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Fishhooks in Ministerial Inquiry
Friday, 15 July 2011, 3:49 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Darien FENTON Labour Issues Spokesperson 15 July 2011 MEDIA STATEMENT Fishhooks in Ministerial Inquiry A Ministerial Inquiry into foreign charter vessels announced today is welcome, but fishing industry advocates here believe its scope is far too ... More >>
National needs to “make good” to vets
Friday, 15 July 2011, 3:45 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Rick BARKER Spokesperson for Veterans Affairs 15 July 2011 MEDIA STATEMENT National needs to “make good” to vets More >>
Government scaremongering over rents
Friday, 15 July 2011, 1:33 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Claims by the Government that a capital gains tax will push rents up and tenants out are wrong, Labour’s Associate Finance spokesperson David Parker says. “A capital gains tax is hugely important for New Zealand, as it shows another way for ... More >>
Leadership needed in the racing industry
Friday, 15 July 2011, 10:58 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Leadership needed in the racing industry With the racing industry increasingly in decline Labour’s Racing Spokesperson Ross Robertson is calling on the Government to bring the major players together to come up with a platform for change. More >>
English Resorts To Misinformation - Cunliffe
Friday, 15 July 2011, 10:46 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Stumbling Finance Minister Bill English blatantly misled listeners to Morning Report today by falsely claiming that traders who regularly and intentionally trade for capital gain will have their tax reduced to 15c under Labour's planned capital gains ... More >>
Gutless Government sells out skilled Kiwis
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 5:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
A gutless National Government must be held accountable for the loss of 44 skilled jobs at Dunedin’s Hillside workshops today, says Labour’s MP for Dunedin South Clare Curran. “National and its lapdog KiwiRail have unnecessarily given hard working ... More >>
Game-changer - find out what’s in it for Rangitikei
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 4:12 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s game-changing tax policy comes to the Rangitikei electorate this week with front bench labour MP, Grant Robinson, MP for Wellington Central coming to the electorate to talk about how families here will be affected. More >>
David Cunliffe Remarks at Labour Policy Launch
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 4:03 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
As Phil has said, debt is unacceptably high and must come down. It is basic common sense to refuse assets sales as the short term answer to do this. So how then, do we proceed? A viable economic alternative must deliver more than debt reduction; ... More >>
David Parker Remarks at Labour Policy Launch
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 3:56 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
David Cunliffe has explained what a fair tax system looks like, and within that the main features of a capital gains tax. He has also shown we are in good company. The world’s financial authorities say we need to do this. More >>
Phil Goff - Closing Remarks at Labour Policy Launch
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 3:50 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand is drifting without a plan. Debt is out of control and selling off our most valuable assets is not the solution. The economy is not performing. We have to stop record numbers of Kiwis leaving for overseas, and create a nation where our ... More >>
Own Our Future - Phil Goff - Policy Launch Speech
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 3:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Sometimes in an election, there's not a lot to distinguish one party from the other. This election will not be one of those. This year, voters get to choose between two very different answers to the same question: How do we get New Zealand back on its ... More >>
Labour’s promise: We’ll own our own future
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 3:11 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour has today revealed a bold plan to stop our valuable assets being flogged off overseas, give hard-working Kiwis a tax break, pay off the country’s ballooning debt and grow our economy. More >>
Christchurch Earthquake bulletin edition 76
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 10:19 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Labour Party's Christchurch electorate MPs, Clayton Cosgrove (Waimakariri), Ruth Dyson (Port Hills), Lianne Dalziel (Christchurch East) and Brendon Burns (Christchurch Central) have started a regular bulletin to keep people in their electorates and ... More >>
Biosecurity Disaster Looming
Thursday, 14 July 2011, 8:40 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The discovery of fruit fly eggs and maggots at Wellington airport is a blunt reminder of the risks our economy faces every day at the border, says Labour's Biosecurity spokesperson Damien O'Connor. More >>
Minister’s failure to act comes home to roost
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 3:42 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government has today been served an ultimatum—either amend the Charities Act and restore the charitable status of community housing organisations, or seriously damage the very sector the Government is relying on to do the heavy lifting for them ... More >>
Time to stop tinkering with drug laws
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 2:48 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Peter Dunne’s tough talk about cleaning up the synthetic cannabis industry is largely hot air, Labour’s Associate Health spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway says. “The Associate Health Minister yesterday confirmed the issue is not one the Government ... More >>
Leadership needed in the racing industry
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 1:27 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
With the racing industry increasingly in decline Labour’s Racing Spokesperson Ross Robertson is calling on the Government to bring the major players together to come up with a platform for change. More >>
Labour presents petition against ECE cuts
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 1:25 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
A petition signed by more than 60,000 New Zealanders is being presented to Parliament this afternoon by Labour Leader Phil Goff and Labour’s Education spokesperson Sue Moroney after Government MPs refused to accept it. More >>
Christchurch Earthquake bulletin edition 75
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 1:07 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Labour Party’s Christchurch electorate MPs, Earthquake Recovery spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove (Waimakariri), Ruth Dyson (Port Hills), Lianne Dalziel (Christchurch East) and Brendon Burns (Christchurch Central) have started a regular bulletin to ... More >>
Government kills the television star
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 11:14 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The axing of the TVNZ Charter spells the end of a long tradition of public television broadcasting in New Zealand and sets the agenda for TVNZ to be sold should National be re-elected, Labour's Broadcasting spokesperson Clare Curran says. More >>
