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New Zealand Alliance Party - Latest News [Page 31]

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 >>

Alliance responds to rejection of teachers’ deal

Monday, 10 June 2002, 3:44 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance leader Laila Harré has said that the rejection of the settlement negotiated with the PPTA for secondary school teachers will put quality education and state sector wages at the top of the election campaign agenda. More >>

Wellington Candidates High On Alliance List

Monday, 10 June 2002, 10:49 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Party General Secretary, Gerard Hehir is ranked six, Vern Winitana, standing for Te Tai Tonga is seven, Ohariu Belmont candidate, Rebecca Matthews, is eight, Wellington Central candidate, Robert Reid, is eleven and Rongatai’s Vern Tile is fifteen on ... More >>

Alliance List Announced

Monday, 10 June 2002, 9:14 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

“We have an incredibly strong field of candidates and ranking them has not been easy,” said Ms Harré from her Waitakere office. More >>

Teachers Strike Highlights Issues For State Sector

Monday, 10 June 2002, 9:06 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance leader Laila Harre has sent a letter to public servants living in west Auckland’s Waitakere electorate highlighting her party’s concerns over pay, recruitment and retention in the public sector. More >>

Act Tax Policy a “fast track to third world”

Thursday, 6 June 2002, 6:07 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance Leader Laila Harré has slammed Act’s tax and economic policies announced today as visionless and a “fast track to the third world”, not the first world. More >>

Harre Speech to Service and Food Workers’ Union

Monday, 27 May 2002, 12:21 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Speech to Service and Food Workers’ Union Otahuhu Working Men’s Club 101 Atkinson Ave; Otahuhu More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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