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US next step for free trade
Friday, 27 June 2003, 12:03 am | New Zealand National Party
The National Party's welcoming the European Union decision to look at reducing farm subsidies but says the New Zealand Government's attention must now shift to the lucrative US market. More >>
Report confirms Health Minister misleads public
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 1:57 pm | New Zealand National Party
A report that the Government is letting many New Zealanders fall off surgery waiting lists, confirms that the Health Minister is misleading the public over our run down health services, National Health Spokesperson Dr Lynda Scott says. More >>
Clark strong arms MPs over prostitution law
Thursday, 26 June 2003, 11:04 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party MP Judith Collins says there's mounting speculation over the involvement of Helen Clark in last night's narrow vote on prostitution law reform. More >>
Fat tax has fat chance of success
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 4:51 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour's plans to bring in a health tax on fast food show the Government has gone tax mad, says National Health Spokesperson Dr Lynda Scott. More >>
Government leaves biosecurity to chance - again
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 4:40 pm | New Zealand National Party
The discovery of tropical fire ants - the latest in a long list of dangerous foreign pests to land here - has the National Party demanding, yet again, that the Government tighten up on biosecurity. More >>
Clark backs down on coastal claims
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 4:17 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader Bill English says Helen Clark is backing away from earlier promises to take decisive action to end the uncertainty around ownership of New Zealand's coastal seabed and foreshore. More >>
Parliament congratulates Dr John Hood
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 3:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
National MP Pansy Wong successfully sought congratulations from Parliament today to Dr John Hood for his appointment to the position of Vice Chancellor of Oxford University. Mrs Wong said Dr Hood's outstanding achievement deserved the congratulations ... More >>
Sherry tax argument falls flat
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 2:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
The argument presented by the Government when ramming through the new 'sherry tax' is on increasingly thin ground, according to National Party Clevedon MP Judith Collins. More >>
Real results needed from Australian defence talks
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 11:50 am | New Zealand National Party
The National Party says the Government needs to get tangible results from defence talks in Australia. More >>
Growth forecast proves Government lacks vision
Wednesday, 25 June 2003, 12:40 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Finance spokesman, Don Brash, says BERL's attack on the Government's economic management is what National has known for months - Labour is bereft of any vision for growth. More >>
Wide concerns about patients in police cells
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 4:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government is allowing mental health patients to be treated like prisoners instead of sticking to its promise to tackle the mental health crisis a year ago, says National Health Spokesperson Dr Lynda Scott. More >>
Labour leaves door open to claims on foreshore
Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 3:59 pm | New Zealand National Party
Far from acting decisively, Helen Clark's Government has left the door open for Maori to lodge claims through the Land Court for the seabed and foreshore, says National Party Leader Bill English. More >>
The Right Talk, The Leader's View – 23rd June
Monday, 23 June 2003, 4:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
It is clear, after spending a week in Washington, that the Iraqi war represents the high tide of the view that the US should actively protect its interest by using its vastly superior firepower, accuracy and speed of its defence forces. The upside ... More >>
National would repeal 'flatulence' tax
Monday, 23 June 2003, 9:00 am | New Zealand National Party
A National Government would look to repeal any 'flatulence' tax imposed on farmers by the Labour Government, says National Party Agriculture spokesman David Carter. More >>
Coastal claims set to become powder keg
Monday, 23 June 2003, 8:59 am | New Zealand National Party
The Prime Minister must move decisively to end the uncertainty surrounding Maori land claims over our coastal seabed and foreshore, says National Party Environment spokesman Dr Nick Smith. More >>
Release rapist's parole conditions
Monday, 23 June 2003, 12:46 am | New Zealand National Party
National's Police spokesman is urging the Parole Board to release the parole conditions of multiple rapist Michael Carroll. More >>
National intervention gets boy surgery
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 5:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Health Spokesperson Dr Lynda Scott says she's pleased that her intervention has meant a four-year-old Auckland boy will get heart surgery this year averting an indefinite delay. More >>
One standard of citizenship for our coast
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 5:31 pm | New Zealand National Party
"The Court of Appeal decision to give the Maori Land Court jurisdiction over ownership of the foreshore and seabed in the Marlborough Sounds has wider implications that should concern every New Zealander," says National Party Environment spokesman ... More >>
Minister dodges questions over Govt grab of pokies
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 5:30 pm | New Zealand National Party
National says it is even more concerned that the Government will push ahead with a move to grab local pokie money that goes to sports clubs, after Ministers dodged questions about the issue at a select committee today. More >>
When a 'research levy' becomes a tax
Thursday, 19 June 2003, 5:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Agriculture spokesman David Carter says he's forced the Government to admit its controversial greenhouse gas 'research levy' is nothing more than another tax on farmers. More >>
