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Brownlee To Consumers - Sort It Out Yourselves
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 3:59 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour's energy spokesperson Charles Chauvel says National has no solutions on offer to the problem of ever-increasing power prices. “News that Contact Energy will raise domestic energy prices for in Marlborough and Northland by 5% is another blow ... More >>
Talk On Domestic Violence Not Matched By Action
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 3:11 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour welcomes today’s release of the discussion paper by survivors of domestic violence, but questions the Government’s response in light its continual stalling on key domestic violence reforms, says the party’s Justice spokesperson Lianne ... More >>
Ryall labels frontline health cuts as ‘changes’
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 2:56 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
While the Health Minister Tony Ryall continues to make statements about increasing frontline health services, the public are experiencing just the opposite and he has even gone as far as to try to re-label the cuts as ‘changes’, Labour Health spokesperson ... More >>
Aussie Unemployment Shows Benefits Of A Plan
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 2:35 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Australians are reaping the benefits of their Government having a clear plan to weather the recession with their unemployment level falling for the fourth consecutive month, Labour Leader Phil Goff said today. More >>
Entrenchment mess highlights Maori Party misses
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 10:00 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Maori Party’s submitting and subsequent withdrawing of a member’s bill to entrench the Maori seats in Parliament once again highlights just how hamstrung it is by its relationship with National, says Labour MP Mita Ririrui. More >>
Government double-whammy hits working poor
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 4:27 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Lower paid Kiwis, still reeling from last month’s miserly 25 cents minimum wage rise, will find it even harder to get by when the Government raises GST, probably to 15 per cent, Labour’s associate spokesperson on labour issues Darien Fenton ... More >>
Govt Listens to Taxi Drivers at last
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 11:36 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Transport Safety spokesperson Darien Fenton has welcomed signals today from the Government that it will move to improve taxi drivers’ safety, after ignoring the issue last year. More >>
Indiscriminate Cuts Not the Path to Better Public
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 11:20 am | New Zealand Labour Party
John Key's opening statement to Parliament has failed to offer a positive vision of how New Zealand will develop public services that will contribute to our future prosperity, Grant Robertson Labour State Services Spokesperson said today. More >>
Dangerous Signals for Tertiary education
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:52 am | New Zealand Labour Party
“Tertiary education and students are under threat from this government,” says Maryan Street, Labour’s Tertiary Education Spokesperson. More >>
Australian Tourism To Benefit From GST Increase
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 10:03 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The tourism industry looks set to take a battering if Prime Minister John Key – also the Tourism Minister - raises GST to 15 per cent, says Labour’s Tourism Spokesperson Kelvin Davis. More >>
Tax Plan Fails To Deliver For Hard-Working Kiwis
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 4:13 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National’s tax plan is a fizzer rather than a game-changer, says Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. “Tax change must meet three tests. It must be fair to all, grow the real economy, and be politically sustainable. This package fails ... More >>
Trebled long-term unemployed mocks Key's spin
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 4:01 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Figures showing the number of long-term unemployed has almost trebled in a year make a mockery of John Key’s pledges to reduce long-term welfare dependency, says Labour Deputy Leader Annette King said today. More >>
Phil Goff’s reply to John Key
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 3:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Once again, we’ve heard the rhetoric – but there’s no substance. It’s Alan Bollard one, John Key nil. More >>
Private prisons a cop-out by Crown
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 1:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Law and Order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove has told today’s rally of Corrections officers at Parliament that the Government’s plan for private prisons is a cop-out on a core Crown responsibility. More >>
Log on and sign up to keep 7’s in the capital
Monday, 8 February 2010, 5:24 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Wellington Central MP Grant Robertson is asking sevens fans to sign his on-line petition to ensure the IRB’s New Zealand leg remains at its natural home, in the capital. More >>
Goff invites Power to Te Hurihanga
Monday, 8 February 2010, 9:24 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Leader Phil Goff has invited Justice Minister Simon Power to Te Hurihanga, a specialised rehabilitation centre in Hamilton for youth on track to a life of crime, to see the centre’s real value. More >>
RB Governor dismisses Key’s spin
Sunday, 7 February 2010, 1:58 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Even the Reserve Bank Governor doesn’t believe John Key’s election promise that he had a plan for New Zealand to catch up with Australia, Labour Leader Phil Goff said today. More >>
Wong urged to become a voice for ethnic unemployed
Friday, 5 February 2010, 11:39 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Associate Ethnic Affairs spokespersons Raymond Huo and Rajen Prasad are urging Ethnic Affairs Minister Pansy Wong to speak out forcefully on the rising ethnic unemployment rate before even more ethnic people are forced on the dole. “With the Asian unemployment ... More >>
International position for MP Ross Robertson
Friday, 5 February 2010, 10:16 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Manukau East MP Ross Robertson has been appointed as Deputy Convenor of the Peace and Democracy Programme in addition to his role as a member of the Executive Board of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA). Ross Robertson said that this executive ... More >>
10,000 More Women Now Out Of Work
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 4:42 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
A further 10,000 more women are now struggling to financially support their families after a significant increase in unemployment, Labour Women’s Affairs Sue Moroney said. More >>
