News & Updates
Release: Minister should fess up on cuts
June 23, 2025
Simeon Brown needs to be honest about how much more money he expects Health New Zealand to cut from its budget to get back...
Release: Govt overreach removes power from local councils
June 18, 2025
Ministers will now be able to override the decisions of councils and locally elected officials.
Release: Govt Bill strips vital job protections from workers
June 17, 2025
The Employer Relations Amendment Bill will make work even less secure for Kiwis.
Release: Government is full of it on homelessness
June 17, 2025
The Government continues to deny its policies are contributing to homelessness in New Zealand, despite being told they are.
Release: PM must stop changes further failing children
June 11, 2025
Today’s damning report on Oranga Tamariki shows Māori children are being left with little chance of success, or even survival, after their experiences in...
Release: Changes to stalking Bill important step for women’s safety
June 10, 2025
Parliament today took an important step to improve women’s safety with the Government moving closer to Labour’s position on how stalking should be defined...
Release: Manawatū Gorge replacement opens toll-free
June 09, 2025
Thanks to a successful community-led campaign backed by Labour, Lower North Island locals are today celebrating the toll-free opening of Te Ahu a Turanga...
Release: Timid tariff response fails New Zealanders
June 06, 2025
The Government is failing New Zealanders by ‘being comfortable’ with a 10 percent tariff on all goods going into the US.
Release: Reserve Bank predicts more job losses
June 04, 2025
The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Statement predicts a sluggish economy with higher inflation and more job losses.
Release: Mental health cuts lead to overwhelmed EDs
May 29, 2025
Workforce shortages that mental health Minister Matt Doocey tried to hide are now resulting in increasing pressure on our emergency departments as people needing...
Release: National caves to ACT to ram through Regulatory Standards Bill
May 29, 2025
Once again National has caved to ACT by today agreeing to shorten the select committee process for the Regulatory Standards Bill.
Release: Govt continues to undermine women
May 28, 2025
The Government is continuing its attack on women, this time targeting the pay of early childhood education (ECE) teachers.
Release: Charter school failures clocking up
May 28, 2025
Public schools aren’t converting to charter schools at the rate David Seymour claimed they would.
Release: Govt driving away Kiwi innovators and scientists
May 28, 2025
The Government continues to obliterate science and innovation in New Zealand.
Speech: Barbara Edmonds Post-Budget
May 27, 2025
E nga mana nui E nga tapu nui No tāwahi No te kainga Tēnā koutou katoa
Release: Nelson short-changed by hospital downgrade
May 26, 2025
National’s cuts to Nelson’s Hospital rebuild will leave the community with only half the number of new beds than the rebuild Labour planned.
Release: David Seymour’s Bill harms our people and environment
May 23, 2025
David Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Bill would take New Zealand backwards by making it harder to protect our people and the environment.
Release: More cuts to come for health
May 23, 2025
National has made a choice to cut women’s pay and rob future generations of Kiwisaver contributions to make its Budget add up, but without...
Release: Govt guts emergency housing while need increases
May 23, 2025
The National Government has cut $1 billion from the emergency housing budget on the false pretence that demand is reducing, while also ending contracted...
Release: $1 billion of Māori funding gone
May 23, 2025
The Government should hang its head in shame after a budget that takes a knife to more Māori programmes.
Release: National failing on the cost of living
May 22, 2025
Despite all the promises, Kiwis are still going backwards in Budget 2025.
Release: The Austerity Budget that leaves women out
May 22, 2025
Today’s Budget is a masterclass in making the wrong decisions for New Zealanders.
Release: Bills increase transparency of money transfers and ports
May 22, 2025
Two Labour bills drawn from the Member’s Ballot today would require greater transparency of international money transfers, and bring more public accountability and transparency...
Release: Half a billion dollar tax break for tech giants
May 21, 2025
The Government is taking the Digital Services Tax off their books, effectively handing a $479 million tax break to global tech giants, like Facebook...
Release: Govt helps banks dodge repayment claims for Kiwis
May 21, 2025
The Government is moving to let two of the country’s most profitable banks off the hook for money owed to their customers.
Release: Search begins for rare family receiving $250
May 20, 2025
The Government can’t say if even a single family has received the $250 a fortnight they were promised.
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.