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Speech: Anderton - Budget 09
Thursday, 28 May 2009, 5:51 pm | Progressive Party
This is a budget that has all the competence that you would expect from the people responsible for Melissa Lee’s Mt Albert by-election campaign. The good news: Inflation is no longer a problem. We have finally got the low inflation economy the National ... More >>
Winter rebate from electricity companies
Friday, 22 May 2009, 2:53 pm | Progressive Party
Knowledge that many elderly New Zealanders huddle under blankets rather than turn on unaffordable heating should be a wake-up call to the power companies to return a winter rebate to their consumers this winter, Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton ... More >>
Auckland should have elected not appointed leaders
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 1:12 pm | Progressive Party
Letting Auckland vote would be a better way to make appointees to the Auckland super city transitional agency than a secret process in a government where decision-making is melting down, Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. "Why is the government ... More >>
Auckland reorganisation: Removal of Democracy bill
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 4:35 pm | Progressive Party
The Local Government (Auckland Reorganisation) Bill should be renamed the Removal of Democracy Bill, said Progressive leader Jim Anderton in parliament today. He was speaking on the proposal to create an Auckland ‘super city’. More >>
Anderton: Auckland Reorganisation Bill
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 4:34 pm | Progressive Party
This Bill should be renamed the ‘removal of democracy in Auckland” Bill. What this Bill does is remove the opportunity for Aucklanders to say whether they want their councils replaced or not. More >>
MPs should not be able to fight by-elections
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 1:44 pm | Progressive Party
It's a farce that sitting MPs are standing for election to parliament, Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. He is drafting a members' bill to stop MPs from standing for parliament in by-elections. More >>
Launch of the Finsec Banking petition
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 1:43 pm | Progressive Party
Wigram MP Jim Anderton is backing Finsec's petition to keep banking jobs in New Zealand while banks are getting a government guarantee. More >>
Maori Party asked to think again on Sri Lanka
Friday, 1 May 2009, 2:40 pm | Progressive Party
The Maori party should think again over its decision to block a parliamentary motion that expressed concern about the dire humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. He says congratulations to the Maori Party from Sri Lanka’s ... More >>
Using aid money for trade is revolting
Friday, 1 May 2009, 1:30 pm | Progressive Party
The government's intention to take money from the world's poorest people to 'align with New Zealand's trade policy' is revolting, Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. More >>
Progressives won’t stand in Mt Albert
Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 1:37 pm | Progressive Party
The Progressive Party will not be standing a candidate in the Mt Albert by-election, leader Jim Anderton says. The Progressive executive last night decided to endorse Labour in the by-election because Labour is talking about issues relevant to the ... More >>
Maori Party sides with humanitarian abuse
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 2:46 pm | Progressive Party
Progressive leader Jim Anderton is disgusted that the Maori Party has sided with appalling humanitaran abuses by blocking a motion in Parliament that expressed concern about the dire humanitarian situation in Northern Sri Lanka. The United Nations estimates ... More >>
Cutting hols doesn’t stack up with 9-day fortnight
Monday, 23 March 2009, 3:08 pm | Progressive Party
It doesn’t make sense for National to remove four weeks minimum annual leave at the same time that it is trying to encourage a nine day fortnight, Progressive leader Jim Anderton says. More >>
Road tax shows National doesn’t get agriculture
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 3:29 pm | Progressive Party
Taxing rural communities more to pay for Auckland’s roads shows that National doesn’t understand the importance of agriculture for New Zealand’s economy, Opposition agriculture spokesperson Jim Anderton says. More >>
National vote-buying with taxpayers’ money
Friday, 13 March 2009, 3:04 pm | Progressive Party
Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton is appalled at National’s use of taxpayer money to change electorate office funding so that government MPs get an increase four times greater than Opposition MPs. More >>
Use company profits to cut winter power bills
Friday, 13 March 2009, 2:52 pm | Progressive Party
Strong profit increases in the state-owned power companies should be returned to consumers to help with winter power bills, Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. More >>
Speech: Anderton - Liquor Enforcement Bill
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 10:57 am | Progressive Party
I support this Bill. But I am under no illusions that it needs to go much further if we are to reduce seriously the harm caused by alcohol. Alcohol causes between one and a half and two and a half billion dollars worth of economic and social harm ... More >>
Govt casual about harm caused by alcohol
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 10:56 am | Progressive Party
The government’s casual attitude to alcohol availability shows it has its priorities wrong, Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton told parliament on the introduction of the Sale and Supply of Liquor bill. More >>
Speech: Anderton - Launch of Wool to Weta
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 9:51 am | Progressive Party
I would like to start out by congratulating Professor Callaghan on this book and on promoting the topic of economic development. This week I saw a comment from Paul. He was responding to a reporter who asked him whether he would want to be called ... More >>
NZ has choice to make on science
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 9:25 am | Progressive Party
Whether New Zealand becomes a more science-based economy is as much of a choice as a decision about knighthoods, Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton said tonight at the launch of a new book about transforming New Zealand’s economy. More >>
It was all about privatising jails
Monday, 9 March 2009, 2:42 pm | Progressive Party
The big mouth behaviour of the Corrections Minister has been exposed by the State Services Commissioner’s report on Barry Matthews, Progressive Wigram MP Jim Anderton says. More >>
