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Peters vows to find out who was Treasurer 1996-98
Friday, 5 November 2004, 5:17 pm | Progressive Party
“Let me remind you that Labour sold Air New Zealand and National sold New Zealand Rail" - Mr Peters speech today More >>
robson-on-politics 5 November
Friday, 5 November 2004, 3:02 pm | Progressive Party
Progressive campaigns on 30% company tax - Bush vs Kerry - Koha, kickback or kiss of death - Winston "Pinocchio" Peters' nose grows longer - Refugee Authority to put out the book More >>
Progressive call for action on student debt
Friday, 5 November 2004, 2:04 pm | Progressive Party
The Progressive Party is presenting a policy to its coalition partner to eliminate the student debt problem, says Progressive MP Matt Robson. The policy will be announced on Sunday. More >>
Excellent Global Enterprise Challenge
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 2:40 pm | Progressive Party
"Congratulations are in order for all students involved in the Global Enterprise Experience challenge, and especially the winning team, Global Rhyme for their educational book and CD package on ethnic music," Jim Anderton, Minister of Economic Development ... More >>
Progressive welcomes rules for big foreign banks
Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 11:14 am | Progressive Party
Progressive MP Matt Robson said his party strongly endorses the move by the Reserve Bank to clamp down on the potential for the big foreign banks moving key operations outside New Zealand. More >>
Winston has no real commitment to state assets
Monday, 1 November 2004, 2:58 pm | Progressive Party
Don't let Winston do it again - he has no real commitment to state assets More >>
'NZ First won't prop up National' – Yeah Right!
Monday, 1 November 2004, 8:19 am | Progressive Party
The statements coming out of the NZ First Party at its pre-Election Year conference today are ominously similar to the hot air heard from the party nearly ten years ago, says Progressive leader Jim Anderton. More >>
robson-on-politics 29 October
Friday, 29 October 2004, 4:46 pm | Progressive Party
This week robson discusses housing policy, student debt, work life balance United's tax policy,Latest developments regarding Ahmed Zaoui and offers to buy Rodney Hide a meal... More >>
Greens Miss Government's Good Work
Friday, 29 October 2004, 4:39 pm | Progressive Party
Greens so busy abstaining from voting they must have missed the government's work on skills shortages More >>
Progressive Party supports lower tertiary fees
Thursday, 28 October 2004, 2:27 pm | Progressive Party
Comments by the New Zealand Univesity Students' Association saying tertiary fees should be coming down, not going up, are understandable according to Progressive Leader, Jim Anderton. More >>
Mortgages would be higher if Brash was governor
Thursday, 28 October 2004, 11:04 am | Progressive Party
While many Kiwi families with mortgages will be dismayed at today's interest rate rise, there is at least some comfort in knowing that housing costs would have been much higher had Don Brash still been governor of the Reserve Bank, and National still ... More >>
College students win top award
Thursday, 28 October 2004, 12:58 am | Progressive Party
The St Thomas of Canterbury College student owners of StopCom, a company set up under the Young Enterprise Scheme, won both the Young Enterprise Scheme Company of the Year award and the Technology award this morning. They met with Minister of Economic ... More >>
United tax relief for rich a pre-election warning
Thursday, 28 October 2004, 12:14 am | Progressive Party
The opposition United Future Party's ideologically-driven call today for tax cuts for those that least need it is a timely warning to voters ahead of next year's election that it is a party aligned to Don Brash and Rodney Hide, says Progressive MP Matt ... More >>
Making Justice Work - The New Zealand Experience
Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 5:45 pm | Progressive Party
The development of restorative justice in New Zealand has not been a top-down process. The understanding that offending and justice are the issues of a community and that restoration of peace is a community process are integral to Maori and to the Pacific ... More >>
Still more work to do on work-life balance
Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 3:43 pm | Progressive Party
An International Labour Organisation (ILO) report out this week showing New Zealanders work the longest hours, and the OECD report on Babies and Bosses out yesterday, together show we still have some work to do on bringing work-life balance to New Zealanders, ... More >>
Schools to receive handbook on drug education
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 3:11 pm | Progressive Party
All schools with Year Seven to Year Thirteen pupils have today been posted a resource kit to strengthen drug education in schools, including a handbook on drug education developed by the Ministry of Youth Development called Strengthening Drug Education ... More >>
robson-on-politics, Fri 22 October
Friday, 22 October 2004, 5:15 pm | Progressive Party
It's important to remember where we've come from to understand where we as heading as a nation. For five years now Jim Anderton and I have been working hard in government on economic and regional development (That's Progressive!) and delivered the best ... More >>
Maximising Canterbury's role
Friday, 22 October 2004, 1:22 pm | Progressive Party
"Christchurch businesses involved in Antarctic activities are to benefit from the production of a strategy and action plan, designed to make the most of the city’s position as an international gateway to Antarctica," Jim Anderton, Minister for Economic ... More >>
Robson at book launch on Zaoui
Thursday, 21 October 2004, 10:17 am | Progressive Party
How would Harry Holland, Michael Joseph Savage and Norm Kirk view the Labour Party of today holding in a New Zealand prison an Algerian MP whose "crime' has been to try and give his people a government that would end the corruption and brutality ... More >>
First homes for families: Key Progressive priority
Thursday, 21 October 2004, 12:19 am | Progressive Party
"Young families should be able to have the security of owning their own home and the Progressives have been working on policies to promote this," Progressive Leader Jim Anderton said this morning. More >>
