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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New Zealand’s low vaccination rate can also be credited to late and lazy engagement with primary care providers such as pharmacies, says National’s Health spokesman Dr Shane Reti. “From when the Covid vaccine was first approved for routine vaccine fridges on May 28 this year, the pharmacy credentialing
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
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
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
Free Speech Union Two years ago in Christchurch, New Zealand was subjected to a horrific act of extreme violence, in the name of ideology. Now another terrorist attack has been carried out, this time in Auckland. Both of these despicable acts of terrorism on New Zealand soil were committed by
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust “The revelation that the terrorist who stabbed six people yesterday had been released on bail in July and was facing active charges shows a total failure inherent in our system,” says Darroch Ball co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust. “The decision and
It’s time for the Government to initiate a process that would remove New Zealand citizenship or residency from a person who commits a violent act in our country, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. National believes the law change is needed after reports that yesterday’s terrorist attack
