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Surplus should be spent on social goods
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 10:07 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Party taxation spokesperson Professor Jim Flynn says the larger than expected budget surplus of $11.5 billion should be used to overcome poverty, health issues and student debt. More >>
Fishing industry corporates "working against good"
Sunday, 8 October 2006, 1:35 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance says fishing industry bosses are holding the country to ransom and the fishing industry should be put under public management and ownership. More >>
Alliance says free trade dismantles democracy
Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 4:09 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Labour Government is selling out workers through its secretive free trade deals, says the Alliance. More >>
Alliance attacks system of poverty
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 12:00 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says that a living standards report showing that 8% of New Zealanders are suffering severe hardship is a brutal reminder of the reality of life for the poor in New Zealand. More >>
Professor Jim Flynn "Education and equality":
Monday, 26 June 2006, 2:11 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Professor Jim Flynn of the University of Otago will present a public lecture "Education and Equality" on Wednesday 12 July 2006, at St David Street Lecture Theatre 1, University of Otago, starting at 7pm. More >>
Greens leave Left political space to the Alliance
Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 9:18 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Nandor Tanczos may have lost the Green leadership race to Russel Norman, but he re-ignited the "neither left nor right" debate within the Green Party. The real problem for the Greens is their refusal to acknowledge that we live in a "class divided" society, ... More >>
Govt does not go far enough with "unbundling"
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 1:58 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Government has not gone far enough with its "unbundling" proposal to deal with Telecom’s monopoly ownership of the telephone lines, says Alliance Co-leader Len Richards. More >>
Wellington Public forum: Whose Water?
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 3:00 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Speakers: - Dr Geoff Bertram (senior lecturer in economics at Victoria University) speaking on privatisation. - Bryan Pepperell (Wellington City Councillor) speaking about what’s going on with water in Wellington. More >>
NZ left in the dark in free trade swindle
Friday, 7 April 2006, 10:04 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says the free trade deal with China announced today will go down in history as a con-job of monumental proportions, and a cynical victory of cash over principles. More >>
Port of Lyttelton plan a warning on China Deal
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 11:34 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says the news that the Hong Kong-based multinational Hutchison has pulled out of a deal to buy up part of the Port of Lyttelton gives the public a breathing space – but is just a temporary tactic by privatizers. More >>
People power can end low wage ripoff culture
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 2:28 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance co-leader Len Richards says the recent actions by young people in Auckland against low pay and youth rates have the full support of the Alliance Party. More >>
Job slashers at Canterbury must be stopped
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 12:43 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance says plans by University of Canterbury management to sack twenty staff members from the College of Arts is a scandal. More >>
Port of Lyttelton deal "privatization by stealth"
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 3:07 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says that Port of Lyttelton should be put in public ownership, not put under the control of a multinational corporation. More >>
Labour Government PM blames workers for job losses
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 8:42 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Prime Minister Helen Clark has blamed the workers for refusing to accept the wage cuts and loss of conditions involved in the union-management deal that was negotiated to try and save half the 600 threatened Air New Zealand engineering jobs. More >>
Alliance says Judith Collins a threat to society
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 8:55 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party has called for National Party welfare spokesperson Judith Collins to resign following her comments on poverty. More >>
Alliance calls for public control of power
Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 9:42 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Party says revelations about price gouging by State power company Transpower have only one solution: the return of electricity to full public control. More >>
Take the power back, the Alliance says
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 8:57 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
People are paying 30%-40% extra for electricity since 2000 because pricing is based on “market forces”, and not what ordinary people can afford to pay for what is an essential public service, the Alliance Party says. More >>
Unions fail to confront Govt over Air NZ plans
Monday, 12 December 2005, 9:52 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Rather than confront the Government over Air NZ plans to shut-down its heavy engineering aircraft repair operations, unions have turned to an anti-union accounting firm to come up with a cost-saving scheme at the expense of workers' conditions. More >>
Alliance supports moves to scrap youth rates
Monday, 12 December 2005, 9:41 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance supports Green MP Sue Bradford's call to scrap youth rates for 16 and 17 year olds. More >>
Alliance looks to future
Monday, 12 December 2005, 9:40 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance showed with its feisty election campaign that it is still a political alternative on the left of Labour with policies that offer a very different perspective from both Labour and the Greens. More >>
