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English hands box over to NZQA
Friday, 27 August 2004, 5:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
Trevor Mallard needs to reassure parents and students that the Government will stop ignoring the problems with NCEA and get on and fix them, says National's Education spokesman, Bill English. More >>
NZ in the eye of compliance cost storm
Friday, 27 August 2004, 11:38 am | New Zealand National Party
”New Zealand is merely in the eye of a compliance cost storm,” says the National Party spokesman for Small Business Lindsay Tisch, in response to the latest KPMG/Business New Zealand survey on compliance costs. More >>
Air NZ wage blow-out warning tip of the iceberg
Friday, 27 August 2004, 12:28 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Industrial Relations spokesman Wayne Mapp says predictions that Air New Zealand could face up to a $40 million wage blow-out because of the Holidays Act should be of concern to all workers. More >>
Cambridge High problems snowballing
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 4:36 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government continues to bury its head in the sand over NCEA assessment problems, says National’s Education spokesman Bill English. More >>
NZ no safer than it was 20 years ago
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 4:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
Despite the Government’s claims, no one believes New Zealand is a safer place than it was 20 years ago, says National’s police spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Growth blunder should leave Minister red faced
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 1:49 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Statistics Minister John Tamihere might like to believe he is a 'red blooded male', but after today's botch-up of the first quarter GDP figures he will be red faced as well," according to National Party Finance spokesman John Key. More >>
Time will tell if Govt listens to small business
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 1:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party spokesman for Small Business Lindsay Tisch says time will tell if the anti-business Labour Government delivers on the Small Business Advisory Group annual report. More >>
SOP Voluntary donor register for Reproductive Bill
Thursday, 26 August 2004, 10:26 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Associate Health spokesman Paul Hutchison has introduced a Supplementary Order Paper to the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, that would allow donors and donor offspring who have been involved with treatment prior to the commencement ... More >>
Refugee benefit dependency a Labour disgrace
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 5:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
Dumping refugees onto a benefit is nothing for which the Government should be proud, says National's Immigration spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Professor Mutu a disgrace
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 4:45 pm | New Zealand National Party
An assertion by Professor Margaret Mutu that government action over the ownership of the foreshore and seabed will lead 'inevitably to civil war' is disgraceful, says National's Associate spokesman for Treaty and Constitutional Issues, Wayne Mapp. More >>
Accident numbers skyrocket under Labour's ACC
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 3:33 pm | New Zealand National Party
Figures released today by ACC show moderate to severe injuries have increased from 82,253 in 1999 to 103,002 this year, and deaths have increased from 1,020 in 1999 to 1,070 this year. More >>
Brash-Report: More Abuse Of The Welfare System
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 3:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
In my last newsletter, I highlighted the pressure which many doctors experience to re-classify people from the unemployment benefit (where people are expected to be seeking work) to the sickness benefit (where there is no such pressure to seek work). ... More >>
Taxpayers Carry Cost For Slack DPB Rules
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 2:55 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Social Services spokeswoman Katherine Rich is accusing Work and Income of turning a blind eye to liable fathers and leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab. More >>
Schools Fundraising To Stay Afloat
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 1:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Education spokesman Bill English says the Government is only just keeping schools afloat. More >>
Labour must act on roads report
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 11:34 am | New Zealand National Party
The Allen Consulting Group’s report on roads is a wake-up call for action and a blueprint for the path ahead, says National’s Transport spokesman, Maurice Williamson. More >>
Grants fail to compensate for lost research
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 2:37 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government's $10 million biotechnology grants fail to compensate for the tens of millions of research dollars the Government has recently lost overseas, says National's Science spokesman Dr Paul Hutchison. More >>
Brash-Report - No. 29, 5 May - The Holidays Act
Tuesday, 24 August 2004, 10:59 am | New Zealand National Party
At a time when most of the focus of political attention is on the extraordinary mess which the Government has created with its seabed and foreshore policy - with a belated ministerial sacking, a by-election, a hikoi, and all the rest - it is worth remembering ... More >>
Celebrating Families 23 August 2004
Monday, 23 August 2004, 4:57 pm | New Zealand National Party
What makes successful children? As a Member of Parliament, I constantly come across fantastic young people and their parents. It is very obvious that children have a much higher chance of being fine New Zealand citizens when they have fine parents ... More >>
C+ not acceptable on Social Report
Monday, 23 August 2004, 8:38 am | New Zealand National Party
A C+ is not acceptable, says National’s Welfare spokeswoman Katherine Rich on the Ministry of Social Development’s 2004 Social Report released today. More >>
$80m tertiary mess gets bigger
Monday, 23 August 2004, 8:37 am | New Zealand National Party
The announcement that a controversial Maori sing-along course will be extended into Auckland shows the Government is continuing to waste millions of dollars on low-quality tertiary courses, says National’s Education spokesman Bill English. More >>
