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More Kiwis Having Power Supply Cut Off
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 8:45 am | New Zealand Labour Party
New figures obtained by Labour show that more Kiwis are having their power supply cut off because they can’t afford to pay their electricity bills, says Labour Leader David Shearer. More >>
Mcdonald’s Case Shows Flaws In Meal Breaks Law
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 4:11 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Unite Union’s court case against McDonalds for unpaid meal breaks highlights the dangers of the Government’s plans to weaken rest and meal breaks, says Darien Fenton, Labour’s spokesperson for Labour Issues. More >>
IPCA recommendations must be fully implemented
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 1:31 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The recommendations made by the Independent Police Conduct Authority after its investigation into Operation Eight must be fully implemented and reported back to the Government and Tuhoe people, says Labour’s Police spokesperson Kris Faafoi. More >>
Defence Force letters insulting and insensitive
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 6:36 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Defence Force letters sent to personnel being made redundant under the Government’s botched civilianisation project were insensitive and insulting, says Phil Goff, Labour’s Defence spokesperson. More >>
Government At War with Solid Energy Board
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 4:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Despite having known the scale of Solid Energy’s troubles for years the Government was prepping the company for sale just days before it cut 400 jobs and revealed it was in serious trouble, says Labour’s SOEs spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove. More >>
Minister finally sees sense over Salisbury
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 4:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Education Minister Hekia Parata’s latest decision to keep Salisbury School open is the right one – it’s just a shame it took a court ruling, relentless community work and a major dose of negative press to bring the Minister round, says Labour’s ... More >>
Only a full inquiry will restore confidence in GCSB
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 3:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The claim by the Inspector-General that the 88 cases of potential illegal spying did not break the law won’t reassure Kiwis who have lost confidence in the agency and its oversight, says Labour Leader David Shearer. More >>
Parata Isn’t Calling it a Cut – She’s Calling it Tough Luck
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 1:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Pacific Minister Hekia Parata’s denial that she has cut funding from her Ministry’s Budget is an insult to Pasifika people desperately seeking the brighter future her Party promised, says Labour’s spokesperson for Pacific Island Affairs Su’a William ... More >>
Oversight of work safety needs step change
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 1:09 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Minister of Labour's comments about directors' responsibility for health and safety suggest the government is adopting the sort of hands-off approach criticised by the Pike River Royal Commission and the recent independent task force report on ... More >>
Mixed meat messages raise alarm bells
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 12:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Contradictory explanations from John Key and Nathan Guy about why New Zealand meat is being blocked from entering China only add to the suspicion that there’s more to the issue than the Government is letting on, Labour’s Primary Industry spokesperson ... More >>
Govt cannot continue to ignore truck safety
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 11:01 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The tragic death of a truck driver and the serious injury of another yesterday highlight the urgent need for government action say Labour MPs Darien Fenton and Iain Lees-Galloway. More >>
Minister's Arrogance Makes Bad Law Making Worse
Monday, 20 May 2013, 5:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National’s Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges’ insistence on ramming through a law which extends the controversial protest ban into the high seas is arrogant and makes bad policy even worse, says Labour Energy spokesperson Moana Mackey. More >>
Delegation Makes Progress Toward Rome Statute
Monday, 20 May 2013, 4:55 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Associate Disarmament spokesperson and President of Parliamentarians for Global Action, Ross Robertson, welcomes Indonesia’s increased support for the Rome Statute progressed by a delegation to Jakarta last week. More >>
Vulnerable Paying Price For Ryall’s Indifference
Monday, 20 May 2013, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government is pushing more and more health costs on to patients with little or no regard for the impact on vulnerable Kiwis, says Annette King, Labour’s Health spokesperson. More >>
Pacific Ministry Set Up to Fail
Monday, 20 May 2013, 10:42 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Budget cuts to the Ministry for Pacific Island Affairs will only increase pressure on a community already suffering high unemployment, low incomes and growing inequality says Labour’s spokesperson for Pacific Island Affairs Su’a William Sio. More >>
Inequality up under National
Sunday, 19 May 2013, 1:36 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Bill English can try to rewrite history all he likes, but the truth is that inequality is getting worse under National and Thursday’s Budget does nothing to fix that, says David Parker, Labour’s Finance spokesperson. More >>
National’s brighter future? Even more rampant house prices!
Sunday, 19 May 2013, 10:43 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The National government’s “upside” forecast is an even more unbalanced two-speed economy, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Parker. More >>
Biosecurity cuts = irresponsible Government
Friday, 17 May 2013, 6:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Biosecurity border protection services have been slashed by $6 million in Budget 2013 and no amount of spin by Minister Nathan Guy will change that reality, Labour’s Biosecurity spokesperson Damien O’Connor, says. More >>
Money traders before meat traders - Government
Friday, 17 May 2013, 6:17 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government has once again been caught with its pants down on trade with China, says Damien O’Connor, Labour spokesperson on primary industries. More >>
Government to extend protest ban
Friday, 17 May 2013, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government is using urgency to extend a controversial ban on protesting against deep sea drilling, says Labour’s Energy spokesperson Moana Mackey. More >>
