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Underfunding creating school fee mess
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 12:00 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance says it is wrong that underfunded state schools are taking on debt collectors to retrieve “donations”. Alliance education spokesperson Richard Mitchell says underfunding of schools is having a negative impact on the education of the children. ... More >>
Nat's container prisons an embarrassment
Monday, 29 June 2009, 12:01 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Party Kay Murray says if the best shot from the National Government's Minister of Corrections Judith Collins to deal with the breakdown of society is to pack prisoners into metal boxes meant for transporting goods, then New Zealand has been brought ... More >>
Nats polytech funds blow puts education in reverse
Monday, 29 June 2009, 12:00 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party of New Zealand says the National Government's funding freeze on polytechnic's is an "ignorant policy that will lead to an ignorant society." More >>
Nats, Dunne make education harder
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 4:59 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party of New Zealand says Revenue Minister Peter Dunne's proposed changes to the student loan repayment scheme by National would be tightening the screws on students even more. More >>
Community learning cuts show Govt social vandals
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 4:57 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party of New Zealand has described funding cuts to Adult Community Education (ACE) as "social vandalism" by the National Party. More >>
Axing of Training Incentive Allowance unfair move
Monday, 22 June 2009, 9:30 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party has condemned the National Government's complete withdrawal of Training Incentive Allowance (TIA) coverage for undergraduate tertiary students who are on the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB), Widow's Benefit and Emergency Maintenance ... More >>
Alliance backs children's organizations
Friday, 19 June 2009, 10:26 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says the Kiwi Party sponsored referendum "should a light smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand" is a waste of $9 million that could be better spent supporting struggling families. More >>
Alliance Party backs Unite minimum wage petition
Friday, 12 June 2009, 9:28 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says the Alliance Party is one hundred percent behind Unite Union's campaign to raise the minimum wage. The Unite campaign kicked off on Thursday 11 June with a petition for a Citizen's Initiated Referendum asking ... More >>
Alliance agrees with Treasury on capital gains
Thursday, 4 June 2009, 4:23 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says it agrees with "its traditional enemy" The Treasury on one tax issue: a capital gains tax on property investments is needed. In a speech this week to the Institute of Directors, Treasury Secretary John Whitehead called for ... More >>
Social equality must be part of Environment Day
Thursday, 4 June 2009, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Party co leader Kay Murray says World Environment Day must be about more than a few ceremonial tree plantings and other "feel good exercises." "We can't afford token gestures on climate change and the degradation of the planet and its people." More >>
"A budget of very little brain."
Friday, 29 May 2009, 12:36 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Economic Development spokesperson Quentin Findlay says Bill English's 2009 Budget is a 'Winnie the Pooh' budget - "a budget of very little brain". More >>
Barren budget burns off John Key's teflon coating
Friday, 29 May 2009, 12:34 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party has hammered today's "barren budget." Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says the National Party sold itself on election promises like tax cuts it knew it could never keep. More >>
Dairy debacle result of free trade obsession
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 3:41 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says that the National Government and Labour opposition should "get off the grass" with their pathetic response to the collapse of free trade in dairy products with the USA. More >>
Shocking electricity rip off continues
Friday, 22 May 2009, 3:22 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says electricity generators have been given a license to print money as freezing winter weather pushes up peoples power bills. More >>
Alliance says LWR workers should get a better deal
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 9:15 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says it is unacceptable that receivers have not guaranteed wages owed to laid off workers at the Lane Walker Rudkin factories in Christchurch, Greytown and Pahiatua. More >>
Banking Regulation needed now - action not words
Friday, 15 May 2009, 11:01 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Economic Development spokesperson Quentin Findlay says that Finance Minister Bill English should stop talking and start acting to regulate banks to curb excessive profiteering. More >>
Tax think tank wants to make life harder
Sunday, 10 May 2009, 3:13 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray has congratulated Gareth Morgan, a member of the government’s “high powered tax think tank”, on raising the issue of a capital gains tax (Dominion Post, Saturday 9 May 2009). More >>
Air NZ management deserve to be "cleaned out"
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 2:55 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party is supporting locked out flight attendants employed by Air New Zealand subsidiary Zeal 320 Ltd. More >>
Give Boot Camps the Boot
Monday, 4 May 2009, 3:53 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says the National Government's plan to blow $35 million on boot camps is money down the drain for taxpayers, as it will do nothing for at risk youth and may even make things worse for them. More >>
Alliance calls for public ownership for LWR
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 1:40 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says the Government should take ownership of the Lane Walker Rudkin (LWR) Factory in Christchurch to prevent a disastrous loss of hundreds of jobs. Alliance Economic Development Spokesperson Quentin Findlay says it is vital that jobs and ... More >>
