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Crown should appeal high country ruling
Friday, 14 August 2009, 9:30 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The value of high country land will increase to the point where only wealthy buyers could afford it unless the Crown challenges an Otago District Land Valuation Tribunal ruling, Labour’s land information spokesperson Iain Lees-Galloway said today. “The ... More >>
Government’s slap down of prison officers
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 5:10 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government’s attack on prison officers for trying to ensure their work environment is as safe as possible is yet another example of National trying to browbeat those who disagree with its message, says Labour law and order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove. More >>
Show off your Hoodie - show support for youth
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 2:27 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
This is a great opportunity to celebrate the contribution young people make in our communities, with more than 58% being members of local organisations, clubs and sports groups, Labour’s Youth Affairs spokesperson Jacinda Ardern said. “In amongst ... More >>
Evidence casts doubt on value of private prisons
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 2:18 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The international jury is out on whether private prisons offer maximum value for taxpayer money, says Labour law and order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove. In response to Finance Minister Bill English’s speech today to the NZCID, Clayton Cosgrove ... More >>
Electricity review lacks focus
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 1:35 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Electricity review released today by Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee lacks coherent focus, Labour’s Energy spokesperson Charles Chauvel says. “The details of the review announced today read like a mixture of big ideas and piecemeal concepts that ... More >>
Electricity review lacks focus
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 1:26 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Electricity review released today by Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee lacks coherent focus, Labour’s Energy spokesperson Charles Chauvel says. “The details of the review announced today read like a mixture of big ideas and piecemeal concepts that ... More >>
Labour deplores Aung San Suu Kyi's detention
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 11:25 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi by the Burmese military on spurious charges further isolates that regime from the rest of the world, Labour’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Chris Carter says. “The Burmese regime has detained Aung San Suu Kyi for 13 of ... More >>
Sports co-ordinator jobs, programmes on the line
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 5:22 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Sports co-ordinator jobs and the programmes they run are now on the line because of changes made today by the National Government, Labour’s Sport and Recreation spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. SPARC currently contracts more than 400 New Zealand ... More >>
National MPs pose for photos, slash budgets
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 3:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
While the Prime Minister and Education, Health, and Sport and Recreation Ministers were busy smiling for cameras to promote sports as a way to combat school-aged obesity, behind the scene experts are facing with cuts to obesity related health services, ... More >>
Inflated ‘costs” of target cynical and misleading
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 1:23 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The fact the National Government has got it so badly wrong in terms of the cost of its emissions target to individual New Zealanders undermines the credibility of the rest of its package, says Labour climate change spokesperson Charles Chauvel. “I ... More >>
Labour disappointed by timid pollution target
Monday, 10 August 2009, 5:18 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour is disappointed at the Government’s timid greenhouse gas pollution reduction target, says Labour Climate Change spokesperson Charles Chauvel. More >>
Another talk fest won't stop workers dying
Monday, 10 August 2009, 11:39 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government’s ‘decision’ to talk about workplace safety, is a slap in the face for people wanting meaningful action to improve their health and safety at work, says Labour’s associate labour spokesperson Darien Fenton. Minister of ... More >>
Smart metering will save customers more
Monday, 10 August 2009, 8:48 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Promoting smart metering, as called for by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, will do far more in the long run than giving a $10 per week discount to electricity customers, says Labour Energy spokesperson Charles Chauvel. More >>
Government need bold pollution reduction target
Monday, 10 August 2009, 8:39 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour is repeating its call for the Government to show boldness as it is poised to announce New Zealand’s pollution reduction target, says Labour’s Climate Change spokesperson Charles Chauvel. More >>
Key should discipline Quinn for laughing at girl
Monday, 10 August 2009, 8:31 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The MP for Waimakariri Clayton Cosgrove has called on Prime Minister John Key to discipline National MP Paul Quinn for laughing at the plight of 12-year-old Kaiapoi school student Brittany Graham who has cerebral palsy. More >>
Plan to extend paid parental leave warmly received
Saturday, 8 August 2009, 1:42 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The campaign to extend paid parental leave to six months received an overwhelming response at the Big Latch On event held in Auckland today, Labour’s Women’s Affairs spokesperson Sue Moroney said. More >>
More evidence people are hurting
Friday, 7 August 2009, 4:40 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Today’s confirmation an average of 1100 additional people a week are continuing to sign up on the dole is further evidence New Zealand families are hurting, Labour Social Development spokesperson Annette King says. “The Government today announced ... More >>
Labour welcomes review of pork import standards
Friday, 7 August 2009, 4:30 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour has welcomed MAF’s decision to agree to an independent review of health standards around the importation of uncooked pork, says the party’s Biosecurity Spokesperson Damien O’Connor. “There has been widespread concern within the pork ... More >>
Health Cuts Will Put Manukau Communities At Risk
Friday, 7 August 2009, 12:38 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government’s latest funding cuts to Counties Manukau’s health programmes will create more inequalities for Manukau’s communities and put people at greater health risk, says Mangere MP Su’a William Sio. “Cutting $4.875 million a year ... More >>
Pacific Island unemployment double national rate
Friday, 7 August 2009, 12:09 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Government inaction has resulted in unemployment for Pacific Island people continuing at more than double the national rate, Luamanuvao Winnie Laban says. “In the last three months the national rate of unemployment rose from 5 percent to 6 percent, ... More >>
