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News Worthy - 10 December 2004
Friday, 10 December 2004, 10:38 am | New Zealand National Party
Parliament has been consumed this week with the passage under urgency of the Civil Union Bill. For me there have been two stand-out points: More >>
Getting Ahead With Lower Taxes
Friday, 10 December 2004, 12:38 am | New Zealand National Party
Earlier this year, I indicated that an incoming National Government would give priority to tax relief for low and middle income working families, with gradual tax reductions for those earning higher incomes as fiscal circumstances permit. More >>
Getting Ahead With Lower Taxes
Friday, 10 December 2004, 12:31 am | New Zealand National Party
"New Zealand needs tax changes that provide greater incentives for investment, enterprise, entrepreneurship and hard work. And those changes will involve both personal tax and company tax," National Party Leader Don Brash told a lunchtime meeting today. More >>
Zaoui: Govt incompetence on security
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 6:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Immigration spokesman, Tony Ryall, says the release of Ahmed Zaoui from jail today makes a mockery of the Government's handling of the long-lasting, costly security issue. More >>
Labour must act on Maori ban in Bay of Islands
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 5:15 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says Labour must send a firm message to the Northland hapu that is advertising a ban on boats and ships from a huge area in the Bay of Islands. More >>
Higher salaries best way to reverse brain drain
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 11:41 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash says higher salaries and a better standard of living are easily the best ways to reverse the brain drain affecting New Zealand, and taxes are a big part of that. More >>
National to give workers choice in holidays
Thursday, 9 December 2004, 9:16 am | New Zealand National Party
Opposition Leader Don Brash says the National Party will give workers choice in their holiday entitlements. More >>
HDHB blowout report damning
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 3:22 pm | New Zealand National Party
A damning report into a budget blowout at Hawke's Bay DHB highlights the gross waste and total lack of accountability in the health sector, says National's Health spokeswoman, Judith Collins. More >>
Anderton should resign over report
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 11:28 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Gerry Brownlee is calling for Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton's head after a damning report on the Trade and Enterprise business grants scheme. More >>
Maharey backs down part of the way
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 8:26 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokesman, Bill English, says Tertiary Education Minister Steve Maharey has backed down part of the way over Canterbury Polytechnic’s COOL-IT enrolment scandal. More >>
Public purse pays for Labour pipe dream
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 3:45 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Michael Cullen's policy to allow the Reserve Bank to intervene in the currency market is proving not only futile, but it's outrageously expensive as well," says National Party Finance spokesman John Key. More >>
Labour fails young NZers
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 2:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
A report into literacy and numeracy shows that the policies of the Labour Government are failing young New Zealanders, says National Party Leader Don Brash. More >>
National will do better on tax
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 2:55 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Labour needs to re-think its ideological opposition to tax cuts if the main argument is that it's better for the Government to spend our taxes than hard-working New Zealanders," says National Party Leader Don Brash. More >>
Private hospitals could help cut lists
Monday, 6 December 2004, 3:05 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s Health spokeswoman, Judith Collins, says Labour’s ideological opposition to private health providers is putting people’s lives at risk. More >>
True intention of Civil Union Bill revealed
Monday, 6 December 2004, 11:20 am | New Zealand National Party
"The Prime Minister's dismissal of 'civil relationships' as a workable alternative to the Civil Union Bill reveals the government's intention all along has been to introduce same-sex marriage", says National Justice Spokesman Richard Worth. More >>
"Civil Relationships Bill” - a better option
Monday, 6 December 2004, 9:00 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Justice spokesman, Richard Worth, has introduced an amendment to the Civil Union Bill which has been dogged by claims of dishonesty and undue haste. More >>
Taxpayers fund blatant propaganda
Monday, 6 December 2004, 8:41 am | New Zealand National Party
National MP Judith Collins has written to the Auditor-General asking him to examine a calendar advertising Labour Party policy that was paid for with public money. More >>
Civil union alternative offered up
Monday, 6 December 2004, 8:41 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Justice spokesman Richard Worth is launching an 11th-hour bid to change the controversial Civil Union Bill by introducing an amendment called the Civil Relationships Bill. More >>
Clark failing on youth crime promise
Friday, 3 December 2004, 5:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government is still failing to get on top of the youth crime rate as it promised, says National's Police spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Another Mallard U-Turn
Friday, 3 December 2004, 2:43 pm | New Zealand National Party
Education Minister Trevor Mallard has been forced into another embarrassing backdown, this time over his early childhood policy, says National Party Education spokesman Bill English. More >>
