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Waikato Graduates Aim High
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 12:26 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
I am pleased to congratulate the graduates of Waikato University who will be receiving their degrees over the next two days said local Hauraki-Waikato MP Nanaia Mahuta More >>
Important to keep pressure on ministry over Samoan
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 10:49 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour's Pacific Island Affairs spokesperson Su'a William Sio is welcoming what looks like an Education Ministry back-down on its plans to cease publishing the Samoan school journal Folauga. More >>
Labour, Green Party, Grey Power aged care report
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 4:59 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson today on behalf of the Green Party, Grey Power and the more than 1200 people who took part, tabled in Parliament today a report into the aged care sector. More >>
Credit report proves English is out of touch
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 4:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Latest statistics from the country's largest credit bureau --- showing a massive hike in the number of Kiwis who can’t pay their bills and 50 percent of trading companies with outstanding debts --- proves how out of touch Bill English is when ... More >>
Huo welcomes the first ever World Statistics Day
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 4:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The importance of statistics in everyday life are highlighted by the first-ever World Statistics Day which is being celebrated today says Labour Statistics Spokesperson Raymond Huo. More >>
‘Incoherence’ is all National’s
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 4:50 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Nothing is more incoherent than National’s overseas investment policy, and its bumbling efforts to try to explain it and sell it to Kiwis, says Labour’s Overseas Investment spokesperson David Parker. More >>
Sale of Crafar farms won’t satisfy new criteria
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 2:06 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Hong Kong-based Natural Dairy (NZ) Ltd’s plans to buy the Crafar farms are most unlikely to satisfy the strict new controls Labour will introduce on overseas purchase of farm land, says Labour’s Overseas Investment spokesperson David Parker. More >>
CPI: Basics going up, worse to come with GST hike
Monday, 18 October 2010, 3:55 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The rise in the September quarter consumers price index (CPI) of 1.1 percent reflects increases across basic costs --- largely before National’s 20 percent hike in GST takes effect, says Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. More >>
Phil Goff: Speech To Labour Party Conference 2010
Sunday, 17 October 2010, 4:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Last week I saw two New Zealand’s. The first is the one we know. This is the place where people work hard, they pay their taxes and look after their families. But things are getting harder here. And I don’t like that. More >>
Labour’s Agenda For Change: Putting Children First
Sunday, 17 October 2010, 3:22 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Deputy Leader and Social Development spokesperson Annette King announced today a new stage in Labour policy which explicitly puts children at the centre of investment in social service delivery. More >>
King: Putting Children First
Saturday, 16 October 2010, 1:28 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
As New Zealanders we like to think our country is the best place in the world to bring up children; we call it “God’s own”. We say things like the future of New Zealand is with our children; our children are our greatest asset; every child ... More >>
Street to Washington for international seminar
Friday, 15 October 2010, 4:33 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
On Friday Labour’s Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson, Maryan Street, heads to Washington to attend an international seminar on Building Sustainable Partnerships for Women’s Human Rights. More >>
Tolley’s crowing strikes sour note
Friday, 15 October 2010, 4:04 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Instead of crowing about how constructive consultation over Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki Maori (Maori-medium national standards) has been, Education Minister Anne Tolley should reflect on the shambolic process she has inflicted over English-medium national ... More >>
Quake recovery pleasing but local must get work
Friday, 15 October 2010, 12:45 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Earthquake Recovery spokesperson and Waimakariri MP Clayton Cosgrove has welcomed the selection of a construction company to manage the Earthquake Commission’s recovery process, but is calling on the Government to do more to ensure local workers don’t ... More >>
Police response needed to every crime
Friday, 15 October 2010, 12:00 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s law and order policy will focus on ”sweating the small stuff”, ensuring there is a police response to all reported crime, says Labour Leader Phil Goff. More >>
75th annual conference, Police Association
Friday, 15 October 2010, 11:04 am | New Zealand Labour Party
I would like to start by acknowledging President Greg O’Connor, and congratulate you Greg on being re-elected President of the Association for a seventh term. More >>
Ian Dunwoodie stands for Labour in Manurewa
Friday, 15 October 2010, 10:53 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Manurewa lawyer Ian Dunwoodie is standing for the Labour Party nomination in Manurewa. More >>
Rebalancing “at the expense of struggling Kiwis”
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 5:12 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Crown Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2010 reveal that Bill English’s economic rebalancing has occurred on the back of low or no wage growth, high unemployment and a stalling economy, none of which are good for Kiwis struggling to make ends ... More >>
Minister comes clean on 90 day trial periods
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 5:05 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
After weeks of claiming that the 90 day trial period in the Employment Relations Bill (No 2), currently before select committee is “voluntary” and that “employees don’t need to have a trial period if they don’t want one” the Minister of Labour ... More >>
National breaks election promise on ECE
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 4:55 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National is breaking an election promise to keep 20 hours free Early Childhood Education in place, Labour Early Childhood Education spokesperson Sue Moroney says. More >>
