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English still has case to answer
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 9:40 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour welcomes the Auditor General’s report. “The Auditor General has confirmed that Mr English does have a pecuniary interest ‘when the arrangement was explicitly based on a view that he did not have an interest’,” Dunedin North MP Pete Hodgson ... More >>
Hide must explain privatisation agenda
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 9:37 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Community opposition appears to have forced Rodney Hide to back down on most of his plans for local government reform, but a huge question mark remains over his privatisation agenda, says Labour’s Local Government spokesperson George Hawkins. More >>
NZ shouldn’t fall for Nats' falls prevention cuts
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 4:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Elderly New Zealanders deserve much better than the scrapping of the falls programme being made by the National Government, Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson says. “The National Government has dumped a programme that was supported by frontline ... More >>
English can't tell 'good look' from 'look good'
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 3:08 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Finance Minister Bill English seems almost incapable of understanding what constitutes a conflict of interest, says Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. “His response today to the blatantly self-promoting TVNZ ‘plain English’ promo has been that ... More >>
Japan New Zealand Forum to build on partnership
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 1:32 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Commerce spokesperson Lianne Dalziel, who will attend the second Japan New Zealand Partnership Forum in Tokyo on Friday, is confident the Forum will provide an excellent opportunity to build on our relationship with Japan. Lianne Dalziel ... More >>
Cops on bikes - will crims play by the new rules?
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
It is ironic that police are getting back on their bikes in Canterbury, a police district that has lost 32 vehicles in the Government’s police budget cuts, says Labour law and order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove. “Cycle cops are a good option ... More >>
Rest, meal breaks another erosion of labour laws
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 10:06 am | New Zealand Labour Party
A Bill changing rest and meal break laws is set to deny vulnerable workers basic rights to minimum breaks during a working day and is yet another backwards step, says Labour Spokesperson Trevor Mallard. Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson claims the ... More >>
MP Warns Community To Look Out for Each Other
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 9:47 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP for Mangere, Su’a William Sio says he wants the whole community to be vigilant and look out for each other while the police are investigating a series of possibly related sexual attacks on young children and young women in and around ... More >>
TVNZ annual report: no longer a public broadcaster
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 4:48 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Television New Zealand's latest annual report confirms it no longer regards itself as a public broadcaster, says Labour's broadcasting spokesman Brendon Burns. More >>
Compelling evidence that national super at risk
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Confirmation that there will be more than one million Kiwis aged 65 and over by the late 2020s underscores the foolish short-sightedness of National’s decade of deferrals to the Super Fund, says Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. More >>
Bill continues unprecedented attack on ACC
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 4:35 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government’s unprecedented attack on New Zealand’s world-leading accident compensation scheme continued today with the introduction of legislation which will reduce cover for injured New Zealanders, says Labour’s ACC spokesperson David Parker. More >>
Implementation of ACC guidelines should stop
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 4:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
ACC Minister Nick Smith should admit he got it wrong on cutbacks to counselling for sexual abuse victims and scrap their implementation, says Labour’s Victims Rights Spokesperson Lynne Pillay. More >>
English must come clean on murky TVNZ promo
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 3:58 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Finance Minister Bill English needs to come clean about the extent of his involvement as shareholding Minister in a TVNZ promo previewing a series of programmes on the economy, says Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe. More >>
Street to support signing of Malaysia FTA
Friday, 23 October 2009, 3:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Trade Spokesperson Maryan Street will this weekend be accompanying Prime Minister John Key and Trade Minister Tim Groser to Malaysia to witness the signing of the Malaysia bilateral Free Trade Agreement in Kuala Lumpur. More >>
Standards must focus on students not schools
Friday, 23 October 2009, 2:48 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Education spokesperson Trevor Mallard says care must be taken to ensure the risk of information gathered by the Government’s new National Standards are not used to stigmatise poorer schools. More >>
Hayes needs to apologise
Friday, 23 October 2009, 1:01 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The attack on the Governments of three Pacific territories associated with New Zealand by a senior National MP is unprecedented and must be condemned by John Key, Labour’s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Chris Carter said today. More >>
Hayes “stalking horse” for National in Pacific
Friday, 23 October 2009, 12:59 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair John Hayes is clearly acting as a “stalking horse” for National in wanting to administer Pacific nations like Tokelau and the Cook islands as local government organisations, Labour’s Pacific Island Affairs ... More >>
Key breaks ACC election promise
Friday, 23 October 2009, 10:57 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Prime Minister John Key has broken his party’s election promise on ACC privatisation, Labour Leader Phil Goff said today. “National promised New Zealanders last year it would investigate opening only the work account to competition, but John Key now ... More >>
Goff: speech to CTU biennial conference
Friday, 23 October 2009, 9:51 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Thank you for inviting me to address the conference today, for my first opportunity to speak to you formally as leader of the Labour Party. Can I start by placing on record my appreciation for the warm working relationship I have enjoyed with leaders ... More >>
Sensible decision on spectrum licence fees
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 5:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
A government decision to provide a payment plan for radio stations wanting to renew their spectrum licences is a sensible response to current market realities, says Labour’s broadcasting spokesman Brendon Burns. Brendon Burns said he supported ... More >>
