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Parties should let voters know their intentions
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 2:52 pm | Progressive Party
Parties should say before the election what they intend to do after it, Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton told a Grey Power audience in Christchurch today. More >>
Near-worthless pledge on asset sales
Monday, 14 April 2008, 5:17 pm | Progressive Party
John Key's claim National wouldn't sell the public's assets "in its first term" is almost worthless, Progressive leader Jim Anderton says. More >>
ChCh council should think again on rent increases
Monday, 14 April 2008, 8:04 am | Progressive Party
Christchurch City is behaving unconscionably with unfair rent rises for the city’s most vulnerable tenants, local Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. More >>
Strength to care for New Zealand
Monday, 14 April 2008, 8:01 am | Progressive Party
The Progressive Party will campaign for a New Zealand that has the Strength To Care, the party executive decided when meeting to plan election strategy this weekend. More >>
ChCh council should think again on rent increases
Sunday, 13 April 2008, 5:13 pm | Progressive Party
Christchurch City is behaving unconscionably with unfair rent rises for the city’s most vulnerable tenants, local Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. More >>
Strength to care for New Zealand
Sunday, 13 April 2008, 5:09 pm | Progressive Party
The Progressive Party will campaign for a New Zealand that has the Strength To Care, the party executive decided when meeting to plan election strategy this weekend. More >>
Banks Have Only Themselves To Blame
Monday, 7 April 2008, 8:07 am | Progressive Party
If house prices fall as much as the BNZ is warning, banks should look in the mirror, Progressive leader Jim Anderton said today. More >>
Open Letter to Peter Brown Re: Immigration Policy
Friday, 4 April 2008, 12:23 am | Progressive Party
Matt Robson Open Letter to Peter Brown Deputy Leader of New Zealand First Party Re: Cooperation on Immigration Policy Beween NZ First and the Progressive Party More >>
Young pretender challenges aging dinosaur
Monday, 17 March 2008, 3:33 pm | Progressive Party
Roger Douglas is a dinosaur who should come out and debate his dinosaur policies if he wants to make a return to politics, the youthful Progressive party leader and Act nemesis Jim Anderton said today. More >>
National's asset sales: more overseas-owned assets
Friday, 7 March 2008, 4:08 pm | Progressive Party
Many more strategic assets would end up in overseas ownership under a National government because National could sell anything, Progressive leader Jim Anderton said today. More >>
Greens shooting from the lip
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 3:41 pm | Progressive Party
Associate Minister of Health Jim Anderton says that Green Party Associate Health spokesperson Metiria Turei should check her facts and engage her brain before she pens press releases. More >>
Does National now want to put taxes up?
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 4:01 pm | Progressive Party
Progressive leader Jim Anderton is asking if National thinks New Zealanders are no longer over-taxed, now that the surplus has come in much lower than forecast. More >>
NZ must not go back to failed pro-violence policy
Friday, 15 February 2008, 3:08 pm | Progressive Party
The launch of a new campaign against family violence and more high profile tragedies involving teenagers this week highlights the importance of not going back to failed policies that resulted in massive increases in violence, Progressive leader Jim Anderton ... More >>
Anderton: Address in reply
Wednesday, 13 February 2008, 12:46 am | Progressive Party
This year, New Zealand is going to face some crucial choices about our future. We are going to decide where our priorities lie. And our choices are simple: It is a choice between the confident steps towards a stronger and more caring New Zealand ... More >>
Tribute to Sir Ed Hillary
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 5:10 pm | Progressive Party
In the House today, Leader of the Progressive Party Jim Anderton paid the following tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary: More >>
Anderton Rejects Failed Policies of the Past
Monday, 11 February 2008, 3:29 pm | Progressive Party
Will National support the Business Roundtable policy? Special interests are still pushing for the discredited and failed policies of the past, Progressive leader Jim Anderton says in response to a Business Roundtable campaign for tax cuts for the ... More >>
Community well-being a strong motivator
Monday, 4 February 2008, 9:30 am | Progressive Party
Jim Anderton, Progressive Party Leader and MP for Wigram, today told a group of high achieving students that a key inspiration for him in politics is the idea of equality and the idea of doing things not only for an intrinsic reward, but for others. More >>
The crime wave and young New Zealanders
Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 2:53 pm | Progressive Party
It's hard to imagine that things could ever have been worse. In fact, they have been. The rate of homicide is actually coming down. More >>
National has nothing to say about top issues
Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 2:52 pm | Progressive Party
What’s good in John Key’s speech isn’t new, and what’s new isn’t good, Progressive leader Jim Anderton says. More >>
Anderton: “The Strength to Care”
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 6:18 pm | Progressive Party
He was a national hero, and he is rightly claimed as an inspiration by all New Zealanders. I personally find inspiration in the way he lived his life. I find inspiration also in the commitment he made to a fairer, more caring New Zealand. I find inspiration ... More >>
