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No Mention of Delta Strain in Government Plans

No Mention of Delta Strain in Government Plans

The Government’s lack of planning for a Covid-19 Delta outbreak is starkly illustrated by the fact that it is not mentioned even once in its two most recent Covid-19 plans, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Government’s Aotearoa New Zealand Covid-19 Testing Plan and the

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Business Will Stall If Trucks Can’t Get Moving

New Zealand risks grinding to a halt if we can’t ease freight and supply line challenges. We risk a situation where freight can’t get out of our biggest city and certainly can’t get to the South Island, National’s Transport spokesperson David Bennett says. “The Government’s

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Kiwis Left in the Dark over Interest Deductibility Rules
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Kiwis Left in the Dark over Interest Deductibility Rules

The new rules relating to mortgage interest deductibility, cunningly renamed the Interest Limitation Rules, are due to come into force on 1 October without a proper explanation of how they will even work in practice, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “Over the past year the only information shared

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How Many Close and Casual Contacts at Middlemore?

How Many Close and Casual Contacts at Middlemore?

Despite questions in Parliament Tuesday, intense media interest in the matter yesterday, and advanced notice that I was going to return to the issue yesterday, Minister of Health Andrew Little still hasn’t bothered to find out the most important details about the Covid-positive patient at Middlemore Hospital, National’s

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Robertson Has Emptied the COVID Piggy Bank

Robertson Has Emptied the COVID Piggy Bank

Confirmation yesterday that the Government has sought authorisation to spend a whopping $41 billion over and above Budget 2021 is proof that the Finance Minister is once again using the cover of Covid-19 to spend taxpayer funds on pet projects that have little to do with New Zealand’s Covid-19

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Rural NZ Rejecting More Regulation from Labour
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Rural NZ Rejecting More Regulation from Labour

More than 13,000 New Zealanders have told the Government to stop raining regulations on our rural communities, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Barbara Kuriger and Local Government spokesperson Christopher Luxon say. “National launched a petition to call on Labour to give rural New Zealand a break and to drop their

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Wage subsidy deadlines should be extended

Wage subsidy deadlines should be extended

The Government must extend the deadline for the first fortnight of wage subsidy applications to make sure businesses don’t miss out, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “National MPs continue to be contacted by frustrated businesses who, through no fault of their own, missed the

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DOC Shouldn’t Get Another Crack at a Failed Project

DOC Shouldn’t Get Another Crack at a Failed Project

The Department of Conservation should pull the pin on a failed Mackenzie Basin project and return the unspent money to Treasury, National’s Conservation spokesperson, and MP for Waitaki, Jacqui Dean says. “The Tu Te Rakiwhanoa Drylands project was allocated $2.3 million dollars in the 2018 Budget. $1.4

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Saliva Testing Welcome but Long Overdue

Saliva Testing Welcome but Long Overdue

The Government’s move to introduce saliva testing as additional surveillance testing technology is welcome but long overdue, National’s Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Roche/Simpson report recommended the urgent rollout of saliva testing a year ago but the Government has been inexplicably slow to make use of

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Why Wasn’t Terrorist Subject to Sections 163 & 164?

Why Wasn’t Terrorist Subject to Sections 163 & 164?

The Prime Minister and the Immigration Minister need to answer as to why the terrorist Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen was not able to be deported based on sections 163 and 164 of the Immigration Act 2009, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “Immigration Law in New Zealand provides that

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Hon Alfred Ngaro: NZ Must Say No to Durban Conference
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Hon Alfred Ngaro: NZ Must Say No to Durban Conference

Alfred Ngaro indigenouscoalition.org Less than a month out from the infamous Durban conference, former National Party  MP, Hon Alfred Ngaro has spoken out on the government’s equivocation over whether NZ will attend the 20th anniversary of a conference that purported to address racism and tolerance, but quickly descended

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Labour’s Failure to Plan Constraining Our Economy

The Government has had months to plan for a situation where there could be an Alert Level border in the country, like Auckland and the rest of the country, but once again its failed to prepare, National’s Transport spokesperson David Bennett says. “Once again we’re seeing confusion and

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Sentencing Notes: Judge Gave Terrorist ‘The Least Restrictive Sentence’

Sentencing Notes: Judge Gave Terrorist ‘The Least Restrictive Sentence’

Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust “Sentencing notes from the terrorist’s trial in July shows he was allowed back into the community with minimal monitoring due to the judge putting the ISIS sympathiser’s considerations before the safety of the community,” says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing

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Labour Belatedly Acts on Terrorism Laws
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Labour Belatedly Acts on Terrorism Laws

Ted Johnston BSc BA LLB, New Conservative Justice Spokesperson New Conservative believes that Labour has delayed on very important terrorism safety legislation, because of its constant focus on laws grounded in their ideology. The terrorism laws have needed urgent action since at least March 2019, and only this recent stabbing

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