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Member's Bill aims to boost Kiwi industry growth
Wednesday, 14 July 2010, 9:38 am | New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand can only control its own future with strong, sustainable local industries and the government needs to ensure we have them, Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran said today. More >>
Nash urges Key to consider Napier for pandas
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 3:09 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Napier-based MP Stuart Nash has written to Prime Minister and Tourism Minister John Key, urging him to champion Napier if the city is a suitable home for two endangered giant pandas that may be on offer from China. More >>
Spotlight should be put on extreme drunk drivers
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 12:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
People who display such a reckless regard for human life should not have the privilege of holding a driver's licence, says Labour transport spokesman Darren Hughes. More >>
Frontline public health programmes slashed
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 11:39 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government has slashed public health services including cutting $12 million of tobacco control programmes over the next four years, Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson says. More >>
National takes chainsaw to afforestation grants
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 10:04 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Budget documents show that the Government will downscale the Afforestation Grant Scheme by $2m per year over the next three years before eventually ceasing it, says Labour Forestry spokesperson Stuart Nash. More >>
National ignores obesity epidemic
Monday, 12 July 2010, 12:49 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
It seems the National Government is happy for New Zealand to be labelled the third fattest in the world, Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson says. More >>
Rail network upgrade will improve economic growth
Monday, 12 July 2010, 12:28 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Proper investment in the future of New Zealand’s rail freight network will make Kiwis safer by reducing the number of heavy truck trips by around half a million a year, Labour’s Transport spokesperson Darren Hughes said today. More >>
Budget Day elective surgery announcement a farce
Monday, 12 July 2010, 9:32 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Papers released by Treasury show that Health Minister Tony Ryall’s Budget Day announcement on elective surgery was deliberately misleading, Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson says. More >>
Bikers pay for Smith’s ACC con
Sunday, 11 July 2010, 1:13 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The massive increases of up to 69 per cent in ACC levies for motorcyclists is hitting home now that 1 July has passed and the new registration year begins, says Labour MP Rick Barker. More >>
Maori In Lower Decile Schools Will Be Hurt
Sunday, 11 July 2010, 1:10 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Maori students attending lower decile schools will be unfairly affected by government changes to the operational funding of schools, says Labour Associate Maori Affairs and Education spokesperson Kelvin Davis. More >>
Treasury papers shows Tolley misled on ECE
Friday, 9 July 2010, 4:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government ignored Treasury warnings that its ECE policy would cause parents to withdraw their children because of increased fees, says Labour Spokesperson for Early Childhood Education, Sue Moroney. More >>
Cuts will hurt low decile schools
Friday, 9 July 2010, 4:41 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Changes made by the Government to the operational funding of schools, which were revealed in Budget documents released yesterday, will hurt students in low decile schools, Labour's Education spokesman Trevor Mallard says. More >>
Hard work has started in 2011 Census countdown
Friday, 9 July 2010, 3:23 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Statistics spokesperson Raymond Huo says World Population Day on Sunday is a good time to thank Statistics New Zealand for all the hard work in the countdown to the 2011 census. More >>
Key must overrule McCully this time with Haden
Friday, 9 July 2010, 2:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Prime Minister John Key must act swiftly this time and remove Andy Haden from his role as Rugby World Cup Ambassador, Labour’s RWC spokesman Trevor Mallard said today. More >>
Eden Park B & B converts Rugby World Cup
Friday, 9 July 2010, 12:59 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
An exclusive Auckland bed and breakfast which hit the headlines for its plans to charge $1600 a night during the Rugby World Cup is on the market for sale – after being booked out for the tournament. More >>
We want solutions not insults from RWC Minister
Friday, 9 July 2010, 12:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour's Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford says the Minister for the Rugby World Cup Murray McCully should show a little less ego, and a little more can-do in relation to the party central problem. More >>
Time to sort out party central shambles
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 5:27 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour's Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford says the Government seems to be standing around helplessly as its party central plans turn to custard. More >>
Labour welcomes real welfare working group
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 12:50 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s social development spokesperson Annette King is urging Kiwis to participate in a new alternative and inclusive welfare working group. More >>
Another private prison bidder damned
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 12:09 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
A damning official report on the first privately-managed prison in England further undermines National’s ideological commitment to building a private prison in New Zealand, says Labour Law and Order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove. More >>
Biosecurity needs better Government leadership
Thursday, 8 July 2010, 11:58 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The reality that over 400 unwanted pests and organisms enter New Zealand every year is a major concern for New Zealand’s economy, says Damien O’Connor Labour Biosecurity spokesperson. More >>
