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OECD solutions recipe for disaster for New Zealand
Monday, 20 April 2009, 10:12 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says a new OECD report on the New Zealand economy got one thing right and pretty much everything else wrong. More >>
Greens deal with Nats "political toxic sludge"
Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says the Green Party has betrayed its commitment to fighting for a sustainable and just world by signing a memorandum of understanding with John Key. More >>
Alliance Backs Calls for Managed Exchange Rate
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 4:02 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Economic Development Spokesperson Quentin Findlay supports calls by BERL senior economist Ganesh Nana for such an action which Mr Findlay says would be a "return to economic sanity" as the New Zealand dollar reached a 12 week ... More >>
Alliance backs calls for mortgage help for jobless
Monday, 6 April 2009, 2:21 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party is backing calls for banks to give a break to struggling borrowers who lose their jobs. More >>
Tax cuts leave struggling NZers out in the cold
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 4:25 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance says National’s tax cuts are a complete fiasco that punish the poor and starve the nation of vital social spending. Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says anyone earning under $24,000 misses out completely. “People on this income ... More >>
Alliance backs aid summit goals
Thursday, 2 April 2009, 1:58 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party fully endorses the recommendations of the Summit on the Future on NZAID in Wellington on 27 March 2009. More >>
Air NZ contracting out tactics contemptuous
Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 1:22 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party has condemned the “scabrous behaviour” of Air New Zealand in its latest dispute with its staff. Alliance Party President and industrial relations spokesperson Paul Piesse says that to employ strikebreakers to rat on workers exercising ... More >>
Nats transport plan panders to gas guzzlers
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 4:18 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says slashing of investment in shipping and rail shows the National Government is "supremely ignorant and arrogant." More >>
Alliance Party calls for immediate free GP visits
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Party Health Spokesperson Tom Dowie says it is disgusting that ordinary New Zealanders are not going to see their GPs due to lack of money. "In any civilized society, and a wealthy society like New Zealand, everyone should be able to see their ... More >>
Handouts to private schools appalling - Alliance
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 9:53 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
In a time when New Zealand's schools are crying out for funding it is appalling the Government is giving handouts to private schools, says Alliance education spokesperson Richard Mitchell. More >>
A Big Difference Between Investment And Cotntrol
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 9:46 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says there should be a review of foreign investment in New Zealand – but unlike the current National Government says that there should be much stronger checks and regulation to give New Zealanders a say over their own country. More >>
Nat's plan dooms television to idiot box status
Monday, 23 March 2009, 5:35 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says the scrapping of the TVNZ Charter signals the end of any token commitment to meaningful public broadcasting in New Zealand. However Alliance broadcasting spokesperson Sarah Campbell says the charter was a joke to start with, ... More >>
School fund crisis can be fixed by tax cut freeze
Monday, 23 March 2009, 9:49 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says school funding issues are putting public education at risk. Alliance education spokesperson Richard Mitchell says Prime Minister John Key could use his charitable impulses to good use and freeze the upcoming tax cuts to those ... More >>
Otago Design Institute loan gets boot for stadium
Monday, 23 March 2009, 9:44 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party of New Zealand is disappointed to learn that funding for the new Otago Design Institute may be in jeopardy because the government has decided to funnel cash towards the controversial and unpopular Otago Stadium. More >>
Funding Issues Putting Public Education At Risk
Sunday, 22 March 2009, 2:07 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance education spokesperson Richard Mitchell says Prime Minister John Key could put his charitable impulses to good use and freeze the upcoming tax cuts to those on high incomes like himself to solve the crisis. More >>
Design Institute loan gets the boot
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 10:24 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party of New Zealand is disappointed to learn that funding for the new Otago Design Institute may be in jeopardy because the government has decided to funnel cash towards the controversial and unpopular Otago Stadium. More >>
Alliance savages Key's plan for "Little America"
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 9:39 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says that New Zealand doesn't need the "American culture of giving" promoted by the Prime Minister. More >>
Alliance Party Supports Internet Blackout Campaign
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 9:25 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party of New Zealand is supporting the Creative Freedom Foundation's Internet Blackout campaign that protests against new Internet Copyright Laws that were due to come into effect this Saturday. That was until Prime Minister John Key ... More >>
Alliance Party Launches Drop Debt Today Campaign
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 9:39 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance education spokesperson, Richard Mitchell, today announced the official launch of their Drop Debt Today (DDT) campaign. More >>
Outrage Over Disability Report Response
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 12:15 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party has today voiced its shared outrage with the disability sector over the National Government's response to the Parliamentary Social Services Select Committee Report into the Quality of Care and Services Provision for People with ... More >>