Family First Kalandra The petition “Don’t Divide Us.nz” has now reached 70,000 signatures. Launched two weeks ago, the petition says “We oppose the ‘no jab no job’ policy, which will create a divided New Zealand. We call on the Government to allow the use of COVID rapid
If the Prime Minister won’t heed the calls of the nearly 100,000 people who have signed National’s petition to end MIQ right now then she should at least open the Trans-Tasman Bubble for Christmas, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. MIQ is a lottery of human
The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Team The New Zealand Police have summoned Brian Tamaki and his wife Hannah Tamaki to front at the Auckland Central Police station this morning at 9.30 am due to them speaking at Auckland’s National Compassion Day last Saturday 20th November 2021 at the
The Government’s intention to ram through the traffic light framework legislation under urgency this week with no opportunity for public consultation is an outrageous abuse of power, says National’s Covid spokesperson Chris Bishop. The Prime Minister announced the traffic light framework on Friday, October 22 but, exactly a
Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First “The manner of the slow vaccine rollout will not help our society if the current legal and constitutional overreach ends up removing New Zealander’s freedom of choice,” says Winston Peters Leader of New Zealand First. “All the international evidence and best practice
Mike Shaw NZTSOS Inc. “This heartless Government may not be interested in why thousands of educators across the country are laying down their careers after decades in education, but we sure do” said Mike Shaw Spokesperson for NZTSOS Inc. NZTSOS Inc. says the results from its Educational Mandate Snapshot Survey
Family First A nationwide poll has found significant support from New Zealanders for regular testing to be allowed as an option so that kiwis can keep their jobs. In the poll of 1,000 New Zealanders surveyed by Curia Market Research, respondents were first asked: Do you support or oppose
The Government must urgently direct Kainga Ora to drop its state house eviction ban which breaches its obligations as a landlord and is resulting in the victimisation of innocent neighbours, National’s spokesperson for Housing and Urban Development Nicola Willis says. Despite Minister Williams’ misleading denials, documents I have obtained
The Government continues to duck simple questions about how its stop-and-check travel restrictions are supposed to work in practice, including how long Aucklanders will have to queue at the border to go on holiday, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. Answering questions on behalf of the Prime Minister, Covid
Yesterday’s announcement by the Prime Minister of a decision and an announcement that may happen in December is just the latest sign the Government has utterly lost the plot, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “This is an announcement that in two weeks’ time there will be an
NZDSOS Four midwives, NZDSOS and NZTSOS are challenging the order requiring them to be vaccinated against COVID-19. We contend that the order is not legally valid because the Act does not empower it to be made, if interpreted consistently with the right to refuse medical treatment under the Bill of
On behalf of the National Party, it is with deep sympathy that I acknowledge the passing of former National MP John Luxton. John succeeded his father, Jack, as the Member of Parliament for Matamata in 1987. It was a seat he held until 1996, before holding the reconstituted seat of
Mt Hobson Academy The last two years have been incredibly disruptive in both days in school and the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand. Children/young people deserve high quality academic options and we offer them. Over the last 19 years children who have been through our Mt
The Government continues to make up its Covid response on the fly, randomly and publicly pondering changes to the traffic light framework announced only a few weeks ago and providing absolutely no certainty to Aucklanders or the rest of the country, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. Three weeks
News that the Government is considering restricting travel into some regions over the summer holiday period is just the latest of many signs Jacinda Ardern’s Government failed to plan for Delta and is working out its response as it goes along. Aucklanders who have now spent 90 days in
The Government‘s decision to require tourism businesses to pay DOC fees will be the final straw for many tourism operators near closure and should be reversed, says National’s Associate Tourism spokesperson Joseph Mooney. “For the past two years, concession fees have been waived for tourism businesses operating on
