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More social workers for Christchurch schools

Friday, 4 February 2005, 4:46 pm | Progressive Party

"Four Hornby area schools are soon to get the services of a dedicated social worker. That's good news for roughly 600 students attending Hornby Primary, Gilberthorpe, Sockburn, and St Bernadette's schools," Jim Anderton, Progressive MP for Wigram said ... More >>

robson-on-politics 4 February

Friday, 4 February 2005, 2:07 pm | Progressive Party

Hello from Havana at the start of Election Year 2005. It's been a big week with Don Brash punishing Katherine Rich for her integrity, More >>

Health boards have role in addressing shortages

Friday, 4 February 2005, 9:52 am | Progressive Party

A call today from the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists for district health boards to offer more doctors the chance of direct salaried employment has the backing of Progressive leader, Jim Anderton. More >>

Anderton: The time for Social Justice is now

Wednesday, 2 February 2005, 9:32 am | Progressive Party

Hon Jim Anderton Progressive Party leader - Speech on the Opening of Parliament 2005 2 February 2005 More >>

National punishes honesty on welfare

Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 2:07 pm | Progressive Party

National has dumped its social welfare spokeswoman, Katherine Rich, because she is too honest and looks to the future not the past, Progressive leader Jim Anderton said today. More >>

Free education becoming an economic imperative

Friday, 28 January 2005, 2:19 pm | Progressive Party

If we don't make significant moves towards making tertiary education free New Zealand is going to be left behind in the global competition for skilled and talented workers, Progressive Leader, Jim Anderton told an audience of student leaders at the NZUSA ... More >>

2004 a record year for transport spending

Thursday, 27 January 2005, 3:21 pm | Progressive Party

Canterbury drivers are motoring on better roads, built and improved with more funding than ever before. More >>

Look in the mirror for welfare dependency Brash

Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 3:54 pm | Progressive Party

Progressive Leader Jim Anderton is not impressed that Don Brash pretends to suddenly care about welfare dependency when he had a direct hand in creating the explosions in welfare over the 1990s that the Labour Progressive government is actively and ... More >>

Evaluation of Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy

Tuesday, 25 January 2005, 2:30 pm | Progressive Party

The Ministry of Social Development has today released the second phase of its evaluation of the New Zealand Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy (NZYSPS). More >>

Stronger representation of medical staff on boards

Friday, 21 January 2005, 3:02 pm | Progressive Party

District Health Boards would be assisted by further input from health professionals and clinical staff according to Progressive MP, Matt Robson. More >>

Anderton to meet Canterbury DHB

Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 4:53 pm | Progressive Party

The Health Ministry's recent Hospital Benchmark Information report, noted in the Press this morning, gave Canterbury District Health Board (DHB) an overall grade of 'fairly good', but Wigram MP and Associate Minister of Health Jim Anderton is ... More >>

Film festival gets full support from government

Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 4:59 pm | Progressive Party

"An indigenous film festival that is up with the world's best" - that's the ambition of the Wairoa Maori Film Festival Society. The Government is going to help Wairoa achieve this with funding of $80,000 from the Ministry of Economic Development's ... More >>

Partnership to raise water safety skills

Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 4:57 pm | Progressive Party

The Progressive Party is promoting a partnership between the council and schools to provide more heated swimming pools in Christchurch because they are concerned about increasing the water safety skills and swimming proficiency of New Zealanders, ... More >>

Progressive leader comments on responsibilities

Monday, 20 December 2004, 5:30 pm | Progressive Party

Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton says that his new forestry portfolio carries the responsibility to reap high added-value out of the forestry industry. More >>

Funding lift from targeted programmes review

Monday, 20 December 2004, 12:45 am | Progressive Party

Progressive leader and MP for Wigram, Jim Anderton, today welcomed the news that 30 schools in his electorate would receive an estimated extra $416,000 in operational funding as a result of changes to the decile funding formula, and twenty seven schools ... More >>