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Phil Goff urges support for Sir Keith Park Statue
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 3:36 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Phil Goff urges favourable decision on permanent statue to Battle of Britain hero Sir Keith Park More >>
Treasury to National - You’ve got it wrong
Friday, 30 January 2009, 3:57 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Leader Phil Goff has welcomed the release of a Treasury briefing today revealing that influential officials advised the National government that it would be wrong to scrap several key Labour initiatives when it came into power. More >>
Goff calls for National to heed UN call
Friday, 30 January 2009, 12:31 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon’s call for a global "Green New Deal" that creates jobs and fights climate change exposes just how out of touch the National Government is on these issues, Labour Leader Phil Goff and Climate Change spokesperson Charles ... More >>
Wilkinson out on her own
Friday, 30 January 2009, 9:17 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Why did it take a report by the International Labour Organisation on unemployment for Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson to realise the importance of employment issues, Labour spokesperson Trevor Mallard said today. More >>
Gang crime continues to claim lives
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 2:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour law and order spokesperson Clayton Cosgrove says New Zealanders must be wondering when National’s rhetoric on getting tough with gangs is actually going to hit the road. More >>
Protecting Civilians Must Be Priority In Sri Lanka
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 1:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Associate Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Grant Robertson today endorsed the call of the UN Secretary-General for absolute priority to be given to the protection of civilians caught up in the conflict in Northern Sri Lanka. More >>
Ryall pursues partisan agenda
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 12:53 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
If Health Minister Tony Ryall sacks the chair of the Otago District Health Board Richard Thomson he would effectively be making the public health system a political tool for himself, says Dunedin North MP Pete Hodgson. More >>
Bollard’s action shows up National’s inaction
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 12:51 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Leader Phil Goff has welcomed the decisive action taken by Reserve Bank Governor Dr Allan Bollard today to address the effects of the global recession by lowering the Official Cash Rate to 3.5%. More >>
Joyce lifts one of National’s “seven veils”
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour transport spokesperson Darren Hughes says Transport Minister Steven Joyce has wittingly or unwittingly lifted one of National’s secret “seven veils” in terms of how it will fund new roading infrastructure projects. More >>
Call for wider central-local govt partnership
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 2:38 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour local government spokesperson Shane Jones says the Government should investigate the call by former Papakura Mayor John Robertson to set up a Crown fund to stimulate local government infrastructure projects during the economic downturn. More >>
Economic plan more important now than ever
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 2:37 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Party finance spokesperson David Cunliffe says his thoughts are with dairy farmers and communities hit by today’s announcement of reduced payouts by Fonterra. More >>
Wider central-local government partnership needed
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour local government spokesperson Shane Jones says the Government should investigate the call by former Papakura Mayor John Robertson to set up a Crown fund to stimulate local government infrastructure projects during the economic downturn. More >>
Southern Ocean whaling must be halted
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 3:10 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Party Conservation spokesperson Steve Chadwick has welcomed moves that would stop the Japanese from whaling in the Southern Ocean. More >>
Hughes: Joyce cannot get away with half-truths
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 12:28 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour transport spokesman Darren Hughes says that while National MPs in Opposition found they could get away with porkies or half-truths, a higher standard is expected of ministers like Transport Minister Steven Joyce. More >>
Hughes: Joyce cannot get away with half-truths
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 11:55 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour transport spokesman Darren Hughes says that while National MPs in Opposition found they could get away with porkies or half-truths, a higher standard is expected of ministers like Transport Minister Steven Joyce. More >>
Labour spokesperson supports trade effort
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 10:57 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Trade spokesperson Maryan Street today offered her best wishes to Trade Minister Tim Groser, as he departs for Davos and urged him to seek a meeting with European Union representatives over the reinstatement of subsidies on dairy products. More >>
Sio Calls for Calm & Support for Naitoko Family
Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 9:29 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP for Mangere Su’a William Sio has today expressed his deepest sympathies to the family of Halatau Naitoko who was killed in a crossfire during an armed police operation on Friday on Auckland’s North-western motorway. More >>
Housing options need more than words
Monday, 26 January 2009, 5:21 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Party housing spokesperson George Hawkins today called on the Government to provide a comprehensive housing and economic plan. More >>
Threat of Kauri rot potentially disastrous
Monday, 26 January 2009, 5:01 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour biosecurity spokesperson Kelvin Davis says the Government may need to consider more drastic action to arrest the spread of the newly-identified disease known as Kauri dieback or Kauri rot (Phytophthora taxon agathis or PTA) if New Zealand is ... More >>
Heather Roy needs to join the “real world”
Friday, 23 January 2009, 1:43 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Consumer Affairs spokesperson Carol Beaumont says New Zealanders should be very concerned that Consumer Affairs Minister Heather Roy in her first public statement seems more focussed on ACT ideology than she is on the needs of consumers. More >>
