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Another missed opportunity for youth
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 4:40 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government’s failure to get young, unemployed New Zealanders’ into jobs has been highlighted by its negligent approach to the Canterbury rebuild, says Labour’s spokesperson for Employment and Youth Affairs, Jacinda Ardern. “There are 58,000 ... More >>
Christchurch Earthquake bulletin edition twenty
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 1:02 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 >>
Alarm as science falls victim to national standards
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 12:16 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Research, Science and Technology spokesperson David Shearer says he is alarmed, but not surprised, by reports that science education is being pushed out of classrooms to make way for National Standards in numeracy and literacy. More >>
Risk To NZ's Reputation Under Govt's Foreign Affairs Plan
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 10:13 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The government's approach to Foreign Affairs appointments and resourcing risks damage to New Zealand's reputation, says Opposition Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Maryan Street. More >>
$2m joke plastic waka won’t promote brand Māori
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 10:07 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government’s $1.8 million subsidy of a giant plastic waka to go on show at ‘party central’ during the Rugby World Cup is a joke, says Labour’s Associate Māori Affairs (Economic Development) spokesperson Shane Jones. More >>
Pike River Coal must co-operate with inquiry
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 9:38 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The claim by the receivers for Pike River Coal that it might not have enough money to fully participate in the Royal Commission of Inquiry is disturbing, says West Coast Labour MP Damien O'Connor. More >>
FMA board another ‘missed opportunity’
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 9:28 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The newly announced Financial Markets Authority board is a missed opportunity by failing to build on the strengths of the initial establishment board, says Labour’s Commerce spokesperson Lianne Dalziel. More >>
MP No Stranger to New Roles
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 4:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
As a former midwife, a manager at Rotorua Hospital and former Associate Health Minister (Child Health and Maternity), I feel at home with my new responsibilities, says Steve Chadwick. More >>
Commerce Commission Inquiry Could Give Kiwis More Choice
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 3:25 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
There is finally hope that NZ consumers might get a wider choice of broadcast content through traditional and new media via high speed broadband following today’s announcement by the Commerce Commission More >>
Key, Bennett fail to understand people want jobs
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 3:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Canterbury Earthquake Recovery spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove says Prime Minister John Key and Social Development Minister Paula Bennett are cruelly missing the point in terms of Canterbury people who lose their jobs in the wake of the earthquakes. More >>
Christchurch Earthquake bulletin edition nineteen
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 1:08 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 >>
Important tertiary education portfolio a 'logical fit'
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 12:11 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour's newly-appointed Tertiary Education spokesperson David Shearer says his new responsibilities are a logical fit with his existing portfolio of research, science and technology. More >>
Changes to Labour caucus announced
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 11:45 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Leader Phil Goff has appointed Sue Moroney and David Shearer as the party's new Education spokespeople. More >>
Moroney takes on Labour education role
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 11:45 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Hamilton MP, parent and Early Childhood Education spokesperson Sue Moroney is delighted to have been promoted to take on the crucial role of Labour Party Education spokesperson. More >>
Teenagers doing worse at school
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 9:12 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Teenagers are doing worse at school under National, not better, despite John Key's personal promise in 2008 to lift educational performance for 16 and 17-year-olds, Labour's acting Education spokesperson David Shearer says. More >>
English must resign over SCF mishandling
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 9:10 am | New Zealand Labour Party
National’s mishandling of the South Canterbury Finance collapse is a disaster of epic proportions and Finance Minister Bill English must resign, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. More >>
Asset sales will spark power price rises
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 8:51 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Power prices will skyrocket if National flogs off our valuable state-owned electricity companies to private buyers and that's something Kiwi families can't afford as they struggle to cope with other increases in living costs, says Labour Leader Phil Goff. More >>
National can no longer ignore rising hardship
Monday, 4 April 2011, 2:41 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Working families and the elderly are among growing numbers of New Zealanders floating on a rising tide of hardship while the Government sits back apparently helpless, Labour Deputy Leader Annette King says. “News today that the Whangarei branch of ... More >>
National set to drive us deeper into recession
Monday, 4 April 2011, 2:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe says the government accounts released today make it even clearer that National will use the economic impact of the Christchurch earthquakes to justify savage cuts to public spending in this year’s budget. More >>
Mental health linked to food costs
Monday, 4 April 2011, 12:02 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Mental health linked to food costs Research from the University of Otago linking psychological distress with the increasing unaffordability of safe, nutritious food must be heeded, says Labour’s Associate Health spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway. More >>
