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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Release: Govt driving away Kiwi innovators and scientists

May 28, 2025

The Government continues to obliterate science and innovation in New Zealand.

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Speech: Barbara Edmonds Post-Budget

May 27, 2025

E nga mana nui E nga tapu nui No tāwahi No te kainga Tēnā koutou katoa

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Release: Bugs on David Seymour’s school lunch menu

May 26, 2025

The latest shocker to come out of David Seymour’s school lunches is an insect being found in a student’s meal.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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Release: National failing on the cost of living

May 22, 2025

Despite all the promises, Kiwis are still going backwards in Budget 2025.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Release: Labour welcomes inquiry into school lunches

May 06, 2025

Labour welcomes the Auditor-General’s inquiry into the Government’s school lunches programme.

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