Media Releases
Labour and Greens to have Cooperation Agreement
The Labour Party and the Green Party will have a Cooperation Agreement that will see the Green Party Co-leaders hold ministerial portfolios outside of Cabinet, and areas of cooperation on climate, environment and child and community wellbeing issues.
Labour manifesto prioritises plan for recovery
- Election manifesto sets COVID recovery plan as top priority in Government
- Policy priorities reflect stability, continuity and certainty
- Manifesto embeds five key principles of Labour’s COVID plan
- People, jobs, infrastructure, small businesses, and global trade and connections established as foundations for next term
- Manifesto applies Labour values to health, economic and social response
Jacinda Ardern speech to Wellington Labour Party rally
E ngā mana
E ngā reo
E ngā tangata whenua o Te Whanganui-a-Tara, tēnā koutou
E tika ana te korero
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi
He toa takitini kē
Nō rēira tātou e huihui mai nei
Ka Hoake Tonu Tātou
Labour will boost rural connectivity
- New $60 million infrastructure fund for capacity and backhaul upgrades to boost connectivity
- $10 million for radio spectrum for rural connectivity
Labour commits to stronger protection for our native kauri
- Stronger protection for kauri
- Additional $32m investment
- Builds on work to protect kauri from dieback disease over past decade
Law and order reform focused on wellbeing
- Roll out meth treatment programme to 4,000 more people
- Establish an Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court in Hawke’s Bay
- Expand Māori Pathways prison rehabilitation programme to wāhine Māori
- Strengthen the Māori, Pacific and Ethnic Services Group within Police
Labour’s next steps to reduce climate emissions
- Labour will phase out fossil fuels in process heat by preventing installation of new low and medium temperature coal-fired boilers
- Decarbonise the public transport bus fleet by 2035
- Support agricultural climate change research programmes
Leaked email reveals chaos in National
A leaked email from National MP Denise Lee which reveals Judith Collins made up on the hoof a policy to review the Auckland Council and labelled it a "highly problematic idea", a "nightmare" and "another working group", shows National are still the chaotic shambles they have been all year and are not fit to govern.