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Half a Million Kiwis Falling Through Cracks
Thursday, 21 October 1999, 12:26 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
'Half a million New Zealanders who have pulled out of private health insurance because they can no longer afford high premiums are caught between a rock and a hard place,' Alliance spokesperson on health Phillida Bunkle said today. More >>
Bendon closure: 400 jobs deliberately destroyed
Wednesday, 20 October 1999, 5:45 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The loss of 400 jobs at Bendon is a result of a deliberate National party decision to slash tariffs while knowing that wide-spread job losses would result, Alliance leader Jim Anderton said.99 jobs will be lost in Te Aroha and 13 at East Tamaki from ... More >>
Loans changes make National the high tax party
Wednesday, 20 October 1999, 2:38 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
National 48 cents marginal tax rate for 8% of the workforce Alliance 47 cents marginal tax rate for 1% of the workforce More >>
Student loans could be sold to an Australian bank
Wednesday, 20 October 1999, 1:11 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance has revealed the government was talking about selling the student loans scheme to the Westpac Banking Corporation earlier this year and says a National Act government will sell the scheme making any changes to the scheme before the election ... More >>
$50m off state sector extravagance
Tuesday, 19 October 1999, 4:25 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The Alliance will cut $50 million a year from state sector chief executive salaries, the use of consultants, golden handshakes and unnecessary public relations exercises, Alliance leader Jim Anderton announced today. More >>
Dirty Tricks in Wellington Central
Tuesday, 19 October 1999, 2:42 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Dirty tactics have emerged in the campaign for Wellington Central after posters purporting to be from the Alliance were pasted up at the weekend said Alliance candidate Phillida Bunkle. More >>
A fresh start needed for fisheries settlement
Monday, 18 October 1999, 5:09 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
'The next government must take over where the Courts have left off, and move quickly and effectively to amend legislation if necessary so that all Maori benefit from the allocation of the fisheries settlement,' Alliance deputy leader and leader of ... More >>
Poll, good news for Alliance with Maori voters
Monday, 18 October 1999, 3:49 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Maori are getting the message that to get a government with Alliance and Mana Motuhake at the heart, they have to give the Alliance their party vote, Alliance deputy leader and Mana Motuhake leader Sandra Lee said today. More >>
NZ First's military training won't create one job
Monday, 18 October 1999, 2:01 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
'Compulsory Military Training won't create one more job,' Alliance leader Jim Anderton said today in response to the NZ First policy of compulsory millitary training for 18-year old men. More >>
The heart of a new government
Monday, 18 October 1999, 8:59 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
This is the first day of an historic election campaign. A campaign which will see the Alliance and our people-centred policies in a new government. More >>
Alliance On Labour Maori Policy
Sunday, 17 October 1999, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
'We welcome the elements in Labour's Maori policy which reflect our own, launched in August of this year,' said Alliance deputy leader and leader of Mana Motuhake Sandra Lee. More >>
There must accountability for WINZ charter
Friday, 15 October 1999, 7:25 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance MP Grant Gillon is calling on Work and Income Minister Roger Sowry to clarify who is going to be held accountable for the $165,000 charter of an aircraft following the release of the Auditor's report describing the travel as 'excessive.''We have ... More >>
Why we need Our Bank
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 4:32 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Research showing bank profits are becoming excessive shows why we need a publicly-owned kiwi-bank, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says. More >>
NZ First Super Scheme Expensive Risky And Unfair
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 3:52 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The New Zealand First Super scheme released today would go bankrupt almost immediately and leave retired New Zealanders destitute, Alliance leader Jim Anderton said. More >>
Modernising New Zealand's workplaces
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 2:58 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
An extra week annual holiday, twelve weeks paid parental leave, an increase in the minimum wage and a pay equity law are the main features of the Alliance workplace relations policy released today. More >>
Labour's GE policy change still omits field trials
Thursday, 14 October 1999, 2:45 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
Alliance environment spokesperson Phillida Bunkle is welcoming Labour's policy of GE labelling, and a moratorium on the release of GE crops while an inquiry is held. But she says it's a pity that Labour blocked the moratorium and inquiry when her ... More >>
One Doctor for Northland costs ACC thousands
Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 2:13 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party
The ACC only has one doctor for all of Northland based in Pahia to assess clients for the independence allowance and is spending thousands of dollars shipping patients to Auckland the Alliance said. More >>
Attacks on Alliance policy inconsistent
Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 8:44 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
Attacks on the Alliance collective bargaining policy by National and the Employers Federation are inconsistent, Alliance workplace relations spokesperson Laila Harré said.She said the Employers' claim that the Alliance doesn't mention more employment ... More >>
Pay equity legislation ready to go
Wednesday, 13 October 1999, 12:27 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
For the last decade women have consistently been paid on average only four fifths of their male counterpart's pay'. Clearly the market has not delivered. Even Mrs Shipley must now accept that gender gaps don't disappear without intervention. More >>
Replacing the ECA
Tuesday, 12 October 1999, 10:53 am | New Zealand Alliance Party
The way Ansett has locked out pilots and enticed individuals back one by one will not be possible under Alliance plans to replace the Employment Contracts Act with laws that require good faith collective bargaining. More >>
