Tag: New Zealand National Party
The Leader of the Opposition talks gay bars, pink flights, and his hopes for his children if they ever came out.
National Party leader Christopher Luxon has never been to a gay bar, he tells us over Zoom on Wednesday 28 June. “But I'm not averse to doing so,” he...
"That is not in the public interest, I can assure you!" The Finance Minister insisted to National's Deputy Leader.
Has there ever been a more awkward parliamentary moment?
As National's Deputy Leader Nicola Willis and the Labour Government's Finance Minister traded barbs about perceived fiscal 'holes' in each other's financial plans,...
Greg Fleming, National's candidate for Maungakiekie was the former managing director of the right-wing Maxim Institute.
An unearthed press release has revealed National's candidate for Maungakiekie, Greg Fleming, once likened civil unions to polygamy and incest.
The press release was issued in 2004 in the lead-up to Parliament’s passage of Civil...
Speaking to express, National’s former deputy leader says she hopes the party will support a ban on “sick and evil” conversion therapy practices.
The National Party’s former deputy leader Nikki Kaye is urging the party’s current crop of MPs to support the Labour government’s ban on conversion therapy.
The entire...
The Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill passed its second reading unanimously last night.
National has voted in favour of the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill which passed in Parliament unanimously last night.
The Bill seeks to make it easier for transgender New Zealanders to update birth...
The main opposition party was the only party to vote against outlawing conversion therapy.
Judith Collins and her National Party colleagues have come under fire from members of their own party for its decision to vote against a bill seeking to ban conversion therapy.
The bill would make it a...
The outgoing National MP’s gay son welcomed the apology saying “people can learn and their views can change.”
Former Cabinet Minister Nick Smith has apologised to the LGBT community for voting against same-sex marriage in 2013.
Mr Smith gave his valedictory speech late last week and says he made and ‘error’...
The current National Party leader was opposed last year, said she had “no position” last week and is now opposed again.
The National Party is set to support a ban on gay conversion therapy.
Conversion therapy is the practice of trying to forcibly change a person’s sexual orientation using physical...
