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Gerry Brownlee becomes National Deputy Leader
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 1:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
Ilam MP Gerry Brownlee has been voted unopposed into the job of Deputy Leader at a National Party Caucus meeting today. More >>
National announces new Deputy Leader
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 1:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Dr Don Brash has announced that Gerry Brownlee will be the new Deputy Leader of the National Party. More >>
National Party Candidate College to be launched
Tuesday, 18 November 2003, 11:54 am | New Zealand National Party
The National Party is tomorrow launching a Candidate College, designed to identify and prepare potential National Party MPs. More >>
Don Brash accepts Nick Smith's resignation
Monday, 17 November 2003, 5:30 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Dr Don Brash says he will accept Dr Nick Smith's decision to resign as Deputy Leader of the National Party. More >>
Nick Smith Resigns With Regret
Monday, 17 November 2003, 5:30 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Dr Nick Smith today announced he had tendered his resignation to National Party Leader Dr Don Brash this afternoon. More >>
National Welcomes Private Prison Study
Monday, 17 November 2003, 4:49 pm | New Zealand National Party
The National Party is welcoming the Business Roundtable report on private prisons as more evidence of why the Government's Corrections Bill must be stopped. More >>
Nick Smith returns to work on Monday
Monday, 17 November 2003, 8:48 am | New Zealand National Party
National Deputy Leader Nick Smith will be back at work on Monday following a two-week break with his family in Nelson and after meeting this afternoon with National Party Leader Don Brash in Christchurch. More >>
Brash appoints Communications manager
Monday, 17 November 2003, 8:47 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader, Don Brash, has today announced the appointment of Peter Keenan as Manager, Communications. More >>
Govt signals backdown on speed camera change
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 5:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
The National Party is predicting a Government backdown on plans to lower speed camera tolerance levels. More >>
Taxpayer subsidises gang houses
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 1:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Family spokeswoman Judith Collins says the death of a 15-year-old boy in a gang-run Auckland drug house underlines the deteriorating state of Kiwi families. More >>
ACC Fraud Unit Fails To Collect
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 1:23 pm | New Zealand National Party
The National Party says the millions of dollars spent investigating ACC fraud cases in the last four years far outstrips the reparation demands slapped on convicted fraudsters. More >>
Brash Report: An Update From The National Leader
Thursday, 13 November 2003, 10:52 am | New Zealand National Party
As you will probably know from media reports, I became leader of the National Party on 28 October, and for this reason I was not able to write my regular newsletter on 29 October. I hope to continue writing a newsletter at fortnightly intervals, ... More >>
Government failing forestry
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 6:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Forestry spokesman Brian Connell is accusing the Government of putting pressure on forestry, failing one of our most promising industries. More >>
Bulging health bureaucracy exposed in report
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 6:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
"A report examining Labour's health reforms has confirmed National Party concerns of a bulging bureaucracy fuelled by the creation of 21 District Health Boards," says National party Associate Health spokesman Paul Hutchison. More >>
Clarity needed ahead of school board elections
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 6:10 pm | New Zealand National Party
Parents who want to stand for school board elections need to know whether they will be running the schools or closing them, says National Party Education spokesman Bill English. More >>
Full supervision of sex offenders unrealistic
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 4:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Justice spokesman Richard Worth is labelling the Parole (Extended Supervision) and Sentencing Amendment Bill "completely unworkable and utterly unrealistic." More >>
Government Officials Back Down On Bill
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 3:50 pm | New Zealand National Party
Government officials today admitted that they can only supervise a paedophile 24 hours a day if the offender agrees. More >>
Action not lip service needed on reports
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 1:59 pm | New Zealand National Party
"The Children's Commissioner must be congratulated on the work done to uncover the failures of Government agencies in a report on the deaths of two Masterton sisters," says National Party Family spokeswoman Judith Collins. More >>
Reports target Govt agencies over child deaths
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 1:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
"The names of the murdered children have changed but the same issues remain within Child, Youth and Family," says National Party Welfare spokeswoman Katherine Rich, commenting on the two reports out today on the deaths of Olympia and Saliel ... More >>
Govt moves to gag Children's Commissioner
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 11:06 am | New Zealand National Party
"An 11th hour bid to change the Commissioner for Children's Bill would give the Government the power to gag the person charged with speaking for our most vulnerable kids," says National Party Family spokeswoman Judith Collins. More >>
