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A Healthy Start: Q & A and Backgrounder
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 3:13 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Well Child are screening, surveillance, education and support services offered to all New Zealand children and their family from birth to five years. Providers deliver an integrated package of care that incorporates the key public health concepts of ... More >>
Prime Minister announces new child health measures
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 3:10 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Health Minister Annette King today announced a number of new measures designed to give all young New Zealanders a healthy start in life. More >>
Labour candidate for Tamaki Community Board
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 9:49 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Last night Tamaki ward Labour Party members selected Mike Murray as the Labour candidate for the Tamaki Community Board by-election to be held from late September to mid-October this year. More >>
National halves transport spending to fund tax cut
Monday, 22 August 2005, 5:29 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
After months of Don Brash promising he would outspend Labour on transport, John Key's numbers reveal he will spend less than half as much as Labour would from the Crown Account over the next three years says Transport Minister Pete Hodgson. More >>
More help for first-home buyers
Monday, 22 August 2005, 11:04 am | New Zealand Labour Party
A Labour government will provide more help for first home buyers in a third term, Housing Minister Steve Maharey announced today. More >>
Otago's economy something to be proud of
Monday, 22 August 2005, 8:23 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Otago is fast becoming one of the most sought-after places in the country to be, with a strong and buoyant economy, Otago MP David Parker said today. More >>
Early Childhood Policy, Q & A, Factsheet
Monday, 22 August 2005, 12:13 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour believes that every New Zealander is entitled to access quality public education of the highest standard, throughout their lives. Quality education ensures that every Kiwi regardless of who they are and where they come from can achieve their full potential ... More >>
Free early childhood education to be extended
Monday, 22 August 2005, 12:06 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Prime Minister Helen Clark and Education Minister Trevor Mallard today announced more help for families and children, with a new policy that will extend 20 hours free early childhood education to all licensed teacher-led services from 2007. More >>
PM Helen Clark Address - Labour's Campaign Opening
Sunday, 21 August 2005, 3:53 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
I stand here today proud to be a New Zealander, proud to be Prime Minister, and proud to be Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party. I stand here today humble, because I’ve had the privilege of leading our country for close to six years, and our party ... More >>
Chauvel Welcomes Waitangirua Farm Ownership
Friday, 19 August 2005, 5:20 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Conservation Minister Chris Carter today announced that most of Waitangirua Farm will be purchased from Landcorp Ltd, with a significant injection of funds made available by the Government for the purpose and in conjunction with the Wellington Regional ... More >>
More Jibber Jabber from National
Friday, 19 August 2005, 9:28 am | New Zealand Labour Party
National's new TV advertising concept is not new at all, says Steve Maharey. More >>
Family Tax Relief: Q and A, Scenarios
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 1:59 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour will increase the amount of income a family may earn before they stop getting the maximum family support rates from $27,500 to $35,000 and will reduce the abatement rate from 30% to 20%. The graph below depicts how the new policy will affect the ... More >>
Policy Announcement On Tax Relief for Families
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 1:33 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Today I am announcing an additional package of targeted tax relief for modest and middle income families with children. More >>
Family tax relief package
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 1:18 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
“A re-elected Labour government will use the stronger than anticipated cash balance in the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update to provide targetted tax relief to middle income families from 1 April,” Finance Minister Michael Cullen says. More >>
Tax relief for thousands more working families
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 1:16 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour in government will provide tax relief to 60,000 more working families from April next year, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today. More >>
Community police for Otago: Labour's pledge
Thursday, 18 August 2005, 12:17 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Otago electorate will receive at least four community police as a result of Labour's pledge this week to double the number of community police on New Zealand streets, says Otago MP David Parker. More >>
Cullen: Address to Bell Gully Leaders Series
Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 5:32 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
It is a great pleasure for me to participate in this leaders series. I would like to thank Colin James for his introduction. It is quite flattering to be described within the space of a couple of sentences as an ‘anchor’, a ‘lynchpin’ and ‘glue’. ... More >>
Proposed Cromwell Film Studio gets a boost
Monday, 15 August 2005, 1:36 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Immigration complications getting in the way of a film studio proposed for Cromwell have been resolved. More >>
Beehive Bulletin 12 August 2005
Friday, 12 August 2005, 5:47 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
More New Zealanders are in work than ever before, according to the June Household Labour Force Survey. The unemployment rate fell to 3.7 per cent - the lowest rate in the developed world - with 11,000 more people in jobs in the quarter. Social Development ... More >>
Mr English, it must be everyone else that's wrong
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 8:57 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Education and Science Select Committee member Lynne Pillay has criticised National Education spokesman Bill English, questioning if he has even read a report into an NCEA examination question. More >>
