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National have no plan for the economy
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 12:51 pm | Progressive Party
On Monday 20 October 2008, National leader, John Key told a press conference that morning that if National was elected and did “a half decent job” at growing the economy, then increasing GST would not be necessary”. More >>
Government Plan for Our Economy Does Not Stack Up
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 11:57 am | Progressive Party
The plan for our economy announced by the Government this morning is a huge disappointment, Progressive leader Jim Anderton says. More >>
Waitangi Day Is About What We Share
Saturday, 6 February 2010, 10:44 am | Progressive Party
Waitangi Day is a day of national celebration and it is our chance to stand together to mark our unity and our shared love of this country and its people, Jim Anderton, Progressive Party leader and Wigram MP said today. More >>
Job Cuts And The Hadda Beetle
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 4:48 pm | Progressive Party
“Last year the government cut at least 54 frontline jobs in biosecurity. This year a small beetle enters New Zealand, and threatens the potato and tomato industries. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see the link here,” says MP for Wigram ... More >>
Good step forward but more urgency needed
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 3:48 pm | Progressive Party
The National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme is an important step forward for New Zealand’s primary industry export sector but the lack of urgency to get this scheme up and running is worrying, said the opposition spokesperson on ... More >>
National shows its true colours – health cuts
Friday, 22 January 2010, 10:08 am | Progressive Party
A quick chat on the phone, and no more home help for you. This is how 2010 is starting for many elderly New Zealanders across the country, and the National Government couldn’t give a damn, said Wigram MP and Progressive Leader, Jim Anderton. “Last year I ... More >>
FTT better than increasing GST
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 1:38 pm | Progressive Party
A financial transactions tax is a better option for widening the tax base and reducing income tax than increasing GST, MP for Wigram and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton says. “GST is a regressive tax,” Jim Anderton says. “GST falls hardest on people ... More >>
Mayor gets unfair drubbing by Key’s cheer squad
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 11:18 am | Progressive Party
Mayor Andrew Williams is being given an unfair drubbing by the John Key’s media cheer squad, Jim Anderton said today. “The media are showing their bias and are not listening to what Mayor Williams is saying. They are mindlessly repeating the ... More >>
Parliament right to fix problem for marine farmers
Thursday, 10 December 2009, 2:53 pm | Progressive Party
“Parliament’s select committee was right to amend the Aquaculture Bill so that a co-operative of marine famers can continue to farm shell fish in the Coromandel, as they have been doing since 1983,” says MP for Wigram and Progressive party leader ... More >>
Our lean meat reputation at risk
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 5:05 pm | Progressive Party
Stall-based farming where cows can be kept in boxes for 24 hours a day, eight months of the year will undermine New Zealand’s reputation for free-range, lean and healthy meat, says Opposition Spokesperson for Agriculture and Progressive Party leader Jim ... More >>
After a year, government does nothing for R&D
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 4:21 pm | Progressive Party
The Minister of Agriculture, David Carter said in parliament today that he was ‘adhering to his own strict timetable’ which appears to be to do nothing and spend nothing in the first year of National-led government on primary sector research and development, ... More >>
Kiwibank leads big banks back to local services
Thursday, 3 December 2009, 1:05 pm | Progressive Party
Westpac’s decision to return to boutique style branches in small communities so they can get closer to where customers live, demonstrates the impact Kiwibank has had on banking in New Zealand. Jim Anderton was instrumental in setting up Kiwibank ... More >>
Key weak on Copenhagen
Monday, 30 November 2009, 2:24 pm | Progressive Party
John Key’s is being weak and indecisive over whether to go to Copenhagen for a global conference on climate change, Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. “The prime minister is displaying an absence of leadership. He is saying he will only ... More >>
Brash calls for return to failed policies
Monday, 30 November 2009, 2:17 pm | Progressive Party
“It’s like the return of Dracula.” That’s how Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton is describing Don Brash’s recommendations released today. “Don Brash and David Caygill were cheerleaders for the asset sales, deep spending cuts and wage cuts that ... More >>
National’s third world way to govern
Friday, 27 November 2009, 4:03 pm | Progressive Party
It’s hypocritical for the National Party to attack those who criticise its dodgy deal on emissions trading, Progressive MP Jim Anderton says. “National needs to say if it still supports the concept of full and final Treaty settlements. “It ... More >>
Erebus pilots deserve justice after 30 years
Friday, 27 November 2009, 11:02 am | Progressive Party
After thirty years, Air New Zealand needs to apologise to the families of the pilots of flight TE 901 who were wrongly blamed for the Mt Erebus crash which claimed the lives of 257 passengers and crew. This Saturday (28 November) will mark the thirtieth ... More >>
1000 die because of heavy drinking each year
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4:03 pm | Progressive Party
When over 300 leading doctors and nurses and the heads of police in New Zealand and Australia agree that we face an urgent and serious issue with alcohol abuse, then we know we have a problem, says MP for Wigram and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton. ... More >>
Anderton: Opening the new Rodger Wright Centre
Friday, 20 November 2009, 2:56 pm | Progressive Party
I am very happy to be here today to witness this blessing, and the opening of the new Rodger Wright premises. It’s normal practice at a house-warming to bring a present or flowers, and I’m sorry I’ve come empty handed. But giving the wrong ... More >>
Speech: Anderton - sustainability of our fisheries
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 1:26 pm | Progressive Party
Has anyone here eaten fish and chips recently? Because apparently I’m the minister who took the fish out of fish and chips. The fact that someone could even say that shows you how far we are from having a rational debate about the right of a minister ... More >>
The law stops us saving dolphins
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 1:19 pm | Progressive Party
The Fisheries Act must be amended so that ministers have a clear mandate to protect our oceans as a priority, when fish stocks are low or a species is threatened with extinction, says MP for Wigram and Progressive Party leader Jim Anderton. The Act ... More >>
