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Labour's promise of export guarantees and export credit financing schemes was a last-ditch effort to curry favour with business, Treasurer Bill English said today.

Jim Sutton's claim that National's support in South Canterbury is collapsing has been rubbished by Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith and Associate Food and Fibre Mi

Jim Sutton's claim that National's support in South Canterbury is collapsing has been rubbished by Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith and Associate Food and Fibre Mi

Jim Sutton's claim that National's support in South Canterbury is collapsing has been rubbished by Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton, Trade Minister Lockwood Smith and Associate Food and Fibre Mi

Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton said today that the Green's Agricultural policy released today reflected their extreme views and showed how out of touch they were with the agricultural sector.

"New figures showing a dramatic drop in the number of infant deaths and cot deaths are encouraging, but National is committed to continuing to do more to turn other child health statistics around,"

Mrs Claire Elder, wife of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Jack Elder, died in Auckland yesterday after a long battle with cancer. She was 49.

ACC policy has been declared a "line in the sand election issue" by Accident Insurance Minister Murray McCully, releasing the National Party's ACC policy today.

Annette King continues to repeat Labour's lies about its health budget, Treasurer Bill English said today.

The Alliance's budget is so mickey mouse it should carry a health warning, Treasurer Bill English said today.

Student debt would skyrocket under Labour's blank cheque policy on student loans, while the ability of students to repay debt would be dramatically reduced under a high tax centre-left government,

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today officially opened New Zealand's sixteenth and largest mainland marine reserve, Te Tapuwae o Rongokako in a dawn ceremony at the reserve, sixteen kilometres no

Minister of Women's Affairs Georgina te Heuheu today said she had been surprised by the effective dumping of two high profile and effective women Members of Parliament recently.

New Zealand households are benefiting from a reduction in grocery prices in real terms over the past 15 years, due to National's good economic management, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today ou

Trade Minister Lockwood Smith has warmly welcomed Don McKinnon's appointment as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.

Don McKinnon's appointment as Secretary General of the Commonwealth is an honour for New Zealand and for Don McKinnon personally, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.

"Milk will run down the drains again in the Waikato, and the business sector will be held to ransom, if Labour repeals the ECA," Food and Fibre Minister John Luxton warned a Waikato business audien

Education Minister Nick Smith, during a visit to Paula's Preschool in Nelson, today launched a new resource that will help improve the quality of early childhood education throughout the country.

Minister of Women's Affairs Georgina te Heuheu is impressed at the influence "Duffy books" is having on the development of our children.

"A prediction: within a week Labour's Finance Spokesman, Dr Michael Cullen, will sitting in First Class, sipping champagne, winging his way to Britain to follow up on Bob Harvey's ‘fact finding m

This Monday not one, not two, not three but four Ministers will be live online to talk about policies, issues, and the election.

Dr Cullen's budget numbers are so digitally enhanced they rival his leader's billboards, Treasurer Bill English said today.

"I wouldn't like to think that Dr Cullen would be deliberately deceitful about such an important issue as ACC policy costs, so I can only assume he is confused when he talks about spending in this

Labour's "credit card" promise to cut waiting lists does not match Michael Cullen's proposed Budget, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today.