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What's a kiwi like me to think?

Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 2:55 pm | Progressive Party

What's a pro-Treaty, pro-New Zealander, pro-Maori kiwi like me to think? I consider myself pro-Treaty, pro-New Zealander, pro-Maori, anti-racist. Not many Pakeha politicians have been bending over backwards to describe themselves that way lately More >>

Matt Robson: $1.3m On Jail Talks Money Well Spent

Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 11:34 am | Progressive Party

In some countries, governments can build a huge prison, or a nuclear power station, anywhere they like without consulting anyone. The government of North Korea, for example, doesn't subscribe to the view that ordinary Koreans have the right to be ... More >>

Turia Party chooses cannabis lobby over Maori

Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 11:25 am | Progressive Party

But by promoting the arguments of the pro-cannabis lobby, she is acting contrary to the demands of Maori communities demanding that the coalition take a hard line on cannabis and other harmful drugs. More >>

All systems go for Marlborough Aviation Centre

Tuesday, 18 May 2004, 2:38 pm | Progressive Party

The Marlborough region is set to receive $2million from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s Regional Partnership Programme to help establish an Aviation Heritage Centre and Park, Minister of Economic, Industry and Regional Development Jim Anderton announced ... More >>

Lowering Drinking Age Law Didn't Reverse Negatives

Tuesday, 18 May 2004, 9:14 am | Progressive Party

Progressive leader Jim Anderton says that the empirical evidence since the 1999 decision by Parliament to lower the legal drinking age to 18 suggests that the change didn't reverse negative social indicators as many had hoped at the time. More >>

Progressive saves centre-left Majority post-Turia

Monday, 17 May 2004, 11:01 am | Progressive Party

Mrs Tariana Turia's decision to resign from Labour today in order to establish a new Maori party which apparently supports privatising the justice system threatens neither the stability of the Labour-Progressive government nor the Centre-Left's ... More >>

Kiwibank To Open 300th Branch Tomorrow

Monday, 17 May 2004, 9:21 am | Progressive Party

Kiwibank is opening its 300th branch tomorrow which is good news for the people of Manukau City and a timely reminder of the broader benefits to regional economies and all consumers of Kiwibank's existence, says Progressive leader Jim Anderton. More >>

robson-on-politics, 13 May 2004

Friday, 14 May 2004, 3:53 pm | Progressive Party

The best debate for years on the North Shore will be: 1pm this Monday, 17 May, Massey University at Albany: from Gate 1 go to the Round Room in the Atrium building. The question is "Ahmed Zaoui: refugee or risk?" This is about a man as well ... More >>

Nats. Maori-bash a successful education provider

Friday, 14 May 2004, 8:58 am | Progressive Party

The educational success of Maori and Pacific students is in the interest of all New Zealanders said Hon Matt Robson, Progressive Deputy Leader, responding to National's Bill English attack on Te Wananga o Aotearoa. Those growing Maori and Pacific Island ... More >>

Hawke's Bay to host Development Conference 2005

Friday, 14 May 2004, 12:39 am | Progressive Party

The next Regional Development Conference in March 2005, will be held in the Hawke’s Bay, home of one of the first Major Regional Initiatives, Minister for Industry and Regional Development, Jim Anderton said today. More >>

US Mideast policies undermine War on Terror

Thursday, 13 May 2004, 5:31 pm | Progressive Party

The U.S. government's inconsistent Middle East policies are undermining the global campaign against fundamentalist terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda, Progressive MP Matt Robson said today. More >>

Jobs & training are building blocks for economy

Thursday, 13 May 2004, 10:06 am | Progressive Party

The Labour Progressive government is investing $56.9 million over the next four financial years to assist young people into further education, training or work because it knows the investment will more than pay for itself over time, Progressive MP Matt ... More >>

National studied raising Super to age 75

Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 4:21 pm | Progressive Party

Mr Speaker, My Labour coalition colleagues have talked of the disgraceful plans National has to take us into unilateral foreign wars and put us under a Nuclear Umbrella no one wants. More >>

Progressive leader, Jim Anderton: Press Statement

Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 3:12 pm | Progressive Party

Progressive leader Jim Anderton today released evidence that he says proves that the last National government considered raising the age of eligibility to National Superannuation to 75 years of age. More >>

Robson celebrates rise in jobs, unemployment low

Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 12:44 am | Progressive Party

Progressive MP Matt Robson says the Household Labour Force Survey validates the regional and economic development policies the Progressives have brought to government. Quarterly employment rose 0.9 percent in the March quarter while there was an increase in total ... More >>