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Hands Up for Learning
Friday, 30 October 2009, 12:44 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Leader Phil Goff joined in World Teachers Day at May Road Primary School in his Mt Roskill Electorate today. World Teachers Day celebrates the value of teaching and learning, with thousands of teachers, students, children and parents joining ... More >>
Progress on new broadband company
Friday, 30 October 2009, 9:37 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The newly announced board of Crown Fibre Holdings seems balanced between a traditional Telco and a wider infrastructure-based approach to rolling out ultra fast broadband, but significant questions remained about the role of Telecom, Labour IT and Communications ... More >>
Biased Bill English promo pulled off air
Friday, 30 October 2009, 9:35 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe has welcomed TVNZ’s back down over its biased promo featuring Bill English, and their decision to pull the promo off air by the end of the week. “This promo for a series of economic programmes was a thinly-disguised ... More >>
Minister of Education failing early childhood ed
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 4:00 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Minister of Education Anne Tolley is failing parents, children and teachers in the early childhood education sector, Labour Early Childhood Education spokesperson Sue Moroney says. More >>
Further Proof ACC Does Not Need Privatizing
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The release of figures showing the number of work-related injuries is declining is further evidence that there is no justification for cutting ACC cover and moving to privatise it, says Labour’s ACC spokesperson David Parker. More >>
Last day for liquor law submissions tomorrow
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 11:53 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Justice spokesperson Lianne Dalziel is urging New Zealanders to take the “once-in-a-generation” chance to have their say about the sale, supply and marketing of alcohol. More >>
Super city corporatisation a shocker
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 10:34 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The proposed structure of the new Auckland council will corporatise the city and is a betrayal of Auckland's democracy, says Labour’s Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford. Labour has been leaked the details of the new structure which reveal ... More >>
Health Restructuring Architect Gets Room at Top
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 10:13 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The appointment by Tony Ryall of Dr Murray Horn as the Chair of the new National Health Board reeks of cronyism, and reflects a return to the hard right policies of the 1990s, Grant Robertson, Labour State Services Spokesperson and Ruth Dyson ... More >>
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 >>
