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Alliance says Government robbing Canterbury people of their democracy Alliance Party media release Monday 10 September 2012 Alliance Party Co Leader and former MP Kevin Campbell says the decision by the Government to keep Government appointed Commissioners in charge of the Canterbury Regional Council is a further blow for the spirits of the people of Canterbury.
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The government says domestic power prices will not rise steeply if shares are sold in the three publicly owned power companies, but can they guarantee it? And what if they are wrong? This has the Alliance Party worried, according to co leader Kay Murray.
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Alliance Party co leader Kevin Campbell calls pay rates for aged and disability support workers in New Zealand a national disgrace.
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Alliance Party co leader Kay Murray is disappointed that, in the debate over changes to the student loans scheme foreshadowed in the 2012 budget, no one has questioned the need for student loans.
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The Alliance Party today condemned Speaker Lockwood Smith and Parliamentary Services for denying $30,000 in funding to Green MP Mojo Mathers for electronic note taking.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The Alliance Party has added its voice to the Maritime Union of New Zealand’s call for public support for Ports of Auckland workers to keep their jobs.
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SOUTHLAND — Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says it is amazing that DOC is even contemplating allowing the building of a privately owned and operated road and tunnel, spanning not one but two of New Zealand's National Parks, Mt Aspiring and Fiordland National Parks.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Kevin Campbell, the Alliance Party candidate for the south Christchurch electorate of Wigram, is questioning the need for Project Managers (such as Fletchers and Hawkins) who manage EQC repairs.
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The Alliance Party says Phil Goff's outburst about John Key "smuggling" in extra MPs is quite bemusing.
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The Alliance Party says that it is clear that the grounding of the Rena is a disaster that didn't need to happen, and is the result of deregulation of the maritime industry.
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The Alliance Party has selected former MP Kevin Campbell as their candidate for the south Christchurch electorate of Wigram.
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A petition signed by 40 000 New Zealanders asking for GST to be removed from food will be presented at Parliament at noon tomorrow Tuesday 16 August 2011.
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The Alliance Party has described John Key's latest plan to hound young unemployed people with "micro case management", whatever that means, and other punitive measures, as a callous political stunt.
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DUNEDIN — Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says it is highly symbolic that Prime Minister John Key was in Los Angeles dining with Warner Brothers at same time as Kiwirail workers at Dunedin's Hillside workshops were being handed their redundancy letters.
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The Alliance Party says Friday 15 July is a shameful day for New Zealand, as a shipment of Chinese built railway wagons are unloaded in Tauranga, less than twenty four hours after it was announced over 40 wagon builders at Hillside workshops will be made redundant.
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The Alliance Party has congratulated the Labour Party on adopting its capital gains tax policy.
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TAURANGA — The Alliance Party has commended members of the Rail and Maritime Transport Union at the Port of Tauranga for having the courage to try to stop Kiwirail's consignment of Chinese built wagons from coming into the country and destroying Kiwi jobs.
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Wednesday 22 June 2011 has been declared a "big day for a tiny tax", highlighting the need for a worldwide financial transactions tax to curb financial speculation and provide the necessary funds to eradicate poverty and protect the environment.
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DUNEDIN — The Alliance Party says today's announcement of 41 job losses at Dunedin's Hillside Workshops is the result of a "great betrayal" of New Zealand by John Key and his National Government.
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DUNEDIN — Dunedin people will rally in the Exchange today to save the Dunedin Metro Post Shop and Kiwibank from closure by New Zealand Post management.
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DUNEDIN — A call has gone out to Dunedinites worldwide to help save the Dunedin Metro Post Shop and Kiwibank in the Exchange.
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Alliance Party Co-Leader Kay Murray and GST off Food Tax Justice campaign co-organiser Kay Murray says the new Mana Party’s Hone Heke financial transactions tax (FTT) is a great idea.
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The Alliance Party is disgusted that the government has allowed IHC leave to appeal the sleepover payment ruling to the Supreme Court.
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Alliance Party Disability Issues Spokesperson Chris Ford has called on the Government to honour the Court of Appeal decision granting sleepover workers full pay.
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The Alliance Party supports the people of Egypt in their struggle for basic rights and democratic freedoms.
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The Alliance Party says the proposed partial sale of some SOEs by the National Government would simply be a transfer of wealth from all New Zealanders to a small group of the wealthy and overseas corporations.
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The Alliance Party says most New Zealanders are opposed to privatization, but National will sell off assets to benefit its "friends" – the super rich and overseas corporations.
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DUNEDIN — Alliance Party transport spokesperson Trevor Hanson says the decision by KiwiRail management to award the contract for 300 wagons to China's CNR rather than Hillside Workshops is an attack on jobs and local industry.
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The Alliance Party's advice to John Key on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement: "Just don't do it." Will he listen? Not likely.
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The Alliance Party has today called the Welfare Working Group an evil bonding group for right wing cranks.
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