01 SEP 2008 - New Zealanders' chances of getting life-saving heart surgery are significantly lower than comparable countries, according to a draft Ministry of Health report obtained by the National Party.

01 SEP 2008 - Helen Clark should answer the real questions about why she kept the public in the dark for six months about the Owen Glenn donation to her Foreign Affairs Minister, says National Party Leader John Key.

1 September 2008 - From today more than 50,000 young New Zealand women can access a free cervical cancer vaccine with the launch of the first stage of the HPV (human papillomavirus) Immunisation Programme, Associate Health Minister Steve Chadwick said today.

29 August 2008 - Headlines throughout the country today show that the public health system is lurching from crisis to crisis, while the government is nowhere to be seen, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall

"Our health system needs new leadership that is focused on what matters, not

29 AUGUST 2008 - On Monday (1 September) Associate Health Minister Steve Chadwick will join Auckland District Health Board and Auckland University of Technology students to launch their youth-focused website and social networking campaign promoting the HPV immunisation programme to teenagers and

Federated Farmers president, Don Nicolson welcomes the announcement that the free trade agreement negotiation between the Association of South East Asian Nations, Australia and New Zealand has been successful.

Federated Farmers president, Don Nicolson said today, "News that the emissions trading scheme bill has passed its second reading is bad. It is too rushed. What we have is a whole lot of short term political gamesmanship that is divorced from the real world.

News that increasing numbers of families in the far north are being forced into mortgagee sales should be a wake up call to Government and all political parties about the seriousness of the current housing crisis, the Green Party says.

John Key's decisions to rule out both Winston Peters and Sir Roger Douglas from Ministerial consideration should he lead the next government puts UnitedFuture in a critical position, says leader Peter Dunne.

Federated Farmers Gisborne/Wairoa president Hamish Cave says big brother intimidation from central government over local government must stop.