Labour Archive
Asset Sale
The economic scenario painted by Mr Peters, plus the government $10million language move for more Kiwi kids to speak Chinese in schools, this country could end up known
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Culture and Heritage
Labour will act to recognise the five main Pacific languages in New Zealand including through the education system, said Pacific Affairs spokesperson Su’a William Sio. Announcing Labour’s Pacific
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Culture and Heritage
OPINION The Government’s announcement today of a $10million five-year investment to grow Asian languages is a slap on the face of Pacific communities who have implored the government
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Green
United communities is the “how factor” that gave Living Wage Wellington the power to influence the Wellington City Council (WCC) to vote for paying its staff a living
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General election 2014
As the Australian experience shows and as Treasury knows, the Government is trying to put out a fire with petrol. Phil Twyford.
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Children
Labour will remove disincentives to working part-time by lifting the current threshold of $80 - $100 before benefit reductions kick in, to a flat $150 a week, meaning
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Corruption
Hutt South MP, Trevor Mallard is calling for an investigation into the alleged exploitation of workers at Hutt Railway workshops, hired to repair asbestos-riddled DL locomotives. The Labour spokesperson
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International
Labour’s foreign affairs and energy spokesman, David Shearer, recently called for the NZ Superannuation Fund to immediately drop its shareholding in an Israeli chemical company that produces white
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