 places of the Party List at this year's election. More >>
Unions should target Labour
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 10:31 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Industrial Relations spokesman, Wayne Mapp, says the EPMU should be targeting Labour over pay rates. More >>
