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Tertiary education burdened by more bureaucracy
Monday, 15 September 2003, 8:02 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Tertiary Education spokesman Simon Power says the Labour Government has failed to curb massive growth in the size of the bureaucracy within tertiary education. More >>
Minister fudges on future of Molesworth
Monday, 15 September 2003, 8:00 am | New Zealand National Party
The National Party says the Government is picking a fight with high country farmers if it goes ahead with any plan to put Molesworth Station under Department of Conservation control. More >>
Auckland failed by Labour's transport plan
Monday, 15 September 2003, 8:00 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Transport spokesman Roger Sowry says the country's transport needs are being sacrificed for Labour's political agenda. More >>
Consumers will pay for new Electricity Commission
Monday, 15 September 2003, 7:59 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Energy spokesman Gerry Brownlee says it is consumers who will suffer as a result of the Government's Electricity Commission announced today. More >>
Don Brash Speech: National Finance Spokesman
Sunday, 14 September 2003, 12:35 am | New Zealand National Party
Improving New Zealand's economic growth rate will be the most important priority of the next National Government. Why? Because the reality is that, unless we do increase the country's growth rate, we will not be able to sustain the kind of society that ... More >>
Govt pulls plug on greenhouse gas research
Friday, 12 September 2003, 3:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Agriculture spokesman David Carter is slamming a Government decision to cut funding for a greenhouse gas emissions research project at Lincoln University. More >>
Smart talk at Cancun could yield results
Friday, 12 September 2003, 3:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Trade spokesman Lockwood Smith says the latest reports indicate progress is possible on agriculture at the WTO Ministerial in Cancun "so long as our negotiators think smart." More >>
Attack on Dr Newman 'disgraceful distraction'
Friday, 12 September 2003, 11:42 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Katherine Rich is accusing Tariana Turia of a disgraceful distraction and says she should 'play the ball not the person.' More >>
Report highlights need for education reform
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 8:45 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Education spokesperson Nick Smith says the NZIER report on funding arrangements for independent schools highlights the need for fundamental reform of education, to give parents more choice. More >>
Labour rips open beaches debate
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 5:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Labour has ripped open the beaches and foreshore debate by refusing to rule out Maori rights to control access to our beaches," says National Party Leader Bill English. More >>
No media ban at hui? Yeah Right!
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 1:48 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Broadcasting spokeswoman Katherine Rich says Parekura Horomia should apologise for misleading comments surrounding media bans at the taxpayer-sponsored hui on the foreshore and seabed. More >>
Free lesson for United Future on internet gambling
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 11:47 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Internal Affairs spokeswoman Judith Collins is making an eleventh hour bid to convince United Future against supporting the controversial Gambling Bill. More >>
Better late than never, Jim
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 10:13 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Forestry spokesman, Brian Connell, is applauding the release of a Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry report detailing the problems confronting New Zealand's forestry sector. More >>
Selective traction from the ‘Law and Order’ party
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 8:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
National, the so-called ‘law and order’ party, becomes the disorder party when one of their own is charged by police, Police Minister George Hawkins says. More >>
Clark must use Sept 11 to correct Govt direction
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 7:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
Opposition Leader Bill English says Helen Clark should use the anniversary of September 11 to publicly correct her view that New Zealand's operating in an 'incredibly benign strategic environment'. More >>
New bid to quiz officials linked to Corngate
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 4:49 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Environment spokesman Nick Smith has lodged a new bid to quiz advisers from Helen Clark's office linked to the memo suggesting a Corngate cover-up. More >>
Motorists may pay price for ethanol tax break
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 4:25 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government may be forcing major repair bills on to Kiwi motorists with an ideological drive to get oil companies using more ethanol, says National Party Energy spokesman Gerry Brownlee. More >>
Investigation into Rotorua Lakes pollution crisis
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 2:17 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Environment Spokesperson Nick Smith today welcomed the decision of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to undertake a formal investigation into the Rotorua Lakes pollution crisis. More >>
Timber industry gets toxic treatment from Govt
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 8:42 am | New Zealand National Party
The blanket chemical treatment of all timbers as proposed by the Building Industry Authority (BIA) is an absolute over reaction, says National Forestry Spokesman Brian Connell. More >>
Government shuns funds for rural research
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 8:40 am | New Zealand National Party
The country's primary producers stand to lose their brightest and best talent overseas because of Government short-sightedness on research funding, says National's Agriculture spokesman David Carter. More >>
