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Early Intervention and Social Harm at Centre of Review
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 3:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Law Commission has highlighted the need to focus on a more scientific classification system of drugs aimed at curbing social harm and providing early intervention, says Iain Lees-Galloway Labour’s Associate Spokesperson for Health (Alcohol and Drugs). More >>
Key Doesn’t Want to Know
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 3:55 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
In a disgraceful display of arrogance in Parliament today John Key dismissed every question raised about the impact the rising cost of living is having on many older and low income Kiwis, Labour deputy leader Annette King says. More >>
Wage Growth Less Than Half Inflation Rate
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 2:10 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Wage growth is lagging well behind the rate of inflation as Kiwis struggle increasingly desperately to cope with the cost of living, Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe said today. More >>
Death of Osama Bin Laden Makes the World a Safer Place
Monday, 2 May 2011, 5:03 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Leader Phil Goff has welcomed confirmation from US President Barack Obama that American forces have killed the terrorist Osama bin Laden during a raid in Pakistan. More >>
Christchurch Earthquake bulletin edition 34
Monday, 2 May 2011, 12:39 pm | 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 >>
Essential medicines must remain affordable for sick Kiwis
Monday, 2 May 2011, 11:32 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Unwell Kiwis would be the losers if New Zealand were to fall over in the face of the predictable attack from United States pharmaceutical companies gearing up for the next round of negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, says Labour's Trade ... More >>
Quake recovery won’t be helped by selling local assets
Monday, 2 May 2011, 10:18 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Canterbury ratepayer assets must not be sold to help fund the quake recovery, say Christchurch MPs Clayton Cosgrove and Brendon Burns. More >>
$80 doctor’s bill for 94-year-old
Sunday, 1 May 2011, 5:41 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
$80 doctor’s bill for 94-year-old shows Ryall has priorities wrong Reports that a 94-year-old woman, with a community services card, was charged $80 to attend an after hours clinic on Good Friday are a sign that Tony Ryall and the National-led ... More >>
Only Labour can stop asset sales
Sunday, 1 May 2011, 1:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Only Labour can stop asset sales National’s plan to sell off state owned assets, starting with power companies, gives New Zealand voters a clear choice at this year’s election, Labour Party leader Phil Goff said today at the launch of Labour’s new ... More >>
English under threat month out from crucial budget
Friday, 29 April 2011, 1:12 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Finance Minister Bill English now has a threat hanging over his future in the form of ACT leader Don Brash while he is less than a month out from delivering a budget that is crucial to New Zealand’s future, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson David ... More >>
Pike River families and Grey community need full disclosure
Friday, 29 April 2011, 12:06 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Revelations that the police have not provided full disclosure of information to families of the 29 men lost in the Pike River disaster are alarming and distressing, Labour MP West Coast/ Tasman Damien O’Connor says. More >>
Ngapuhi tourism venture receives world renowned award
Friday, 29 April 2011, 10:55 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Tourism Spokesperson Kelvin Davis congratulated Hone Mihaka of Taiamai Tours whose Māori Celebrations Tour received National Geographic’s 2011 Tour of a Lifetime award. More >>
National’s public service obsession more politics
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 4:02 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government’s review of policy advice functions in the public service is more about election year politics than streamlining policy, Labour State Services spokesperson Ruth Dyson says. More >>
National lets loan sharks off the hook again
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 3:41 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National has missed another opportunity to hold loan sharks to account, says Labour’s Consumer Affairs spokesperson Carol Beaumont. More >>
Key/Brash extreme team will hurt mainstream New Zealand
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 12:32 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
A new extreme right-wing deal between National and an Act party led by Don Brash would have a devastating impact on the lives of middle and low-income New Zealanders, says Labour Leader Phil Goff. More >>
Christchurch Earthquake bulletin edition 33
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 11:54 am | New Zealand Labour Party
We had our first genuine frost of 2011 last night, with the temperature dropping to minus two. It was cold. So it’s perhaps appropriate that I also got a response yesterday from Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee to a letter I sent him ... More >>
National’s ‘highway tunnel’ vision flawed and fatal
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 10:14 am | New Zealand Labour Party
National’s blind preoccupation with building tarseal highway monuments to Transport Minister Steven Joyce will come at the expense of public transport, road policing and maintenance on local roads, says Labour’s Transport spokesperson Shane Jones. More >>
Cuts to vital safety nets for women and children a sad day
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 9:42 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Cuts to vital safety nets for women and children a sad day for New Zealand More >>
Christchurch Reconstructed: Owning Our Own Future
Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 5:30 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
I have spoken often of my longstanding fear of earthquakes being firmly located in Wellington. The earthquakes that rocked my home town of Christchurch first on 4 September last year and now 22 February this year have not relocated that fear. I just have ... More >>
Christchurch MP speaks on reconstruction
Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Lianne Dalziel Labour MP for Christchurch East will speak tonight alongside policy and economic analyst Peter Harris on the reconstruction and rebuild of Christchurch. Both speakers are hosted by the Wellington based Fabians Society at St John’s Church ... More >>
