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Sowry: fool or liar?
Friday, 29 October 1999, 12:59 am | New Zealand Labour Party
"Roger Sowry's claim that 250,000 low-income families would lose the accommodation supplement under Labour shows he is either a fool or a liar," says Labour's housing spokesperson Graham Kelly. More >>
Govt robs $117m from state housing
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 5:16 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
"Housing New Zealand's obscene $117 million profit shows National's determination to bleed the poor so it can cut taxes for the rich," says Labour housing spokesperson Graham Kelly. More >>
Labour wants police force second to none
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 4:30 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour police spokesperson George Hawkins said today that the Labour government will put in place measures to halt the decline in police numbers in the provinces. More >>
Prebble's big fat lie
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
"To expect honesty from Richard Prebble would be naïve. But a lie? That big? On the first televised leaders' debate of the campaign? That's pushing it, even for him," Labour state services spokesperson Trevor Mallard said today. More >>
Calm down, Bill. They're coming.
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 4:10 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
"The National Party is clearly running scared after Helen Clark beat Jenny Shipley in the first of the leaders''debates last night," Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen said today. More >>
Workers won't be fooled by Shipley's flimflam
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 2:42 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
"Labour is indebted to the Prime Minister for finally putting National's miserable anti-worker agenda on the official record," Labour employment relations spokesperson Pete Hodgson said today. More >>
New shocking student loan figure
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 9:02 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Student debt is now $3.44 billion - a figure so shocking it is easy to understand why it has become a major election issue, Labour associate education spokesperson (tertiary) Steve Maharey said today. More >>
New shocking student loan figure
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 9:01 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Student debt is now $3.44 billion - a figure so shocking it is easy to understand why it has become a major election issue, Labour associate education spokesperson (tertiary) Steve Maharey said today. More >>
National's breastfeeding neglect
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 12:58 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The National Government's abject failure to address the health issues facing New Zealand has been starkly demonstrated by a survey in the NZ Medical Journal showing declining rates of breastfeeding, Labour Leader Helen Clark said. More >>
Act wants ghetto schools
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 12:55 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Act's education policies would create ghetto schools and are in fact the policies that National wants to implement but is scared to promote, Labour education spokesperson Trevor Mallard said today. More >>
Act wants ghetto schools
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 12:54 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Act's education policies would create ghetto schools and are in fact the policies that National wants to implement but is scared to promote, Labour education spokesperson Trevor Mallard said today. More >>
Prebble the loser!
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 12:44 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Wellington Central candidate Marian Hobbs has welcomed the start of the television leaders debates saying that they showed voters how lacklustre and incoherent Richard Prebble is. More >>
Time Act came clean on tax policy - Labour
Thursday, 28 October 1999, 12:41 am | New Zealand Labour Party
"Act must be made to answer the hard questions about their tax policy," Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen said today. More >>
Employers' survey backs Labour on holidays
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 4:08 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour industrial relations spokesperson Pete Hodgson today welcomed a survey showing that a clear majority of employers endorse Labour's policy in wanting the Holidays Act cleaned up. More >>
Booking system report highlights problems
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 4:06 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour health spokesperson Annette King says that a report into the public hospital surgery booking system vindicates Labour's concerns while contradicting the government's claim that all is well with the system. More >>
Landonline: Incis all over again
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 1:58 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The budget blowout on the Landonline computer project echoes the Incis disaster and it is time for heads to roll, says Labour's lands spokesperson Jim Sutton. More >>
Look in the mirror, Commissioner
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 1:54 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour Revenue spokesperson Mark Peck called on the Commissioner of Inland Revenue Department to look in the mirror before shooting the messenger. More >>
Shipley: visionless ideologue
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 1:06 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Jenny Shipley's list of four fundamentals for growth shows that she is captured by residual loony right ideology, says Labour's industry development spokesperson Pete Hodgson. More >>
Removing barriers for people with disabilities
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 11:51 am | New Zealand Labour Party
For people with disabilities, the last nine years has seen little progress towards helping them overcome the barriers to participation in their communities, Labour disability services spokesperson Ruth Dyson said. More >>
Shipley's weak economic grasp sorely exposed
Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 10:45 am | New Zealand Labour Party
"No wonder the Prime Minister is trying to duck as many election campaign debates as possible. She must be worried that her weak grasp of basic economics will be exposed," Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen said today. More >>
