News & Updates
Release: Govt takes the scalpel to regional health budgets
October 07, 2024
At Labour’s insistence, Te Whatu Ora financial documents have been released by the Health Select Committee today showing more cuts are on the way...
Release: Fast track list reveals Govt’s backroom deals
October 07, 2024
The coalition Government’s backroom deals with coal and ironsands mining companies have finally been revealed – and it’s not pretty.
Release: Nicole McKee unfit for firearms portfolio
October 07, 2024
Fresh questions have been raised about the conduct of the Firearms Minister after revelations she misled New Zealanders about her role in stopping gun...
Release: The question remains… will schools get their classrooms?
October 04, 2024
Education Minister Erica Stanford still can’t confirm when the Government will deliver the $2 billion worth school upgrades she cut earlier this year.
Release: Govt failing NZ’s manufacturing sector
October 03, 2024
Labour acknowledges the hundreds of workers today losing their jobs as the Winstone Pulp mill closes and what it will mean for their families...
Release: Govt has made up a cost crisis to justify cuts
October 03, 2024
Te Whatu Ora’s financials from the last year show the Government has manufactured a financial crisis to justify making cuts that are already affecting...
Speech: Why Kiwi businesses are the best in the world
October 03, 2024
The New Zealand business community is unique. It has always punched well above its weight on the world stage.
Release: Costello makes a fool of the PM
October 02, 2024
Associate health minister Casey Costello has made a fool of the Prime Minister, because the product she’s been fighting to get a tax cut...
Release: Government breaks promise on ferry plan
September 30, 2024
Time has run out for Nicola Willis who has failed to keep her promise to deliver a solution to replace the Interislander ferries by...
Release: Labour supports marches for better health
September 30, 2024
Labour supports Buller and Dunedin communities who are marching today and calling on the Government to act urgently to fix the health crisis.
Release: Proposed job losses devastating for Timaru
September 27, 2024
News that the Smithfield meatworks could close is devastating for the hundreds of people who work there, Timaru and the wider region.
Release: Question mark over financial sustainability of Polytechs
September 27, 2024
The Government is taking tertiary education down a worrying path with new reporting finding that fourteen of the country’s sixteen polytechnics couldn’t survive on...
Release: Dunedin Hospital d-listed by Government
September 26, 2024
The non-announcement in Dunedin today had Ministers leaving broken promises and a likely severely diluted hospital build in their wake.
Release: Labour welcomes UAE trade deal
September 26, 2024
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) signed today with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Release: Hundreds more jobs cuts on housing frontline
September 26, 2024
The Government has shown its true intentions for the public service and economy – it’s not to get more public servants back to the...
Release: Govt not addressing health workforce crisis
September 26, 2024
The National Government is hiding the gaps in the health workforce from New Zealanders, by not producing a full workforce plan nearly a year...
Release: Government cuts fair pay for bus drivers
September 26, 2024
The Government has cut funding for bus drivers to get paid fairly for the work they do, Labour transport spokesperson Tangi Utikere said.
Release: Gun lobby bill removes regulation at ranges
September 24, 2024
Gun lobbyist Nicole McKee and her conflict of interest has struck again, this time removing safety regulations from shooting clubs and ranges in New...
Release: Govt forgetting the 6000 jobs they’ve cut
September 24, 2024
The real problem in the public sector is ongoing job losses and cuts to the front line.
Release: Ministers oblivious to cuts’ effect on families
September 23, 2024
The National Government is oblivious to the impact cuts to services will have on New Zealanders who are doing the hard yards caring for...
Release: Public service set up to fail under National
September 23, 2024
Nicola Willis has set up the public service to fail to pay for reckless tax cuts for landlords and the tobacco industry.
Release: Coalition cooking up costly RMA replacement
September 20, 2024
National continues to dismantle environmental protections in the interests of rushing through unsustainable development that will ultimately cost communities.
Release: National red-faced as benefit numbers skyrocket
September 20, 2024
The economy has stagnated and the National Government is having to face the consequences of its atrocious lawmaking, as beneficiary numbers skyrocket past even...
Release: National allocating police officers not hired yet
September 20, 2024
There are 104 fewer police officers now than there were when National came into Government.
Release: No growth under National, just cuts
September 19, 2024
The National Government’s decisions have hindered, not helped the economy.
Release: More job losses as Government fails on manufacturing
September 18, 2024
The Government is failing the manufacturing sector with no plan for its future.
Release: Sentencing package misses the mark by a mile
September 17, 2024
Sentencing policy announced by Minister Paul Goldsmith today is anything but new, merely window dressing to make up for backwards violent crime statistics under...
Release: Seymour’s Ministry of Double Standards
September 17, 2024
David Seymour doesn’t stick to his own standards of good regulation despite having a multimillion-dollar vanity ministry set up to do so.
Release: Labour Leader to travel to UK
September 17, 2024
Labour Leader Chris Hipkins will travel to the United Kingdom this week to attend the annual UK Labour Party conference in Liverpool and meet...
Release: Māori business not a priority for this Govt
September 15, 2024
Scrapping the Progressive Procurement programme designed to support and grow Māori businesses is a missed opportunity.
Release: March 15 inquiry grants cut by Government
September 15, 2024
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has cut grants helping overseas family of victims to attend the next phase of the Coronial Inquiry into the 15...
Release: Lemauga Lydia Sosene to take medical leave
September 13, 2024
Labour’s Mangere MP Lemauga Lydia Sosene has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will shortly take medical leave.
Release: Charter schools undermine our education system
September 12, 2024
The Government is taking a wrecking ball to our public education system by reinstating charter schools.
Release: Millions to be spent dividing NZ for no reason
September 12, 2024
The National Party is wasting millions of dollars allowing David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill to be drafted and go to Select Committee.
Release: New Zealanders departing our shores at a record rate
September 12, 2024
The Migration figures released by Stats NZ today show National is continuing to drive Kiwis away from New Zealand in record numbers.
Release: Aged care will be worse off if redesign rushed
September 11, 2024
New Zealanders needing aged care support and the people who care for them will be worse off if the Government pushes through a flawed...
Release: Govt fails hundreds of workers as mills close
September 11, 2024
Labour is devastated at news hundreds of workers are set to lose their jobs following the closure of Winstone Pulp mills.
Release: Cabinet should stop the Treaty Principles Bill
September 09, 2024
National Party Ministers have a majority in Cabinet and can stop David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill, which even the Prime Minister has described as...
Release: Staff gagged to keep fast track list secret
September 09, 2024
The National Government is so determined to hide the list of potential projects that will avoid environmental scrutiny it has gagged Ministry for the...
Release: Labour challenges Te Whatu Ora gag orders
September 09, 2024
Labour has complained to the Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission about the high number of non-disclosure agreements that have effectively gagged staff at...
Sign the petition: Keep military-style firearms off our streets
September 07, 2024
Help us tell the Government that reintroducing military-style firearms should not be up for debate.
Release: Government on the wrong side of Māori wards
September 06, 2024
The National-led government has been given a clear message from the local government sector, as almost all councils reject the Government’s bid to treat...
Release: Labour congratulates Kuīni Ngā Wai hono i te po Paki
September 05, 2024
The Labour Party congratulates Kuīni Ngā Wai hono i te po Paki on being crowned as the eighth Te Ariki Nui – head of...
Release: Rainbow youth neglected in mental health funding
September 03, 2024
Labour backs the call from The Rainbow Support Collective members for mental health funding specifically earmarked for grassroots and peer led community organisations to...
Release: Transport in NZ has to be more than just roads
September 03, 2024
As expected, the National Land Transport Programme lacks ambition for our cities and our country’s rail network and puts the majority of investment into...
Speech: Barbara Edmonds Building Nations 2024
September 03, 2024
Tēnā koutou katoa, Thank you for your warm welcome and for having my colleagues and I here today. Earlier you heard from the Labour...
Building consents data bad news for construction
August 30, 2024
News that the annual number of building consents granted for new homes fell by more than 20 percent for the year ended July 2024,...