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First Small Steps In The Right Direction
Monday, 29 March 2010, 5:33 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Research, Science and Technology spokesperson David Shearer today welcomed the first incremental steps the Government has taken to put innovation at the forefront of our economic growth. More >>
National Standards- a potential risk for ECE
Monday, 29 March 2010, 4:03 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Spokesperson for Early Childhood Education, Sue Moroney said today that she shared the concerns of the NZEI Te Riu Roa forum regarding the negative impact national standards may have on early childhood education. More >>
Archives And Library Merger Does Not Stack Up
Sunday, 28 March 2010, 11:33 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government's proposal to merge Archives New Zealand and the National Library into the Department of Internal Affairs could save as little as$165,000 a year, while seeing more than a dozen jobs go, and risking compromising key components of our ... More >>
Dalziel: “What will Turn the Tide”
Sunday, 28 March 2010, 10:16 am | New Zealand Labour Party
“Our [prison] system simply fails to rehabilitate or deter, and our high recidivism rate is a clear indication of that failure. One reason for that failure is that imprisonment does not confront the inmate with his or her crime. More >>
More Dodgy Dealings From National?
Sunday, 28 March 2010, 10:09 am | New Zealand Labour Party
National needs to come clean about the promises it made to the mining industry before the 2008 election on digging up our protected Schedule 4 land, says Labour Leader Phil Goff. More >>
Labour Committed To Safer Communities
Sunday, 28 March 2010, 10:02 am | New Zealand Labour Party
In a speech to the National Restorative Justice Practitioners’ Conference in Wellington today Lianne Dalziel said a bipartisan approach would allow those at the coal face who deal with offenders to work with certainty. More >>
Brownlee Correcting Mistakes Still Obfuscates
Saturday, 27 March 2010, 11:57 am | New Zealand Labour Party
This morning's release by Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee correcting some of his misinformation about mining under the last Labour government is a welcomed acknowledgment of yet another mistake by the National government on this issue, Labour ... More >>
Corporate appointment will fuel suspicions
Friday, 26 March 2010, 9:58 am | New Zealand Labour Party
“The Government’s appointment of liquor boss Doug McKay as CEO of the Auckland Transition Agency will reinforce Aucklanders' fears about the corporatisation of local democracy”, says Labour’s Auckland Issues spokesperson, Phil Twyford. More >>
Ryall makes a lie of National’s front line promise
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The closure of the Blenheim and Thames offices of the Accident Compensation Corporation make a mockery of the Government’s promise to strengthen front line public services, Labour’s State Services spokesperson Grant Robertson said today. More >>
National’s comedy act on mining continues
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 4:55 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee’s latest defence of National’s plan to dig up our national parks goes way past its usual spin and into the realms of fantasy, Labour Conservation spokesperson David Parker says. More >>
Shuffling deck chairs will not improve services
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 4:51 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The merger of a number of small government agencies will do nothing to improve the quality of services for New Zealanders, Labour’s State Services spokesperson Grant Robertson said today. More >>
All New Zealanders must get their fair share
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 4:49 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The better than expected GDP figures released today serve as a reminder to the National led Government that all Kiwis must share in the recovery, Labour’s Associate Finance spokesperson David Parker said. More >>
Where is John Key?
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 1:21 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Leader Phil Goff is curious as to why the usually media-friendly Prime Minister seems to have mysteriously disappeared off the radar in the last few days. More >>
Huo humbled by Youth MP response
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 11:56 am | New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand’s political future is bright if the next generation of aspiring leaders is anything to go by, says Labour Associate Ethnic Affairs Spokesperson Raymond Huo. More >>
Labour supports twenty-first century smart meters
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 4:35 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Associate Energy spokesperson Chris Hipkins supports the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s announcement in favour of smart metering on electricity in the twenty-first century. More >>
Flawed bill will still cost Aucklanders
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 3:41 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Phil Twyford says Rodney Hides third super city bill states that 6 of the Auckland CCOs will pay tax. Today’s promise by Mr Hide to make these CCOs tax neutral is an example of mistakes that are made when Ministers ram through legislation without ... More >>
Attorney-General slams Bennett’s welfare reforms
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 2:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has suffered an embarrassing blow with the Attorney-General slamming her proposed welfare reforms finding they breach Bill of Rights Act tests, Labour’s Deputy Leader Annette King said today. More >>
Refugee and Migrant Centre loss a body blow
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The looming closure of the Refugee and Migrant Centre is another body blow to Christchurch’s vulnerable, say Christchurch based Labour MPs. More >>
Minister needs to take deep breath on special ed
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 12:25 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The rushed approach to the hearing of submissions on the Government's review of Special Education risks an outcome over which key stakeholders have little or no ownership, Grant Robertson Labour Special Education Spokesperson and Lynne Pillay Labour Disabilities ... More >>
Welfare changes miss the mark for Islanders
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 10:32 am | New Zealand Labour Party
14 per cent of Pacific Islanders in New Zealand are currently unemployed and they will find no comfort in the Social Development Minister’s social welfare reforms, Labour's Pacific Island Affairs spokesperson Luamanuvao Winnie Laban said today. More >>
