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Water Funding Delays Put More Kiwis At Risk
Monday, 3 May 2010, 11:59 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government continues to sit on more than $80m of allocated funding which should be helping small communities make their drinking water safe, says Labour water spokesman Brendon Burns. More >>
ECE Funding Cuts The Tip Of An Iceberg
Monday, 3 May 2010, 11:22 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Funding cuts to the childcare allowance affecting 11,000 families revealed yesterday are just the tip of the iceberg, says Labour spokesperson for Early Childhood Education Sue Moroney. More >>
Failure to support KiwiRail shows lack of faith
Monday, 3 May 2010, 10:16 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Dunedin South MP Clare Curran says a lack of support for a KiwiRail build of Auckland’s electric trains shows no faith in Kiwi skills and capability. More >>
Govt should create jobs with rail blueprint
Monday, 3 May 2010, 9:24 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government should take up the recommendations of a recent study to manufacture the rolling stock for Auckland's electric rail network here in New Zealand to create and keep jobs for Kiwi workers, Labour's Transport spokesperson Darren Hughes said ... More >>
Promise To Superannuitants Hollow And Cynical
Sunday, 2 May 2010, 12:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Superannuitants will not receive enduring benefit from National’s tax cuts for our wealthiest earners, and will still be paying higher GST on basic essentials long after National’s so-called compensation package expires, says Labour. More >>
NZ Must Express Concern Over Tonga’s Problems
Saturday, 1 May 2010, 12:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Government must make it clear to Tongan authorities that it has serious concerns over the recent developments with its judiciary, Labour’s Associate Foreign Affairs spokesperson Phil Twyford said today. More >>
Government blocks probe into industrial law change
Friday, 30 April 2010, 4:02 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The decision by the Industrial Relations Select Committee to dismiss a petition to review the Employment Relations Amendment Act is a blow for Kiwi workers, Labour’s Darien Fenton said today. More >>
Government to allow private ownership of water for
Friday, 30 April 2010, 11:56 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Rodney Hide’s Bill allowing private companies to own the water infrastructure of councils for up to 35 years is privatisation in spite of Government denials, says Labour’s spokesperson on Auckland Issues Phil Twyford. More >>
Government confusion but education, health cuts
Friday, 30 April 2010, 9:42 am | New Zealand Labour Party
National is planning to cut hundreds more public service jobs this year and is targeting the health and education sectors, Cabinet Papers just released under the Official Information Act reveal. More >>
Special Education Review Ignores Voices of Manukau
Friday, 30 April 2010, 9:23 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Associate Minister of Education Heather Roy has ignored a plea to include the voice of Pacific consumers in the special education review. More >>
Parents to pay more for ECE under National
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 4:53 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government needs to detail the cuts they are making to early childhood education, now they have let the cat out of the bag, Labour's ECE spokesperson Sue Moroney says. More >>
Smith’s spin allows rape victims to be misled
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 4:44 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Nick Smith has clearly deliberately misled his colleagues into telling rape victims that the Government is increasing support for them, Labour’s Victims Rights spokesperson Lynne Pillay says. More >>
New regulator can restore investor confidence
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 3:42 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Party Commerce spokesperson Lianne Dalziel is welcoming the creation of a new regulator for New Zealand’s financial markets. More >>
Biosecurity risk assessment faulty
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 12:08 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand’s pork industry is at risk because of a deficient biosecurity risk assessment and cutbacks to baseline funding, Labour Biosecurity spokesperson Damien O’Connor said. More >>
Labour seeks support for tenancy law improvements
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 11:52 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Phil Heatley has an opportunity to make much needed improvements in proposed tenancy laws, says Labour’s Housing spokesperson Moana Mackey. More >>
Labour to begin open policy process
Thursday, 29 April 2010, 11:02 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour is embarking on its first open policy process, inviting the public to participate in developing its policy on what an open, transparent government might look like. More >>
Labour supports legislation on tobacco tax
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 5:18 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour supports moves to increase tax on tobacco to encourage New Zealanders to kick the habit, Labour Associate Health spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway said. More >>
National halves op funding for Maori schools
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 5:02 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government’s decision to slash base operational funding for Maori language area schools is either discriminatory and unfair to Maori or a foretaste of wider cuts to school funding, Labour’s Education spokesman Trevor Mallard said today. More >>
Private members bill drafted to stop mining
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 3:42 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Concern about changes to schedule 4 conservation land that open up protected land to mining has led Labour MP Jacinda Ardern to lodge her first Private Members Bill. More >>
National idle bystander of ‘rape and run’ industry
Wednesday, 28 April 2010, 3:29 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
While National sits by and allows research and development programmes to stall, the future of New Zealand’s timber industry is being put at risk, say Labour Finance and Economic Development spokespersons David Cunliffe and Shane Jones. More >>
