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Labour To Confirm Candidate For Tamaki Seat
Friday, 9 May 2008, 5:09 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The Labour Party in a meeting being held tomorrow will confirm its candidate for the Tamaki seat. Josephine Bartley a New Zealand born Pacific professional has been nominated by the Labour Party to represent the Tamaki electorate. Ms Bartley will ... More >>
Chadwick rejects National ‘quick fix’ for Rotorua
Friday, 9 May 2008, 9:52 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Steve Chadwick, MP for Rotorua, says she has been working for some time to address local concern about logging of 90-year old Douglas Fir trees near Lake Tikitapu (the Blue Lake) in Rotorua. More >>
Reach Media paycuts show need for legislation
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 12:07 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Darien Fenton says the actions of Reach Media in cutting the pay of their deliverers demonstrates the urgency of legislation to provide minimum wage protection for such workers. More >>
MP welcomes Police action against Gangs & Drugs
Monday, 5 May 2008, 5:09 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Su’a William Sio welcomes the announcement by the Counties Manukau Police District on their efforts in the last 6 months to investigate the supply and distribution of drugs in Manukau. More >>
Apiata a role model for Aotearoa youth says Jones
Sunday, 4 May 2008, 12:05 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Northland Labour list MP Shane Jones says Corporal Willie Apiata VC is a role model for all youth in Aotearoa after the humble hero was welcomed back by the Ngapuhi in a moving and emotional ceremony on the Waitangi Treaty Grounds today. More >>
Dunedin MPs saddened at F&P closure
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 5:24 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Dunedin MPs David Benson-Pope, Pete Hodgson and David Parker say they are saddened at the loss of 430 jobs in Otago, after Fisher and Paykel announced it would relocate its Range and DishDrawer factory overseas. More >>
Cunliffe: Waitakere Ranges Heritage Bill
Thursday, 3 April 2008, 10:00 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Over Easter I camped with my wife and two sons at Karamatura near Huia in the Waitakere Ranges. We tramped up the Karamatura Valley and explored the dunes and rock pools of Whatipu. And as the sun set over the Ranges on that beautiful weekend I felt that ... More >>
Waitakeres preserved for future generations
Thursday, 3 April 2008, 9:59 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Waitakere Ranges Heritage Bill will pass into law following a 61 to 60 vote in Parliament tonight. New Lynn MP Hon David Cunliffe congratulated the Bill’s sponsor, Lynne Pillay, the MP for Waitakere and said today will go down in Waitakere’s history ... More >>
Spotless should shape up or ship out – MP
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 9:52 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Darien Fenton has today joined other calls for Australian Company Spotless Services to pay up or get out of the New Zealand public hospital sector. More >>
$12 minimum wage great news, some still miss out
Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 5:21 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Darien Fenton says that while she is delighted with the implementation today of a $12 an hour minimum wage, some workers continue be paid less. “There are a group of vulnerable workers employed as contractors for whom the minimum wage ... More >>
Boost for redundant workers
Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 5:19 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Darien Fenton is welcoming the government’s introduction of a redundancy rebate which comes into force today, along with a raft of other 1 April changes. More >>
Good day for cleaners comes after years of work
Friday, 28 March 2008, 4:24 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The government signing today of the unprecedented “Principles for a Sustainable Property Services Industry” has capped off many years of advocacy work for cleaners in the commercial cleaning industry for Labour MP, Darien Fenton. More >>
Jones warns National will sell off Maori TV
Friday, 28 March 2008, 11:00 am | New Zealand Labour Party
National’s refusal to outline its policy on Maori broadcasting should have Maori alarmed that they will sell off Maori Television, warns Labour Cabinet Minister and Northland List MP Shane Jones. More >>
Arson attack at Kura Kaupapa is just “agony”
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 9:35 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Northland Labour List MP Shane Jones said today he was left shocked and in “agony” at the arson attack which destroyed the Kura Kaupapa School in the small Bay of Islands township of Moerewa. More >>
Jones: Is Rodney Hide pushing drugs to youth?
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 1:28 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“Is Rodney Hide (ACT leader) pushing party pills to young Northlanders?” Labour’s Northland list MP Shane Jones is asking today. “First we have Hone Harawira (Maori Party) and the wacky Maori Party who want a ban on tobacco and smoking but want to ... More >>
Jones backs Historic Places Trust on Waitangi
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 11:10 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Historic Places Trust (HPT) is correct in opposing an application to build a visitor centre and convention facility next to the Waitangi Treaty House and people throughout the country should be alarmed by these plans, says Northland List MP Shane ... More >>
Maori Party advocacy of BZP party pills is wacky
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 9:49 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Maori Party’s advocacy for the continued sale of BZP-based party pills is a completely “wacky” stance and totally “anti-Maori” says Northland Labour List MP Shane Jones. More >>
Jones decries Maori Party condoning body snatching
Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 9:11 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Calls by the Maori Party for whanau, not the Government, to resolve body snatching incidents have been questioned by the Labour Maori caucus acting-chair Shane Jones. More >>
Young candidates for Rodney and Hunua
Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 11:29 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Party members met last weekend to select two young candidates to stand in Auckland seats. Conor Roberts will stand in the Rodney electorate and Jordan Carter will stand in Hunua. More >>
Bunnings makes the right decision
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 10:12 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Darien Fenton has congratulated Bunnings Warehouse for their decision not to open on Easter Sunday this year. She says that the decision is in line with the majority decision of parliament last year not to further liberalise shop trading ... More >>
