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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

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

The findings of a Government-funded research project, assessing the factors that help older people live independently, have been handed onto the Minister for Senior Citizens David Carter.

  • David Carter
  • Senior Citizens

"Labour has held more positions on the rimu contracts in the last month than a circus contortionist," says Associate Food and Fibre Minister David Carter.

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand

Good morning ladies and gentlemen.

Let me start by sounding a warning.

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister of Revenue

In an amazing turn-about, Michael Cullen has admitted that the West Coast rimu contracts are enforceable," says Associate Food and Fibre Minister, David Carter.

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

The facts about student loans are undermining one of Labour and the Alliance's main election platforms, Associate Education Minister David Carter said today.

  • David Carter
  • Senior Citizens

Senior Citizens Minister, David Carter, will recognise the voluntary contributions of 29 New Zealanders who contributed to International Year of Older Persons (IYOP) at a ceremony at the Beehive to

  • David Carter
  • Senior Citizens

"Greypower has revealed its political agenda by refusing to allow the National Party access to a publicly billed leader's meeting," says Senior Citizens Minister David Carter.

  • David Carter
  • Senior Citizens

"Commonsense has outweighed "political interference" in the fight to have the Christchurch City Council's youth information cards released," says Banks Peninsula MP David Carter.

  • David Carter
  • Senior Citizens

"Labour's claims that the recent signing of beech contracts has been done secretly doesn't stack up -when their own West Coast MP Damien O'Connor was attempting to facilitate the signing of contrac

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

"The Christchurch City Council is attempting "political interference of the highest order" with its decision to stop a Youth Information Pack going out because the National Party has a paid adverti

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

NZ Customs has purchased new high technology equipment - never before seen in New Zealand - to combat the increasing criminal sophistication being displayed at the border, says Associate Minister f

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister for Food, Fibre, Biosecurity and Border Control

Canterbury University Vice-Chancellor Daryl Le Grew must explain why he is escalating student fees massively at a time when the Government is increasing its funding to the University, Associate Edu

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister of Education

"Labour deputy leader Michael Cullen treated a West Coast delegation to a shocking display of behaviour today, by swearing at them, causing one of the group to cry, and then storming out of the mee

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister of Forestry

More New Zealanders than ever before are living more than 100 years, Minister for Senior Citizens David Carter said today.

  • David Carter
  • Senior Citizens

Delayed public outrage would result if Labour's interest-free student loans was ever put in place, Acting Minister of Tertiary Education David Carter predicted today.

  • David Carter
  • Tertiary Education

Labour's tertiary education policy blows Michael Cullen's own budget, Acting Minister for Tertiary Education David Carter said today.

  • David Carter
  • Tertiary Education

The Alliance's proposed land tax would penalise elderly new Zealanders with modest investments, Minister for Senior Citizens David Carter said today.

  • David Carter
  • Senior Citizens

"If sustainability isn't the issue for the Labour Party, what is?" asks Associate Forestry Minister David Carter.

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister of Forestry

Labour's employment and forestry policies threaten thousands of jobs created in the top half of the South Island since 1991, Associate Forestry Minister David Carter said today.

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister of Forestry

"Labour's caucus is ready to explode following the resignation of Jim Sutton," says Associate Minister of Forestry, David Carter.

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister of Forestry

"Labour has delivered an economic death blow to the West Coast with its announcement that it plans to shut down indigenous forestry operations on Crown land," says Associate Minister of Forestry, D

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister of Forestry

"Michael Cullen will never get a job as a lumber jack, because he doesn't know an unprocessed log from a processed one," Associate Minister of Forestry, David Carter said today.

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister of Forestry

The Alliance's student loan policy reads like a loan shark's sales pitch, Associate Minister of Revenue David Carter said today.

"It's a 'buy now, pay later' fantasy," Mr Carter said.

  • David Carter
  • Associate Minister of Revenue