Shane Reti

In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about a 'graph crime' amplifying anxieties about mental health - and what happened when the Herald's editors fronted up to readers'… Audio

The National Party's health spokesperson says changes need to be made to boost ICU capacity for the Omicron outbreak.

National's Dr Shane Reti told Morning Report it's clear New Zealand's health… Audio

The Government is pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into upgrading 24 hospitals throughout the country.

The Health Minister Andrew Little says 30 intensive care beds will be added. 

But vice… Audio

Former Air New Zealand boss and new Botany MP Christopher Luxon is National's new leader. What we know so far is that he loves country music, his favourite animal is a guinea pig and he owns seven… Audio

Yesterday Nathan Rarere discussed the country moving to the new traffic light system with the National Party's deputy leader, Shane Reti. He asked why he thought Auckland couldn't move to step 3.3… Audio

Whangarei is at risk of losing a huge government grant for a conference and events centre, plaza, bridge and ferry terminal. Last year the Provincial Growth Fund committed 60-million-dollars to Oruku… Audio

Booster shots of the Pfizer vaccine will be available in a fortnight for people who got their second dose more than six months ago. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement yesterday… Audio

The National Party would allow vaccinated and unvaccinated people to travel across the Auckland border once we hit 85 per cent fully vaccinated or by the 1st of December - whichever comes first… Audio

The the top of the North Island is now in an Alert Level 3 lockdown after two mystery cases of Covid-19 were detected in Taipa, just south of the Karikari Peninsula. A boundary has been set up from… Audio

National deputy leader Dr Shane Reti was in Opononi when the announcement was made for the Far North to move into level 3 restrictions.

He told Checkpoint "it will be a struggle" for the region to… Video, Audio

So what does National think of the change in alert levels? Nathan Rarere asked Deputy Dr Shane Reti. Audio

Palmerston North woman Moyra Speir has at last been granted permission to go and look after her nephew Andrew, who's terribly ill in Auckland. 36-year-old Andrew is dying from bowel cancer that has… Audio

To the Bay of Plenty of town in Murupara now which has one of the lowest rates of vaccination for Covid-19 in the country. So far untouched by the Delta outbreak, there are serious concerns about what… Audio

Those of you who tuned into Saturday's vaxathon might have seen a recognisable figure all PPE-d up-to-the-nines and vaccinating the good people of Northland. National's deputy leader Shane Reti got… Audio

The Deputy leader of the National Party Dr Shane Reti will be out vaccinating members of his consituency in Northland this weekend and across super saturday, Nathan Rarere asked him what it has been… Audio

Northlanders are bracing for a possible shift to Alert Level 3, after confirmation that a Delta-positive essential worker went through Whangārei. 

National's Dr Shane Reti talks to Māni Dunlop about… Audio

National Party leader Judith Collins says the country and the Government need to accept that the elimination strategy no longer works.

 She told Morning Report there have been 17 weeks of lockdowns… Audio