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Helen Clark's promise to abolish New Zealand's Industry Training Scheme is a cruel hoax on the workers of New Zealand, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Labour leader Helen Clark has confirmed Labour's plan to hand monopoly powers to unions, with a mischievous half-truth during last night's Holmes debate, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradfo

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

A survey by two students' associations shows that banks don't consider student loans to be a major factor in refusing finance, Minister for Tertiary Education Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Tertiary Education

Twenty-one regulations in the Commerce and Labour portfolios have been axed as part of a National Government initiative to cut red tape, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford announced toda

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

A strong vote for Labour on Saturday will spell the end of job growth and the beginning of a dramatic rise in job-killing business costs, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Labour MP Pete Hodgson has again shown his contempt for consumers as he tries to fudge Labour's appalling record of backing monopolies when it comes to the power reforms, Enterprise and Commerce Mi

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

New Zealand First has shown its true colours by walking away from New Zealand's defence needs, Defence Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Defence

Two Wananga (public Maori tertiary education institutions) are to get a $6.8 million capital funding injection, Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford, Finance Minister Sir William Birch and Maor

  • Max Bradford
  • Tertiary Education

The $2.25 million a year incubator programme to help innovators access the skills and finance they need for developing ideas will be launched by the end of April, Enterprise and Commerce Minister M

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

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,

  • Max Bradford
  • Tertiary Education

Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford today released the electricity update newsletter, "A Better Deal For Consumers".

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

A Ministry of Commerce report confirms that wholesale electricity prices are responding to market signals and that trading mechanisms are in place to better manage supply risks, Enterprise and Comm

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Applications for the Bright Future scholarships have opened, Research, Science and Technology Minister Maurice Williamson and Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Tertiary Education

Helen Clark's promise to kneecap New Zealand's Industry Training Scheme is a cruel hoax on the workers of New Zealand, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

"The Alliance has unveiled another backward policy that would increase power prices for Kiwi families and businesses," Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Labour's isolationist defence policy would turn our Defence Force into a vulnerable Dad's Army, incapable of defending itself, Defence Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Defence

"I can only conclude that Helen Clark is again guilty of telling the public lies, after her refusal to come clean with the facts of a student loan case she cited in a TV debate," Tertiary Education

  • Max Bradford
  • Tertiary Education

Company decisions to move to or leave New Zealand are influenced by a range of factors, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

"Factors such as:

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Labour energy spokesman Pete Hodgson has proved yet again how out of touch he is with the electricity market place, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Minister for Tertiary Education Max Bradford today challenged Labour leader Helen Clark to come clean with the real facts of a student loan case she cited during the leaders debate last night.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Incoming CTU president Ross Wilson's threat to call on overseas unions to undermine a future centre-right government shows the desperation of unions to again dominate workplaces, Enterprise and Com

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

It is a sign of panic when Labour MPs try and make a story out of back-of-the envelope guesswork, Tertiary Education Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Disruption at the National Party campaign launch in Auckland today, by supporters of the Labour-Alliance bloc, is a sign of the parties' absolute desperation, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max B

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce

Misinformation is the only answer Labour has to the real wage growth of almost one per cent a year under the Employment Contracts Act, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford said today.

  • Max Bradford
  • Enterprise and Commerce