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Government favours alcohol industry
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 4:45 pm | Progressive Party
Minister responsible for the government’s alcohol policy, Peter Dunne today dismissed Professor Doug Sellman, an addiction specialist, and 450 senior doctors and nurses as a group of people who don’t like a drink of wine at a wedding. More >>
Support for changes to alcohol law
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 4:04 pm | Progressive Party
If the reports are accurate (the formal release is 27 April), Jim Anderton calls on the government to act on the Law Commission’s recommendations on alcohol controls, which appear to include a call to increase the drinking age to twenty and restrict ... More >>
Beer in a can recipe for trouble
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 9:47 am | Progressive Party
The police don’t want it; rugby fans don’t need it; and I don’t like it. Selling beer in cans at the Rugby World Cup could damage our international reputation. It is not worth the risk,” Jim Anderton said. More >>
Rugby song sounds like beer ad from the 1990s
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 9:39 am | Progressive Party
“I would like to nominate Gary McCormick for New Zealand’s poet laureate because of his determination to campaign against the Rugby World Cup’s choice of theme song – an English song that sounds like an old beer ad from the 1990s,” says ... More >>
Government cancels democracy in Canterbury
Tuesday, 30 March 2010, 4:35 pm | Progressive Party
In an unprecedented attack on local democracy, the National government has seized control of local government in Canterbury and completely disregarded the wishes of ratepayers, says Jim Anderton, MP for Wigram and Progressive Party leader. More >>
Collective Responsibility Does Not Absolve Turia
Tuesday, 30 March 2010, 3:56 pm | Progressive Party
Claims that ministerial collective responsibility stops Tariana Turia from voting against the government’s welfare reforms are a convenient fiction, Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. More >>
ACC changes policy by stealth, rejects more people
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 3:58 pm | Progressive Party
The number of accident victims whose claims are being delayed or rejected while they are formally reviewed by ACC has more than doubled since National came to government, says MP for Wigram and Progressive party leader Jim Anderton. More >>
Maori Commercial Aquaculture Bill
Thursday, 25 March 2010, 10:02 am | Progressive Party
Under the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004, Maori were promised, by 2014, 20% of all new space from 1 January 2005 and the equivalent of 20% of “pre-commencement space”, that is aquaculture space that was approved between 1992 and 2005. More >>
Anderton - Alcohol causes violence
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 4:21 pm | Progressive Party
Any day of any week you can open any newspaper, or watch any news bulletin, and the evidence is plain: Alcohol-fuelled violence. Alcohol-fuelled crime. A culture of binge drinking. More >>
Mental health disaster unfolding in Canterbury DHB
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 3:41 pm | Progressive Party
Something has gone terribly wrong with the Canterbury DHB’s management of New Zealand’s only high quality Eating Disorder Unit, Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. More >>
Save 198 Youth Health Centre
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 2:02 pm | Progressive Party
The services provided by the 198 Youth Health Centre over the last 10 years have played a critical part in the mental and physical well-being of tens of thousands of our most vulnerable young citizens, local Wigram MP, Jim Anderton said today. More >>
Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment & Treatment)
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:48 am | Progressive Party
Here and around the world, mental health illnesses are a growing public health issue. More >>
Financial Review Debate - Agriculture
Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 12:21 pm | Progressive Party
The question for the government to answer is this: where in this appropriation has it made decisions that will achieve a step change in this country’s economic performance? More >>
Anti-science government axes jobs
Friday, 12 March 2010, 4:40 pm | Progressive Party
Future growth in the most productive parts of New Zealand’s economy will be reduced because of the Government’s decision to axe forty jobs at AgResearch, Opposition agriculture spokesperson Jim Anderton says. More >>
FAI Money should never have been given guarantee
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 1:52 pm | Progressive Party
A decision by FAI to stop raising money from the public without the government guarantee shows the company should never have been given a Crown guarantee in the first place, Progressive Party leader and Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. More >>
Kiwis didn't want Telecom privatised, says ex CEO
Friday, 5 March 2010, 4:20 pm | Progressive Party
Former CEO, Theresa Gattung has admitted that New Zealanders would have preferred Telecom to remain in public hands. More >>
Save men's help-line
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 1:01 pm | Progressive Party
Suicide rates are on the decline, but more men than women are still dying. This is not the time to get rid of New Zealand’s only phone counselling service set up to help men, says Jim Anderton MP for Wigram and former minister responsible for ... More >>
Condolences for Haiti
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 9:39 am | Progressive Party
Over the Christmas/ New Year holiday period, we looked on in shock and horror as this fragile and poverty stricken country crumbled in a devastating earthquake. More >>
Condolences for Haiti
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 9:39 am | Progressive Party
Over the Christmas/ New Year holiday period, we looked on in shock and horror as this fragile and poverty stricken country crumbled in a devastating earthquake. More >>
Prisons not for sale in New Zealand
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 9:38 am | Progressive Party
“The core business of prisons is to keep the community safe and reduce future crime; it is not to make money,” says MP for Wigram and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton. More >>
