Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
New Zealand Labour Party - Latest News [Page 565]
Special residential schools staff out in the cold
Friday, 1 May 2009, 3:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Staff at special residential schools are having a very long wait to get their employment agreement renegotiated, Labour Spokesperson for Disability Issues Lynne Pillay said today. More >>
Changes alter intent of foreign aid
Friday, 1 May 2009, 2:37 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has made fundamental changes to the structure and intent of aid which are at odds with best practice and what similar counties such as the UK and Australia does, Labour Associate Foreign Affairs spokesperson ... More >>
Banks need to pass on interest rate cuts
Friday, 1 May 2009, 1:33 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Banks need to move to reduce interest rates to give relief to hard-working New Zealand households and our small and medium businesses, says Labour leader Phil Goff. More >>
Public deserves answers on public money
Friday, 1 May 2009, 12:07 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Government Ministers need to front up and come clean about how much their special advisors are being paid, Labour Internal Affairs spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. More >>
Labour : Don’t forget the workers on May Day
Friday, 1 May 2009, 9:24 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MPs are urging the community to take a moment to remember the contribution of New Zealand workers on International Workers Day today (May Day). Labour spokesperson, Trevor Mallard says that this year’s celebrations come at a time at a time when ... More >>
Labour Secretary advises donations error
Friday, 1 May 2009, 8:19 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Party Secretary and financial agent Mike Smith says that he has presented the annual return of donations for the Labour Party to the Electoral Commission due today, and advised the Commission that an aggregated donation of $25,500 from three ... More >>
Maori Party waffle fails to answer the question
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 5:25 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Maori Party’s response to Labour’s request it support a Member’s Bill to entrench the Maori seats in Parliament is nothing but all-too-familiar and evasive waffle, says Labour MP Mita Ririnui. More >>
Bennett caught out misleading the public
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 4:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Paula Bennett has some serious explaining to do after denying in Parliament today that she accused groups criticising boot camp of misleading the public, when she did exactly that yesterday, says Labour’s Youth Justice spokesperson Jacinda Ardern. ... More >>
Frontline services go in fisheries job cuts
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 4:06 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Around 30 Ministry of Fisheries staff in Nelson, Dunedin, Auckland and Napier will lose their jobs as the National Government makes further cuts to the public service, State Services spokesperson Grant Robertson says. “So far more than 1000 jobs are ... More >>
Ministerial staff immune from recession
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 3:26 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National Ministers are continuing to pump up staff levels and salaries in their private offices with Government departments picking up the bill , Labour Party Internal Affairs spokesperson Chris Hipkins says. “Prime Minister John Key and his Finance Minister ... More >>
Hefty bill for National/Maori Party deal
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 2:39 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The double standards of the National Government have again been exposed following Cabinet’s decision to override a consensus for a fair approach to electorate office funding, Opposition Chief Whip Darren Hughes said today. “John Key and Bill English ... More >>
Former Environment Judge joins list of RMA critics
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 2:21 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
National’s rushed amendments to the RMA came under further fire today with a former Environment Court Judge slamming a number of the provisions as seriously deficient, says Labour MP Shane Jones. Mr Jones, Labour’s local government and infrastructure ... More >>
Ririnui to lodge bill to entrench Maori seats
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 1:31 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour list MP Mita Ririnui is to lodge a Member’s Bill seeking the entrenchment of the Maori seats in Parliament. “The Bill will go into the next ballot and will ensure that the Maori seats in Parliament will not be able to be abolished unless ... More >>
What's wrong with our Education System Mrs Tolley?
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 1:22 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour’s Education Spokesperson Chris Carter has welcomed news that New Zealand students have achieved, along with students from Finland, the top rank among OECD countries in Science. “This excellent result, coupled with Kiwi students’ high ... More >>
Valedictory Speech Hon Dr Michael Cullen
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 12:48 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Mr. Speaker, In rising to give my valedictory speech I am immediately conscious of three things. The first is that such a speech represents an opportunity denied to most mortals: that is, to deliver one’s own funeral oration, or, at least, a progress ... More >>
Government must rethink boot camp charade
Thursday, 30 April 2009, 9:51 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The near unanimous opposition to the Government’s boot camp charade expressed at a select committee today should force it to rethink this $35 million waste of taxpayers’ money, says Labour’s Youth Justice spokesperson Jacinda Ardern. “By far the majority ... More >>
National breaks its election promise on broadband
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 4:02 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government’s core $1.5 billion election promise to deliver ultrafast broadband fibre to 75 per cent of New Zealand homes cannot be delivered and it’s time they owned up to it, said Clare Curran, Labour’s communications and IT spokesperson. ... More >>
Chauvel Celebrates Opening of Major New Wind Farm
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 3:31 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Party Spokesperson on Energy and Climate Change Charles Chauvel was delighted to attend the official launch of Project West Wind this morning in Makara, Wellington, with the switching on of the first 15 turbines of the wind farm, "For me, the opening ... More >>
Brownlee attempts to mislead on transmission grid
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 9:43 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Last night's failure of the Pole 2 link last night is regrettable, but Gerry Brownlee is wrong to suggest that it is a consequence of a lack of historical investment by Labour in the transmission grid, says Labour Energy spokesperson Charles Chauvel. ... More >>
Ability of state sec. scientists to speak publicly
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 9:41 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour today called on the Minister of Research Science and Technology publically reassure state sector scientists they can speak publically on their areas of expertise without fear of being sacked, Labour spokesperson Moana Mackey says. More >>
