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Older workers deserve ability to up-skill
Sunday, 17 April 2011, 5:16 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Older workers deserve ability to up-skill Older workers should be encouraged to up-skill or retrain rather than being shut out of educational opportunities that could improve their work situation, says Labour’s Tertiary Education Spokesperson ... More >>
Cuts to Legal Aid False Economy
Sunday, 17 April 2011, 5:13 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
17 April 2011 MEDIA STATEMENT Cuts to Legal Aid False Economy Cuts to legal aid announced last week are liable to cost an extra $8m dollars every year according to an analysis of recent figures, says Labour’s Justice Spokesperson Charles Chauvel. More >>
ACC Minister needs to sort out culture in his corporation
Friday, 15 April 2011, 1:32 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Nick Smith must take action to ensure ACC is focused on delivering vital counselling and support services to sexual abuse victims instead of defending senior advisers who threaten legal action against those who raise concerns, says Carmel Sepuloni. ... More >>
Christchurch Earthquake bulletin edition 27
Friday, 15 April 2011, 1:25 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 >>
Home-owners must be protected from future leaky buildings
Friday, 15 April 2011, 12:07 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government must explain why it has ditched plans for a compulsory builders’ guarantee from legislation designed to help prevent future problems with leaky buildings, says Labour Leader Phil Goff. More >>
Government’s Approach to Bullying Just a Publicity Stunt
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 5:04 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Education Minister’s letter to schools demanding they check their bullying policies and procedures is pointless given her own officials can overturn decisions made by Boards of Trustees, says Labour’s Education spokesperson Sue Moroney. More >>
Labour Supports a High Level Summit on Public Broadcasting
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 5:01 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The nation’s top thinkers, business leaders, politicians, academics and senior media industry figures should converge to discuss the future of public broadcasting and media in New Zealand, says Labour’s Broadcasting spokesperson Clare Curran. More >>
Cuts to Girls’ Self Defence Project Irresponsible
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 4:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
A decision to scrap the funding for one of NZ’s most successful self defence programmes will put girls and young women at risk, says Labour’s spokesperson for Youth Affairs, Jacinda Ardern and Labour’s spokesperson for Women’s Affairs Carol Beaumont. More >>
Biosecurity NZ takes unnecessary risk
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 4:36 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The decision by Biosecurity New Zealand to allow imported pork from countries where the destructive disease Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome is endemic is an unnecessary risk to our economy, says Labour’s Biosecurity spokesperson Damien ... More >>
Labour supports quake legislation but has grave reservations
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 4:04 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The botched handling of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority legislation, which essentially gives the Government wartime powers, raises grave concerns that it will not deliver for Cantabrians, says Labour’s Clayton Cosgrove. More >>
Government rhetoric does not match reality for housing
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 3:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
An interim regulatory impact statement (RIS) on the National Government’s response to the Housing Shareholders Advisory Group (HSAG) report tabled in Parliament this week shows that little progress has been made in the year since the Housing Minister ... More >>
Government fails to take action on drink driving
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 3:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government has missed a vital opportunity to save between 17 and 35 lives each year by lowering the blood alcohol limit, says Labour’s Transport Safety spokesperson, Darien Fenton. More >>
Local Govt Minister to "Do an Auckland” on rest of NZ
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 2:38 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide’s announcement of a review of the whole system of local government should ring alarm bells in every city and town in New Zealand, says Labour’s local government spokesperson Phil Twyford. More >>
Labour keeps New Zealanders online
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 1:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
No New Zealander can be disconnected from the internet thanks to the negotiated outcome Labour achieved on controversial copyright law, says Labour’s Communications and IT spokesperson Clare Curran. More >>
Christchurch Earthquake bulletin edition 26
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 12:43 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 >>
Arbitrary health cuts hurt South Auckland youth
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 11:46 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Arbitrary health cuts hurt South Auckland youth It is utterly appalling that health services for secondary school students at Alfriston College, Papatoetoe High School and Tuakau College are being cut in a short-sighted attempt to save money, says Labour ... More >>
Claims superannuitants are better off don’t stack up
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 9:36 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Superannuitants are among a growing number of Kiwis floating on a rising tide of hardship, while the Government manufactures misinformation, says Labour’s spokesperson for Senior Citizens Steve Chadwick. More >>
Prices rise again as families continue to struggle
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 9:28 am | New Zealand Labour Party
"Relentless food price increases and a government who celebrates low wages are bad news for Pacific families struggling to make ends meet", Labour's spokesperson for Pacific Island Affairs Su'a William Sio said today. More >>
Key should defer Auckland rail decision & Wong Investigation
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 5:34 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour today called on the Prime Minister to instruct KiwiRail to defer any decisions on who will win the bid to build electric trains for Auckland. Labour MP Trevor Mallard said the Prime Minister’s admission that he was aware that the Auditor General’s ... More >>
Funding row shows Māori Statutory Board flawed
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 4:58 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford says the Auckland Council’s funding row with its Maori Statutory Board is evidence the board structure is flawed and should be abolished. “The fact that the Maori Statutory Board was taking legal ... More >>
