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Tougher competition law needed
Tuesday, 10 August 1999, 1:04 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealand's competition laws will be strengthened and brought into closer alignment with those of Australia under the incoming Labour Government. More >>
Labour to investigate telecommunications market
Tuesday, 10 August 1999, 12:59 am | New Zealand Labour Party
"Labour embraced early the need to move to a knowledge-based economy and will make that commitment the centre-piece of its economic policy in government," Labour commerce spokesperson Paul Swain said today. More >>
Cancel the Police Review says Labour
Tuesday, 10 August 1999, 12:01 am | New Zealand Labour Party
The Police Review must be immediately cancelled, or the public will bear more than a financial cost from the INCIS debacle, Labour police spokesperson George Hawkins said today. More >>
Too little much too late
Monday, 9 August 1999, 5:47 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
"After almost nine years of sitting on its hands as evidence accumulated that the Commerce Act needed strengthening the Government has finally acted. But its response is ad hoc, confusing and inadequate," Labour commerce spokesperson Paul Swain ... More >>
Hawkins demands full inquiry into Incis
Monday, 9 August 1999, 5:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour police spokesperson George Hawkins said today that a full Commission of Inquiry was required to investigate the Incis police computer system following IBM's withdrawal from the project. More >>
Alarm bells in economic data
Monday, 9 August 1999, 12:17 am | New Zealand Labour Party
"The continued weakness in New Zealand's external accounts underlines the need for a coherent and determined export strategy, Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen said today. More >>
WINZ 'success' a government fantasy
Sunday, 8 August 1999, 2:20 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Registered unemployment figures and benefit forecasts show the government's claims of WINZ' success are pure fantasy, says Labour social welfare spokesman Steve Maharey. More >>
Miserly government mars children's smiles
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 5:16 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
"We now have a public health system that has sunk so low it says poor kids don't deserve a smile," says Labour Health spokeswoman Annette King. More >>
NZ-SA parliamentary friendship group established
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 3:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour MP Judith Tizard said the MPs decided to form the group to commemorate the second free and democratic election in South Africa. More >>
No cheer in employment figures
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
New Zealanders can take no comfort from the slight decrease in unemployment reported in the latest household labour force survey. More >>
Shallow, gimmicky, wrong
Thursday, 5 August 1999, 1:14 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
"More childish fibs from Bill English. If he was less preoccupied with trying to impress his mates in caucus and more serious about New Zealand, he'd spend less time on these cheap gimmicks and more addressing the structural problems in the economy," ... More >>
Max mucks it up again
Wednesday, 4 August 1999, 6:11 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Claims by Max Bradford that the Dunedin line company - Dunedin Electricity - failed to give Labour an undertaking to enter the voluntary price freeze have been dismissed by Labour energy spokesperson Pete Hodgson. More >>
Helen Clark address to Contractors' Fedtn - 4 Aug
Wednesday, 4 August 1999, 2:44 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Thank you for the invitation to address your conference today. Let me begin by acknowledging the importance of the civil works and general contracting industries in our economy. I understand its annual contribution represents some $3 billion. More >>
Good as far as it goes, but we need more
Wednesday, 4 August 1999, 7:15 am | New Zealand Labour Party
"Labour will promote wholeheartedly legislation to require that all genetically modified foods are labelled," Labour spokesperson on research, science and technology Mark Peck said today. More >>
Time to go, Christine - Labour
Tuesday, 3 August 1999, 5:25 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
"Christine Rankin should go," says Labour social welfare spokesman Steve Maharey. Mr Maharey says State Services Commissioner Michael Wintringham's finding of a lack of understanding within the Department of Work and Income of acceptable ... More >>
System needs sorting urgently
Tuesday, 3 August 1999, 5:25 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour today called on Social Services Minister Roger Sowry to initiate a full inquiry into CYPFA's placement services. More >>
Local content future more stable under Labour
Tuesday, 3 August 1999, 1:25 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
The admission from New Zealand on Air that it may be forced to drop the number of hours of funded local programmes was a bad omen for the preservation of New Zealand's culture and national identity, Labour broadcasting spokesperson Marian Hobbs said. More >>
Put up or shut up - Dame Margaret
Tuesday, 3 August 1999, 10:38 am | New Zealand Labour Party
Labour internal affairs spokesperson Trevor Mallard has expressed his sorrow at the approach used by the chair of the Fire Service Commission Dame Margaret Bazley. More >>
More born to rule arrogance from Bradford
Monday, 2 August 1999, 5:09 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
"It was probably always inevitable that New Zealand First's negotiations with Max Bradford would collapse in acrimony," Labour energy spokesperson Pete Hodgson said today. More >>
Labour and Tax
Monday, 2 August 1999, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Labour Party
Speech by Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen to KPMG Contrary to the hopes of some, the fears of others, and the expectations of many, tax has not emerged as one of the two or three leading issues of the 1999 election. Insofar as it has had ... More >>
