Penny Simmonds MP

There’s concern in the South regarding youth crime in our city. Young people are our future and it worries me that there are some who have fallen off the rails and are getting involved in serious criminal activity. I understand that it’s a small number of youths who are responsible, but local police

It’s back to school and back to basics for Southland students returning to the classroom for 2024, Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds says.  “Southland primary and intermediate students, in years 0 – 8, who are returning to school this week will be taught reading, writing and maths for an average of one

More Southlanders will receive essential cancer treatments if National becomes Government. Cancer touches almost every family in New Zealand. It is something that is also close to my heart, having lost both of my parents to cancer. Each year, more than 25,000 Kiwis are diagnosed with cancer and more

National Party volunteers were out in force around Invercargill late last night – putting up election hoardings on the eve of the installation period. Today (Saturday) is the first day that party billboards can be erected in the South – in line with local council bylaws. Invercargill MP Penny Simmon

Uncertainty remains for Invercargill childcare centres and families, as the Government rewrites its early childhood policy for the second time in a month. Labour’s arrogance and lack of consultation around its revised Early Childhood Education policy means that it remains unworkable, despite asserti

Southland families bearing the brunt of the cost-of-living crisis will get support from National with its new FamilyBoost childcare tax rebate, of up to $75 per week, Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds says. “It’s expensive raising a family these days and sometimes it seems like there’re costs at every

There’s no doubt that the Government’s hugely unpopular Three Waters legislation will hit local ratepayers in the back pocket, but is the Government really listening to our concerns? Water services are currently provided by local councils, but under Three Waters will transfer to four new mega entiti

Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds says she’s deeply concerned at the amount of violent crime that is happening in the city. “Violent crime is happening all too often in Invercargill and I’m worried that it could end with the loss of a life. “Most recently, the Collingwood Foodcentre in North Rd was tar