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Universal student allowance for students

Tuesday, 14 September 1999, 1:48 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

In a speech to Canterbury University students today Jim Anderton outlined the Alliance plans to provide universal student allowances for full time students. More >>

Record suicide level symptomatic of NZ despair

Sunday, 12 September 1999, 3:52 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The record New Zealand suicide rate released earlier this week by the Auckland School of Medicine is symptomatic of a despairing society' says Alliance Leader Jim Anderton. More >>

Trade agreements 'an outrage against democracy'

Sunday, 12 September 1999, 3:50 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The free trade agreements with Singapore and Chile announced during APEC are an outrage against democracy, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says. More >>

APEC exposes lack of National leadership

Sunday, 12 September 1999, 3:47 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

This morning's speech by US President Bill Clinton has exposed the Prime Minister's absence of leadership on the East Timor issue, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says. More >>

Wiping student loans will not cost $122 million

Friday, 10 September 1999, 3:08 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance said Max Bradford's claims that wiping the interest on student loans would cost $122 million next shows he has no grasp on the student loans scheme. More >>

Shipley swaggers bur won't debate on the Coast

Friday, 10 September 1999, 3:06 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance leader Jim Anderton is calling the Prime Minister 'chicken' for refusing to debate him on the West Coast. More >>

Milton job losses shows idiocy of tariff removals

Friday, 10 September 1999, 2:38 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The loss of 54 jobs at a textiles plant in Milton is directly related to the removal of tariffs, Alliance leader Jim Anderton said. More >>

Prison report exposes complete failure

Friday, 10 September 1999, 2:36 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance leader Jim Anderton is scathingly critical of the mental health system, following the release of a report showing that 60 per cent of prison inmates have serious mental illnesses and ninety per cent have substance abuse problems. More >>

Lifting the student debt burden

Thursday, 9 September 1999, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance will lift the student debt burden by removing the interest on student loans immediately and reviewing alternative payment options for outstanding loans on becoming part of a government. More >>

What did YOU do in the balance of payments crisis?

Thursday, 9 September 1999, 1:12 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

'New Zealander productive sector, our businesses, and each New Zealand citizen is servicing a massive $7 billion dollars balance of payments debt - what are you going to tell your grand children you did about it?' Alliance leader Jim Anderton challenged ... More >>

Greenspan for RBNZ

Thursday, 9 September 1999, 1:08 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The job of running our Reserve Bank should be offered to the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, says the Alliance leader Jim Anderton. More >>

Gerry Brownlee's $196 chocolate bar plain stupid

Wednesday, 8 September 1999, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance said that Gerry Brownlee's fictitious figure of a $196 increase per week in costs for the average family if the Alliance and Labour were elected is bizarre. More >>

Today's trade figures prove NZ living beyond means

Wednesday, 8 September 1999, 5:09 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

We're still living beyond our means, spending more than we earn and Mrs Shipley's government is doing nothing to reverse the worsening trend between what we export and what we import,' said leader of the Alliance, Jim Anderton More >>

Financial aid for Indonesia linked to safety of UN

Monday, 6 September 1999, 11:55 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

Indonesia should be warned that its international financial aid could be withdrawn if UN staff sheltering in compounds in East Timor are harmed by militia there, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says. More >>

Failure to name election date 'petty'

Monday, 6 September 1999, 12:10 am | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Government's failure to name an election date is petty politics at its worst, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says. More >>

Sharemilkers cast adrift by National Government

Saturday, 4 September 1999, 6:35 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Sharemilkers who produce 42% of New Zealand's milk have been betrayed by the National led government and Act, said Alliance spokesperson More >>

East Timor's triumph is APEC's challenge

Saturday, 4 September 1999, 3:42 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Mrs Shipley's government must now guarantee the people of East Timor that as APEC host, she will use the advantage that role gives her to put pressure on Indonesia for a peaceful transition to independence. More >>

East Timor Must be priority on Apec agenda

Friday, 3 September 1999, 5:35 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

Tell the Indonesians, no 'business as usual' at APEC while violence escalates in East Timor, Alliance leader Jim Anderton challenged Mrs Shipley today. More >>

National planning for private charge road tolls

Friday, 3 September 1999, 1:36 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance says the Government is planning to let private companies take over new roads, and New Zealanders will have to pay tolls to overseas owned companies in order to drive on them. More >>

Alliance seeks to delay dairy legislation

Thursday, 2 September 1999, 5:24 pm | New Zealand Alliance Party

'Most of New Zealand's dairy industry will end up overseas owned within ten years because of the way the government is rushing deregulation through parliament,' Alliance MP John Wright says. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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