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Poverty a Key Factor in Northland Fire Deaths
Tuesday, 19 June 2001, 7:19 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
In assessing the performance and current operations of state agencies, it is worthwhile to examine how these agencies interrelate. In making such assessments, it is often instructive to look at an issue in a broad context. More >>
Bunkle to seek members bill on exemplary damages
Thursday, 14 June 2001, 6:23 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Phillida Bunkle Alliance MP today announced she will seek to introduce a Member’s Bill to change the legal criteria for exemplary damages following the Court of Appeal decision on Patient A. More >>
Gordon Gives An E To A-Levels
Wednesday, 13 June 2001, 3:53 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance Education Spokesperson, Dr Liz Gordon is asking the Minister of Education to warn schools that purchasing A-Level curricula is money down the drain. More >>
Graham Parry’s Former Patients Outraged
Thursday, 31 May 2001, 1:59 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance MP Phillida Bunkle today met with a group of Graham Parry’s former patients and their partners from Keri Keri in the far North. Every one of these women, all of whom have suffered at the hands of Parry, are deeply concerned that, following ... More >>
Cervical Screening Laboratories Should Be Central
Friday, 18 May 2001, 9:58 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Health spokesperson Phillida Bunkle said today there was an obvious solution to the current situation in which many public hospital laboratories will be unable to carry out cervical screening, because they do not meet the criteria for sufficient ... More >>
National 'vision' a sequel of an old horror movie
Monday, 7 May 2001, 5:25 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Education Spokesperson Liz Gordon says that the recently released National Party taskforce on education is "an amazing grabbag of excuses for raising student fees". More >>
Gordon Queries NZUSA On Priorities
Friday, 4 May 2001, 12:40 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance education spokesperson Liz Gordon said today that the New Zealand University Students Association should understand the necessity to balance priorities in the methods of setting student loan interest rates under current law. More >>
'Fire Safe' Cigarette Introduction Welcomed
Wednesday, 2 May 2001, 12:32 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance MP Grant Gillon is pleased that the cigarette manufacturer Phillip Morris supports his call for a fire safety standard for cigarettes. A private members bill promoting such a standard was successfully introduced into the house by Mr Gillon ... More >>
Women’s Health Surest Road To Quality Of Life
Friday, 6 April 2001, 12:41 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
“Investment in women’s health is the best value investment any government can make in its society’s welfare,” Alliance health spokesperson Phillida Bunkle said today. More >>
Registrar Clears Phillida Bunkle
Friday, 30 March 2001, 5:38 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Phillida Bunkle is pleased to have been cleared of any wrong doing by the Registrar of Electors for Wellington Central today. More >>
Cull Report - Cartwright At Last
Thursday, 29 March 2001, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
“The need to implement a one-stop-shop for patients rights as intended in the 1988 Cartwright Report has today been recognised in the Cull Report. Helen Cull’s review of the medical complaint procedures shows the terrible consequences of the previous ... More >>
Wake Up And Join The EUB Party, Sue!
Wednesday, 14 March 2001, 2:32 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance's education spokesperson, Liz Gordon, has today responded to what she calls "scathing attacks by my friend and political ally, Sue Bradford". More >>
Legislation not the key to restoring the EUB
Tuesday, 13 March 2001, 5:40 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance education spokesperson Liz Gordon says the Alliance stands by its pledge to have the Emergency Unemployment Benefit reinstated by this summer. More >>
Liz Gordon International Women's Day Speech
Thursday, 8 March 2001, 5:51 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
On this day in 1897 a group of women garment workers staged a protest against the inhumane working conditions and low wages they faced in the New York textile industry. More >>
$20 Dollars In The Bank Better Than A Foodbank
Thursday, 8 March 2001, 3:59 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Social Services Spokesperson Liz Gordon will lend a hand at the Christchurch City Mission Foodbank this Friday in support of Volunteer Awareness Week. More >>
Alliance keeps student loans on a leash
Tuesday, 27 February 2001, 6:14 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance Education Spokesperson Liz Gordon says that the recent announcement that the student loan interest rate will remain at 7% is good news for students and further proof of the positive role that the Alliance is playing in government. More >>
Gillon stubs out fag fires
Thursday, 9 November 2000, 5:33 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Now there is the prospect of cigarettes that are less likely to start fatal fires. More >>
We Never Signed Up To Swain’s Minerals Policy
Friday, 20 October 2000, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance MP Willie Jackson has denied claims that the minerals policy as announced by Paul Swain is agreed government policy. More >>
Where There’s Smoke But No Fire
Wednesday, 11 October 2000, 12:58 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance MP Grant Gillon is introducing a fire-safe cigarette bill in an attempt to help save lives of fire-fighters, smokers and their families. More >>
Liz Gordon News Advisory - Monday Madness!!
Friday, 6 October 2000, 9:01 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Monday Madness!! Liz Gordon knocks down walls in Christchurch City and then goes further afield More >>
