Mentions of The Dominion Post in New Zealand Parliament debates

IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY ... do tend to get a little bit overlooked, and it is not the sort of thing we expect to read on the front page of the Dominion Post, the functionality of a bill like this and of New Zealand signing up to the treaties that are ...

KELVIN DAVIS ... not know. It is not like it will be the headline on the front page of the New Zealand Herald or the Dominion Post; it will be tucked away somewhere in the back pages. No tourist is interested in looking through the “F...

AARON GILMORE ... the loss of $2 billion of finance companies. That woman over there, only a few months ago, publicly said in the Dominion Post—

Hon DAVID PARKER ... though none have had the courage to do anything about it.” That is until Phil Goff and the Labour Party took this on. The Dominion Post said the same thing: “There is a gaping hole in the tax system. Different sources of income are taxed ...
... none have had the courage to do anything about it.” That is until Phil Goff and the Labour Party took this on. The Dominion Post said the same thing: “There is a gaping hole in the tax system. Different sources of income are taxed ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... programme of asset sales, National is showing no signs of a plan to get us out of the mess we’re in.” It is right. The Dominion Post has said something similar. The National Business Review has said that there is a ...
... of asset sales, National is showing no signs of a plan to get us out of the mess we’re in.” It is right. The Dominion Post has said something similar. The National Business Review has said that there is a ...

AARON GILMORE ... Press there were 22 pages of jobs—22 pages. Do members know how many pages of jobs there were in the Dominion Post? There were 4 pages. The reason is that we are about growing the economy in the real park, not in the ...

STUART NASH ... I ask whether we are talking about a website here, or whether the details will be published on a full page in the Dominion Post, because “publicly available” means something different to Clare or me from what it means to my ...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE I rise to take a call, but I was engrossed in this incredibly exciting Dominion Post article, which aptly sums up the Budget as “A big fat zero”. Moving on, this speech is about the Taxation (Annual ...

CRAIG FOSS ... asking him, and the public will be asking him, to tell us about the turnover tax he promoted on the front page of the Dominion Post. I am sure—and we know that explaining is losing—that in order for that kind of story to get out, it would have gone ...

KRIS FAAFOI ... in Part 2. A lot of lower and middle income Kiwis will be saying that in their homes. We have seen plenty in the Dominion Post today; I think pages 5 and 6 are dedicated to families who will be no better off from this Budget. We ...

Hon SHANE JONES ... assumption that he can trust Treasury’s figures. Well, we trust what the Inland Revenue Department had to say, as the Dominion Post showed us yesterday on page one. Those figures will not let us down. Just as they did not let us down ...

Hon SHANE JONES ... the system. A number of those assets and a number of those liabilities pertain to a sector that the front page of the Dominion Post has accurately captured this morning. It is extraordinary when we are talking about the banking sector—...

Hon SHANE JONES ... I will continue in this vein of farming. As the current Minister of Agriculture knows, when the front page of the Dominion Post is not about us and is about members opposite, it is never wrong—never. There are odd occasions when ...

Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN ... years. Mr Cunliffe has been badly undermined today by his spokesman on revenue, who has scooped the front page of the Dominion Post off him. He will be livid about that. He is being badly, badly exposed for a lack of a plan. If one reads his ...

Hon ANNETTE KING ... share but also get their fair share? Many New Zealanders must have woken up today, looked at the front page of the Dominion Post,and asked how it could be fair that they pay so much tax but there are people out ...

AARON GILMORE ... Chamber we heard Clare Curran trying to subtract 800,000 from 1.6 million. She got 83,000. This morning we see in the Dominion Post that a journalist, for whatever reason, has pointed out that an income of $500,000, which was the ...

GRANT ROBERTSON ... of people who have membership of the Royal Society. They are people who are at the cutting edge. Recently in the Dominion Post some colleagues may have read about the work of a father and son combination. The father is Brian ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... point. Let me start by saying that on the day when we are having the first reading of this bill I saw in today’s Dominion Post a story with the headline “Bashed policeman says motorists saved his life”. This is the story of ...

SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... made his speech. The media has been correct in reporting what the statement contained. The front pages of the Dominion Post and other newspapers have highlighted that the Government, in this term, will constrict further ...

Hon DARREN HUGHES ... sure there is a plan for the future in our country, not just a gimmick for tomorrow morning’s New Zealand Herald or Dominion Post. We need leaders in this country who understand that prices are going up faster than wages, whatever statistics, dodgy ...

CLARE CURRAN ... but wondered whether they would get it and just how committed the Government is to ultra-fast broadband. A recent Dominion Post article quoted from a Cabinet paper that was released under the Official Information Act, under great ...

Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... talk today about Sir Paul Callaghan. He obviously does not read what Sir Paul writes. This is what he wrote in the Dominion Post today; today, I note: “… our thinking is too often mired in fashionable cliché rather than serious ...

BRENDON BURNS ... for those at the top end of town. We need only to read today’s Press—I know it is in there, and it is probably in the Dominion Post as well—to see the commentary from Warren Buffett, the wealthiest man in the world, who has commented that he wants ...

BRENDON BURNS ... we have a region like mine, which has been affected by a 7.1 magnitude quake of the type, size, and scale that the Dominion Post suggested today could result in 1,500 lives being lost in the city of Wellington, and the response ...

Hon ANNETTE KING ... and fighting spirit are going to be needed in the days ahead. As John Crowley, a West Coaster writing in the Dominion Post said today, “what will tomorrow bring … It will bring a heavy blanket of abject sadness.”, until the ...

Hon DARREN HUGHES ... of Transport, not to do it. I could not describe it any better than Tom Scott in his cartoon in this morning’s Dominion Post. He portrays Steven Joyce saying: “If there is any proof linking alcohol intake to the road toll, ...

Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... about this approach and the fact that the situation had to come to a crisis for it to be sorted. If one looks at a Dominion Post of July of 2009, one sees an article by Greer McDonald indicating that the industry was in a fragile ...

KEITH LOCKE ... know where this extra $10 million to market The Hobbit is coming from. An article in this morning’s Dominion Post states that nobody knows whether it is coming out of the tourism budget, or from where. It was just ...

Dr JACKIE BLUE ... confidence to the sector. The Hobbit movies will not be the last movies. There is talk in the Dominion Post about the Avatar sequels coming to New Zealand. That will be fantastic. This ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... all wanted this movie in New Zealand. How long has it been about money? We have Sir Peter Jackson recorded in the Dominion Post on 15 December last year saying that New Zealand’s film industry was being squeezed by a high dollar, ...

Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... to allow New Zealanders’ jobs and opportunities to be held to ransom by an Aussie union. Just as the editorial in the Dominion Post says this morning, this Government would not be doing anything in this space if it were not for the ...

Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... Times that the issue was all about the payment of fees. Last Friday Robyn Malcolm was quoted in the Dominion Post as talking about securing financial benefits for those involved in the production. Is it any wonder ...

PHIL TWYFORD ... is a new sum payable after the Governor-General leaves office, and there has been an interesting exchange in the Dominion Post, in which the Cabinet secretary wrote to explain that the change made here from a lump sum equivalent ...

CHRIS HIPKINS ... changes Parliament is making increase the remuneration of the Governor-General. Editorials in our local paper, the Dominion Post,have decried the supposed increase in the amount of money being given to the Governor-...

Dr RAJEN PRASAD ... chair, Phil Heatley, might like take a call to explain it in a little more detail. There has been reference in the Dominion Post to the provision paying a lump sum to the Governor-General after leaving office . At the current time, the amount ...

SUE KEDGLEY ... appeal against unfair dismissal in the first 90 days of employment. How well I remember the front-page article in the Dominion Post about a woman with an unblemished employment record who left a well-paying job so that she could go ...

JOHN HAYES ... I do not know, but the consequences of this decision—and it was all spelt out about a month ago in the Dominion Post—was that an employee of the South Wairarapa District Council publicly said: “I’m going to try and ...

CARMEL SEPULONI ... trial period scheme has been abused by some employers. There are many examples of that, including one recently in the Dominion Post about a woman named Alison Murray. We have been told time and time again by this Government that the ...

RAYMOND HUO Whenever we open a newspaper—the New Zealand Herald, the Dominion Post, or any other daily or weekly newspaper—to seek information from its classified advertisements, the first thing we do ...

Hon PHIL GOFF ... worse off. Mr Key and Mr Brownlee proudly became the joint holders of the title of “Wallies of the week” in the Dominion Post last Saturday. Let us hear what the Dominion Post had to say: “[Gerry] Brownlee for ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... bigger or smaller. He said that the gap is getting smaller. What did the third-party commentators say about that? The Dominion Post said: “Stats prove Brownlee wrong”. That was pretty clear and pretty definitive. On that same day, ...
... or smaller. He said that the gap is getting smaller. What did the third-party commentators say about that? The Dominion Post said: “Stats prove Brownlee wrong”. That was pretty clear and pretty definitive. On that same day, ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... completely ignore it. Of course, the Government is doing exactly that, and I think I know why. When I picked up the Dominion Post last week, on 16 July 2010, I found this headline: “Brash blows fees budget”. That is because he does ...

CLARE CURRAN ... marketing. Also, as has been proved and is being proved in the courts, outright lies were being told. We see in the Dominion Post today a report that more charges are being laid in relation to the Bridgecorp failure case, and that ...

KEITH LOCKE ... any explanation whatsoever, without a breakdown into capital expenditure or projects, or anything. On Budget day the Dominion Post asked me what the increase was for, and I hazarded the guess that it was for further processing for the National ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... younger generation”, if that is what it takes to go to a footy match? What was the Prime Minister’s response in the Dominion Post to the news that only 37 percent of people feel they will be better off, and the rest feel worse off? ...

Hon KATE WILKINSON ... was listening to Mr Goff respond to it in Parliament.” I think that probably says it all. Let us look at more quotes. The Dominion Post editorial states, under the heading “Bold step towards a better economy”: “Without changes to make it ...
... listening to Mr Goff respond to it in Parliament.” I think that probably says it all. Let us look at more quotes. The Dominion Post editorial states, under the heading “Bold step towards a better economy”: “Without changes to make it ...

CHESTER BORROWS ... admit that I never expected to read that from him. Then there is that other huge advocate for the National Party, the Dominion Post whose editorial of 21 May stated: “the Budget is a coherent document that should encourage saving and ...

JOHN BOSCAWEN ... the emissions trading scheme is $3,900. I notice that Mr Mallard was quoting from the tax tables in this morning’s Dominion Post. The newspaper also states that dairy farmers would need to be earning in excess of $150,000 for them ...

Hon JOHN KEY ... Labour Party style. That is all Labour knows how to do. When I went to bed last night at 12.30 I read the Dominion Post. In the Dominion Post Vernon Small listed 10 things that are highly predictable ...

Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... world. This is a disgraceful Budget. I invite people to have a very good look at the table on page A2 of today’s Dominion Post. Forget the headline; look at the numbers. I ask people to think carefully about what happens when we ...

DAVID CLENDON ... best media commentaries, one of the most astute, and also one of the most succinct, is on the front page of today’s Dominion Post. The headline reads simply: “Lollies for all”. I think that brief phrase captures the essence of this Budget. After ...

Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... to do something to assist those people because we needed to keep them in New Zealand. Well, the front page of the Dominion Post this morning had a very interesting article about who these valuable people were: lawyers and ...

Hon SIMON POWER ... life formats. David Cunliffe was understandably moved by his visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, but his Dominion Post column yesterday suggests that he is forgoing his finance role for one presenting the History ....

DARIEN FENTON ... funding available. What did we see in the next 24 hours? We saw a huge U-turn, a huge flip-flop, from the Minister. The Dominion Post got it right on Monday 15 March when it stated that Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, had been ...
... available. What did we see in the next 24 hours? We saw a huge U-turn, a huge flip-flop, from the Minister. The Dominion Post got it right on Monday 15 March when it stated that Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, had been ...

KATRINA SHANKS ... good enough for us. We had to make changes; there was no choice. In an article in the 5 September 2009 issue of the Dominion Post, Judge Andrew Becroft put forward some very important facts about the youth whom he sees in his Youth ...

PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... who are going on about that electricity market. So I will introduce a few objective statements. One is from a Dominion Post editorial: “There are reasons to believe the changes will increase competition,”. Well, that is funny,...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... white gangs. We can have a look at the Christchurch Press this morning and read about them in the Dominion Post. This is not about culture. Like Mr Jones, whether they be brown, white, or any other colour or creed,...

Hon DARREN HUGHES I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. The Hon Mr Cosgrove has told you that it is a report from the Dominion Post newspaper. He has given you the substance of what the report contains, yet you are saying that you do not know what ...

Hon PHIL GOFF ... Government. I want to ask the National Government why it has been strangely mute in the face of this article in the Dominion Post this morning, reporting that the chief executives of four big companies in New Zealand have awarded ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... trading scheme that will not work. We have had unanimous views from Brian Fallow, Rod Oram, and columns in the Dominion Post—from all except the heavy emitters who want other people to pay their bills. This is another example ...

Hon DARREN HUGHES ... to the country was all about a new shirt and tie, at the very same moment, on typewriters around this country, the Dominion Post was labelling him the loser of the week. The New Zealand Herald was writing stories ...

KEITH LOCKE ... get rid of terrorism, one is dreaming. In fact, it goes completely the opposite way. There have been articles in the Dominion Post, the New Zealand Herald, and all kinds of papers, and when we read the stories of ...

NICKY WAGNER ... sounds practical and sensible, but it is not quite that simple. Ross Bell from the Drug Foundation said in the Dominion Post this morning that this bill is not a debate over the change of the legal status of marijuana and that ...

RAYMOND HUO ... people in work, but it has saved just 345 jobs, so far, with 25 firms applying to join up. When pressed by the Dominion Post earlier this week, Prime Minister John Key was unable to say how many jobs the 9-day working ...

KEITH LOCKE ... phoned their international contacts, and one of the reporters they talked to relayed the whole story to us in the Dominion Post late last month. Contact was also made with the Red Cross, the Sri Lankan Government, and the United ...

Hon ANNETTE KING ... opposite, Paul Quinn, is fast becoming the English patient. That is what it is becoming. The editorial today in the Dominion Post got it right when it said: “Last week’s suspension of contributions to the Cullen superannuation fund ...

CRAIG FOSS ... that the whistleblower known as Ms Deborah Houston has actually received an apology. I would like to quote from the Dominion Post:“The whistleblower in the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board conflicts of interest ...

Hon PETE HODGSON ... is drawn from publicly available sources, as it was in this case. One Monday only a couple of months ago, the Dominion Post featured a story about the Minister taking himself off to India in a private capacity—

Hon PETER DUNNE ... Transmission Gully. I welcome the intervention of Mr Finney from the Chamber of Commerce, as reported in today’s Dominion Post. It was a wise and prudent article. I deplore the fact that the Dominion Post, which ...

CHESTER BORROWS ...ve—one understands just how deep and intense the hold of gangs is on local communities. We saw on the front page of the Dominion Post last week about the activity around Farmer Crescent at Pōmare, the inability of the police to be able ...

CHESTER BORROWS ... note, too, the ability of gangs to intimidate people who live in State houses, as reported on the front page of the Dominion Post last week. Of course, this occurred at Pōmare, which is not very far at all from Rimutaka Prison. ...

NATHAN GUY ... a huge issue right across New Zealand. We saw that today, with the revelations about gangs on the front page of the Dominion Post. Chris Tremain talked in the House earlier today about this issue and what it means to people in Napier and, indeed, ...

CHRIS TREMAIN ... with gangs has failed. Whether it isthe killing in Murupara, which we read about in this morning’s Dominion Post, or the murder in Hawke’s Bay of 34-year-old Mark McCutcheon—who went to the aid of a woman and who ...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... I have before me particularly strident editorials published by the New Zealand Herald and the Dominion Post during 2007, which stated that the Government should not have been running surpluses and reducing debt,...

CRAIG FOSS ... structure, and communities. They are an abhorrent threat. I will give members an example of that. Today in the Dominion Post and on the Stuff website was the headline “Gang raids in Lower Hutt”, then “Police have raided seven ...

Hon PHIL GOFF ... have been destroyed in the fires. We can talk about the statistics, but the photographs on the front page of the Dominion Post this morning show the human tragedy behind those statistics. New Zealand and Australia have a renowned ...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... response to the crisis we face. Now, members may have thought when they woke up this morning and read their Dominion Post that they had fallen on to a different planet, because there in Tracy Watkins’ excellent column was ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... about an important question, but she must have been reading my mind because she answered it this morning in the Dominion Post. She said the Government was open to the possibility of extending the provisions of this bill to other workplaces, ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... some of the comments made in Mr Flavell’s speech, which I want to do at some length, I just want to point to the Dominion Post cartoon today to sum up the totality of that member’s speech. The cartoon is of Mr English saying: “On the campaign ...

CHRIS TREMAIN ... leader. No, it was not in the headlines of that paper, so they probably missed it. But our 100-day agenda was in the Dominion Post and the New Zealand Herald, andinjust about every ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... $100 a week. Apparently, aspiration applies only to those who are pretty far north of $40,000. I looked at the Dominion Post this morning. It said that those on $42,000 a year will get $4.62. Those members criticised us for ...

Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... I start by saying a fond greeting to Jeremy Greenbrook-Held of Oriental Bay. In the letters to the editor in the Dominion Post on 24 November, under the heading “Just who is this man Joyce?”, Mr Greenbrook-Held lamented that I ...

JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... mess that underlies it. Professor Peter Barrett, one of our most distinguished scientists, put it very clearly in the Dominion Post on Friday: “Markets recover in a few years—climate takes millennia.” Our society is now so divorced ...

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... about this story is that it will not be on page 1 of the New Zealand Herald tomorrow, in the Dominion Post,or in the Christchurch Press, and it will most certainly will not ...

CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... looking at the damage. I talked a little bit yesterday about the pollution of the harbour here. The front page of the Dominion Post today talks yet again about the pollution of the harbour—how yet again the tangata whenua’s resource ...

Hon GEORGINA TE HEUHEU ...bout—I tell the House that I recall seeing, when the deed of settlement was signed some months ago, an editorial in the Dominion Post that basically praised the iwi and the Government for reaching a settlement. I do not think we saw ...

Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... or—and I say this with some trepidation, given the media’s ability to get their own back—tabling an article from the Dominion Post or the New Zealand Herald that has already been published. With those few comments ...

JOHN HAYES ... support of this legislation, and I would just like to draw the Committee’s attention to a headline in this morning’s Dominion Post:“Kiwis get half the pay of Aussies in same jobs”. Madam Chairperson, you might ask: ...

JOHN HAYES ... of bad governance, because taxes are too high, and because wages are not high enough—as reinforced in this morning’s Dominion Post by the headline “Kiwis get half the pay of Aussies in same jobs”. That is why I support this legislation. It is good ...

JOHN HAYES I seek leave of the House to table an excerpt from this morning’s Dominion Post headed “Kiwis get half the pay of Aussies in same jobs”.

TIM GROSER ... rules. This is known as the process of financial disintermediation. I note just in passing, for those readers of the Dominion Post who saw the consequences of this reported on the front page just this morning, that the collapse of some of the second-...

CRAIG FOSS ... the many non-bank institutions are, as a previous speaker alluded to, actually very, very vulnerable. We saw in the Dominion Post today that a little finance company—I think it was in Porirua or Taitā—is advertising interest rates ...

Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... we subsidising it? New Zealand’s very well-respected former Minister for the Environment, Simon Upton, wrote in the Dominion Post “the road to hell is paved with biofuels”. We have the 400-page report from the British House of ...

Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... in the chair, the Hon Pete Hodgson, and to the Government that this is reckless and irresponsible lawmaking. As the Dominion Post editorial asked so well yesterday: why is the Government wanting to ram through this legislation when ...

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS Today we move from Alice in Wonderland to The Wizard of Id, taken, appropriately, from the Dominion Post. One can see the town crier saying “6 o’clock, and time for lies, distortions, and half-truths”. The bystander says “Wha...

Hon DAVID PARKER ... this year in electricity, which was quite the opposite conclusion to the one reached by the New Zealand Herald, the Dominion Post, and all of the energy analysts other than Bryan Leyland, who is always out there on the fringe with the National ....

PHIL HEATLEY ... week until we saw that the Minister was reported in the pages of the New Zealand Herald and the Dominion Post as deciding to set up an investigations unit within the Housing New Zealand Corporation—which, ...

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... years ago, we informed the Speaker of documentation, the day we got it, of allegations that are now appearing in the Dominion Post—3 years ago. Let me give some background. Some of the dirt came from Television New Zealand (TVNZ), ...

KATE WILKINSON ... its second reading over 2 years ago, it is not exactly the ideal example of how to reduce delays. An article in the Dominion Post nearly 2 years ago, on 10 October 2006, referred to the number of court hours spent processing ...

DAIL JONES One of the interesting press articles coming out after the delivery of the Budget was the Dominion Post one about the “last chance saloon”. I thought about that phrase and how appropriate it was. All the parties are ...

LOUISA WALL ...driver’s seat of our proud nation to someone who cannot even tell us what he would do. It is worth noting from today’s Dominion Post that employer lobby groups are pushing National to adopt a policy that allows businesses to take ...

JUDITH COLLINS ... is no correspondence at all—no notes, no nothing—from doctors complaining about this practice.” Yet today, in the Dominion Post, a senior staff member in the ministry has fronted up and said: “Yes, we are getting these complaints ...

CRAIG FOSS ...r” at the Labour Party conference. Perhaps she will rewrite the song, because the headline on the front page of today’s Dominion Post is “I bet the bank”, and the gambler is Dr Cullen. I thought I should note that. One thing seems to be lost on ...

LESLEY SOPER ... throughout his or her career. Let us have a look at a few more quotes from Ms Wilkinson, as recently as today’s Dominion Post: “Ms Wilkinson: ‘Workers should be able to offer their services to an employer on terms and ...

Dr JACKIE BLUE ... members do not like it. The Timaru Herald talks about Labour speculation, and a headline in the Dominion Post states: “Phil Goff drops leadership denials”. The inside information I am hearing is that it was ...

SHANE ARDERN ... and pick out names, or they can look at any other form of public notification—even a daily newspaper like the Dominion Post—and find that sort of information. That is exactly what had happened, to the best of our understanding,...

GORDON COPELAND ... all. Yet that was precisely the situation faced by Angela Thompson, a pseudonym, in her moving story published in the Dominion Post on 21 January 2006. Angela is just one of the thousands of women who were placed in exactly that ...

KEITH LOCKE ... hands and smiling together, if the backdrop is truckloads of Tibetans being carried away. I refer to this morning’s Dominion Post where it states: “Dozens of Tibetan prisoners were paraded on military trucks in the Tibetan capital, ...

Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... that went through the standard Cabinet process. Two years ago those papers were sent to the National Party and the Dominion Post. There is nothing new in that. The public do not want to know about the whistleblower, because that is old news. The ...

Hon Dr NICK SMITH This morning’s Dominion Post contains this headline: “Building costs putting homes ‘beyond reach’ ”, and the article states: “The cost of building ...

Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ...ilet; it will pass into law. It is interesting, though, how this issue affects people. I woke up this morning, read the Dominion Post, and saw that a judge was supporting people in their community to deal with vandalism. This is what ...

Dr PITA SHARPLES It is good to see that some people believe in the myths and stories that get published on the front page of the Dominion Post. I get accused of kidnapping, and I get my face on the front page—there I am in bed, sleeping, and I find out the next ...

Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... Manukau Beautification Charitable Trust. I must say, though, that I was surprised to read on the front page of the Dominion Post today, about Mayor Kerry Prendergast of Wellington doing a moan about moves to actually help the ...

Hon TONY RYALL ... able to get that information in order to be reported. That is how bad the health system has become. I agree with the Dominion Post headline “What is going on in our hospitals?”. What is going on in our public hospitals, when over $5 ...

SUE KEDGLEY ... then we discovered that at the same time that it was telling us that, it had been locked in a 2-year battle with the Dominion Post over its refusal to disclose its adverse events—its deaths and serious disabilities. It was only the ...

NANDOR TANCZOS ... the lake or pursue any recreational activities that would involve contact with the lake water. On 14 February the Dominion Post reported that blue-green algae was still a threat in rivers, and was spreading through the Wellington ...

CHRIS TREMAIN ... of extra dollars have been poured into it. I will focus on health in the rest of my 5-minute speech. Yesterday’s Dominion Post disclosed the heartache felt by a local Napier family. It was felt by Craig O’Neill and his mum, ...

JOHN KEY ... in our society. He was one of us. He was proud to be a New Zealander, and we were proud to call him one of us. As the Dominion Post so accurately put it in its editorial, he was the New Zealander others wished they could be. Our thoughts go to Lady ...

Hon ANNETTE KING ... to the last one. Much has been said and written about the legislation. A letter to the editor in yesterday’s Dominion Post summed it up for many people when it said: “Democracy’s not one dollar, one vote”. An article in last week’s also ...

GERRY BROWNLEE ... matter. Conveniently, during that period the State Services Commissioner wrote an article that was published in the Dominion Post, in which he stated that he believed that David Benson-Pope knew nothing of this matter. He put that in the newspaper ...

KEITH LOCKE ... on 15 October by the “shock and awe” operation of the terrorist squad. In the same sensationalist vein, the Dominion Post today carried lurid details, supposedly from the police case. It stated that publication was in the public interest. ...

TARIANA TURIA ... to the law of the land and to the police, with their 18 months of evidence, some of which we have seen in the Dominion Post this morning, that has been selectively chosen in the so-called interest of the public. But those upholding the law ...

KEITH LOCKE ... The head of the Security Intelligence Service, Warren Tucker, virtually said as much in an interview published in the Dominion Post yesterday, when he referred to the hacking in the context of comments by Canada’s security service about Chinese ....

JOHN KEY ... all the formaldehyde in China to preserve that Government beyond 2008. One did not have to read about it in the Dominion Post, but, as it turns out, I did. I thought the front page was quite interesting: “Labour support crumbling”. The ...

Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... any citizen to get a building consent, we see that it is an absolute disaster. Members should look at yesterday’s Dominion Post, in which the Wellington City Council says that the amount of paperwork that is now required to build a standard New ...

GERRY BROWNLEE ... of his computer and write an article explaining what political neutrality is, and he published that article in the Dominion Post. The interesting thing is that when he sat there to consider this particular issue, he forgot the most important fact ...

JO GOODHEW ... the minds and consciousness of the public as it makes decisions about New Zealand’s future. The description in the Dominion Post last month of this attitude by the Labour Government—one of attempting to elevate ambition over ethics—is very apt.

Hon BILL ENGLISH ... of such advertisements personally when I was an education spokesman. The PPTA, with its advertisements in today’s Dominion Post and the , has spent half of the annual allowance that this legislation gives to anyone in New Zealand to influence ...

Dr PITA SHARPLES ... whakaaro ahakoa i tū te hui i ngā hāoro e rua i muri mai o te pānuitanga o te kaupapa mō te hui i rō nūpepa, arā, te Dominion Post i taua ata. He mana rangatira kei muri i ngā kaupapa o tēnei pire, he kōrero mō te tika, te pono mō te kore huna. Ko ...

SIMON POWER ... at the forefront of New Zealand’s political agenda. However, what was more interesting in that advertisement in the Dominion Post of 30 June was this paragraph: “To staff these work programmes, the Ministry for the Environment has established and ...

TARIANA TURIA ... I totally accept that all of this is part of the role of a member of Parliament. But if people were to pick up the Dominion Post yesterday, they would be hard-pressed to see any other role for Parliament than one of pure entertainment, a forum of ...

SUE KEDGLEY ... the very ridicule we are fearing by seeking to ban it—to prohibit it. I think we need only to read the letters in the Dominion Post today to see the sort of ridicule that this unfortunate decision has already attracted on to this House. As my ...

Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... But I think one can sum up the seriousness of much of the objections by what happened on Wednesday morning in the Dominion Post. The media got me up against a wall—not an unusual experience—essentially parading their defence of Western democracy, ...

GERRY BROWNLEE ... some extent, if the right journalist is doing it, it can be exercised on radio, and it is frequently the case in the Dominion Post that a particular reporter writes her almost daily column or commentary the day after the House has had ....

Hon BILL ENGLISH ... months that any tax cut means a cut in doctors and teachers. In fact, his office said it again just last night to the Dominion Post or the . It said: “Ask National which teachers and doctors it will sack if it reduces taxes.” I asked Dr Cullen that ...

CHARLES CHAUVEL ... House a couple of the reactions from some of the commentators. John Shewan, chair of PricewaterhouseCoopers, in the Dominion Post of 18 May stated: “The Government is to be applauded for having the resolve to reduce the rate in spite of stiff ...

CHARLES CHAUVEL ... to some of the issues that have been raised by previous speakers. I am looking at the second page of this morning’s Dominion Post, where a couple of calculations really give the lie to some of the sillier claims we have just heard. There is the ...

RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... research and development, and notes that it is urgently needed and will be great for investment. The editorial in the Dominion Post this morning also writes of welcoming research and development, and also welcomes investment into the superannuation ...

Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... up and down New Zealand, all those letters to the editor, and all those editorials. I particularly commend the Dominion Post of Tuesday for a superb editorial that said that we did need to get some honesty in this debate, and that we did need ...

CHESTER BORROWS ... for what is happening within the department. It was interesting to see the “The Politician” cartoon in this morning’s Dominion Post.It asked what the police were saying about this culture of silence, to which the Minister’s reply was: “They won’t say.”...

SANDRA GOUDIE ... that more than John Key’s charismatic speech in the House yesterday. It was also portrayed by this morning’s Dominion Post photograph of Helen Clark sitting all alone in this House, surrounded by a sea of empty seats. That was the photo that ...

Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE ... it as being. And while I am talking about half-stories, let us look at the wonderful half-story that we saw in the Dominion Post for 2 consecutive days. It is the story of the wonderful pizza parlour—and it does make good pizzas; it is just a ...

GORDON COPELAND ... first job, and I have experienced firsthand how difficult that can be for many of them. They tend to pick up the Dominion Post on a Saturday, with its employment supplement that has 640 jobs, or something of that sort. They go away with their ...

KEITH LOCKE ... Zealand depositors would not suffer. Although we are a long way from any Australian bank falling over, this morning’s Dominion Post has an interesting headline that reads: “Drought debts loom over banks”. The article explains that the long drought ...

COLIN KING ... Chamber say the New Zealand public are not overly interested in this issue. The inside front page of this morning’s Dominion Post refers to the “day of shame”, and quite honestly that is the position that this House has been put in. In speaking ...

CHRIS TREMAIN ... market because of this bumbling Government’s handling of the Telecom announcement. As stated in an article in the Dominion Post of 19 August: “The regulators can’t be allowed to think their actions are somehow detached from what goes on in the ...

PANSY WONG ... the Inland Revenue Department $1.2 million in unpaid PAYE and income tax, and also related penalties and interest. The Dominion Post article on this high-profile bankruptcy included an interview with an unsecured creditor, a Richard Young of Molesworth ...
... Inland Revenue Department $1.2 million in unpaid PAYE and income tax, and also related penalties and interest. The Dominion Post article on this high-profile bankruptcy included an interview with an unsecured creditor, a Richard Young of ...

HONE HARAWIRA ... But the bigger question remains. An article by the chairman of the New Zealand Business Roundtable in yesterday’s Dominion Post summed the issue up best: “Today the general unemployment rate is down to 3.6 per cent, yet the Maori unemployment ...

GORDON COPELAND ... in debt and getting further into debt to the Inland Revenue Department week by week. On the front page of the Dominion Post here in Wellington about a month ago, there was a classic example of that situation. Right on the front page was a ...

GORDON COPELAND ... for retirement. I say straightaway that when I read some of the commentary—for example, this morning in the Dominion Post—that somehow or other finds a mischief in the mortgage diversion part of this legislation, I have the view that it is ...

Hon RUTH DYSON ... to one charity. I received an email from a very, very reputable organisation, which stated: “I saw in last week’s Dominion Post that National Party MPs were being encouraged to get involved with charities.” It sounds like a good idea; of course, ...

GORDON COPELAND ... a new building on the wharf for Statistics New Zealand. With that, if we look at the situations vacant section of the Dominion Post on the weekend, we see entire pages—and I am not kidding—devoted to the great big advertisements of Government ...

SUE BRADFORD I hope any of my fellow MPs who read the front page of the Dominion Post this morning were as horrified as I was by news of the latest booklet teaching parents how to physically discipline ...

Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... said; it is wonderful. He said—and I have to get this right, because there are some breaks and pauses here—“And the Dominion Post leads with the story ‘$8.5 billion surplus and still no tax cuts’. So? What’s the connection?”. Well, one could ask ...

MARTIN GALLAGHER ... move all the petrol tax that currently goes into the consolidated fund to the National Land Transport Fund.” In the Dominion Post on 18 May 2006, Maurice Williamson said: “When it comes to roads, National is very concerned about the infrastructure ...

Hon ANNETTE KING ... front a press conference, when can you use him?’ ”. That was the penultimate sentence from the political editor in a Dominion Post story today, and it is the question that is being asked by National front-benchers and back-benchers. I could add to ...

RON MARK ... First started to ask written questions and oral questions in the House, and we had front-page headlines in the Dominion Post pointing out that $550 million was owed in outstanding fines and had not been collected. From there, the snowball ...

KEITH LOCKE ... a little more forthcoming in its activities, and it was good that its director, Warren Tucker, wrote an op-ed in the Dominion Post and the newspapers on 31 January. However, it included only generalities about the good work it is doing in the ...

Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... Perhaps Dr Brash misunderstood the point I was going to make. I am quite happy to table Mr Waters’ quote from the Dominion Post of 16 February 2006, which states: “I fear the risk for this country is if enough people keep saying there is going to ...

Hon LUAMANUVAO WINNIE LABAN ... on bringing the leaders of the Muslim community and Jewish and Christian leaders together with the editors of the Dominion Post and the Christchurch . They showed us that potentially divisive issues can be resolved by people of goodwill ...

CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... double standards that I want to address. It concerns religious tolerance. Last week the Prime Minister criticised the Dominion Post for republishing Danish cartoons that ridiculed Mohammed. She expressed her concern that the publication did nothing ...

Hon BILL ENGLISH ... family tax package. It was greeted with derision—there is really no other word for it—around the country. I think the Dominion Post headlined it—

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... has never apologised for it. We had someone—and this someone is sitting up in the press gallery right now, from the Dominion Post—who tried to make out that I was somehow erroneously seeing the Minister of Defence in Britain. Now, for 165 years we ...

DARREN HUGHES ... on the Opposition side of the House. His big new plan is to build some new prisons. He was on the front page of the Dominion Post this week, stating we should build some new prisons. So we have to take all the promises from the general election ...

JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... and there was no question of his colour.” Finally, in the words of Tom Scott, who had this wonderful cartoon in the Dominion Post yesterday: “Rod Donald: pragmatic idealist, friend of the planet, good man”. Go well, Rod.

Hon PETER DUNNE ... He was humorous, he was cheery, and he was, as others have said, enthusiastic. His untimely death—I must say to the Dominion Post, which said that he was from a different generation of other political leaders that I am only 3 years older than he was—...