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NZ Government Should Offer Refuge To Zimbabwean
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 8:30 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
“Tony Blair’s right wing Labour Party in Britain is preparing to deport Crespen Kulingi, curently imprisoned in a UK Detention Centre, back to Zimbabwe,” said Paul Piesse, co-leader of the Alliance party today. “Once he is back there, Mugabe’s murderers ... More >>
Howard’s Reforms Aim To Slash Minimum Wage
Monday, 27 June 2005, 9:24 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
“The New Zealand Alliance Party strongly supports the Australian Unions’ fight to stop John Howard using his majority in both Houses of Parliament to freeze and then cut the minimum wage in that country from 1 July,” said Paul Piesse, co-leader of ... More >>
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Thursday, 23 June 2005, 9:21 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Criminal Proceeds and Instruments Bill introduced in Parliament yesterday is a gross violation of the principles of justice and does not address the real issue of how to stop gang-related crime, says the Alliance. More >>
Govt Should Axe Managers Not Workers
Monday, 20 June 2005, 9:18 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
“The Government warning that it is about to swing a very big axe into Christchurch Polytechnic and other tertiary institutions shows they are targeting the wrong group,” said Paul Piesse, Co-leader of the Alliance party today. More >>
Railway Station Meridian Ad Campaign Wasteful
Monday, 20 June 2005, 9:18 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
“State power producer and retailer, Meridian huge advertisement on the former Christchurch Railway Station Clock tower is a gigantic waste of money when the SOE should instead be offering power at the cheapest rate,” said Andrew McKenzie, Alliance Public Sector ... More >>
Labour and National join forces to sell off NZ
Friday, 17 June 2005, 3:15 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The ramming through of the Overseas Investment Bill under urgency late last night will allow multinational corporations and international financial instituions to buy up significant New Zealand assets with far too few effective controls on their ... More >>
School Sector Minimum Wage Needed
Tuesday, 14 June 2005, 9:40 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Parents and children would benefit if the Government set a minimum wage of $15 per hour for school support workers, the Alliance says. More >>
Time to Take Transpower Back
Monday, 13 June 2005, 9:33 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
“Recent information about State power generator Transpower’s dodgy market and tax manipulations reinforce our view that it is time to take Transpower back under an integrated model of public ownership and community control of the electricity market,” ... More >>
Alliance policies have improved lot of the poor
Friday, 10 June 2005, 9:37 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The reduction in poverty reported by the Government in the 2004 Household Economic Survey is largely the result of policy initiatives of the Alliance when it was in coalition with Labour. Alliance Co-leader Jill Ovens says income-related rents in ... More >>
Attack On Peters Won’t Shift Votes To Greens
Monday, 6 June 2005, 3:19 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
“The attack on Winston Peters by Greens leader Rod Donald was ill-judged and will not shift votes to the Greens,” said Paul Piesse, Co-leader of the Alliance party today. He was commenting on Rod Donald’s use of terms like Peters being 'a snake ... More >>
Health $15ph Minimum Wage Works in UK NHS
Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 10:42 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
“The Government must set and fund a $15 per hour minimum wage for health workers in hospitals and Non Government Organisation (NGO) health services to provide them with a liveable wage,” said Paul Piesse, Co-leader of the Alliance party today. More >>
Cut GST on Food, Electricity for Fairness
Monday, 30 May 2005, 9:43 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
“A cut to GST alongside a rise in progressive tax for those on higher incomes and higher Government expenditure on health and education is the way to get a fairer society,” said Paul Piesse, Alliance Co-leader. He was commenting on the post Budget ... More >>
Minority reaps benefits of strong economic growth
Monday, 23 May 2005, 9:15 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Those who keep shouting for tax cuts are selfish and misled, says Alliance social services spokesperson Gail Marmont. More >>
Low-paid workers miss out
Monday, 23 May 2005, 9:14 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The KiwiSaver scheme, a highlight of this week’s Budget, seems little better than a cynical PR ploy, the Alliance says. No-one will get a cent towards providing a house for themselves until at least 2010 from this scheme. More >>
Alliance Prepares For Early Election
Monday, 16 May 2005, 8:49 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance National Council this weekend endorsed the Party’s List and planned its election campaign in case of an early election. More >>
Trade unionists lead Alliance List
Monday, 16 May 2005, 8:48 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Party’s two co-leaders and number one and two on the Alliance List are Party President and Auckland union organiser Jill Ovens, who is contesting the Manukau East seat, and local government union organiser Paul Piesse, from Christchurch. More >>
Alliance voice needed in Parliament
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 9:15 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance will be the only socialist party on the ballot paper in this year’s General Election and while the Greens will be strong competitors for the left vote, that does not necessarily mean they are a “Left” party, Alliance members say. More >>
Tertiary Saving Scheme will reinforce inequalities
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 9:14 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Labour-led Government’s decision to seek “expressions of interest” from groups interested in providing a tertiary savings scheme is a clear indication that they will never be committed to a fully funded public tertiary education system, says ... More >>
Labour betrayal in Montecillo Hospital decision
Tuesday, 10 May 2005, 3:37 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Labour has betrayed one of its most loyal members and also some of its most loyal supporters through its denial of $2 million in funding to the Montecillo War Veterans Home and Hospital according to Dunedin South Alliance candidate Chris Ford. More >>
Toll roads are highway robbery
Friday, 22 April 2005, 9:47 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The proposal to toll the Orewa to Puhoi extension of the motorway north of Auckland (ALPURT 2B) is “highway robbery”, the Alliance says. More >>
