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Govt Choosing Cost Savings Over Victims Of Family Violence
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Victims of family violence could fall through the gaps in New Zealand, as Police stop responding to some call outs and the Government chooses to prioritise other things. More >>
Government Used Ghost Families In Its Glossy Tax Cut Brochures
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 4:30 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“It was disingenuous to promise huge tax relief to people and not deliver it. To then use ghost families to try and sell the actual tax package is dishonest,” Barbara Edmonds said. More >>
Birds Of A Feather Perish Together Under National
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 2:17 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The kākāpo, kea and kiwi alongside our other iconic and threatened national species are at risk under this Government. More >>
Labour Wishes Marama Davidson Well In Recovery
Monday, 17 June 2024, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Labour Party is sad to hear of Marama Davidson’s breast cancer diagnosis and is wishing her well. More >>
Women Don’t Need A Voluntary Calculator To Know There’s A Pay Gap
Friday, 14 June 2024, 8:18 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government has reportedly scrapped a policy that would have gone far to fix gender and ethnic pay gaps and instead is implementing a watered-down voluntary system. More >>
Labour Supports Inquiry Into Rural Banking
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:10 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
With farmers under increasing pressure financially, Labour supports a rural banking inquiry. More >>
School Lunch Programme Being Set Up To Fail
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:00 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government knew its changes to the school lunch programme would risk achievement, attendance, nutrition and wellbeing of New Zealand children, as well as having wider impacts on reducing child poverty, and made the changes anyway, new documents show. More >>
Govt Must Recognise Palestine Now
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 3:38 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“It is high time for the National Government to do what it can with regards to Palestine, without further prevarication,” said David Parker. More >>
Delaying Climate Action Won’t Help Rural Communities
Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 5:00 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“The longer we wait to decarbonise our economy, the more expensive it becomes and the bigger the damage to our industries and farming sectors in the long run,” Labour agriculture spokesperson Jo Luxton said. More >>
Oil And Gas Must Stay In The Ground
Monday, 10 June 2024, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Reversing the ban on oil and gas exploration is a disaster for the climate and will take New Zealand’s climate action backwards. More >>
Labour Statement From Energy Spokesperson Megan Woods
Sunday, 9 June 2024, 12:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
This is a manufactured crisis. We know there are reliable and cost-effective energy sources available to New Zealand that can be used without destroying the country. More >>
Statement From Mental Health Spokesperson Ingrid Leary
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 1:17 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“The Government needs to provide leadership for New Zealand’s mental health sector, which appears to have lost out in the Budget despite the promises Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey made on the campaign trail,” said Labour mental health spokesperson ... More >>
Christopher Luxon Promised He Wouldn’t Take Workers’ Sick Leave
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 4:46 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Today’s announcement that would see some workers’ entitlement to sick leave reduce flies in the face of yet another promise National made during the election campaign. More >>
Environment Cuts Show Govt’s Disregard For Future Generations
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 4:20 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Cutting a third of the staff at Ministry for the Environment will undermine years of work to clean up our fresh water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and leave us unprepared for a changing climate. More >>
Labour Finance Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds Post-Budget Speech
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 9:25 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Introductory remarks. My world view is shaped by resilience through adversity. You may have heard me talk already about my upbringing, and pathway to becoming Labour’s finance spokesperson. I find the easiest way to describe it is through the experience ... More >>
More Than $1.5 Billion Slashed From Housing
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 11:53 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Fewer public homes, maintenance funding slashed and millions gone from rangatahi youth transitional housing and Māori housing. More >>
National’s Climate Cuts Will Take Us Backwards
Friday, 31 May 2024, 1:27 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government has shown all their talk about meeting climate targets is just hot air as they cut more than $3 billion in climate-related work, said Labour climate spokesperson Megan Woods. More >>
Budget Not Enough To Cover Rent Increases
Friday, 31 May 2024, 12:49 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Rents will keep going up according to yesterday’s Budget, while Kiwis are finding out they aren’t getting as much as they were promised. More >>
Economy Goes Backwards Under Incompetent Coalition Govt
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 2:44 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has repeatedly said she will not be borrowing for tax cuts and denied fiscal irresponsibility. Today, the budget has revealed Nicola Willis has borrowed $12 billion – and her tax cuts cost $10 billion. More >>
Back Out Budget Breaks Promises
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 2:34 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“New Zealanders were promised cost of living help, tax cuts, less inflation, better healthcare. Instead we see the return of smoking, more gambling, no new cancer drugs, and no new initiatives for Māori. This is a budget of broken promises," Labour Leader ... More >>
