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IRD Still Not Really Accountable

Thursday, 8 March 2001, 11:59 am | New Zealand National Party

The Inland Revenue Department's new taxpayer's charter is just the first step toward making the Department more accountable for their treatment of taxpayers, National's Revenue spokesperson Annabel Young said today. More >>

Fiji Interim Government Resignation Welcome

Thursday, 8 March 2001, 11:58 am | New Zealand National Party

National's Foreign Affairs spokesperson Max Bradford today welcomed the resignation of Fiji's interim Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. More >>

Irony In International Women's Day

Thursday, 8 March 2001, 10:05 am | New Zealand National Party

International Women's Day should be a time to acknowledge and celebrate the historic achievements of women throughout the world but sadly women's rights are still repressed in many countries, National's Women's Affairs spokeswoman Anne Tolley said today. More >>

PM Hell-Bent On Dumbing Down Defence

Thursday, 8 March 2001, 12:36 am | New Zealand National Party

"Reports that the Government is considering reducing the role of our airforce Orions and using business to monitor the seas around New Zealand simply confirm the real Minister of Defence, Helen Clark, is hell-bent on disembowelling New Zealand's ... More >>

TEAC raises issues but no answers

Wednesday, 7 March 2001, 5:11 pm | New Zealand National Party

"Nothing in the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission report 'Shaping the System' signals how we are going to get a tertiary education system that will help the New Zealand economy leap forward. But there are plenty of worrying signs that show how ... More >>

Credit For Credit Ratings Where Credit's Due!

Wednesday, 7 March 2001, 4:54 pm | New Zealand National Party

The Minister of Finance should calm down before claiming credit for the decision by Standard and Poors to remove the negative credit watch on New Zealand, National's Finance spokesman Bill English said today. More >>

NZ Loses A City In Huge Migration Statistics

Wednesday, 7 March 2001, 10:03 am | New Zealand National Party

New Zealand has lost the equivalent of a city in the past year, in the worst migration statistics seen for the country in 21 years, National's Immigration spokesperson Marie Hasler said today. More >>

Health Minister Hiding Operation Cancellations

Wednesday, 7 March 2001, 12:46 am | New Zealand National Party

Health Minister Annette King is refusing to let the public know how many people are sitting around awaiting urgent operations at the nation's hospitals. National's Health spokesman Roger Sowry said today. "She's either highly disorganised or hiding ... More >>

Embarrassed Sutton attempts to show urgency

Tuesday, 6 March 2001, 6:00 pm | New Zealand National Party

Jim Sutton must have cringed when he heard that his Government back home had airily dismissed any suggestions that biosecurity needed to be upgraded in light of the foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK, National's Rural Affairs spokesperson Shane Ardern ... More >>

Weak foot and mouth campaign won't protect borders

Tuesday, 6 March 2001, 5:40 pm | New Zealand National Party

Jim Sutton's belated response to the foot and mouth disease outbreak in the form of a publicity campaign to New Zealanders is totally inadequate, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said today. More >>

Race Relations Office doomed

Tuesday, 6 March 2001, 9:46 am | New Zealand National Party

The Government's announcement that Privacy Commissioner Bruce Slane will be the acting Race Relations Conciliator is the first step towards abolishing the office as a separate entity, National's Justice spokesman Wayne Mapp said today. More >>

Government slack on border controls

Monday, 5 March 2001, 4:46 pm | New Zealand National Party

Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley today demanded far tighter border controls to protect New Zealand's interests against the increasing risk of foot and mouth posed by the United Kingdom and European outbreak. More >>

2,500 waiting for state house waiting list

Monday, 5 March 2001, 2:10 pm | New Zealand National Party

National's Housing spokesperson David Carter today released figures that show there were 2,572 people waiting to be assessed to go on the already burgeoning state house waiting list at the end of December 2000. More >>

Health funds misdirected while sufferers wait

Sunday, 4 March 2001, 12:57 am | New Zealand National Party

Cancer patient waiting lists continue to multiply in the Waikato while at the same time the Government pours health money into a framework driven at making the Treaty of Waitangi central to health decisions, National's Health spokesperson Roger Sowry ... More >>

Govt. policies scare off overseas investment

Sunday, 4 March 2001, 12:24 am | New Zealand National Party

The Coalition Government's anti-business policies are behind a dramatic reduction in overseas investment into New Zealand, detailed in the New Zealand Overseas Investment Commission six monthly report released this week, National's Spokesperson on Inward ... More >>