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National And Labour Flirt With Grand Coalition

Tuesday, 2 July 2002, 9:34 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance Leader Laila Harré has challenged Bill English to come clean and confirm that National will support Labour on confidence and supply votes, essentially forming a Grand Coalition between Labour and National. More >>

Speech to Forum on Children and Family Violence

Monday, 1 July 2002, 1:44 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

t’s before 7 this morning, July 1, and the first official day for paid parental leave. More >>

Alliance Will Reinstate Universal Family Benefit

Monday, 1 July 2002, 1:44 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance is committed to a universal family benefit paid to every family for every child, and will cut the taxes of those on the lowest incomes, Alliance leader Laila Harré announced today. More >>

Paid Parental Leave first step towards balance

Monday, 1 July 2002, 9:58 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Paid Parental Leave first step towards work/family balance – next step fifteen hours free childcare More >>

Labour’s Pledge to National Voters

Sunday, 30 June 2002, 10:11 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance Leader Laila Harré has labelled Labour’s 2002 Election Pledge card “Labour’s Pledge to National Voters.” More >>

Alliance Campaign Launch - Laila Harre Speech

Sunday, 30 June 2002, 10:11 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

I am often asked by profile writers and journalists why I turned to politics when most of my peers were turning to the first 15. Perhaps the truth is that I was just more scared of fast growing boys than the fast growing protest movement. More >>

No more tinkering with tertiary education funding

Thursday, 20 June 2002, 2:15 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance Leader Laila Harré and Alliance Education Spokesperson Liz Gordon today released the Alliance’s tertiary education policy, with a very strong message to Labour that its time to get serious about investing in education. More >>

Tertiary education policy launch

Wednesday, 19 June 2002, 6:33 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance leader Laila Harré and Education spokesperson Dr Liz Gordon will launch the Alliance’s 2002 tertiary education policy at a press conference in Wellington tomorrow. More >>

Paid parental leave for 7000 mums and 32,000 dads

Wednesday, 19 June 2002, 6:32 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance will negotiate for paid parental leave to be extended to an additional 7000 mothers, including 2000 self-employed mothers and those who have worked less than six months for the same employer, party leader Laila Harré announced today. More >>

Alliance To Strengthen Anti Privatisation Clauses

Tuesday, 18 June 2002, 2:32 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance leader Laila Harré wants a mandate to strengthen the anti water privatisation provisions of the Government’s Local Government Ammendment Bill. More >>

Cambridge Colonisers Not Wanted

Friday, 14 June 2002, 3:07 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance Education Spokesperson Liz Gordon is aghast to hear that Cambridge International Examinations is set to open an office in New Zealand. She questions how these examinations can ever be relevant to New Zealand schools. Dr Gordon is also concerned that the ... More >>

Alliance Proposes New Approach To Teachers’ Pay

Thursday, 13 June 2002, 4:54 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance is promoting automatic pay adjustments for state servants, including teachers, as part of a package aimed at stopping future disputes like the one that has crippled the secondary sector. More >>

Alliance Youth Policy: Vital, Vibrant (2)

Thursday, 13 June 2002, 3:00 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance believes that the era of seen and not heard has passed. It’s beyond time that the energy and vitality of young New Zealanders was given a chance to shine through; that having opinions and beliefs is not punishable for under 25s; and that ... More >>

Alliance Youth Policy: Vital, Vibrant

Thursday, 13 June 2002, 2:59 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Minister of Youth Affairs and Alliance Leader Laila Harré today announced the first of the Alliance’s Election 2002 policies – its Youth Policy. More >>

Policies Interrupted

Wednesday, 12 June 2002, 11:20 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance leader Laila Harré has today released her list of top ten policies that the snap election interrupts. More >>

Health And Education Focus For Alliance Campaign

Wednesday, 12 June 2002, 12:44 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Local Dunedin Alliance activists are looking forward to a vigorous campaign based on the policies of free health and education, following the announcement yesterday of a general election date of July 27. More >>

Harré Welcomes CTU Endorsement

Wednesday, 12 June 2002, 12:36 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance leader Laila Harré has welcomed the Council of Trade Union’s (CTU) announcement that it wants a strong centre-left government returned to power in this year’s election. More >>

List altered - Kevin Campbell drops out

Tuesday, 11 June 2002, 10:15 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance Leader Laila Harré has announced an alteration to the Alliance List announced on Sunday. More >>

Maharey's Prize Policy Unnecessarily Delayed

Tuesday, 11 June 2002, 5:22 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The untimely and unnecessary calling of an election has derailed Labour's flagship tertiary education policy and betrayed the hard work coalition partners had put into making it happen, says the Alliance education spokesperson Dr. Liz Gordon. More >>

Alliance Ready For Election

Tuesday, 11 June 2002, 1:38 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance leader Laila Harré has welcomed news that the election will be held on July 27. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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