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Dairy price fall shows Treasury forecasts way off
Wednesday, 3 June 2015, 9:00 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Dairy price fall shows Treasury forecasts way off National’s rosy predictions of a global dairy price rise to lift the Government books out of the red are off the mark again with the latest fall showing how wrong Treasury’s forecasts were, says ... More >>
Secrecy surrounds social experiment
Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The secrecy surrounding the Government’s plans to let private funders invest in mental health services only increases suspicions that the proposal has been ill-thought through, Labour’s Health spokesperson Annette Kings says. More >>
Underfunding schools sells our kids short
Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 3:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Student learning will suffer and parents will be asked to fork out even more for their children’s education because of National’s underfunding of education in this year’s Budget, Labour’s Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. More >>
Asset sales fund runs out: Nats forced to borrow
Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 3:34 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Bill English has been forced to admit the asset sales fund has run dry and the Government will have to borrow to build the schools and hospitals they promised would come from the sales proceeds, says Labour’s Finance Spokesperson Grant Robertson. “Bill ... More >>
Millions going on mental health experiment
Sunday, 31 May 2015, 6:12 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government is using some of the most vulnerable Kiwis as guinea pigs against official advice and in the absence of international evidence that its ‘experiment’ will achieve the desired results, Labour’s Health spokesperson Annette King says. More >>
McCully's years of silence suspicious
Sunday, 31 May 2015, 10:52 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Murray McCully tried to keep the $4 million facilitation payment secret and didn’t announce it in any press release dating back to February 2011, despite claims of transparency from Michelle Boag, says Labour’s Export Growth and Trade spokesperson ... More >>
Nats may have to sell state houses for free
Saturday, 30 May 2015, 12:44 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government’s social housing policy is totally unravelling as the Iwi Chairs’ Forum says they believe the houses have a market value of zero, meaning the Government will have to give the houses away and lose billions of dollars, says Labour’s Housing ... More >>
Ministers must ask Shipley to stand aside from Genesis board
Friday, 29 May 2015, 3:03 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Bill English and Todd McClay must ask Jenny Shipley to stand aside as chair of the board of Genesis Energy while legal action is being taken against her for her role in the collapse of Mainzeal, says Labour’s SOEs spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove. More >>
Tolley must assure safety of vulnerable clients
Friday, 29 May 2015, 1:12 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Social Development Minister Anne Tolley must guarantee the safety of Relationships Aotearoa’s thousands of Māori clients – some of whom are very vulnerable – following the closure of the nationwide counselling service, Labour’s Māori Development ... More >>
Fairfax can’t use restructure to cut terms and conditions
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 11:51 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The restructure and upheavals at Fairfax should not be used as an opportunity to cut journalists’ terms and conditions, Labour spokesperson for Labour Issues Iain Lees-Galloway says. “Businesses have to adapt to new technologies and consumer ... More >>
ANZ has moral obligation to fully compensate farmers
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 11:50 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The ANZ Bank has a moral obligation to fully compensate farmers after the High Court today declared it breached the Fair Trading Act by misleadingly representing interest rate swap loans, Labour’s Primary Industries spokesperson Damien O’Connor says. More >>
McCully excuses unravel in Saudi sheep scandal
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 3:28 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Murray McCully has misled New Zealanders, Parliament and his Cabinet colleagues on the real reasons for paying millions of dollars in the Saudi sheep scandal – it’s time for him to clean, says Labour’s Export Growth and Trade spokesperson David ... More >>
Nats break health and education spending promises
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 2:48 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National has outstanding promises of almost $1 billion to be spent on health, education and agriculture from the Future Investment Fund but has only $536 million left in the fund, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson. “John Key and Bill ... More >>
Oi Auckland Transport: fare’s fair
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Auckland Transport should go back to the drawing board on its proposal to charge commuters for its park-and-rides, Labour’s Transport spokesperson Phil Twyford says. “When we need to be getting people out of their cars and onto public transport, ... More >>
Is Nick Smith making it up as he goes along?
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 12:30 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Housing Minister Nick Smith must release the list of Crown land parcels which formed the basis of the Government’s Budget announcement, Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford. “If the public is to have any faith the Government is not just making ... More >>
Fonterra payout $13b black hole over 2 years
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 9:39 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Fonterra’s dramatic cut to its forecast farmgate payout over this season and next will lead to a $13 billion black hole over two years, and shows the need for a plan to diversify the economy, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson. “The ... More >>
Labour calls for inquiry into Rural Broadband Initiative
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 9:27 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour is calling for an immediate inquiry into the flailing $300 million rural broadband initiative, before companies and consumers are forced to pick up the tab for the new $150 million broadband tax, says Labour’s ICT spokesperson Clare Curran. More >>
Public broadcasting takes big hit under National Government
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 8:53 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Public broadcasting funding has been cut by 25 per cent in real terms since the National Government took office in 2009, leading to the erosion of our once world-class news and current affairs culture, says Labour Broadcasting Spokesperson Clare Curran. More >>
Wilkinson appointment wrong in principle
Wednesday, 27 May 2015, 5:08 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The appointment of former Conservation Minister Hon Kate Wilkinson as an Environment Commissioner is wrong in principle, says Labour’s Shadow Attorney-General David Parker. More >>
National must back our future doctors
Wednesday, 27 May 2015, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National must support our future doctors and agree to the calls from the Medical Students’ Association and the Young Nats to lift the arbitrary 7 year cap on student loans for medical and dental students, Labour’s Tertiary Education Spokesperson ... More >>
