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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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).

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.  

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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...

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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.

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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. 

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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...

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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.

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Release: No growth under National, just cuts

September 19, 2024

The National Government’s decisions have hindered, not helped the economy.

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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.

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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...

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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. 

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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