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Is Janet Mackey's team a union team?
Monday, 4 October 1999, 11:00 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour's East Coast candidate relies on Unions Is Janet Mackey's team a union team? More >>
National’s delivered and Labour can’t hack it
Thursday, 30 September 1999, 5:39 pm | New Zealand National Party
“Labour’s Taito Phillip Field knows darn well that National has delivered a very good policy to our Pacific Island people. Tomorrow portability of superannuation becomes a reality but amazingly Mr Field is trying to turn it into negative news,” ... More >>
Labour misleading and simply irresponsible
Thursday, 30 September 1999, 5:00 pm | New Zealand National Party
“Tertiary students are being misled by Labour. Labour would rather encourage students to borrow more. They are simply not interested in easing the level of student debt,” said National’s Youth Vice President Daniel Gordon responding to Labour’s Tertiary ... More >>
New Hospital Plan a Vision for a better Wellington
Thursday, 30 September 1999, 3:38 pm | New Zealand National Party
“The decision to place the tertiary hospital at the Newtown site with secondary hospitals at the Hutt and Kenepuru gives Wellington people a clear vision of the future for Wellington” said National MP Annabel Young today. More >>
Fields Sour Grapes
Thursday, 30 September 1999, 3:36 pm | New Zealand National Party
Unlike the Labour Party the National Party does not take the Pacific Island vote for granted says Belinda Vernon MP for Maungakiekie. More >>
Whoops! We Forgot To Mention That Bit
Thursday, 30 September 1999, 8:09 am | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s “interest free” student loan policy is not all that it seems says Belinda Vernon MP for Maungakiekie. More >>
Opposition in disarray over pre-election options
Wednesday, 29 September 1999, 5:53 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Last week Labour was criticising National for not standing a candidate in Wellington Central. Now, Labour is calling for Alliance's Phillida Bunkle to pull out of the same contest," said Hamilton West MP Bob Simcock today. "That's called ... More >>
CSS Director Vindicated
Wednesday, 29 September 1999, 10:51 am | New Zealand National Party
“The Director of the Centre for strategic studies was the right person for the job. This is the conclusion to be drawn from the lengthy investigation by the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select committee,” says National MP and member of the ... More >>
110% campaign for the Party Vote
Wednesday, 22 September 1999, 2:56 pm | New Zealand National Party
“National intends to put in a 110% effort to ensure it once again wins the Party Vote in Wellington Central. Our team is geared up and our message will be very visual,” said National’s Wellington Central electorate chairperson Bridget-Anne Fowler. More >>
Nats Not Standing In Wellington Central
Wednesday, 22 September 1999, 10:09 am | New Zealand National Party
The President of the New Zealand National Party, John Slater, announced today that the Party would not be standing a Constituency Candidate in the Wellington Central Electorate for the 1999 General Election. More >>
Australia reduces taxes, opposition scratch heads
Tuesday, 21 September 1999, 6:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
"New Zealand must continue to reduce its business tax rate", said Martin Poulsen, the National Party candidate for Auckland Central. More >>
Helen Clark Crying on the APEC Parade
Tuesday, 21 September 1999, 9:33 am | New Zealand National Party
Helen Clark’s carping comments about Bill Clinton cheapen her but do nothing to lessen the impact of APEC, according to National MP Annabel Young. More >>
Troops To East Timor
Monday, 20 September 1999, 9:52 am | New Zealand National Party
“Papakura will be making its contribution to keeping the peace in East Timor,” said Hunua MP Warren Kyd. More >>
Papakura’s Petition On Police Numbers
Monday, 20 September 1999, 9:51 am | New Zealand National Party
“The Report on the Petition of Geoffrey Amos and 70,980 others relating to Police numbers has finally been reported back to the House by the Justice and Law Reform Select Committee,” says Hunua MP, Warren Kyd. Other similar petitions by Rae Frampton ... More >>
Black ban “just like the bad old days”
Monday, 13 September 1999, 3:29 pm | New Zealand National Party
Unionists flex their muscles - “The CTU’s black ban on the Scoop Internet news site is just like the bad old days,” says National Party MP Annabel Young. More >>
Help For Timorese Vs Anti-Nuclear Stance
Friday, 10 September 1999, 9:41 am | New Zealand National Party
Ilam MP Gerry Brownlee today reported that his electorate office had been inundated with calls from people he suspects from outside his electorate demanding that Government get into East Timor and start saving the lives of people being persecuted. More >>
John Wright Calculates “A Plus B Equals Zero”
Thursday, 9 September 1999, 1:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
Responding to John Wright, former Social Credit member now in the Alliance, Ilam MP Gerry Brownlee today said that the hapless Jim Anderton has left it to the even more hapless Mr Wright to respond to his (Brownlee’s) statement of 8 September that ... More >>
Cullen insulting to forestry industry
Thursday, 9 September 1999, 1:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
"Michael Cullen will never get a job as a lumber jack, because he doesn't know an unprocessed log from a processed one," Associate Minister of Forestry, David Carter said today. More >>
Alliance Tariff Policy “Plain Stupid”
Wednesday, 8 September 1999, 3:01 pm | New Zealand National Party
Ilam MP Gerry Brownlee today said the Alliance announcement of a five percent tariff increase on all goods imported into New Zealand except those from Australia was further proof of his assertion that a Labour-Alliance government would put at least $192 ... More >>
“Thank God we have the frigates”
Wednesday, 8 September 1999, 2:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
This is why we need a combatant Navy - National MP Annabel Young says that the deployment of Te Kaha to stand off Timor should silence the critics of the blue-water Navy. “Thank God we have the frigates. This is not a job for shoreline patrol craft. Frigates ... More >>
