Hon Judith Collins · [email protected]

October 20, 2023 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, A week on from the Election, I greet you with a hearty ‘’thank you” to the 31,532 voters in Papakura who voted in the 2023 General Election. You are to be commended for exercising your right to decide who your Member of Parliament is and which politica…

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October 12, 2023 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, This Friday is the last day of early voting and Saturday 14 October is Election Day 2023. Voting ends on Saturday at 7pm.So here is a final request to Party Vote National and please vote for me to continue to be MP for the Papakura Electorate.It has be…

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October 6, 2023 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, It’s time to Go and Vote – many people have been in touch telling me that they haven’t received their voting pack yet, but you don’t need it or an Easyvote card to go to vote. Just go to a voting place with a form of ID and vote. Find your voting place…

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September 22, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, General Election 2023 Vote to get Papakura and NZ Back on Track Key dates for the General Election 2023 are:Early voting starts on Monday 2 October and Election Day 2023 is 14 October 2023. Voting places are being advertised on the Vote.nz website from…

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September 8, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, Recently it seems the media want National to rule on who they will or won’t coalesce with after the Election. I think this is putting the cart before the horse.So, I am standing by our National Leader Chris Luxon who has said clearly, that he is focuse…

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August 25, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, National’s Transport Infrastructure PolicyI am excited to follow up on the Transport Infrastructure policy announcement that includes the Mill Road four lanes upgrade being a project at the top of a National Government’s priority list. Improving roads …

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August 10, 2023 at 2:21 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, Last week I raised an issue brought to us by parents of the 2024 Year 12 students of Rosehill College, that from next year, Year 12 students will be required to take a compulsory subject of Manaakitia Mai plus five other subjects. I repeated these quer…

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August 4, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John,Following the tragic shooting in Auckland’s CBD recently, I extend my sincere sympathy to the victims and their families. To the Police and first responders thank you for your brave actions in a very volatile and dangerous situation.The two innocent vic…

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July 21, 2023 at 3:26 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John,It was a great pleasure to have Dr Shane Reti in the Electorate last week as we went to Drury to open the new Park Estate Home and Hospital. This brand-new purpose-built facility will be home to 52 residents. There is high demand and there are few place…

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July 7, 2023 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, Actively Responding to Auckland CouncilAs well as responding to Auckland Council’s on-line surveys and consultations, as an Auckland ratepayer/resident you can speak at Council meetings.Before every Auckland Council or Local Board or Council Committee …

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June 26, 2023 at 12:07 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, Papakura State Highway One onramps south to be Closed for three months This is an extra Collins’ Comments as I have received this Warning notice from Waka Kotahi Papakura On Ramps south will be closed from 26 June until September 2023 The night of Mond…

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June 16, 2023 at 2:42 AM

Collins' Comments June 2023

NationBuilder Dear John, Science Innovation and Technology policy announcement Following on from our  policy to Electrify New Zealand, Christopher Luxon and I made the latest science, innovation and technology policy announcement around Biotechnology and ending the effective b…

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June 2, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John,As we continue to read and hear and sadly for some, experience, crime in New Zealand is out of control under this current Labour-led government. In the latest Budget May 2023, they cut funding for Police by 6 per cent.Since 2018, retail crime has double…

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May 19, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John,Local RoadsRecently I received a complaint from a constituent about the state of the roads in Clevedon and Ardmore and the number of potholes in them. The constituent said that she has sustained many damaged wheels due to unavoidably hitting potholes. I…

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May 5, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John,Like me I am sure you will be dismayed by the attitude of our current government in regard to justice and law and order. There is no deterrent value in their policy of reducing prison numbers and quite obviously not enough police to respond to all the b…

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April 28, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, It is great to have had several policy indicators announced by Christopher Luxon on behalf of the National Opposition, so far this year. We are fortunate as a caucus of MPs, to have our focus going on forming and publicising our National Policies, whic…

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April 14, 2023 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John, For a number of years I have been questioning the sense of the Government cutting all natural gas and coal exploration in New Zealand. As many of you know the result of these cuts has seen the importation of Indonesian coal to make up the energy defici…

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March 20, 2023 at 11:42 PM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John Just over a week ago Papakura residents and Auckland commuters suffered an emergency on the motorway at Karaka. A truck carrying cannisters of chemicals blew up near Harbourside Drive, very early in the morning. The ensuing gridlock on Papakura roads la…

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March 6, 2023 at 3:54 AM

Collins' Comment

NationBuilder Dear John The Employer-Employee Relationship during emergency events These are uncertain times as we have experienced several recent extreme weather events which have disrupted our normal business and working lives. The recent weather events have often made it im…

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February 7, 2023 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comments

NationBuilder Dear John, Papakura Budgeting Service Christopher Luxon and I visited the Papakura Budgeting Service offices in Wood Street Papakura recently and we met Denise Smith and Louise Tulp and their colleagues who run this service for anyone who asks for help with their…

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January 20, 2023 at 3:45 AM

Collins' Comments

NationBuilder Dear John, I hope you have had a good break and that you feel this is going to be a good year? My National opposition colleagues and I are glad to be back from the holidays attending our caucus conference and we are feeling optimistic. Especially as our National …

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December 9, 2022 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comments

NationBuilder Dear John, The Papakura Christmas Parade was blessed with a lovely fine afternoon last Sunday. In contrast to 2021, the people, the bands, the floats, the teams and the organisations with boats and trucks like Fire, Crime Watch and Coastguards were back on the Gr…

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November 25, 2022 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comments

NationBuilder Dear John, Law and Order becomes the issue again. I would like to thank the members of the public who intervened in a significant but pointless theft from a well-known supermarket in a coastal suburb of the Papakura Electorate during last week. It is good to know…

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November 11, 2022 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comments

NationBuilder Dear John, I held a Tech Summit this week and invited participation from a wide selection of people in the technology and business sectors to attend. The group of experienced innovators and start up experts formed a panel and were given the opportunity to provide…

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November 1, 2022 at 2:51 AM

Collins' Comments

NationBuilder Dear John, Rebuild Papakura High School Petition Last week I was asked by the Parliamentary Petitions Committee to make a presentation to them on my 2021 petition to Rebuild Papakura High School in 2024. Previously we had submitted a full report on the history of…

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October 14, 2022 at 4:13 AM

Collins' Comments October 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Local Body Election Results 2022 I am very pleased to congratulate our new Mayor of Auckland Wayne Brown on his convincing win in the local body elections last week. It is great to see that Daniel Newman and Angela Dalton have been re-elected as Counci…

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September 30, 2022 at 3:14 AM

Collins' Comments September 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Local Body Elections I do hope you have completed your Local Body voting papers that you have received in the mail and that you have posted them before 4 October or dropped them into your nearest vote box? See where you can drop off your voting papers …

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September 16, 2022 at 3:37 AM

Collins' Comments September 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Our Queen Elizabeth II The sad death of our Queen Elizabeth the Second has been felt by us all and many people have been surprised at the sad emotions it has brought them. For most of us, Queen Elizabeth had been our Head of State for our whole lives a…

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September 2, 2022 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comments September 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, The Collins’ Courier July 2022 Survey results that my constituents have returned, show that overwhelmingly people are concerned about the cost of living in New Zealand today. The next greatest concern is fuel prices temporarily reduced by the governmen…

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August 19, 2022 at 3:57 AM

Collins' Comments August 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Meeting with some of Auckland’s Mayoral Candidates – All welcome I am hosting a Pizza and Politics Event on Friday 26 August 2022 at 6.30pm at The Pizza Box, 58 Wood Street, Papakura. Entry is $30 per person or $50 for two and includes pizza, fries, dr…

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August 14, 2022 at 11:28 PM

Collins' Comments New Train Stations

NationBuilder Dear John, I can now advise that there will be two new railway stations one in each of the Electorates of Papakura and Port Waikato between Papakura Station and Pukekohe station and that Drury Railway station will remain as Drury. The map below shows the location…

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August 5, 2022 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comments August 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Youth Parliament July 2022 During the recent July recess, Parliament hosted Youth Parliament 2022. Charlotte Cornwall my Youth Representative went down to Wellington to Parliament for the two day Youth Parliament event with her peers from all over New …

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July 22, 2022 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comments July 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Did you know that I am doing Technology Talks on Facebook? As the National Opposition Research, Science, Innovation, AI and Technology spokesperson I continue to promote the idea that focusing on the Technology sector will create exciting and profitabl…

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July 8, 2022 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comments July 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, At the end of June, New Zealand’s own Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission to the Moon which marks the beginning of the NASA project to return people to the moon. It is 50 years since humanity first went there. As founder of Rocket Lab Peter Beck s…

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June 24, 2022 at 5:23 AM

Collins' Comments June 2022

NationBuilder Dear John -- It was great to welcome Christopher Luxon the leader of the National Opposition to Papakura this week. He attended a breakfast that was put on by the hardworking Papakura Business Association and its Town Centre Manager Tracy Shackleton. A big crowd …

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June 10, 2022 at 5:17 AM

Collins' Comments June 2022

NationBuilder Dear John -- I hope you took time to enjoy the Queen’s Birthday weekend holiday and the remarkable fact that it was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s 70th Jubilee celebration. What an inspiration she has been and still is, to generations of Britons and people of the …

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June 1, 2022 at 10:44 PM

Collins' Comments June 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Drury’s Transformation Drury has a Totara heartwood mile post marker outside its historic school building on Great South Road that says it is 22 miles from the centre of Auckland. The mile post has been there since the 1860’s. Now almost 160 years late…

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May 13, 2022 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comments May 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, I am excited to be going to Taupo to speak at the annual Tech Week event next week. This event is all about ways that the tech sector is developing ideas for enhancing the future. The week provides a platform for everyone to meet, share ideas and creat…

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April 29, 2022 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comments April 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, ANZAC Day 2022 It was great to attend the Dawn Service at the Papakura Cenotaph with over 700 other people who gathered to remember our ANZACs. In spite of the cold and damp morning, it was attended by many from the Papakura RSA. I went to the Drury Co…

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April 14, 2022 at 4:00 AM

Collins' Comments April 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, ANZAC Day 2022 remembrance services ANZAC DAY - 25 April 2022 DAWN SERVICE in Papakura Town Centre A DAWN SERVICE has now been scheduled for 6 am on Monday 25 April 2022 at the Cenotaph in Papakura. Everyone is welcome to attend this special commemora…

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April 8, 2022 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comments April 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Back in January a constituent came to me concerned that the train and ferry that he needed to take to get to work from Papakura were overcrowded for the Covid-19 Red alert level scenario. He wanted to know why Auckland Transport were not following the …

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March 25, 2022 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comments March 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, As spokesperson for the National opposition on Research Science Innovation and Technology it is a great opportunity to follow up on a few enquiries that I have had from constituents about the availability of Ultra Fast Broadband fibre connections in ar…

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March 11, 2022 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comments March 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Golf Day 2022 With the great summer weather continuing I am happy say that the Annual Ambrose Golf Day Fundraiser is going ahead at Pukekohe Golf Course on 25 March starting at 12 noon to prepare for the shotgun start. There will be a number of politic…

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February 25, 2022 at 3:00 AM

Collins' Comments February 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, I recently attended the Electorate AGM and was pleased to see so many people there to support myself and National colleagues. It was great to have the opportunity to thank the hardworking team for their success last year. In particular, the successful …

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February 12, 2022 at 9:26 AM

Collins' Comments February 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, I hope you enjoyed the long weekend that we had for Waitangi Day, 6 February. It was a day that was remarkable in 2022 for a number of reasons.  As well as New Zealand’s Waitangi Day it was 70 years since Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second ac…

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January 31, 2022 at 9:59 PM

Collins' Comments January 2022

NationBuilder Dear John, Wishing you a happy New Year. I hope you enjoyed a break over the Christmas and New Year and the opportunity to catch up with family and friends that you hadn’t seen for a while. I am back enjoying the life of an electorate MP and I hope to see many of…

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December 10, 2021 at 12:13 AM

Collins' Comments December 2021

NationBuilder Dear John, As you know we have a new Leader of the National Party and National Opposition, Christopher Luxon who was elected MP for Botany at the last election in 2020. I would like to thank all the people who have contacted me over the months that I was Leader o…

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November 26, 2021 at 3:24 AM

Collins' Comments November 2021

NationBuilder Dear John, Groundswell Protest Although it wasn’t widely reported in our Media the Groundswell Protests across New Zealand were a success. They showed a united farming community who were following all the Covid-19Delta safety rules with great respect. At the same…

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November 11, 2021 at 10:09 PM

Collins' Comments November 2021

NationBuilder Dear John, The protest in Wellington has been downplayed by the Prime Minister and others have commented that it was a peaceful crowd. However Parliamentary Security advised all staff and Members of Parliament to stay inside the Parliamentary precinct while the p…

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November 2, 2021 at 7:49 AM

John, we're fighting for you

New Zealand National Party Hi John --I am back in Auckland and have been out in a few different electorates catching up with small business owners and locals.In typical Kiwi fashion, the people I meet put on a brave face. However, often after a few minutes of talking about the…

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