Judith Collins

National Party leader Judith Collins says her deputy’s decision not to get a public vaccination early is his own to explain.

The Government is allowing ministers and spokespeople who hold portfolios… Audio

The government's being warned off even contemplating capping rent increases, saying that would be a further devastating blow to property investors.

The impact on rents is just one of the topics that… Audio

The Opposition leader says yesterdays government housing announcement will punish renters and family home owners.

Judith Collins told Morning Report that the housing announcement was a broken… Audio

The government's taken aim at property speculators with investment houses bought from this Saturday subject to tough new tax rules.

The blanket exemption the family home has also been quietly removed… Audio

The National Party has launched a petition calling on the Government to establish a trans-Tasman bubble immediately.

The Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says the Government will make a decision… Audio

MPs often ask if the Prime Minister stands by all her statements, government policies, and actions knowing the answer will be 'yes', so why do it? asks The House. Audio

The 2020 election disaster continues to haunt the National Party, which is keeping its review into the failed campaign under wraps.

Nobody from the opposition has commented on the review but a leaked… Audio

"Free subject to conditions" - that would be the security status of terror suspect Suhayra Aden in the community if she returns to New Zealand, according to a senior government minister.

It looks… Audio

The government has poured cold water over calls to pay 100 percent of a person's wages for two weeks if they have been told to self-isolate.

Two cases linked to the recent Valentines Day outbreak… Audio

The National Party is urging the government to pay 100 per cent of an employee's wages and salary for two weeks if a person is ordered to self-isolate.

The party says its proposed payment scheme… Audio

New Zealand won't be throwing open its doors to the large numbers of new migrants seen in recent years, once it's ready to open the border.

Covid-19 has brought net migration to a screeching halt… Audio

The National Party has again butted heads with Parliament's Speaker Trevor Mallard - with expletives flying across the debating chamber.

The shenanigans reflect the rocky relationship between them.

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The Opposition has launched an unprecedented attack on Police Commissioner Andrew Coster on Tuesday, with National Party MP Simon Bridges calling him a "wokester" and saying he is not tough enough on… Audio

Question time was considered an essential part of business this week as fewer MPs sat for shorter hours under changing Covid alert levels at Parliament. Video, Audio

National Party leader Judith Collins says a NZ citizen detained in Turkey and suspected of involvement with Islamic State should not be our problem, although she's not fond of the way the government… Audio

Green MP Ricardo Menendez March is facing tough questions after revelations he left the country in December against the government's official advice.

The list MP - who is now back in New Zealand in a… Audio

National Party leader Judith Collins isn't backing moves to protect Māori wards in local government, after a bill preventing citizen-initiated referendums on the wards passed its first reading on… Audio