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National says get foreign fruit pickers picking
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 11:04 am | New Zealand National Party
The Minister of Immigration has the power to grant exceptions to policy to allow visiting backpackers to pick fruit, and she should do so, says National MP Murray McCully. More >>
Labour Must Look At Work For The Dole
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 11:03 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Family spokeswoman Judith Collins is appalled by the Government's startling admission that it has never properly investigated Australia's successful work for the dole scheme. More >>
New bid to hide health policy failures
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 10:15 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Health spokeswoman Lynda Scott is concerned that serious illness may go undiagnosed because of the latest bid to hide the Government's failing health policies. More >>
Ryall Demands Answers On Corrections Koha
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 10:13 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Corrections spokesman Tony Ryall is calling for a full accounting of the $417, 652 spent by the Corrections Department on 'koha' in the past five years. More >>
More fuel for probe into language schools
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 9:56 am | New Zealand National Party
The announcement that a further six English language schools are to close gives fresh urgency to the call for an inquiry into New Zealand's $1.7 billion export education industry, according to two National Party MPs. More >>
Action needed after warnings of rural downturn
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 9:55 am | New Zealand National Party
"Helen Clark's stated economic answer of 'picking winners' condemns New Zealand's agricultural sector to a bleak year," says National Party Agriculture spokesman David Carter. More >>
Power Prices Set To Rise - Again
Monday, 19 January 2004, 11:48 am | New Zealand National Party
"Householders will be feeling a sense of déjà vu amid warnings that power prices are set to rise again this summer," says National Party Energy spokesman Roger Sowry. More >>
More time needed to comment on employment law
Monday, 19 January 2004, 11:46 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Industrial Relations spokesman Roger Sowry says the public and business alike deserve more time to have their say on employment law changes. More >>
Quality at stake in TVNZ bid for funding control
Monday, 19 January 2004, 11:42 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Broadcasting spokeswoman Georgina te Heuheu says the quality of television would be put at risk if the Government bows to pressure from TVNZ over $68 million worth of New Zealand On Air funding. "Reports today confirm my statement of ... More >>
Official papers confirm Labour is failing Maori
Monday, 19 January 2004, 11:41 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Maori Affairs spokeswoman Georgina te Heuheu says a leaked report out today confirms the Labour Government is failing Maori. "Despite all the talk and all the poorly focussed hand-outs - Maori are still falling behind in key ... More >>
Throwing Good Money After Bad
Monday, 19 January 2004, 11:40 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government's plan to give $2.5 million to a "Strengthening Management and Governance" pilot scheme for Maori organisations has been condemned as "throwing good money after bad", by National MP Murray McCully. More >>
Substance lost in NCEA spin
Monday, 19 January 2004, 11:39 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokesman Bill English says all parents will share his anger about the lower standards that will flow from the misleading way that NCEA results are being compiled and marketed. More >>
Labour Govt At 6s And 7s Over High Dollar
Friday, 16 January 2004, 5:30 pm | New Zealand National Party
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Rodney Hide today said that the Labour Government was at sixes and sevens over the high dollar. More >>
Minister rejects inquiry into customs procedures
Friday, 16 January 2004, 5:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
Calls from National Customs spokesman, Shane Ardern MP, for an inquiry into custom procedures after a corrupt Customs officer gave drug smugglers details of border security secrets has been rejected by Customs Minister Rick Barker. More >>
More pressure on Michael Cullen to explain options
Friday, 16 January 2004, 1:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Don Brash says the pressure is increasing on Finance Minister Michael Cullen to explain the so-called 'options' he talked about for controlling the New Zealand dollar. More >>
Enough talk - "P" trade must be smashed
Friday, 16 January 2004, 1:07 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Police spokesman Tony Ryall says the Government must smash the predators trading in 'P' and they should be using the Proceeds of Crime Act to do it. More >>
Taupo intimidation case the first of many
Friday, 16 January 2004, 10:47 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Law and Order spokesman Tony Ryall says the intimidation of Taupo residents by Maori occupying a lakeside reserve is likely to be the first of many such cases. More >>
Inaction by stretched police no surprise to MP
Thursday, 15 January 2004, 4:24 pm | New Zealand National Party
A report that international students have been denied police assistance comes as no surprise to Pansy Wong MP, National's Asian Relationships spokesperson. More >>
PM pushing republicanism by stealth
Thursday, 15 January 2004, 2:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
Discarding the Crown from the Army's crest is just another example of the Government's republicanism by stealth in action, says National's Constitutional Affairs spokesman Dr Wayne Mapp More >>
Ryall demands answers on wanted criminal
Wednesday, 14 January 2004, 10:33 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Police spokesman Tony Ryall wants answers on how a wanted criminal could appear in a High Court case, and disappear again without anyone arresting him. More >>
