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Committee urges dumping of bee products' warning

Tuesday, 6 July 1999, 9:46 am | New Zealand Labour Party

A regulation that had upset the bee industry by warning that certain products could cause severe allergic reactions appeared to make "an unexpected or unusual use" of regulation-making powers in the Food Act 1981, says a parliamentary committee. More >>

Labour welcomes abandonment of road policies

Monday, 5 July 1999, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour transport spokesperson Harry Duynhoven today welcomed confirmation that the Government would not try and ram through its controversial roading reforms before the general election. More >>

Goff slams CYPFA and calls for law change

Monday, 5 July 1999, 11:21 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour justice spokesperson Phil Goff is calling for a law change to allow Police to request secure custody for child offenders. More >>

Silliness from Employers Federation

Monday, 5 July 1999, 12:38 am | New Zealand Labour Party

"The Employers Federation survey on the Employment Contracts Act contains bizarre leaps of logic and has poignantly failed to ask the key question as to whether the Act meets with New Zealanders' approval," says Labour Spokesperson on Labour ... More >>

Food decision a victory for commonsense

Friday, 2 July 1999, 2:05 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The Government's about-face on food safety is a victory for Labour and for common-sense, Labour health spokesperson Annette King said. More >>

Lianne Dalziel speech to Youthline Conference

Friday, 2 July 1999, 11:10 am | New Zealand Labour Party

I wish I could come here today, and say that your work as Youthline counsellors would soon be over. That the worries and concerns that drive young people to use your service had been significantly diminished. That the next generation of young people, entering ... More >>

Labour welcomes local content study

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 4:50 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour cultural affairs spokesperson Judith Tizard has welcomed the comparative study on local content released by New Zealand on Air saying it backed up the need for Labour's policy of local content quotas. More >>

Govt. cuts youth allowances by stealth - Labour

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 4:46 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour youth affairs spokesperson Lianne Dalziel says young people have been dealt a dirty blow by the Government's transfer of responsibility for the Youth Corps programmes allowance payments from the Ministry of Youth Affairs to WINZ. More >>

Prisons Monty Python style

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 4:15 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The case of the Wanganui burglar who used the local prison as his base may sound like a Monty Python skit, but it highlights serious deficiencies in New Zealand's prison service, Labour justice spokesperson Phil Goff said today. More >>

Labour demands vote on de facto property bill

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 3:38 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour spokesperson on women's affairs Dianne Yates says that Justice Minister Tony Ryall is procrastinating on the De Facto Property Bill. More >>

CFA/CYPFA merger costs face blowout: Labour

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 3:33 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

The merger of CYPFA and the Community Funding Agency, already slated to cost $2.3 million, could blow out by up to another $4 million on management salaries alone, according to documents obtained by Labour social welfare spokesperson Steve Maharey. More >>

Labour disappointed by Speaker's decision

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 3:30 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour senior whip Mark Burton said he is naturally disappointed that the Privileges Committee will not get to examine the accuracy of the Prime Minister's personal explanation to the House. More >>

Nat's heartland tour turns into comedy show

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 11:23 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour Leader Helen Clark said today that the National Party's rural heartland tour was a joke when National has no intention of listening to rural interests and developing policy in a way which rural people want. More >>

National Library sell-off breaches the law

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 9:39 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour MP Marian Hobbs believes that National Library Minister Nick Smith has breached the National Library Act by not approving the sale of 32,000 books from the library to an Auckland second-hand book seller. More >>

National Library sell-off breaches the law

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 9:39 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour releases ACC policy

Thursday, 1 July 1999, 12:50 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour ACC spokesperson Ruth Dyson said the next Labour Government will restore the principles upon which the original scheme was built 25 years ago. More >>

Criiticism over lack of cultural appointments

Wednesday, 30 June 1999, 5:07 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour's Cultural Affairs Spokesperson, Judith Tizard said today that the Government has failed to appoint a new Chair of the Council of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa despite the appointment of the present chair Brian Stephenson ending today. More >>

Car registration balls-up

Wednesday, 30 June 1999, 4:26 pm | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour is calling on the Government to ensure that people whose car licence registration runs out today are not charged the new much higher cost to re-register their car. More >>

Heavy-handed IRD turns on employees: Labour

Wednesday, 30 June 1999, 11:32 am | New Zealand Labour Party

Labour revenue spokesperson Mark Peck says he is outraged by the latest example of bullying behaviour from the Inland Revenue Department. More >>

make my day

Wednesday, 30 June 1999, 12:14 am | New Zealand Labour Party

"National's proposed tax bribe, if the details leaked to the Dominion are correct, would exacerbate New Zealand's growing income inequality by again providing greatest benefit to those on above-average incomes," Labour finance spokesperson Michael ... More >>

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