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Alliance Conference asks the hard questions

Monday, 20 November 2006, 9:45 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

"They will spend our money on a luxury football stadium. We will spend our money on insulating New Zealand homes and ensuring our families can live in healthy and affordable homes. What do you think is the right priority?" More >>

Alliance Conference puts people first

Friday, 17 November 2006, 4:42 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

"We won't deliver tax cuts to Don Brash, and we won't make a new rugby stadium a priority, but we will work for quality housing, secure jobs, free education and affordable power for all New Zealanders." More >>

Alliance says spend stadium cash on decent homes

Monday, 13 November 2006, 4:16 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance Party says the money for a rugby stadium in Auckland should go towards fixing up houses for working class and low income New Zealanders. More >>

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 >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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