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Local communities need better public transport
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 3:34 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Public transport across Auckland needs an upgrade, but it won’t get the attention it needs because of cuts by the National government, Labour’s Mt Albert candidate David Shearer says. He says Auckland will be let down by news that public transport ... More >>
National gives up on overseas aid targets
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 10:58 am | New Zealand Labour Party
National has walked away from a 30 year commitment by successive New Zealand governments to the international spending target on overseas aid precisely at the time poor countries need help dealing with the global economic crisis, says Labour Associate Foreign ... More >>
McCully & Key missing in action on refugee crisis
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 9:18 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Government needs to have a stronger voice in championing the cause of the 250,000 Tamil civilians currently being held in Northern Sri Lanka following the successful campaign against the LTTE by the Sri Lankan military. “Foreign Minister ... More >>
Teachers and students let down in Budget
Monday, 1 June 2009, 4:32 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government has taken the knife to four professional development programmes for early childhood education, Labour Early Education Spokesperson Sue Moroney says. More >>
McCully and Key missing in action on refugee
Monday, 1 June 2009, 4:18 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Government needs to have a stronger voice in championing the cause of the 250,000 Tamil civilians currently being held in Northern Sri Lanka following the successful campaign against the LTTE by the Sri Lankan military. More >>
More cuts to come for public services
Monday, 1 June 2009, 11:34 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Budget makes clear that New Zealanders will be facing cuts to public services far beyond those already announced by the National Government, Labour State Services Spokesperson Grant Robertson says. More >>
Goff: Superannuation entitlements will be cut
Monday, 1 June 2009, 11:31 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Nationals’ claim that it can stop funding superannuation but keep paying current levels of entitlements is fundamentally dishonest, says Labour Leader Phil Goff. More >>
Cuts to education & training won’t help
Monday, 1 June 2009, 11:28 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The cuts to education and training announced in the Budget will do nothing to pull New Zealand out of the recession, say Maryan Street and Carmel Sepuloni, Labour’s Tertiary Education spokespeople. More >>
Release details on insulation package now
Monday, 1 June 2009, 10:58 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government must urgently release practical details of how and when its home insulation package will be available for the people who need it most, Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran said today. More >>
Goff pays tribute to a worthy leader
Sunday, 31 May 2009, 12:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Leader Phil Goff today paid tribute the vision and leadership of Jeanette Fitzsimons and congratulated Metiria Turei on her selection has the Green Party's new Co-leader. More >>
Labour thanks Auckland Harbour Bridge Workers
Friday, 29 May 2009, 4:13 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Darien Fenton today hosted the event at Stokes Point memorial in Northcote to pay tribute to the workers of the Auckland Harbour Bridge, which was attended by original and present workers, unions and local community members. Darien Fenton ... More >>
Shearer seeks community input on Mt Albert centre
Friday, 29 May 2009, 3:04 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Upgrading Mt Albert’s shopping centre is a priority for Labour’s Mt Albert candidate David Shearer. Today he is launching a survey of local residents and shopkeepers about their preferences for development of the shopping centre. David Shearer says ... More >>
Rural New Zealand abandoned in the Budget
Friday, 29 May 2009, 3:03 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Rural New Zealanders have been abandoned by the National/Act Party’s Budget, said Labour Rural Affairs Spokesperson Hon Damien O’Connor. “Cuts to Adverse Climate Events management will reduce the ability of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ... More >>
Natl’s decade of deferrals creates $35B Super hole
Friday, 29 May 2009, 2:46 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National’s decision for a decade of deferrals to the “Cullen” Super Fund will leave a super-sized hole in the New Zealand Superannuation Fund when it comes time for entitlements to be paid from it, Labour Leader Phil Goff says. “Closer analysis ... More >>
Reduced border funding will hinder fight against P
Friday, 29 May 2009, 2:25 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Reduced funding for border surveillance in the Budget will only make it easier for people to smuggle ingredients to manufacture P into the country, says Labour’s Biosecurity spokesperson Damien O’Connor. More >>
RS&T a big loser in Budget 2009
Friday, 29 May 2009, 1:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Research, science and technology is one of the big losers of Budget 2009, with small increases in some areas offset by massive funding cuts across the board, says Research and Development, Science and Technology spokesperson Moana Mackey. “The Government ... More >>
War Memorial Park off the agenda
Friday, 29 May 2009, 11:44 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government appears to have indefinitely shelved the War Memorial Park in Wellington, Grant Robertson, Labour MP for Wellington Central said today. “While Mr Finlayson kept very quiet yesterday, the Budget documents reveal that money allocated ... More >>
Another broken promise - health spending cut
Friday, 29 May 2009, 11:28 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Health Minister Tony Ryall has delivered a Budget with a pretty veneer, but a closer inspection of the detail reveals it will be a disaster for the long-term health of New Zealanders, Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson says. “One hundred million ... More >>
Budget fails to protect jobs for Maori
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 5:53 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Maori will be deeply disappointed with today’s Budget which does nothing to keep whanau in work and includes no new Maori Affairs spending whatsoever, says Labour’s Maori Affairs spokesperson Parekura Horomia. “With more than one in ten Maori now ... More >>
Budget the death knell for Super entitlements
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 4:28 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Budget’s “decade of deferrals” of payments to the New Zealand Super Fund is the death knell for superannuation for generations of New Zealanders, says Labour leader Phil Goff. More >>
