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Budget figures show deepening housing crisis
Friday, 16 May 2014, 12:33 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Treasury projections in the Budget predict worsening housing affordability and rising interest rates outstripping wage increases, underlining National’s abject failure to address the housing crisis, says Labour Leader David Cunliffe. More >>
Sneaky tax surprise for tertiary graduates
Friday, 16 May 2014, 12:06 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Sneaky tax surprise for tertiary graduates Graduates are once again the losers in National’s Budget, this time with changes to student loan repayment thresholds, Labour’s Tertiary Education spokesperson Maryan Street says. More >>
Police hit hard in this year’s Budget
Friday, 16 May 2014, 10:30 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Police will have no choice but to cut back on crime prevention and make hard choices on what they respond to after a budget cut of more than $40 million, says Labour's Police spokesperson Jacinda Ardern. More >>
Labour wishes Darien Fenton the very best
Friday, 16 May 2014, 10:21 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Darien Fenton has made a significant contribution to the Labour movement in her nine years at Parliament, Labour Leader David Cunliffe says. More >>
Darien Fenton not standing for re-election
Friday, 16 May 2014, 10:19 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour list MP Darien Fenton has announced she will not seek re-election at the September election. More >>
Budget MIA on economic development
Friday, 16 May 2014, 9:31 am | New Zealand Labour Party
It is a sad indictment of the lack of vision of the National government that the 2014 Budget has almost nothing to say on how it will support economic, industry or regional development, Grant Robertson Labour Economic Development Spokesperson said. More >>
Cunliffe: Post Budget Speech to Parliament
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 4:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
I move that all words after “that” are struck from the record and replaced with “This House has no confidence in a government that has failed to put people first; that has widened gaps, where too many of our children grow up in poverty; that has ... More >>
First home buyers can just whistle
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 4:41 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
This budget does nothing to address New Zealand’s acute housing crisis, says Labour Leader David Cunliffe. “There is nothing here for first home buyers. Nothing to build a single new home. Nothing to make rentals warm and dry. Nothing to stop offshore ... More >>
National’s fudge-it budget doesn’t fix it
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 4:27 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National’s fudge-it budget not only fudges the numbers, it glosses over the real problems Kiwi families have been facing for five years, Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Parker says. More >>
National delivers a fudge-it budget
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 3:32 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
John Key and Bill English have delivered a fudge-it budget by massaging the books, turning transport spending into loans, keeping ACC levies higher than needed and cutting funding for the Canterbury local infrastructure rebuild to scrape into surplus, ... More >>
Labour’s Healthy Homes Guarantee needed now
Thursday, 15 May 2014, 11:52 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford says the fact that more than 90% of rental properties in a pilot project have failed a Warrant of Fitness check indicates the Government needs to urgently tackle housing standards in the private rental market. ... More >>
Health in need of refreshment
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 3:59 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Health in need of refreshment Tony Ryall's budget mantra of ‘health being the winner’ is ringing ever more hollow as he drags it out for its fifth annual iteration, Labour’s Health spokesperson Annette King says. More >>
Budget must focus on kids
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 3:31 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Improving New Zealand’s dreadful levels of child poverty must be the focus of tomorrow’s Budget, Labour’s Children’s spokesperson Jacinda Ardern says. “There are huge gaps in the support Kiwi parents get to give their kids the best start in life. More >>
Time for Government to stand and deliver
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 1:16 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
After six years of marking time and favouring its friends, it is time for the Government to stand up and deliver real progress for all New Zealanders, says Labour Leader David Cunliffe. More >>
Time for Mr Common Sense to be Mr CoOL
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 10:51 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The only thing standing in the way of Kiwis knowing where their food comes from could be the vote of United Future leader Peter Dunne, Labour’s Food Safety spokesperson Damien O’Connor says. More >>
Power disconnections stay at record highs
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 10:34 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Power disconnections stay at record highs The number of people having their power cut off remains at record highs with 8,967 people disconnected for not paying their power bills on time, says Labour’s Energy spokesperson David Shearer. “The disconnection ... More >>
Veterans shortchanged in Govt U-turn
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 9:41 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Veterans shortchanged in Govt U-turn National’s U-turn in adopting Labour’s proposed amendment to the Veterans’ Support Bill to allow all veterans deployed overseas in a conflict zone to receive a veteran’s pension sadly leaves them shortchanged, ... More >>
Ministers tells workers the emperor has clothes
Tuesday, 13 May 2014, 5:12 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Government Ministers seem to think if they simply say wages are growing, workers will believe it despite nearly half the workforce being unable to get a pay rise, Labour’s spokesperson on Labour Issues Andrew Little says. More >>
Labour Declines a Waiver to Shane Taurima
Tuesday, 13 May 2014, 9:07 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s New Zealand Council, the Party’s ruling body, met last night and declined to grant a waiver to Shane Taurima, meaning that his nomination for Labour’s candidacy in the Tamaki Makaurau seat cannot proceed. Mr Taurima required a waiver in order ... More >>
Labour will set 4% unemployment target
Monday, 12 May 2014, 2:48 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The next Labour Government will set a target of reaching four per cent unemployment by the end of its first term and run Government surpluses to pay down National’s record debt, says Labour Leader David Cunliffe. More >>
