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Academics prove PM wrong
Monday, 6 September 2004, 2:22 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Associate Treaty spokesman Wayne Mapp is concerned by the reluctance of some academics to distance themselves from claims of 'civil war' over the Foreshore and Seabed legislation. More >>
Labour Must Show Hand On Maori Issues
Monday, 6 September 2004, 1:05 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokesman Gerry Brownlee says the rise of Tariana Turia's Party should force Labour to come clean on its agenda for Maori and its plan for race relations should it win the next election. More >>
Community groups targeted in another tax grab
Friday, 3 September 2004, 2:18 pm | New Zealand National Party
Community organisations stand to be the big losers from a Government move to increase the problem gambling levy on gaming operations to $54.51 million over three years. More >>
News Worthy: By Richard Worth
Friday, 3 September 2004, 9:46 am | New Zealand National Party
Murray McCully the National MP for East Coast Bay has carried out a tally of the press secretaries who work for the Government and has noted a head count of 42. More >>
Hip-hop report highlights a catalogue of disasters
Friday, 3 September 2004, 9:41 am | New Zealand National Party
“A damning report detailing a catalogue of internal funding failures demonstrates that Steve Maharey’s flagship social policy scheme was an embarrassing flop,“ says National Party Social Services spokeswoman Katherine Rich. More >>
Skyhawk non-sale a $10m shambles
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 7:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
The failure of the Labour Government to sell the mothballed Skyhawks and Aermacchi jet trainers has become a very expensive shambles, says National's Defence spokesman, John Carter. More >>
Charities Bill spells disaster for sport
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 7:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
Sporting groups have become dependent on grants from charitable trusts, but it is evident that funding will be cut, because amateur sport is not included in the Charities Bill's definition of 'charitable purposes'. More >>
Labour plunders victims' money
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 4:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government is plundering money meant for the victims of crime to pay for bureaucracy, says National's Law and Order spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Budget propaganda campaign breaks the rules
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 2:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
National MP Murray McCully has welcomed the report of the Auditor-General on the Government's planned $21.15 million post-Budget advertising programme released to him today. More >>
Parents underwrite schools' finances
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 2:23 pm | New Zealand National Party
Parents and communities deserve credit for underwriting the finances of schools by hundreds of millions of dollars each year, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English. More >>
Skilled migration in freefall
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 1:53 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Yet another reduction in the points requirement for skilled migrants shows the Government's policy is in freefall," says National's Immigration spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Ministers hysterical in the face of criticism
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 8:46 am | New Zealand National Party
“Increasingly hysterical claims by Trevor Mallard and Steve Maharey about my criticism of the NCEA shows the government is worried about the credibility of their policy. More >>
Look what Labour's taxing now
Thursday, 2 September 2004, 12:24 am | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government's decision to slap a tax on new farm grass is another case of taxation running out of control, says National's Associate Revenue spokesperson, Brian Connell. More >>
No employment guarantees for scientists
Wednesday, 1 September 2004, 2:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
AgResearch has refused to give any employment guarantees to Wallaceville's world famous animal reproduction scientific team despite plans to split it up, says National's Science spokesman Dr Paul Hutchison. More >>
Minister Admits Flaws In Rugby League Grant Probe
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 6:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
"The latest CEG report into a $19,000 grant to Aotearoa Rugby Football League is a whitewash," according to National Party Social Services spokeswoman Katherine Rich. More >>
Non-union teachers may have to pay PPTA fees
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 6:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
Teachers who miss out on a $500 payment to union members only could be forced to pay $500 in union fees anyway, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English. More >>
Another embarrassing backdown from Govt
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 6:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Holidays Act Amendment Bill is another embarrassing backdown from a U-turn-happy government, says National's Industrial Relations spokesman Dr Wayne Mapp. More >>
Maori TV Should Come Clean On Audience Share
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 6:10 pm | New Zealand National Party
"The Maori Television Service is behaving like an organisation with something to hide - releasing once again inadequate figures relating to its audience share," says National Party East Coast Bays MP Murray McCully. More >>
Brash should back English or sack him
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 4:05 pm | New Zealand National Party
Education Minister Trevor Mallard today called on National leader Don Brash to either back his education spokesman Bill English or sack him for wrongly insinuating Hauraki Plains College teachers and students were NCEA cheats. More >>
Winston misses the target - again
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 3:46 pm | New Zealand National Party
Winston Peters's call for a return to compulsory military training for troubled youths is typical of him asking for something that is already in place, says National's Defence spokesman, John Carter. More >>
