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Maori tertiary opportunities jeopardised
Monday, 22 February 2010, 9:19 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Access to tertiary education for Maori will be threatened if the government does away with free student loans, says Labour's Spokesperson for Maori Education Kelvin Davis. More >>
Carter - Close the Gap with Australia on Whaling
Sunday, 21 February 2010, 1:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Chris Carter is urging the National-Act Government to consider backing Australia’s ultimatum to Japan to end whaling or face international legal action. More >>
Tertiary Education Opportunities to Be Denied
Sunday, 21 February 2010, 1:46 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Tertiary students appear likely to face new barriers to gaining skills and qualifications under plans being hinted at by the new Tertiary Education Minister, says Maryan Street, Labour’s Tertiary Education Spokesperson. More >>
Confidence Falls While National Dithers
Sunday, 21 February 2010, 1:44 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Falling confidence levels in New Zealand's economy should be a wake-up call for the National Government that their lack of an economic plan can't continue, Labour Finance Spokesperson David Cunliffe says. More >>
Power Has To Answer For Human Rights Appointments
Sunday, 21 February 2010, 12:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Papers released under the Official Information Act show that Cabinet by-passed the normal process for appointing members of the Human Rights Review Tribunal and inserted five members, including former MPs Brian Neeson and Ken Shirley and National candidate ... More >>
National Will Create Youth Unemployment Crisis
Saturday, 20 February 2010, 10:56 am | New Zealand Labour Party
National must stop dithering and listen to the serious warnings being issue by community organisations and business leader on the impact of rocketing youth unemployment, Labour’s Youth Affairs spokesperson Jacinda Ardern said today. More >>
Better Rules Best For Canterbury Water
Friday, 19 February 2010, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Canterbury water management would be better served by enforcing tougher, new environmental requirements than by passing responsibility to a new tier of un-elected local government, says Labour's water spokesman Brendon Burns. More >>
Where’s the Party at John?
Friday, 19 February 2010, 3:13 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The failure of the Government to secure agreement to transform Auckland’s waterfront into “party central” for the 2011 Rugby World Cup proves National’s handing of preparations is a shambles, Labour Leader Phil Goff said today. More >>
Brownlee should clear up DoC land mining saga
Friday, 19 February 2010, 2:55 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee’s fingerprints appear to be all over the decision to exclude the Hawkdun lignite deposit from the Oteake Conservation Park, Labour's Energy Spokesperson Charles Chauvel said today. More >>
More Work Needed on Cigarette Control
Friday, 19 February 2010, 2:48 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
A small reduction in the number of cigarettes on sale in New Zealand should be celebrated but is no reason to relax on tobacco control, Labour Associate Health Spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway said today. More >>
Pathetic short-sightedness underlined again
Friday, 19 February 2010, 2:37 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The latest Crown financial statements underline yet again the pathetic short-sightedness of the Government in suspending government contributions to the New Zealand Super Fund, says Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. More >>
Closed mind on monetary policy not ‘sufficient’
Friday, 19 February 2010, 2:00 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National’s closed mind on monetary policy has been further challenged by an International Monetary Fund report that says inflation targeting is a necessary but not a “sufficient” tool for economic stability, says Labour Leader Phil Goff. More >>
Why is There No Signal From Joyce Over XT Outages?
Friday, 19 February 2010, 11:49 am | New Zealand Labour Party
It seems four outages in ten weeks on Telecom’s XT network isn’t enough to get Communications Minister Steven Joyce concerned, Labour’s Communications and IT spokesperson Clare Curran said today. More >>
Pansy Wong: Embarrassed Or Just Sloppy?
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 5:49 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“Is the Minister of Women’s Affairs so embarrassed by her Party’s efforts on women’s issue that she has taken to stealing Labour’s record or is she just a bit sloppy?” Labour's spokesperson for Women's Affairs, Sue Moroney asked. More >>
English Long on Rhetoric, Short on Solutions
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 5:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Finance Minister Bill English’s first so-called major speech of the year was long on rhetoric and short on solutions, offering nothing but de-regulation and tax cuts for National's mates while pushing up GST for everyone else, says Labour Finance ... More >>
Brownlee Should Clear up DoC Land Mining Saga
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 5:40 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee’s fingerprints appear to be all over the decision to exclude the Hawkdun lignite deposit from the Oteake Conservation Park, Labour's Energy Spokesperson Charles Chauvel said today. More >>
Low key with no Key
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 5:01 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Commerce spokesperson Lianne Dalziel says she is surprised at the Government's low-key response to the recommendations of the Capital Markets Development Taskforce. More >>
Red Bag Day Highlights Shameful Pay Inequality
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 3:34 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Red Bag Day is something that all Kiwis should be supportive of says Charles Chauvel, Labour List MP based in the Ohariu electorate. "For pay to still be unequal between genders for the same work, after 36 years of equal rights legislation is shameful" More >>
Make National Standards process transparent
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 3:21 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour's Education spokesman Trevor Mallard today called on Education Minister Anne Tolley to make public the terms of reference for the new advisory group she has set up to monitor progress on her controversial National Standards scheme. More >>
Education 'Step Change' a logistical nightmare
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 2:00 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Heather Roy’s “Step Change” report is a logistical nightmare and a load of rubbish, says Labour Associate Education Spokesperson Kelvin Davis. More >>
