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Minister must explain Job Ops botch-up
Friday, 21 August 2009, 3:12 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Paula Bennett must explain the rules around the Jobs Obs subsidy because it looks like she’s botched it, says Labour Social Development spokesperson Annette King. “The New Zealand Herald today reported that two employers who are benefitting from ... More >>
Maori Excluded from Government Health Priorities
Friday, 21 August 2009, 2:22 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government and its supporters in the Act and Maori parties have again let Maori down by refusing to support the establishment of a working group to investigate why pay rates in the Maori healthcare workforce lag so far behind those working for ... More >>
Speech: Jones - Traversing the landscape
Friday, 21 August 2009, 2:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Speech to Law Society Conference “Governing and Running Maori Entities – Tribal Development and the Law in the 21st Century” at Te Papa Our Ngati Kuri whäea, Saana Murray, said in 1975 during the Roopu Matakite land march from Muriwhenua, ... More >>
New Oz rule fails to differentiate
Friday, 21 August 2009, 12:44 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The decision to lift the threshold for trans-Tasman investment to $500 million for Australians investing in New Zealand goes too far, Labour’s Associate Finance spokesperson David Parker said today. More >>
Commerce Inquiry aimed at gaps in system
Friday, 21 August 2009, 11:19 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Commerce spokesperson Lianne Dalziel says she does not want expectations raised that the Commerce Select Committee inquiry that she will head will be able to 'fix' individual cases of financial loss. Lianne Dalziel, who chairs the committee, said ... More >>
Nats duck for cover on community education cuts
Friday, 21 August 2009, 10:11 am | New Zealand Labour Party
National MPs should have had the guts to front up to a public meeting in Auckland last night on cuts to adult and community education, says Labour Tertiary Education spokesperson Maryan Street. Maryan Street said Education Minister Anne Tolley had ... More >>
Govt must not scrap ACC services helping abused
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 5:35 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Any Government move to axe a service which helps parents and caregivers to help sexually abused children recover would be a terrible mistake, says Labour’s Victims Rights spokesperson Lynne Pillay. “ACC has confirmed it is evaluating the future of a ... More >>
Telecom rethink needed or customers will suffer
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 3:42 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
For the good of customers and its shareholders Telecom must re-examine its proposed maintenance contracting arrangement with Australian based company Visionstream, say Opposition Labour spokesperson Trevor Mallard and Communications and IT spokesperson ... More >>
Ryall forced to admit misleading NZ On Report
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 3:36 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Minister of Health Tony Ryall has been forced to admit that his statements to Parliament yesterday on the report led by Government insider Murray Horn were wrong, Labour Health Spokesperson Ruth Dyson says. “Tony Ryall yesterday claimed in Parliament ... More >>
Chauvel has unscrupulous loan-sharks in his sights
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 2:55 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Associate Justice Spokesperson Charles Chauvel is delighted that his member’s bill seeking to curb the actions of loan-sharks who charge up to 2000 percent interest will have its first reading in Parliament soon. “Payday loans from loan-sharks ... More >>
Govt should listen to advice on climate change
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 2:52 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s climate change spokesperson Charles Chauvel today thanked the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Dr Rajendra Pachauri for his frank comments on New Zealand’s greenhouse gas reduction target. “I agree with Dr Pachauri’s ... More >>
Law Commission should lead rewrite of adoption law
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 12:47 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Adoption Act is in need of a complete overhaul and the Law Commission should lead the debate, says Labour’s Justice spokesperson Lianne Dalziel. “Labour supports calls for a law change supporting the ability of gay, lesbian and de facto couples ... More >>
Grey Power understandably afraid of GST hike
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 11:50 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Grey Power is understandably alarmed at the prospect of the Government lifting the level of GST by 2.5 percent or even higher, say Labour Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe and Revenue spokesperson Stuart Nash. Grey Power President Les Howard, reacting ... More >>
Redeployment scheme a charade
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 11:27 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Tony Ryall’s half hearted attempt to limit public service job losses has been uncovered as another smoke and mirrors campaign from National, Labour’s State Services spokesperson Grant Robertson said today. “National’s public service redeployment strategy ... More >>
National Govt must show leadership on pay equity
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 9:33 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government must show leadership and instruct departments to prioritise pay equity in light of a Human Rights Commission decision to set up monitoring of departments, Labour Women’s Affairs spokesperson Sue Moroney says. “The National ... More >>
McCully and Tolley at odds on school funding
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 9:22 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Murray McCully and Anne Tolley need to get their stories straight and assure Kiwis that funding for programmes like Stage Challenge, Kapa Haka, Polyfest and the Pasifika Festival will be funded next year, Labour’s Sport and Recreation spokesperson Chris ... More >>
Cabinet ignored advice on broadband, broadcasting
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 9:17 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The cabinet has ignored advice from TVNZ chair Sir John Anderson to hold a review of broadcasting competition issues, even though Sir John said the Government’s own broadband policies demanded such a review, says Labour broadcasting spokesperson ... More >>
Redundancy Protection Bill held back for debate
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Darien Fenton has delayed her Redundancy Protection Bill to allow time for all political parties to properly consider the implications of the current law – under which most New Zealand workers can be laid off without any redundancy pay ... More >>
Labour: No ETS deal without proper policy analysis
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 3:09 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Labour Party says it would not be able to agree to any emissions trading scheme deal with National without proper financial and policy analysis from Treasury and other ministries says opposition climate change spokesperson Charles Chauvel. More >>
Secret health report's frightening recommendations
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 3:07 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government has withheld a secret health report that suggests wage freezes, treating more foreign patients in the public health system and changing superannuation to encourage people to work longer, Labour Health Spokesperson Ruth Dyson says. More >>
