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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 >>
Government’s Mess Just Got Even Messier
Monday, 1 November 2021, 5:12 pm | New Zealand National Party
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 >>
Farewell, Dame Catherine Tizard
Monday, 1 November 2021, 2:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
I would like to acknowledge both the contribution and passing of Dame Catherine Tizard. I had the pleasure of meeting Dame Cath many times; often at Civic events, or events supporting the arts, and often in the presence of her daughter, former ... More >>
Non-education Farce In Auckland Must End
Monday, 1 November 2021, 1:26 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Government must today announce a swift reopening of Auckland and Waikato schools to arrest the decline in students’ education and mental health after more than two months out of the classroom, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith ... More >>
New Climate Change Target Could Cripple New Zealand’s Economy
Sunday, 31 October 2021, 6:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
The announcement of a Glasgow climate change target of 50 per cent reduction by 2030 goes beyond New Zealand’s fair share and will cost the country billions of dollars, say National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith and Energy and ... More >>
Andrew Little Confirms No New Adult ICU Beds In Auckland In The Past 18 Months
Sunday, 31 October 2021, 2:46 pm | New Zealand National Party
The increasing number of positive community cases of Covid in Auckland will place an increasing burden on ICUs that Andrew Little has done nothing about for 18 months, says National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti. “The failure to build new ... More >>
New Data Reveals State House Waiting Time Explosion
Sunday, 31 October 2021, 2:23 pm | New Zealand National Party
The most at-risk New Zealanders are waiting nearly three times longer for a state house, and Labour scrapped the target to house them quicker, National’s Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. Data she has obtained through written questions ... More >>
Royal Commission Into Delta Preparation Required
Sunday, 31 October 2021, 2:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
The time has now come for a Royal Commission into the Government’s clear lack of preparation for Delta and the move to a suppression strategy, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “News reports during the past week indicate the Government ... More >>
