Nats lay the ground for housing bust – Labour Party
Goldman Sachs’ warning that New Zealand has the developed world’s most over-priced housing market, with a 40 per cent chance…
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Nowhere for Labour to hide on TPPA in election year
As Prime Minister Bill English heads off to Japan with trade minister Todd McClay in their quest to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) minus the USA, ‘the silence from Labour is deafening’, Auckland University law professor Jane Kelsey observes. ‘In an election year, they had hoped the TPPA was dead and buried. Now there is nowhere for them to hide.’
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Mike King – my resignation letter to the Ministry of Health
Let’s face it, this plan is only ever going to be window dressing, and is never going to get the public on board without a major, open and independent review of mental health services. Without an adequately funded sector, and a stocktake of the structure and provison of services, we are just fiddling around the edges.
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NO to National selling local parks for housing – Save Our Reserves
Community opposition to a Government plan to sell off nearly 12 hectares of public reserve land for housing intensification is…
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Time to start moving on outdated children’s residences – Office of the Children’s Commissioner
The conditions for children in many of New Zealand’s secure residences are prison-like, dated and bleak, and it’s time to…
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Labour Fiddles While National Turns a Blind Eye on Housing Inequality – The Opportunities Party
The Opportunities Party says Labour’s promise to ban negative gearing on rental properties is a purely symbolic move that won’t…
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Ambulance service needs trained ambulance officers, not assistants – Ambulance Professionals First
Ambulance Professionals First, the union representing the majority of New Zealand’s ambulance professionals, is calling on the Government to end…
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CPAG stands behind figures showing $2.8 billion cuts to Working for Families
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is standing behind figures it has published which show the Government has cut over $2.8…
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Mother’s Day protest to grill Bill on housing, welfare and work
Welfare activists will be protesting outside the National Party Northern Regional Convention today to demand universal access to state housing…
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New report: Child poverty and mental health – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and the New Zealand Psychological Society warmly invite you to attend the report launch ofChild…