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Grey Power supports relaxing air quality standards
Friday, 11 June 2010, 3:19 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
New Zealand Grey Power Federation welcomes Government’s proposal to relax the air quality regime, which is the most stringent in the world other than the State of California. More >>
Grey Power Policy Kiwi Bank
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 11:53 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power New Zealand Federation acknowledges it is desirable for Kiwi Bank to enlarge its capital base in order to expand its business. More >>
Grey Power Media Release
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 11:19 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power Federation welcomes the release of the Law Commissions report "Alcohol in our Lives: Curbing the Harm". It is to be hoped that both the Government and all Members of the Parliament will give the recommendations in this report serious consideration ... More >>
Comments On Royal College Of GP Statements
Friday, 23 April 2010, 9:47 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Dr Harry Peat President of the Royal College of GP’s is on record as saying that we (GP’s) need to rethink the way we deliver services and we need to think about who does what and whether we are making the best use of the people we have. More >>
Grey Power Questions MPs' responsibilities
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 1:45 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
It is time our elected Members of Parliament, and particularly those within the present Government, evaluated how the people in their Electorates are being affected by some of the new Health Policies being promoted. More >>
SuperGold Card: What a Brilliant Result
Friday, 12 March 2010, 12:44 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power National President is thrilled to be able to announce that he has this morning received assurances both by telephone and by email from the Minister of Transport’s office for the Hon Steven Joyce, that the SuperGold Card free-transport scheme will ... More >>
One Government Giveth, the Other One Taketh Away
Friday, 12 March 2010, 10:49 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Violet McCowatt, Grey Power Spokesman for Social Services, is appalled that Government is looking at downgrading the SuperGold Card Free off-peak Transport scheme. "While we agree that the scheme does need looking at, we would be totally opposed to it ... More >>
Enough is Enough
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 1:00 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
NZ Grey Power members have had enough of the direction this Government is reviewing National Health Care. More >>
GreyPower On GST Increase
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 10:24 am | Grey Power New Zealand
This National Government is shaping up more and more like that of the days of Jenny Shipley when she tried very hard to get the rate of National Superannuation down to 60% of the Net after tax ordinary time weekly wage. More >>
Grey Power: Taxation Review
Monday, 25 January 2010, 1:20 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
The introduction of the recommendation from the Taxation Review Committee, as reported in the news media, reeks of shades of former Prime Minister, Jenny Shipley, when she set the amount of national superannuation back to 60% of the Net ordinary after ... More >>
Electricity Reforms - Grey Power
Friday, 11 December 2009, 4:16 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
The changes announced today by Minister Gerry Brownlee will not achieve anything for domestic consumers. Unless the new Electricity Authority is given full authority to regulate the situation will rapidly become worse than it is now. Domestic consumers ... More >>
Safe with Age courses
Friday, 27 November 2009, 2:54 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power is deeply disturbed at the Government's axing of the Safe With Age Driver Education Programme for mature drivers. According to a NZ Transport Agency letter to Safe With Age providers dated 27th August 2009, NZTA's primary focus is 'on programmes ... More >>
Grey Power applauds Council reforms
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 11:10 am | Grey Power New Zealand
The announcement today of major changes to the Local Government Act by the Minister of Local Government Rodney Hide will go some way to improving the transparency of councils business with 'plain English' financial reporting and directions to focus ... More >>
ACC levys hit car owners
Friday, 23 October 2009, 10:45 am | Grey Power New Zealand
Superannuitants looking forward to a rise in their super in 2010 should forget it. If they own a car, Government propose that they pay $8-00 per week per vehicle, being the ACC levy component of the Motor Vehicle Registration. This equates to a weekly ... More >>
Grey Power Federation: Congrats to Min. of Justice
Monday, 19 October 2009, 9:17 am | Grey Power New Zealand
The Grey Power Federation welcomes and congratulates the Minister of Justice on his release to help victims of crime and their families. While, all the eight initiatives will be beneficial to the many victims of violent crime Grey Power recognize that ... More >>
Questions Arise Over Government Prophecies
Friday, 16 October 2009, 1:06 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
New Zealanders are being told that the Budget deficit figures for the year to June show the worst Budget deficit in the country’s history and the recovery will take 20 years. New Zealanders are being told that there will be a massive rise in ACC ... More >>
Grey Power on Mighty River Power
Friday, 4 September 2009, 3:07 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
NIWA say we are having a much warmer winter in 2009. The average August temperature for New Zealand was 1.7 C warmer. Yet some people cannot pay their electricity heating bills! Are the Government-owned companies like Mighty River still gouging their customers, ... More >>
Grey Power Wellington Lobby Report
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 11:41 am | Grey Power New Zealand
The Lobby Team of Dick Stark, Roy Reid, Ian Anderson and the writer Les Howard, met with various Government Ministers, MPs, Ministries and other organisations allied to Grey Power from 17 to 20 August 2009. This was a very busy round of meetings, ... More >>
On Extending The Retirement Age To 67
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 5:10 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
Grey Power is prepared to accept that some day in New Zealand the retirement age may go out to 67, but it will not be soon and it will not be before a great many years. Why? More >>
What is New Zealand coming to?
Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 12:48 pm | Grey Power New Zealand
· There are calls to consider putting the retirement age up to 67 years which will not only succeed in people not leaving work as early, but will block younger ones coming in at the bottom, and we have thousands of young out of work now. More >>