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Release: Govt risks hospice care by cutting women’s pay
May 20, 2025
The Government’s decision to cut women’s pay could result in an exodus of palliative care nurses from the profession.
Release: Govt leaves sexual abuse survivors out in the cold
May 20, 2025
The Government is quietly cutting more services for women, this time it’s ACC support for survivors of sexual abuse and pausing the expansion of...
Release: Women in funded sector unlikely to get pay equity
May 19, 2025
The Government is unlikely to fund pay equity for hospice and Plunket nurses, care and support workers and other workforces made up of mostly...
Chris Hipkins Speech Auckland regional conference
May 17, 2025
Tēnā koutou katoa. It’s fantastic to be here with you all—grassroots campaigners, organisers, union members, councillors, MPs, and Labour whānau.
Release: Minister’s rash orders fail frontline providers
May 16, 2025
The Auditor-General has found serious failings in the Government’s review of frontline providers such as counselling and prevention services.
Release: Prices keep rising while National cuts women’s pay
May 16, 2025
Prices for essentials, like milk, butter and electricity continue to get more expensive under National, at the same time as the Government takes money...
Release: Govt finally admits 180,000 in line for a pay cut
May 14, 2025
The Government finally admitted late last night that roughly 180,000 people will be affected by its decision to halt pay equity claims.
Release: Admin nearly a quarter of entire FamilyBoost spend
May 14, 2025
Nearly a quarter of the money spent on the Government’s flagship FamilyBoost policy has gone to administration, not to families to help with childcare.
Chris Hipkins: Pre-Budget speech
May 13, 2025
Tēnā koutou katoa. Good morning. I read recently that one of the keys to success in life is to do the hard stuff first...
Release; Budget should not be paid for by working women
May 13, 2025
The Government must do three things in Budget 2025 if it is genuinely going to turn things around for New Zealanders.
Release: Peeni Henare takes over foreign affairs
May 12, 2025
Labour’s Peeni Henare will pick up the foreign affairs portfolio, following David Parker’s departure from Parliament.
Release: Govt better at crushing women’s rights than cars
May 12, 2025
Rehashing old laws around boy racers is not going to make our communities safer, or distract New Zealanders from the appalling decision to cut...
Release: Labour asks why Govt is silent on Gaza
May 09, 2025
Labour is asking the Government why it is silent on Israel’s deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, saying New...
Release: Govt ignores the voices of survivors
May 09, 2025
Survivors of abuse in state care have a right to feel disappointed and sidelined by the Government.
Release: Bill launched to stop tobacco industry lobbying
May 08, 2025
Labour is launching a members’ bill to stop the Government from putting tobacco industry interests ahead of public health.
Release: Labour fights for firefighters
May 08, 2025
The Labour Party backs volunteer firefighters who are currently not covered by ACC for workplace disease and mental injury and is drafting policy to...
Release: National cuts women’s pay
May 07, 2025
National has forced through a law change that will take money out of women’s pockets.
Release: Fewer jobs and opportunities for Māori, again
May 07, 2025
In the last 12 months life has only got worse for Māori under Christopher Luxon’s Government.
Release: More than one in 10 Pacific people unemployed under National
May 07, 2025
There are more Pacific people unemployed as the rate increases to a staggering 10.8% under National.
Release: Unemployment remains high under National
May 07, 2025
Job losses remain stubbornly high under National, as their attack on jobs, wages, and women rages on.
Release: Labour welcomes inquiry into school lunches
May 06, 2025
Labour welcomes the Auditor-General’s inquiry into the Government’s school lunches programme.
Release: Women will keep being paid less under National
May 06, 2025
This Government is taking the women’s movement backwards, ensuring women will continue to be paid less into the future.
Release: Questions over Erica Stanford’s personal email use
May 06, 2025
Erica Stanford has been misusing her personal email address to manage sensitive information relating to Budget and visa changes prior to their public release.
Release: Cuts to beds for seniors at Dunedin Hospital
May 02, 2025
After failing to be upfront about cuts to intensive care beds, it’s now becoming clear that other downgrades to Dunedin Hospital are being concealed...
Release: Labour backs workers while Govt cuts jobs and protections
May 01, 2025
This May Day Labour is standing with workers to defend decent jobs and fair pay.
Release: Still no ferries as first of old fleet retire
May 01, 2025
Two old and ageing ferries are going to have to work double time because of this Government’s failure to get a ferry deal.
Release: Closure of North Shore Women’s Centre a huge loss
April 29, 2025
Today’s confirmed closure of the North Shore Women’s Centre after losing government funding is a huge loss for women in Auckland.
Release: Simeon Brown hid Dunedin Hospital downgrade
April 29, 2025
Simeon Brown needs to come clean to the people of Dunedin about why he hid plans to downgrade their new hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
Release: Govt cuts will cost jobs, health, and homes
April 29, 2025
Nicola Willis announced that funding for almost every Government department will be frozen in this year’s budget, costing jobs, making access to public services...
Release: Anzac Day a time to recommit to veterans
April 25, 2025
This Anzac Day, Labour recognises veterans and the service they have given to our country.
Release: Govt’s flagship cost of living policy a failure
April 24, 2025
After promising $250 a fortnight to many families, the Government has been forced to admit just a couple hundred families are receiving it.
Release: Transparency needed on changes to early childhood education
April 24, 2025
The Government is putting children at risk in early childhood education (ECE) by proposing to loosen the requirement for qualified teachers.
Release: Govt funding needed to combat invasive seaweed
April 22, 2025
The Government must support Northland hapū who have resorted to rakes and buckets to try to control a devastating invasive seaweed that threatens the...
Release: Labour marks the passing of Pope Francis
April 21, 2025
Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins joins those mourning the passing of Pope Francis.
Release: Boot camps blog post fails to provide clarity
April 17, 2025
After stonewalling requests for information on boot camps, the Government has now offered up a blog post right before Easter weekend rather than provide...
Release: Inflation rises and families feel the squeeze
April 17, 2025
Inflation is rising again and it’s landing hardest on families already stretched thin.
Release: Govt doesn’t know how to fund new hospitals
April 16, 2025
The Government’s health infrastructure plan is big on promises but coy on where the money is coming from.
Release: $10 million for only 215 students in charter schools
April 16, 2025
David Seymour is pouring $10 million into charter schools that only have 215 students enrolled.
Release: Food prices further stretching the family budget
April 15, 2025
Families already stretched by rising costs will struggle with the news food prices are going up again.
Release: Mental health staff and patients at risk without plan
April 14, 2025
More people could be harmed if Minister for Mental Health Matt Doocey does not guarantee to protect patients and workers as the Police withdraw...
Release: Driver licensing proposal doesn’t put safety first
April 14, 2025
The Government’s proposal to change driver licensing rules is a mixed bag of sensible and careless.
Release: Students struggling as Govt sits on hands
April 11, 2025
The Government is continuing to sit on its hands as students struggle to pay rent due to delays with StudyLink.
Release: More must be done to stop children going hungry
April 11, 2025
More children are going hungry and statistics showing children in material hardship continue to get worse.
Release: Longer wait for treatment under National
April 11, 2025
New Zealanders have waited longer to get an appointment with a specialist and to get elective surgery under the National Government.
Chris Hipkins speech: Treaty Principles Bill second reading
April 10, 2025
Normally, when I rise in this House to speak on a bill, I say it's a great privilege to speak on the bill. That...
Release: End to the Treaty Principles Bill, but challenges remain ahead for Aotearoa
April 10, 2025
Ka mate te pire I te rā neiThe bill dies today
Release: Bill to make trading laws fairer passes first hurdle
April 10, 2025
Labour MP Kieran McAnulty’s Members Bill to make the law simpler and fairer for businesses operating on Easter, Anzac and Christmas Days has passed...
Release: Reserve Bank acts while Govt shrugs
April 09, 2025
Nicola Willis continues to sit on her hands amid a global economic crisis, leaving the Reserve Bank to act for New Zealanders who are...
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