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Goff: The squeezed middle
Monday, 6 December 2010, 3:02 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Today I want to talk about the squeeze on middle income families. I will talk about why the squeeze is getting worse, not better. And I want to tell you about the thinking Labour has been doing about how to fix it. More >>
Middle New Zealand needs someone on their side
Monday, 6 December 2010, 1:56 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour will step in and actively manage the economy in a new, more aggressive, hands-on approach to ease the financial pain being felt by middle and low-income earners, says Labour Leader Phil Goff. More >>
Joyce can’t get his head around two ideas at once
Monday, 6 December 2010, 11:00 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour is calling on Prime Minister John Key to create a public transport portfolio in his Cabinet reshuffle today because Transport Minister Steven Joyce can’t get his head around two ideas at once. More >>
Vodafone Wins Responsible Governance Award
Friday, 3 December 2010, 4:09 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Vodafone’s stance on handheld mobile phone use while driving has seen it win the 2010 Kensington Swan Responsible Governance Award, recognising outstanding stakeholder commitment. More >>
National to cut $27 million of health services in Wellington
Friday, 3 December 2010, 4:08 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
More than $17 million in hospital services and $10 million in community based services are about to be slashed, says Labour’s health spokesperson Ruth Dyson. “No wonder former Chief Executive Ken Whelan resigned stating he couldn’t cut more services. ... More >>
Unlike Joyce, Aussies committed to cutting road toll
Friday, 3 December 2010, 3:11 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
While the National Government remains blindly wedded to a do-nothing policy on the blood-alcohol limit, the Australian Government is considering a 0.02 blood alcohol limit, says Labour’s Transport spokesperson Darren Hughes. More >>
Auditor-General should investigate Wong
Friday, 3 December 2010, 2:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Leader Phil Goff is calling for the Pansy Wong case to be referred to the Auditor-General for a thorough investigation after the release of a report today that is nothing but a whitewash and a cover-up. More >>
Parents in Otago to face increased ECE costs
Friday, 3 December 2010, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Parents in Otago will face increased early childhood education costs of up to $40 per child per week because of National Government funding cuts, says Labour MP Clare Curran. More >>
Suicide rate among young Pacific people a tragedy
Friday, 3 December 2010, 12:35 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The likelihood that up to 130 young Pacific people will kill themselves in South Auckland this year is a tragedy for Pacific people and also for New Zealand, says Labour’s Pacific Island Affairs spokesperson Su’a William Sio. More >>
Aung San Suu Kyi asks New Zealand for support
Friday, 3 December 2010, 10:08 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has asked for support from New Zealand to help build peaceful democratic reform in her country in the wake of her release from house arrest. More >>
Dunne can’t have it both ways
Friday, 3 December 2010, 9:39 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Revenue Minister Peter Dunne can’t have it both ways ---- either service changes are to be made that will inevitably affect staffing levels in regional Inland Revenue offices, or no changes are to be made, says Labour’s Revenue spokesperson Stuart ... More >>
Government must continue to support regional polytechnics
Friday, 3 December 2010, 9:36 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Although the final sign off of approval has been given to the merger of the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) and Gisborne's Tairawhiti Polytechnic, Labour MP’s Grant Robertson and Moana Mackey are calling on the government to support strong ... More >>
Phil Goff - Tribute to the Pike River Coal Miners
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 3:55 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Today we remember the lives of 29 men lost in the disaster at Pike River Coal Mine on 19 November 2010. And we offer our support, sympathy, love and prayers to those who lost loved ones – husbands, partners, sons and brothers who never returned ... More >>
Labour announces Manurewa & Te Atatu selection dates
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 3:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour has confirmed that the Manurewa selection will be held at 2pm, Sunday 12 December, Manurewa Netball Court Hall, corner Browns Road & Dalgety Drive, Manurewa. More >>
Child and teacher numbers to drop under ECE funding cuts
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 9:47 am | New Zealand Labour Party
A survey of more than 400 Early Childhood Centres nationwide has shown that fees will be driven up, child participation rates will fall and qualified teacher numbers will drop as a direct result of funding cuts, Labour Leader Phil Goff and Early Childhood ... More >>
Rino Tirikatene wins Labour’s Te Tai Tonga selection
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 9:46 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Labour Party has selected Rino Tirikatene as its candidate for the Te Tai Tonga Māori electorate in next year’s general election. Rino and the Tirikatene whānau have a long-standing relationship with the Labour Party. Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan ... More >>
National ditches Mana after By-election loss
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 9:36 am | New Zealand Labour Party
With the by election behind them, National have shown their claims during the campaign that they are committed to addressing housing needs in Mana to be nothing more than empty rhetoric, Labour’s Spokesperson for Housing Moana Mackey and MP for Mana ... More >>
Digital future takes shape without a key ingredient
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 4:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Today’s launch of a website promoting digital television begs the big question about what people will be able to watch on their screens in future , says Labour’s broadcasting spokesman Brendon Burns. More >>
Canterbury business package well short of mark
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 1:30 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The scale of the Government’s new package of measures to assist Canterbury business misses the mark, say Labour’s Earthquake Recovery spokesperson and Waimakariri MP Clayton Cosgrove and Christchurch Central MP Brendon Burns. More >>
Recovery simply not happening under National
Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 12:31 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National can provide nothing but bluster and bravado in the face of bleak predictions for economic recovery, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. David Cunliffe said the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) Quarterly Predictions ... More >>
