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Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement
Monday, 3 August 2015, 9:48 am | Grey Power New Zealand
It is long past time the New Zealand Government took the people into its confidence and explained their position on the TPPA. There is a lot of information floating about through leaks on Wikileaks etc but our elected representative along with their ... More >>
SuperGold Card public transport scheme
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 1:02 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power has given a cautious thumbs up to Associate Transport Minister Craig Foss’s review of the SuperGold Card public transport scheme. More >>
Press Release –Grey Power
Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 10:21 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power has sounded a warning that the planned outsourcing of hospital food services could put vulnerable elderly people at risk of food poisoning or malnutrition. More >>
Grey Power Press Release
Monday, 15 June 2015, 11:26 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power wants the Government to reconsider a seven year loan cap for post graduate medical students. More >>
Budget a lost opportunity - Grey Power
Friday, 22 May 2015, 10:03 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power Federation National President Terry King has labelled the Government’s budget as a lost opportunity. He said there was little in the Government’s seventh budget which addressed some of the serious issues face by retired New Zealanders. ... More >>
Grey Power Questions Labour's Energy Policy
Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 11:56 am | Grey Power New Zealand
The Grey Power Federation believes that comments attributed to Stuart Nash Labour’s energy spokesman in the Southland Times of the 31st March need to be addressed. “If Stuart Nash believes that the level of competition in the electricity market necessary ... More >>
Rally against TPPA in Hastings
Saturday, 28 February 2015, 10:35 am | Grey Power New Zealand
With the final negotiations of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) expected to be taking place in March, and with widespread community concern about threats this secret deal poses to New Zealand’s sovereignty, a rally is being held onSaturday, ... More >>
Grey Power to monitor mail delivery changes
Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 2:14 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
A financially viable mail service is important to the whole of New Zealand but particularly for older New Zealanders. This has led one of the country’s largest lobby groups, Grey Power, to give guarded approval to proposed changes to NZPost delivery changes. More >>
Free GP visits
Monday, 12 January 2015, 12:26 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power has welcomed a New Zealand First Bill which would see people with the Super Gold card and who draw national superannuation get three free visits to their GP per year. With about 600,000 Super Gold card holders the Bill, if it became law, ... More >>
Milk Price – Grey Power
Thursday, 11 December 2014, 11:57 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power has called on dairy giant Fonterra to immediately drop the price of milk and other dairy products in the wake of falling international dairy prices. Today (December 10) cut its forecast milk price to farmers for this season from $5.30/kg ... More >>
Bring Back Teachers’ Country Service
Monday, 1 December 2014, 3:32 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Bring Back Teachers’ Country Service As the country faces another of the professional debates that are a feature of the education sector, this time on the value and impact of school decile ratings, it may be time to re-introduce the Country Service concept ... More >>
Grey Power congratulates Key
Sunday, 21 September 2014, 1:25 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power National President Terry King congratulated John Key for his party’s “resounding win “ in yesterday’s election and hoped that the new National Government would look hard at issues affecting the ever–growing number of older New Zealanders. ... More >>
Dirty politics strikes again
Thursday, 11 September 2014, 9:54 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power has refuted an apparent suggestion on Twitter that the organisation has supported the Labour Party in the run-up to the general election. The message is also critical of Social Development Minister Paula Bennett National president Terry ... More >>
Amalgamation not a Forgone Conclusion
Friday, 5 September 2014, 10:52 am | Grey Power New Zealand
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters will be speaking at a Public Meeting in Upper Hutt next week. Being held on Tuesday 9 September at 7pm, Mr Peters will be discussing the threat of amalgamation to the wider Wellington region. More >>
Grey Power Welcomes Labour Health Policy
Tuesday, 12 August 2014, 10:43 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power welcomes the announcement made in the Labour Party Health policy that people aged over 65 will receive free Doctor visits and pay no prescription charges. Grey Power has advocated for this policy for several years as many elderly people ... More >>
Grey Power President in Napier
Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 1:01 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
The new Grey Power Federation President, Southlander Terry King, spoke to a crowd of over 100 local members at the Napier and Districts Grey Power association meeting in Tamatea yesterday. On his first tour since being elected to lead the 67,000-member ... More >>
Grey Power Concerned about Secret Talks on TPPA
Tuesday, 20 May 2014, 12:52 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power Concerned about Secret Talks on TPPA. Grey Power is concerned that the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations are being held behind closed doors and that very little information is available to the public. The Chair of the ... More >>
New President for Grey Power
Tuesday, 13 May 2014, 10:28 am | Grey Power New Zealand
In what turned out to be a landslide result the 67,000 – member Grey Power New Zealand Federation has elected a new president: their vice-president, southlander and former Invercargill city councillor Terry King. At the Annual General Meeting ... More >>
“SHARK’ New Name for Telecom Instead of “SPARK”
Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 1:28 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Telecom’s new name should be SHARK, not SPARK, to reflect a miserly “clipping the ticket” approach towards their long standing customers with the introduction of a fee for those clients requiring a standard paper invoice for the monthly charge. More >>
Grey Power Concerned At Secret TPPA Deals' Impact on Elderly
Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 3:02 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
The Government seems hell-bent on committing NZ to the TPPA prior to the next election while refusing to release any details to the NZ public. Grey Power has real concerns about the impact of this agreement on several areas of NZ life: Huge increases in ... More >>
