Mentions of Sunday Star-Times in New Zealand Parliament debates
Sunday Star-Times has been mentioned in 100 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Alcohol Reform Bill
Second Reading 13 Sep 2011
PAUL QUINN ... way to get a paradigm shift is probably to increase the age to about 25. Will that ever happen? No. In fact, in the Sunday Star-Times we saw a new theory. The latest theory in the Sunday Star-Times is that research ...
General Debate 10 Aug 2011
Hon RUTH DYSON ... is completely out of touch with what is happening. That was very sadly related on the weekend in a story in the Sunday Star-Times. There are often stories that make me feel unwell in the Sunday Star-Times, I must ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 2 Aug 2011
STUART NASH ... is tax reform for the sake of fairness, to reduce inequality. I quote from an article by Anthony Hubbard in the Sunday Star-Times. He said: “The National-led government finds no great problem with inequality. If it did, its policies ...
Budget Debate 8 Jun 2011
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... changes during his first year in Opposition than Lady Gaga. Mr Goff was photographed everywhere: chopping wood in the Sunday Star-Times, riding his motorbike in the Listener—
Arms (Military Style Semi-automatic Firearms and Import Controls) Amendment Bill
First Reading 11 May 2011
KEITH LOCKE ... automatics, guns that fire off a lot of bullets, and military-style guns. We saw that in the case reported in the Sunday Star-Times and on Radio New Zealand about how the SAS was conducting little sessions with business people from a ...
General Debate 4 May 2011
Hon DAVID PARKER ... members of National in this House. They have taken over the ACT Party because they know that HorizonPoll in the Sunday Star-Times a week and a half ago showed that the gap between the left and the right was only 6 percent. A 3 ...
Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill
Second Reading 8 Mar 2011
Hon JOHN BOSCAWEN ... note that the Prime Minister, in reply to comments by Jim Matson, who is a long-time National Party supporter, in the Sunday Star-Times 2 weeks ago, made the same comment. Although the article appears under the name of John Key, I suspect ...
General Debate 8 Dec 2010
Hon DAVID PARKER ... laurels. But it has. The latest poll, which is of most concern to the National Party, was on the front page of the Sunday Star-Times on the weekend. It had National on 34 percent and Labour on 28 percent—a 6 percent gap. It is now a 6 ...
Aquaculture Legislation Amendment Bill (No 3)
First Reading 16 Nov 2010
BRENDON BURNS ... to grow, because our fresh catch resources are declining—as members will know if they saw the weekend piece in the Sunday Star-Times about the pressure on the tuna industry, for one example—and we need to be able to grow fish and ...
Governor-General Bill
Second Reading 13 Oct 2010
Hon DAVID PARKER ... on the second reading of this bill. Why did the Prime Minister not react to what Paul Henry said? According to the Sunday Star-Times at the time, Key’s buddy Paul left him looking flat-footed and silly. The newspaper said that it was ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... the lobby. But why is the Prime Minister not here taking the first call? We have not heard him. Is it because, as the Sunday Star-Times has said, Key is just not very quick? He could not properly defend himself against the allegations that had been made ...
Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
First Reading 16 Sep 2010
DARIEN FENTON ... the business, and the unsafe contracting that is going on for owner-drivers. Back in April there was a story in the Sunday Star-Times about some owner-drivers and what was happening to them. It was a horrific story about what was ...
Agriculture
Pork Industry Board—Thompson and Clark Investigations 3 Aug 2010
Hon DAVID CARTER ... to my letter to the Pork Industry Board. But I think that three things are worth remembering: firstly, this was a Sunday Star-Times article; secondly, some allegations were made that were not substantiated in that article; and, thirdly—this is ...
Motions - Reserve Bank Funding Agreement—Ratification
Reserve Bank Funding Agreement—Ratification 20 Jul 2010
Hon DAVID PARKER ... in New Zealand’s interest. The National Government has its head in the sand. I finish by quoting from Rod Oram’s Sunday Star-Times article. He said: “Given the new understanding growing overseas about the need to better manage fiscal ...
Financial Service Providers (Pre-Implementation Adjustments) Bill
In Committee 23 Jun 2010
CLARE CURRAN I will refer to some of the statements that were made by victims of the Bridgecorp collapse that were reported in the Sunday Star-Times in late 2007, to give an example of the kind of impact that this collapse has had on people’s lives. This has been ...
Environment
Air Quality, National Environmental Standard—Effect of Changes and Delays 17 Jun 2010
David Clendon Does the Minister stand by his claim, as reported in the Sunday Star-Times of 13 December 2009, that the Government intended to strengthen air quality standards, and Solid Energy was mistaken ...
Budget Debate 26 May 2010
COLIN KING ... this Budget is being directed, by allowing those scientists to keep more of the smart money that they earn. As the Sunday Star-Times said, effectively, we need the rich more than they need us. I think to myself that that quote ...
Securities Trustees and Statutory Supervisors Bill
First Reading 23 Mar 2010
CLARE CURRAN ... in this legislation, I will read extracts from a couple of articles that appeared in late 2008. The first is from the Sunday Star-Times. It is entitled “Business reality behind smooth assurances”, and it is written by Greg Ninness: “Trustee...
RAYMOND HUO ... in Auckland. He asked me to explain particular issues either by showing graphs or by telling stories. A story by the Sunday Star-Times newspaper of 28 November 2008 was right to the point: “Lending role questions for NZ Guardian Trust and Hanover Finance”...
State Services
Mining in Conservation Areas—Investigation into Leaks 23 Mar 2010
Grant Robertson ... the Minister not widened the scope of the inquiries to investigate the leaking of Budget-sensitive information to the Sunday Star-Times?
Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Youth Courts Jurisdiction and Orders) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 10 Feb 2010
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... Peihopa and Whatarangi Rāwiri? How about Phillip Kaukasi, Riki Rāpira, and Joe Kaukasi? Maybe this quote from the Sunday Star-Times website will help: “Michael was brutally murdered nearly 4 years ago by six thugs, including this ...
Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme Bill
Second Reading 8 Sep 2009
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... Let me tell members what concerns me even more about the Strategic Finance situation. There was an article in the Sunday Star-Times as recently as Sunday of this week referring to Strategic Finance and the Nelson investor John Lacey. ...
Commerce
Franchise Sector—Review of Franchising Regulation in New Zealand 24 Jun 2009
Hon SIMON POWER I did read the article the member refers to in the Sunday Star-Times, I think, on the weekend. I am confident that the current laws in place in general statutes are sufficient to deal with ...
Protected Disclosures Amendment Bill
In Committee 29 Apr 2009
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ... It is very interesting to think that the person who precipitated the legislation, Mr Neil Pugmire, stated in the Sunday Star-Times in December 2000 that even the new law passed then would not be enough to protect employee ...
Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Bill
In Committee 9 Sep 2010
KEITH LOCKE ... using audio or video recording devices or photographs. There is a serious problem; we saw that problem when the Sunday Star-Times ran an article on the putting of a tracking device by a private investigator, Thompson and Clark ...
Second Reading 7 Sep 2010
KEITH LOCKE ... Coalition. More recently, Thompson and Clark were discovered, in an article published about a month ago in the Sunday Star-Times, to have put a tracking device on the car of an animal rights activist named Rochelle Rees, who had ...
First Reading 28 Apr 2009
KEITH LOCKE ... The extent of intrusion by private investigators into private lives can be a bit sickening. In October 2006 the Sunday Star-Times reported South Auckland private investigator Lew Proctor saying he had been investigating the private ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 25 Mar 2009
Hon DAVID PARKER ...strong> through Vernon Small, the New Zealand Herald, again, through Fran O’Sullivan, and the Sunday Star-Times through Rod Oram all roundly criticised Dr Smith for trying to invent a catastrophe in order to ...
Insolvency Amendment Bill 2009
First Reading 24 Mar 2009
KEVIN HAGUE ... to 100 percent mortgages to first-home buyers with no assets; now we have a predictable raft of mortgagee sales. A Sunday Star-Times article from 2006 quoted a very typical example of a 20-year-old youth, with an annual income below $20,...
Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Bill
Second Reading 4 Mar 2009
SIMON BRIDGES ... host and a good commentator—although Grant Robertson says he is not even that. I liked his column in—I think—the Sunday Star-Times where he said that I was handsome and telegenic; it is hard to disagree with him on that front. He was ...
Electoral Amendment Bill 2009
Third Reading 17 Feb 2009
JOHN BOSCAWEN ... other major media organisation in this country, and it quotes editorials from the Dominion Post, Christchurch Press, Sunday Star-Times, Waikato Times, and Otago Daily Times. With that I finish my comments on the Electoral Amendment Bill. Thank you very ...
Veterans' Affairs
Veterans—Entitlements 17 Feb 2009
Hon JUDITH COLLINS ... if they wish.” That was the statement; it was misquoted. I will seek leave to table a complaint to the editor of the Sunday Star-Times and a full transcript of the entire email correspondence, and I will be seeking an apology.
Hon JUDITH COLLINS ... writing. It is here. It will be tabled. I seek leave to table the following: a letter from me to the editor of the Sunday Star-Times, complaining about misreporting; and correspondence in the form of emails, all of which state exactly ...
Communications and Information Technology
Broadband Plan—Commencement Date 12 Feb 2009
Clare Curran I seek leave to table an article in the Sunday Star-Times, titled “Nervous telcos play second-guess game”, which claims that the National Government does not have a clue how it ...
Internal Affairs
Passports—Microchips 2 Sep 2008
Sandra Goudie I seek leave to table the Sunday Star-Times 17 August 2008 release: “Kiwi ‘geek’ cracks passport”.
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 5 Aug 2008
KATE WILKINSON ... this Government waiting times and the number of outstanding cases have got worse. As recently as Sunday in the Sunday Star-Times we saw yet another instance of a case being thrown out as the judge attacked the court system. Serious ...
Urgent Debates - Ministerial Inquiry—Death of Debbie Marie Ashton
Ministerial Inquiry—Death of Debbie Marie Ashton 22 Jul 2008
HEATHER ROY ... had previously published all the details that I mentioned in this case. If Mr Parker would like to go back to the Sunday Star-Times of 28 October last year he will find on page A7 an article that outlines completely all the details that I mentioned ...
Budget Debate 28 May 2008
Hon GEORGE HAWKINS ... I believe that somehow local authorities have become out of control. One has only to look back to an article in the Sunday Star-Times about staff numbers. In 2001 Manukau City Council had 792 jobs. Now, in 2006, it has 1,050. That is a ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... they ought to be pilloried, as they are by various newspapers from the New Zealand Herald to the Sunday Star-Times. These newspapers are saying that the emissions trading scheme is good policy and that National should ...
MARTIN GALLAGHER “Growth!”, he says. In the time I have left I will quote from the Sunday Star-Times. It is hardly a newspaper that is overarching in its affection for this current Labour-led Government. ...
Budget Debate 27 May 2008
PANSY WONG ... those courses would not be entitled to attract student loans. But that was not the case. We have now learnt from the Sunday Star-Times last Sunday that a new institution is apparently doing the same thing so that senior students will ...
Summary Offences (Tagging and Graffiti Vandalism) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 20 May 2008
JUDITH COLLINS ... looked at this scheme and, as a human rights expert, she was horrified and she made a complaint. It was all over the Sunday Star-Times newspaper. The poor old Papakura police were told to shut the scheme down and that they were not to ...
Climate Change Issues
Emissions Trading Scheme—Amendments 24 Nov 2009
Charles Chauvel Has the Minister seen the opinion piece in the Sunday Star-Times from Rod Oram entitled “A costly exercise in hypocrisy”; if so, is the endangered species referred to in the caption ...
Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill—Changes 29 Jul 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER I have seen a Sunday Star-Times report that states National’s “ ‘wait-for-Australia’ stance has crumbled beneath it.”, given that the Australian ...
Hon DAVID PARKER ... of meetings have been held. In respect of parties other than New Zealand First, I note that the same article from the Sunday Star-Times I quoted from went on to say: “Now Nick Smith, its spokesman on climate change, says National ‘has no real issue’ with ...
Emissions Trading Scheme—Support 28 May 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... the Council of Trade Unions says that it is time for industry to step up to the plate on climate change, and the Sunday Star-Times says that it is vital that the emissions trading scheme goes ahead, but still National says delay.
Emissions Trading Scheme—Reports 20 May 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER The Sunday Star-Times editorial last week stated: “It is vital, however, that the scheme goes ahead, and it would be extraordinarily reckless ...
Social Development and Employment
Families Commission—Confidence 15 May 2008
Judith Collins ... children who are living in poverty, and the beneficiary families that this Minister did admit, as shown in the Sunday Star-Times, are worse off now than they were in 1991, to have the Families Commission spend time and money on analysing its own ...
Judith Collins I seek the leave of the House to table an article written by senior journalist Ruth Laugesen of the Sunday Star-Times where the Minister is quoted as confirming that beneficiary families are worse off now than they were in 1991.
New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Bill
Second Reading 8 Apr 2008
BRIAN CONNELL About a month ago a journalist for the Sunday Star-Times wrote an article lamenting that my dulcet tones had not been heard in Parliament for some time, so by popular demand I ...
General Debate 20 Feb 2008
SIMON POWER ... afternoon will actually make the matter worse. We knew today at 2.51 p.m., or thereabouts, that Tony Wall from the Sunday Star-Times had filed a story stating: “Crichton said he found out through his contacts who was behind the theft, ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2008
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... of us. Beneficiary bashing is a most unsatisfactory practice. It doesn’t really take you anywhere.” That was in the Sunday Star-Times on 25 August 2002, and is in drastic contrast with what John Key said in the Sunday Star-Times
Tertiary Education
Tertiary Education—Funding 18 Dec 2007
Dr Paul Hutchison Is rebel Cabinet Minister Damien O’Connor going to be punished for contradicting Government policy when he told the Sunday Star-Times that provincial polytechs should be able to offer courses outside their regions, and why has the Minister punished four ...
Dr Paul Hutchison I seek leave to table the latest Sunday Star-Times, in which Damien O’Connor contradicts his own Government’s tertiary education policy.
Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill
Third Reading 13 Nov 2007
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... and organisations. I would take this opportunity to note a recent column by Chris Trotter in, I think, the Sunday Star-Times, which was quite clear and concise. Basically in the end he stated that in a democracy, arms and free speech never ever ...
General Debate 10 Oct 2007
Hon PHIL GOFF “Yeah, right!”, as my colleague has said. Actually the Sunday Star-Times said something different. It said “At a stroke, Ryall showed himself to be both shifty and silly.” So that was the ...
Questions to Ministers - Question No. 5 to Minister
Question No. 5 to Minister 20 Sep 2007
GERRY BROWNLEE ... a few moments ago when Paula Bennett sought to table a document, she said: “I seek leave to table a document from the Sunday Star-Times, which clearly states—”, and at that point the microphone went dead. The House cannot possibly have known what it was ...
Transport
Truck Driver Safety—Changes to Vehicle Dimensions and Mass 22 Apr 2010
Darien Fenton Does he stand by his statement on Radio New Zealand earlier this week that the Sunday Star-Times article that revealed it is common for truck drivers to work well beyond the legal number of hours just so that they ...
Hon STEVEN JOYCE ... issue with me. I have received two items of correspondence in relation to work and logbook rules. I note that the Sunday Star-Times article raised an issue in relation to only one driver. If the member has concerns about the flouting of work, logbook,...
Roading—Roads of National Significance 2 Apr 2009
Jeanette Fitzsimons ... unprecedented motorway-building binge, after reading the comments of various international transport experts in the Sunday Star-Times this week, including the statement made by Dr Paul Mees, who said: “If you live in Auckland you don’t appreciate what ...
Drugs—Driving Under the Influence 9 Oct 2007
Hon ANNETTE KING ... a significant problem with drug-driving in New Zealand that needs to be addressed. I have also seen a report in the Sunday Star-Times in which the National Party spokesperson on transport, Maurice Williamson, said that National would support any ...
Driver Licensing—Age Level 20 Sep 2007
Paula Bennett I seek leave to table the Sunday Star-Times article, which clearly states—
General Debate 19 Sep 2007
JUDITH COLLINS ... through the Canterbury Plains. This is a woman who got Peter Doone out of his job and who told stories to the Sunday Star-Times to try to destroy somebody, to destroy his credibility, because she did not want him in the job. That is what she did. ...
General Debate 12 Sep 2007
Hon PHIL GOFF ... now that they have totally flip-flopped on their policy? Actually, I tend to agree with a columnist in the Sunday Star-Times last weekend, who said that the showmen and the shallow men of the National Party have replaced the hollow men of the ...
Hon RICK BARKER ... it would scrap it. John Key later said that he thinks he supports paid parental leave. Judith Collins said in the Sunday Star-Times that she would have much rather had tax cuts than paid parental leave, but recently told the that she could have done ...
Defence
Defence—Policy Changes 4 Sep 2007
Hon PHIL GOFF I have read an article in the Sunday Star-Times of 2 September that refers to past National criticisms of Government policy on the air combat wing as being New Zealand “...
Appropriation (2007/08 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 14 Aug 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... right might care to answer the question of just who is being referred to in the article on the front page of Sunday’s Sunday Star-Times about the person, very much closer to the leadership of the National Party, who is responsible for certain leaks. Mr ...
Housing
Shared Equity Scheme—Nationwide Roll-out 20 Jun 2007
Phil Heatley I seek leave to table the article headed “First-timers to get cheap homes”, from the Sunday Star-Times of July 2006.
General Debate 9 May 2007
KATHERINE RICH ... formal statement to the New Zealand stock exchange, because on Monday, as a result of his ill-judged comments to the Sunday Star-Times, the share price for Kidicorp dropped significantly—by 17 percent in just 24 hours. It just shows how commercially ...
Questions to Ministers - Question No. 1 to Minister—Personal Explanation
Question No. 1 to Minister—Personal Explanation 15 Mar 2007
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... Corrections and the paroling of Mr Neil Swain. On 2 January 1998 I was approached as Minister of Corrections by the Sunday Star-Times to make comment in respect of the paroling of Neil Swain, and I declined to comment, saying I was on holiday. I note ...
General Debate 14 Mar 2007
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... do, a constituent clinic in Eric Roy’s office in Invercargill. I was seeing constituents when a journalist from the Sunday Star-Times came into my office and said to me that he recognised some people out there who were Brethren. I told the journalist ...
Forestry
Carbon Credits—Allocation 28 Feb 2007
RODNEY HIDE Following the Prime Minister’s statement to the Sunday Star-Times that there was never “any promise to industry that the credits would be devolved”, has the Government, in any way, ever ...
Prime Minister
Prime Minister—Statements 17 Feb 2010
Hon JOHN KEY I do not have the Sunday Star-Times to hand, as I did yesterday, but if I did have it I would be able to read out all the improvements that have happened ...
Vulnerable Citizens—Prime Minister’s Statements 16 Feb 2010
Hon JOHN KEY Actually, things have improved, as the article in the Sunday Star-Times made quite clear, and in a moment, probably in answer to some of the other supplementary questions, I will go through ...
Emissions Trading Scheme—Amending Legislation 16 Dec 2008
Hon JOHN KEY I am not sure the Sunday Star-Times has made it all the way to Poland yet, but, putting that to one side, I expect that our partners will be looking at New ...
Justice, Minister—Confidence 22 Aug 2007
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK Most certainly not. Unlike the Leader of the Opposition, I have never been to the editor of the Sunday Star-Times asking that Rod Oram be shut down—or was it the business editor of the ?
Energy and Climate Change—Prime Minister's Speech 7 Nov 2006
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... Zealand should be carbon neutral and when she intends New Zealand to meet that goal, noting that newspapers like the Sunday Star-Times have stated that the goal of stabilising emissions is formidable and that carbon neutrality is sheer fantasy?
Food Safety
Food Standards Australia New Zealand—Folic Acid 19 Oct 2006
Hon DAMIEN O'CONNOR Yes, I believe she has, in the Sunday Star-Times of 23 July, where Dr Hutchison called for more time for consultation, which would delay the introduction of the one ...
Appropriation (Parliamentary Expenditure Validation) Bill
Second Reading 17 Oct 2006
JOHN KEY ... the Labour Party would not be paying the money back. Yet he had the audacity to go out and make a statement to the Sunday Star-Times: “the public would say that it was clearly for political purposes—and for Christ’s sake, of course it is, you know? If ...
Justice
Political Parties—Donations 19 Feb 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING Yes, I have. Like most people I read with amazement the story in the Sunday Star-Times where Ruth Laugesen reported that a former major anonymous donor to the National Party told the Sunday Star-Times that ...
Election Spending—Law Reform Proposals 10 Oct 2006
Hon Bill English Is the Minister concerned that when Pete Hodgson said publicly in the Sunday Star-Times that the pledge card was electioneering, he directly contradicted what Labour Party officials told the police when ...
Building (Late Consent is a Free Consent) Amendment Bill
First Reading 11 Oct 2006
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... this policy in its own area. It has been able to have 100 percent compliance. If we look at the survey done by the Sunday Star-Times, we find further that the cost for applying for building consents in Hamilton is perfectly reasonable. So doing this ...
Violent Offences—Increase in Number Reported 10 Oct 2006
Hon PHIL GOFF She was absolutely right that it was well signalled. Somebody from the police leaked the information to the Sunday Star-Times.
Education
Early Childhood Education—ABC Learning Centres and Kidicorp 9 May 2007
Paula Bennett I seek leave to table the Sunday Star-Times article in which the Minister of Education issued a blunt warning to the country to—
Early Childhood Education—Free Hours Policy 8 May 2007
Katherine Rich Is the Minister now resiling from his comments to the Sunday Star-Times that for those thinking of getting involved in providing early childhood education “the chances of making a profit” ...
Early Childhood Education—Free Hours, Number of Recipients 15 Mar 2007
Paula Bennett It is not Mrs Bennett; it is Miss Bennett. I seek leave to table a document from the Sunday Star-Times that very clearly states that the Minister of Education, Steve Maharey, has conceded that he will amend some rules in ...
Democracy—Participation 12 Sep 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY I have seen a Sunday Star-Times report of a school student, push polling on behalf of the National Party. The report tells of a Hamilton woman ...
Gerry Brownlee I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. It is a very interesting answer from the Minister. Many of us read the Sunday Star-Times article, and I would ask him to table his evidence that verifies the names of the individuals who are party to that ...
Corrections
Corrections, Minister—Murder Victim’s Family 15 Mar 2007
Hon Phil Goff I have been accused of making an untrue statement. I therefore seek leave to table the media statement from the Sunday Star-Times of 4 January 1998, which points out that when Nick Smith was asked to talk about the case, he said that he would not do ...
Prisoner Transfer—Service Delivery Agreement 5 Sep 2006
Simon Power Can the Minister confirm the report in the Sunday Star-Times that security guards transporting Liam Ashley from the court were not given any risk assessment form, in contravention ...
Immigration
Immigration Profiling Group—Functions 3 Aug 2006
Keith Locke I seek leave to table an article from the Sunday Star-Times of 8 January, detailing Maurice Williamson’s campaigning for an Iraqi couple who have been prevented from visiting ...
Health
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board—Conflicts of Interest 20 Mar 2008
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE An extensive forensic analysis using the full search powers of the State has revealed this article in the Sunday Star-Times of 16 March, in which Mrs King is quoted as saying she was present in a corporate box. I am pleased that the Opposition ...
Rural Doctors—Overseas Doctors 23 May 2007
Hon PETE HODGSON The member draws those details from a Sunday Star-Times article that was published on Sunday, which included doctors who come here for a very short time indeed—even for ...
Foreign Nationals—Health-care Costs 18 Jul 2006
Hon PETE HODGSON ... were granted permanent residency for compassionate reasons—such as the woman who ended up on the front page of the Sunday Star-Times. That woman was 7 months pregnant. Her child will turn 4 in 2 months from now, and he has a mother.
Third Readings 22 Jun 2006
Hon MARK BURTON ... original bill, which dealt with the rates rebate. That perhaps reflects, en masse, the attitude well described by the Sunday Star-Times,when describing National’s leader, Don Brash, as “the voice of ignorance, narrow political advantage, and selfishness.” ...
General Debate 21 Jun 2006
Hon MARK BURTON ... Lynch or Trevor Mallard. I am not sure which of the two is the more scary. It is either one of those two or what the Sunday Star-Times editorial in February 2004 described as: “the voice of ignorance, narrow political advantage, and selfishness: the ...
Arts, Culture and Heritage
Venice Biennale—Creative New Zealand Report 20 Jun 2006
Hon JUDITH TIZARD ... government in the late 1990s should have done.” That quote was from new National Party MP Chris Finlayson in the Sunday Star-Times on 4 June.
Budget Debate 24 May 2006
SIMON POWER ... a motion of no confidence in this Government. One of the reasons behind that, as we saw on the front page of the Sunday Star-Times last Sunday, is that this Government has no confidence in a number of its own back-benchers. We are starting to see the ...
SIMON POWER ... read his last Budget. Nothing happens by accident in the Labour Party. Anybody who thinks the front-page story in the Sunday Star-Times was not fully authorised by a silent nod from the ninth floor is very naive indeed. The usual kite-flying exercise went ...
KATHERINE RICH ...er! For those listeners who have just tuned in that was the valedictory speech of Jill Pettis. Anybody who has read the Sunday Star-Times will see that she is on Helen Clark’s hit list. No doubt some backroom deals are going on, but I doubt whether Jill ...
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... I hope John is listening. He owes me one, but I will be back next term for it. So I say to the writer of the Sunday Star-Times article that if she wants to make predictions, she should get her authorities right. I am told that the man who was ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2006
JOHN KEY That is right. It is a death warrant. Last Sunday I picked up the Sunday Star-Times, like many people in my caucus, and what did I see? I saw the list of people on the execution list. They are gone, for ...
Hon DAVID CARTER ... He said his Budget would be boring. That is what most New Zealanders have accepted is the truth. I looked at the Sunday Star-Times of this last week, and it talked about the dead wood in the Labour Party that is about to be removed. Dover Samuels ...
Maori Affairs
Te Puni Kōkiri—Māori Affairs, Minister's Statement 17 May 2006
Hon Phil Goff I seek leave to table an extract from the Sunday Star-Times of December 2000, in which Tau Henare said he would not be paying back a social welfare payment of $47, a debt he had ...
General Debate 17 May 2006
STEVE CHADWICK ... overstepped the line of decency with her David Benson-Pope allegations. It is the same Judith Collins who said to the Sunday Star-Times: “I’d often be in tears saying goodbye to the bobby calves. I couldn’t do it—I’m just a big softy wimp.” Well, her ...
Finance
Budget 2010—Tax System 30 Mar 2010
Stuart Nash How is it fair that, under details of the tax package leaked by the Government to the Sunday Star-Times, someone on $150,000 gets a tax cut nine times as large as someone on $50,000?
Budget 2009—Reports 2 Jun 2009
Hon David Cunliffe Does the Minister agree with the Sunday Star-Times business columnist, Rod Oram, who said “by scrimping and saving to make the books look better he seriously set back ...
Air New Zealand—Meeting of Ministers and Executives 27 Jun 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... not let his jealousy of fine dining carry him away. There was, indeed, no secret Beehive meeting—despite what the Sunday Star-Times stated. It was a dinner meeting. Mr Parker was not present for very long, because he had another private engagement ...
John Key Given that he said to the Sunday Star-Times“As regards the issue of code share—as shareholding minister I must absent myself from any involvement in the decision-mak...
Tax Cuts—Treasury Advice 16 May 2006
John Key ... the time, or is Mr Whitehead likely to find out, as the Telecommunications Commissioner, Douglas Webb, did, via the Sunday Star-Times last Sunday, that he too is surplus to requirements?
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 1 Mar 2006
SUE BRADFORD ... Rod Oram’s reflections on the second Australia - New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference in the Sunday Star-Times of 26 February was very instructive. Mr Oram’s article begins with the paragraph: “The debate over climate change and ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 16 Feb 2006
Hon MARK BURTON ... you would call a coherent or organised plot.”, he said in April 2003. Do members know what John Key stated in the Sunday Star-Times in October last year? “There is no grand master plan behind the scenes, like we go after him after six months.” In May ...
Manukau City Council (Control of Graffiti) Bill
First Reading 7 Dec 2005
JUDITH COLLINS ... Of course, she does not have to live there, work there, or have anything to do with the ratepayers. She went to the Sunday Star-Times, from memory, and complained. So what happened? The police were told not to do that any more. So now they have them in ...
General Debate 7 Dec 2005
Hon PHIL GOFF ... Party, and the bench behind, are the cause of that once-great party’s 9 years in the political wilderness. The Sunday Star-Times described the National shadow Cabinet as “the return of the living dead,” and then went on to say that Don Brash was ...
Address in Reply 23 Nov 2005
RON MARK I emphasise again that members must learn the rules. There was a good article in the Sunday Star-Times about National’s John HayesHe should justpay the lady her money and get on with being an MP. Clearly, there will be an ...
Reinstatement of Business 8 Nov 2005
Hon Dr NICK SMITH I seek the leave of the House to table the Sunday Star-Times article in which the Prime Minister stated that the very bill that the member has spoken about was dead.