29 April 2008 - New Zealanders are generally well served by the body responsible for ensuring the food we eat is safe, Food Safety Minister Lianne Dalziel says.

29 April 2008 - Independent MP Gordon Copeland, the Kiwi Party's spokesperson on Commerce, today renewed his call for an Enquiry into milk prices.

29 April 2008 - Stays of prosecution are running at the highest level since Labour was elected in 1999, says National's Associate Justice spokeswoman, Kate Wilkinson.

29 April 2008 - National Party Immigration spokesman Lockwood Smith says the about-face from Clayton Cosgrove on serious claims levelled at the Immigration Service puts State Services boss Mark Prebble in a conflicted position.

National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Labour's plan to rort election laws by piggy backing off departmental advertising is already in full swing.

29 April 2008 - National Party Immigration spokesman Lockwood Smith says the previously secret report into claims levelled at a top official at the Immigration Service makes for alarming reading.

Kiwi kids are the biggest victims of the current food price crisis, Green Party Children's Issues spokesperson Sue Bradford says.

National Party MP Clem Simich, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, has confirmed that he will not seek a position on the National Party list for this year's general election.

He will continue in the role of Deputy Speaker until then.

28 April 2008 - Local National MP Nathan Guy says the Labour Department's heavy-handed shutdown of the fantastic Kapiti Miniature Railway is political correctness gone mad.

28 April 2008 - With soaring prices putting the squeeze on Kiwi families throughout the country, now is not the time for politicians to be spending more money, ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today.