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Maternal health and wellbeing key focus of women's policy

Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 10:12 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Access to affordable and quality health services is an essential part of achieving real equality, opportunity and choice for New Zealand women, according to Labour's Health spokesperson Grant Robertson and Associate Health spokesperson Steve Chadwick. More >>

Leadership needed to rebuild Canterbury

Monday, 19 September 2011, 11:09 am | New Zealand Labour Party

The next Labour Government will intervene to give Cantabrians affordable choices to help rebuild their homes, businesses and lives after the devastating earthquakes, says Labour Leader Phil Goff. More >>

Water quality a shared problem

Monday, 19 September 2011, 10:23 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Revelations that discharges from a Palmerston North City Council wastewater plant city are polluting the Manawatu River and have been for the last seven years, is a reminder to critics of the dairy industry that water pollution is a shared problem ... More >>

Labour backs Kiwi women in new policy for equality

Monday, 19 September 2011, 9:47 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour will take steps to close the pay gap between female workers and their male colleagues as part of a new policy to create real equality, opportunity and choice for all women in New Zealand, says Labour's Women's Affairs Spokesperson Carol Beaumont. More >>

Labour to release Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Package

Sunday, 18 September 2011, 2:17 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour to release Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Package Labour Leader Phil Goff, Earthquake Recovery Spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove and the team of Christchurch MPs will release a new policy tomorrow designed to kick-start the Canterbury recovery ... More >>

‘Bullying’ Minister needs to butt out

Friday, 16 September 2011, 8:08 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The Minister of Education needs to butt out and allow Boards of Trustees to run their schools as they see fit, says Labour's Associate Education Spokesperson Kelvin Davis. More >>

Tolley takes axe to quake-hit schools again

Friday, 16 September 2011, 3:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Cuts to education budgets could see some quake-ravaged schools forced to decide between hiring teachers or buying textbooks, says Labour’s Canterbury Earthquake Recovery spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove. Education Minister Anne Tolley announced today that ... More >>

Cross-subsidising polluters not on

Friday, 16 September 2011, 2:07 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The latest report of record dairy sector profits shows the National Government’s decision to further delay making the farming sector pay for agriculture emissions is wrong economically, and unfair to the taxpayers and others sectors of the economy ... More >>

National changes mind on crime law

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 11:49 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The Government’s back-down over the more objectionable sections of the Criminal Procedure (Reform and Modernisation) Bill is an acknowledgement its proposed legislation was way off beam, Labour’s Justice spokesperson Charles Chauvel says. More >>

National renege on public sector commitment

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 6:11 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

National is moving at pace to strip Housing New Zealand of its role as a social landlord, says Labour’s spokesperson for Housing Moana Mackey. “National’s cuts to Housing New Zealand will see more vulnerable tenants turfed out onto the street, putting ... More >>

Minister arrogantly dismisses child poverty report

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 5:04 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Paula Bennett’s arrogant attitude to child poverty was laid bare today when the Minister said she was ignoring a new report on the issue because she thinks it is too “political”, says Labour Leader Annette King. More >>

Labour’s bright idea hitting mark

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 5:00 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The Acting Minister of Energy’s latest show of chest beating is confirmation that Labour’s energy policy has hit the mark, Labour’s Energy spokesperson David Parker says. Figures out today show that in the first six months of the year almost 80 % ... More >>

Progress for women stalled under National

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 4:58 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The National Government’s record on Women’s Affairs gives little cause for celebration as Suffrage Day approaches, says Labour’s spokesperson for Women’s Affairs Carol Beaumont. “Unfortunately this Suffrage Day women in New Zealand have little to ... More >>

More fee hikes on cards for ECE

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 3:03 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Parents of children attending early childhood education look set to be hit with more fee increases as National’s budget cuts hit home, says Labour’s Early Childhood Education spokesperson Sue Moroney. NZEI representatives told the select committee ... More >>

National continues its forked tongue on climate change

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 3:00 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The Government continues to have two messages on whether it will include agriculture in its Emissions Trading Scheme, says Labour’s Climate Change spokesperson Brendon Burns. His comments follow the ETS Review Panel’s recommendation for a more gradual ... More >>

Hypocrisy on money-making speed cameras

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 12:34 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

National has been exposed for its hypocrisy on speed camera fines after news that hundreds of thousands more tickets are being issued and it’s collecting more cash than ever from errant drivers, says Labour’s Transport Safety Spokesperson Darien ... More >>

Christchurch Earthquake bulletin edition 112

Thursday, 15 September 2011, 12:00 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Finally, last night in Kaiapoi there was a Residents’ Association meeting with a point of difference --- Cabinet Minister and member of the Government’s Ad Hoc Cabinet Committee on Canterbury Earthquake Recovery (ACE), Kate Wilkinson actually ... More >>

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