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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 >>
Alliance Backs Minimum Wage Referendum Plan
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 10:41 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party is backing plans for a Union-backed referendum to push up the minimum wage to two thirds of the average wage. More >>
Rodney Hide building access comments
Monday, 9 February 2009, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party has come out in support of CCS Disability Action’s comments regarding Act Leader and Local Government Minister Rodney Hide’s statements on TVNZ’s Close Up programme that a Christchurch businessperson should not insert ... More >>
Condolences to DPA on shock death of new President
Monday, 9 February 2009, 1:37 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party has joined other political parties in paying tribute and extending condolences to DPA (Disabled Persons Assembly) upon the sudden death of their new President Eamon Daly earlier this week. More >>
Need for old solutions to combat new crisis
Monday, 9 February 2009, 1:04 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
"It's official, we have an unemployment problem," says Kay Murray Co-Leader of the Alliance Party, in response to the findings of the Household Labour Force Survey for the December 2008 quarter. More >>
Free mkt electricity experiment: Enough is enough
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 11:41 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Energy spokesman, Ian Tinkler, says "enough is enough, how long does it take to see that the free market electricity experiment is a total failure?" This call from the party comes in the wake of Transpower's failure to supply electricity ... More >>
