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Labour opens nominations for third selection round
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 4:33 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Labour Party's candidate selection process for the 2011 general election continues with nominations opening today for the third round of electorate seats. The electorate seats that Labour is accepting nominations for are: More >>
MP calls for Age-Friendly Cities
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 4:24 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Manukau East MP and Labour Senior Citizens spokesperson Ross Robertson is calling on New Zealand cities to make their environment friendlier to elderly people. More >>
Smith continues to mislead on ETS Numbers
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Climate Issues Minister Nick Smith continues to take advantage of the complexity of the ETS by making misleading claims about the way it works, says Charles Chauvel, Labour's Climate Issues Spokesperson. More >>
Wong and Bennett fail on Asian unemployment
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 3:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Associate Ethnic Affairs Spokesperson Raymond Huo says the Asian workforce report released yesterday by Employment Minister Paula Bennett highlights the failure of the National Government to curb the level of Asian unemployment. More >>
Tolley takes aim at senior journalist
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 1:55 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Education Minister Anne Tolley is attempting to rewrite history in her attempts to play public censor with the Parliamentary Library, Labour’s Education spokesman Trevor Mallard said today. More >>
Tolley’s censorship of national standards research
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 1:23 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Education Minister Anne Tolley has forced the Parliamentary Library to withdraw a research paper on National Standards, Labour’s Education spokesman Trevor Mallard said today. More >>
English squashes Dunne’s income-splitting dream
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Finance Minister Bill English appears to have squashed United Future hopes for income-splitting tax legislation being passed in this term of government, say Labour revenue spokesperson Stuart Nash and associate commerce spokesperson Charles Chauvel. More >>
Consumers to pay for ACC Minister’s exaggerations
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 1:08 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
From tomorrow car and motorbike owners will be hit with substantial increases in the cost of registering their vehicles, because of the Minister’s decision to exaggerate financial issues within ACC, Labour ACC spokesperson David Parker says. More >>
Transport Minister must ensure CAA culture change
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 1:06 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Civil Aviation Authority needs a major culture change in order for the public to be assured that changes recommended by the Auditor General will be implemented, Labour Transport safety spokesperson Darien Fenton says. More >>
Review of film commission welcomed
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 12:07 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour today welcomed the long awaited release of the Peter Jackson led review of the New Zealand Film Commission, Labour arts, culture and heritage spokesperson Steve Chadwick said. More >>
MPs’ rankings lead to call for Code of Ethics
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 11:59 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Politicians shouldn’t be surprised, and only have themselves to blame, when they read about their ranking in the latest Readers’ Digest list of most respected professions, says a Labour MP. More >>
Heatley missing in action on housing affordability
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 9:45 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Housing spokesperson Moana Mackey has criticised the Government’s decision to axe Housing New Zealand’s Shared Equity Scheme as “short-sighted”. More >>
Minister can’t give assurance on NZ on Air funding
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 9:42 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Repeated signals that NZ on Air will face major funding cuts must worry independent producers, musicians and free-to-air television, says Labour’s broadcasting spokesperson Brendon Burns. More >>
Sad farewell to Te Hurihanga
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 9:19 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Today marks a sad day in the history of youth justice in New Zealand, with the closure of Hamilton’s Te Hurihanga Youth Justice Programme, Labour’s Associate Justice spokesperson Jacinda Ardern said today. More >>
Labour and Green MPs walk out of select committee
Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 12:33 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Three Labour MPs --- deputy chair Clayton Cosgrove, Rick Barker and Carmel Sepuloni --- and Green MP David Clendon walked out of today’s law and order select committee in protest at the conduct of chair and National MP Sandra Goudie. More >>
NZ still waiting for Film Commission Review
Wednesday, 30 June 2010, 9:42 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Almost a year after submissions closed for the New Zealand Film Commission Review the New Zealand film industry is still waiting to see the results, says Labour arts, culture and heritage spokesperson Steve Chadwick. More >>
Budget fails to rebalance economy
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 5:31 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Reserve Bank has confirmed during the June Monetary Policy Statement review released today by the Finance and Expenditure Committee that structural economic imbalances remain that have not been addressed by Budget 2010, says Labour Finance spokesperson ... More >>
Have UFB delays compromised process?
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 5:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Concern is mounting in the telecommunications industry around the delay in rolling out ultrafast broadband fibre and that may be compromising the bidding process, Labour’s spokesperson for communications and IT Clare Curran said today. More >>
Local MP calls for housing solutions
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 4:46 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Manukau East Electorate MP Ross Robertson says he is being inundated by people seeking help with their accommodation needs. “The time it’s taking to either get into a Housing New Zealand property or transfer to a larger HNZ home is becoming increasingly ... More >>
‘Magic’ levy no compensation for abuse survivors
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 4:44 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The level of help victims of sexual violence will receive out of income from the “magic” $50 offender levy will nowhere near compensate for National’s cuts in ACC counselling services for survivors of sexual abuse, Labour MPs say. More >>
