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Auckland’s Education Funk Hurting Students
Friday, 5 November 2021, 11:24 am | New Zealand National Party
Ongoing uncertainty about schools reopening in Auckland has put much of the education system there into a funk, with students missing out, says National’s education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith. “It seems the reopening of senior schools is actually ... More >>
Business Owners Angry Over Robertson’s Comments
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 2:25 pm | New Zealand National Party
Small business owners in the retail sector deserve answers from the Deputy Prime Minister after he declared that throughout the whole pandemic “less than a handful of cases” were transmitted in retail settings, National’s Small Business spokesperson ... More >>
Mangere Shooting Proof Of Why FPOs Are Needed
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 12:44 pm | New Zealand National Party
National’s warning that it was only a matter of time before an innocent member of the public got caught in the crossfire of increasing gang violence has sadly come true, says National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. “The gang shooting of ... More >>
National Launches Campaign To End MIQ
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 11:45 am | New Zealand National Party
The time has come to end the lottery of human misery that is MIQ, says National’s Covid Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “We have today launched a new petition so that Kiwis on and offshore can tell the Government in no uncertain terms that ... More >>
Auckland Border Stretching Police Resources To The Limit
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 11:19 am | New Zealand National Party
With the Government considering keeping the Auckland border in place over summer, it must consider the significant impact the this will place on police resources in Auckland and throughout New Zealand, says National’s spokesperson for Police Simeon ... More >>
PM Must Rule Out Summer Holiday ‘timeshares’
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 11:14 am | New Zealand National Party
In a round of confusing media appearances yesterday, the Government piled yet more needless uncertainty on long-suffering Aucklanders by suggesting families will be allocated timeslots to be allowed to leave the city over summer. “It seems everyone ... More >>
More Than 600 Covid Test Results Returned Later Than 24 Hours
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 7:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
It is staggering that, 18 months into the global pandemic and after repeated warnings about testing capacity, more than 600 positive tests for Covid in this current outbreak took longer than 24 hours to be returned, says National’s Covid Response spokesperson ... More >>
Jacinda The Grinch Comes For Christmas
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 5:06 pm | New Zealand National Party
She came without packages, she came without bags, she went on the radio, to make Christmas hopes sag. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s admission on radio today that the hard border around Auckland is set to remain in place over summer to unvaccinated ... More >>
Kiwis Keep Getting Poorer Under Labour
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 4:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
Data released today by Stats NZ shows that, over the past year, the cost of living has risen twice as fast as wages, says National’s Finance spokesperson Michael Woodhouse. “The latest quarterly Labour Market Statistics show that on average ... More >>
Health Minister Dithered For Five Months Before Arranging MIQ Spots To Critical Health Workers
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 4:04 pm | New Zealand National Party
It is unforgivable that Health Minister Andrew Little took five months to act before arranging priority MIQ spots for critical health workers, say National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford and Covid Response spokesperson Chris Bishop. “The ... More >>
Labour Must Rule Out Debt-to-income Limits
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 3:52 pm | New Zealand National Party
Despite the Government finally accepting National’s argument that the way to solve the housing crisis is to allow more houses to be built, it doesn’t appear the Finance Minister has got the memo, says National’s Shadow treasurer Andrew Bayly. “News ... More >>
Public – Not Gangsters – Warned Over Mob Tangi
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 1:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
Another gang funeral procession in Porirua today has seen the Police hand over public roads to gangs once again, says National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown. “Instead of warning the gangs to follow the law, Police have instead warned the public to ... More >>
Counselling Crucial To Covid Response
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 1:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
National is calling on the Government to urgently fund 100,000 free counselling sessions to respond to growing mental distress caused by Covid. “Covid has been hugely tough on everyone, making easier access to mental health services such as ... More >>
Government’s Schoolkids’ Mental Health Failure Demands Answers
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 11:15 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government must front up and explain why its $75.8 million initiative to put more guidance counsellors in schools to cope with increasing mental health issues among children has seemingly achieved nothing, says National’s Mental Health and ... More >>
Auditor-General’s Further Damning Assessment Of The Government’s Financial Transparency
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 3:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Auditor-General has today agreed with National that this Labour Government’s Budget documentation falls well short of basic requirements for public transparency around the use of taxpayers’ money. In August, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew ... More >>
Ministry Of Health Must Apologise For Its Stubbornness
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 12:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Ministry of Health must front up and apologise to the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency for its denial of access to Māori health data that would help them lift Māori vaccination rates, says National’s spokesperson for Whānau Ora Harete Hipango. ... More >>
Another Loop On The Roundabout Of Consultation
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 11:47 am | New Zealand National Party
More plans, more talk, no achievement – the Minister of Transport is stuck in park when it comes to developing New Zealand’s transport infrastructure, says National’s Transport spokesperson David Bennett. “A senior member of a Government that is ... More >>
Food Security Needs Certainty
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 11:18 am | New Zealand National Party
The Government must act now to ensure New Zealand growers have certainty in how Covid will handled, says National’s Horticulture spokesperson David Bennett. “We are indebted to our growers and producers that provide the food security our country ... More >>
Government’s Vaccine Deceit A Disgrace
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 10:59 am | New Zealand National Party
Revelations that the Government used PR spin to deceive New Zealanders and mask its failure in securing the Covid vaccine is a disgrace, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “That the Government started funding expensive spin doctors three ... More >>
Government Just Got Messier
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 7:28 am | New Zealand National Party
01 November Exhausted Aucklanders entering their 12th week in lockdown will be even more confused by today’s messy and illogical announcement of yet further announcements to come about their future, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “Aucklanders ... More >>
