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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The Alliance Party says that Actors Equity is not to blame for the ghastly climb downs the National Government has made to keep The Hobbit in New Zealand.
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WELLINGTON — Former Alliance Party President Matt McCarten took the Alliance Party by surprise with his last minute decision to stand as an independent candidate in the Mana byelection with the support of UNITE Union.
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The Alliance Party says raising GST to 15% will hurt the majority of New Zealanders and cause financial stress and hardship.
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"Timid" is how Alliance Party co leader Kay Murray describes Labour's announcement that they will remove GST from fresh fruit and vegetables.
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The Alliance Party is supporting New Zealand’s teachers and has called on the Ministry of Education to return to the bargaining table with with an offer that will improve the learning conditions of New Zealand’s youth and not undermine teachers in their efforts to do their job.
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The Alliance Party says National and Labour are squabbling over meaningless details of economic policy while the gap between wage rates in New Zealand and Australia grows larger.
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John Key's attempt to sell the 90 day trial period as an act of kindness to "help" the jobless into work should be treated with contempt, says the Alliance Party.
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TAIHAPE — The failure of Otaihape Health Trust to manage its budget shows the danger of relying on private providers to service New Zealand's health needs, says Alliance Party Health Spokesperson Tom Dowie.
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The Alliance Party says John Key's announcement of attacks on working New Zealanders and their unions must be resisted.
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The Alliance Party has denounced the physical attack yesterday on Green MP Russell Norman on the steps of Parliament.
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Alliance Party co leader Kay Murray says she is sick to death of right wing politicians moaning about 'welfare dependency'.
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The Alliance Party says KiwiRail CEO Jim Quinn and the silent Minister of Transport Steven Joyce may not think New Zealand can handle such a large engineering contract as the building of Auckland's new electric trains – but New Zealand workers are absolutely certain that they can do the job.
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The Alliance Party says the Israeli attack on the humanitarian flotilla carrying aid to Gaza deserves international condemnation.
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National's budget announced today is pushing New Zealand further down the road of inequality and social breakdown, says the Alliance Party.
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The Alliance says that National's proposed tax changes will take money out of the pockets of low to middle income New Zealanders in order to give people like John Key a handout of hundreds of dollars a week in tax cuts.
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The Alliance Party believes that the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has declared war on scheme claimants in order to make it profitable ahead of possible privatisation.
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The Alliance Party says the Government's Welfare Reform Group headed by former Commerce Commission chairwoman, Paula Rebstock, is a "Trojan horse" aimed at downgrading and privatizing the social security system.
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The Alliance Party wonders if IHC Chief Executive Ralph Jones actually knows what his frontline workers are paid.
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A rise in crime rates of 4.6 percent, though not good news, should come as no surprise, says the Alliance Party.
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The Alliance Party says it is deeply disturbing that anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune could be jailed for up to 15 years in Japan.
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The Alliance Party today called on IHC to stop treating its sleepover staff like slumber party attendees by paying them a full hourly rate for each hour worked.
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The Alliance asks whether the National Government wants seven year old school children coming home to a locked, empty house.
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The Alliance Party says the arrest and trial of Peter Bethune by the Japanese is a major diplomatic incident for New Zealand.
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The Alliance Party has joined calls from Age Concern and others to stop an Otago and Southland District Health Board move to scrap home help services for the elderly.
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The Alliance is backing a campaign by rail workers to have KiwiRail's new locomotives and wagons built in New Zealand.
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The Alliance Party says a rise in GST would impact on bulk-funded organizations in the disability, elderly and social services sector.
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The Alliance Party has welcomed today's Court of Appeal ruling that found in favour of the Alliance's complaint on lack of broadcasting time in the 2008 general election.
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Alliance Party Economic Development Spokesperson Quentin Findlay says the Alliance would introduce more direct taxes to make the tax system fairer for the vast majority of New Zealanders.
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The proposed rise in GST makes the Prime Minister John Key "Robin Hood in reverse" says the Alliance Party, which probably means he is playing the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham - robbing from the poor to help the rich.
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The Alliance Party says "A tax system for New Zealand's future", the report from the Government's Tax Working Group, is predictable and flawed in its negative, anti-social focus.
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The Alliance has condemned the Government's wishy washy approach to Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean.
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The Alliance is campaigning to keep water rights in public ownership through local councils.
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The Alliance Party says New Zealand’s lack of controls on company regulation and overseas investment risk turning it into a "third rate Cayman Islands" of unregulated financial deals.
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Alliance Party industrial spokesperson Trevor Hanson says the National Government's attacks on four weeks annual leave will rip away precious family time for New Zealanders - and with a stunning lack of empathy "the grinch party" have announced their policy at Christmas time.
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The Alliance Party says New Zealand's transport infrastructure should not be allowed to fall victim to the National Government's lack of foresight and lack of leadership.
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Maritime Union General Secretary Joe Fleetwood says employers and Government agencies appear to be turning a blind eye to unsafe working conditions in New Zealand ports.
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The Alliance Party is delighted that the Cluster Munitions Prohibitions Bill was passed unanimously last week, says co-leader Kay Murray.
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Any agreement reached at the Climate Change talks in Copenhagen will be a stop gap measure at best, says Professor Jim Flynn of the Alliance Party.
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Alliance Party co leader Kay Murray says it is time for National and ACT to get over their fixation with flat tax and return to reality.
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The Alliance Party is unsurprised that the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has left levy rate hike proposals unchanged following their recent sham public consultation.
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The Alliance Party is supporting IHC’s stand against Paul Henry and is encouraging TVNZ to sack their errant broadcaster.
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The Alliance Party has strongly criticized the 2025 Taskforce and the contents of their new report on New Zealand's economic future, key points of which has already appeared in media before its official release today, saying that it was so out of touch with reality that even Prime Minister John Key had distanced himself from it.
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Alliance Party finance spokesperson Professor Jim Flynn says the government has to think outside the square to prevent ordinary New Zealanders losing their houses during the economic crisis because they can't afford their mortgage payments.
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The Alliance Party agrees wholeheartedly with Treasury Chief John Whitehead that “bold tax reforms are needed” but the Alliance believes that a shift in focus is needed in this debate.
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The Alliance Party has congratulated the Maori Television Service putting together a very competitive bid for the rights to provide free to air coverage of the rugby world cup.
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Alliance Party co leader Kay Murray says the New Zealand political scene will be poorer now that Sue Bradford has announced she is to resign from parliament.
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The Alliance Party has welcomed the Labour Party taking on board two of its central policies – but is asking why they have suddenly changed tack when they are outside Government after nine years of doing nothing on these two important issues.
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The Alliance Party says sleepover pay for community service workers in residential care facilities is being blocked by employers and lack of Government funding.
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The Alliance Party says an increase in GST would hurt low and middle income earners.
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The Alliance Party is backing hundreds of telecom workers whose jobs and conditions are threatened through contracting out by Telecom.
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DUNEDIN — The Alliance Party says proposals to push forward user pays water metering will unleash a torrent of resistance from angry Dunedinites.
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The Alliance Party says that moves to loosen up New Zealand's already sloppy rules on foreign control of the economy would mean the future threat of further privatization and loss of assets.
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The Alliance Party of New Zealand says the news that New Zealanders will have to wait years for Telecom and Vodafone to be made to bring down excessive mobile charges is a travesty.
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The Alliance Party of New Zealand says the Government's 1.95% funding increase for Early Childhood Education is a bad joke.
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The Alliance Party of New Zealand says the National Government's funding freeze on polytechnic's is an "ignorant policy that will lead to an ignorant society." Education Minister Anne Tolley says there is no more money to fund extra places in polytechnics during the recession.
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Alliance Party Kay Murray says if the best shot from the National Government's Minister of Corrections Judith Collins to deal with the breakdown of society is to pack prisoners into metal boxes meant for transporting goods, then New Zealand has been brought to a new low.
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The Alliance Party of New Zealand says Revenue Minister Peter Dunne's proposed changes to the student loan repayment scheme by National would be tightening the screws on students even more.
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The Alliance Party of New Zealand has described funding cuts to Adult Community Education (ACE) as "social vandalism" by the National Party.
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The Alliance Party has condemned the National Government’s complete withdrawal of Training Incentive Allowance (TIA) coverage for undergraduate tertiary students who are on the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB), Widow’s Benefit and Emergency Maintenance Allowance.
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Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says the Kiwi Party sponsored referendum “should a light smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand” is a waste of $9 million that could be better spent supporting struggling families.
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The Alliance Party says it agrees with "its traditional enemy" The Treasury on one tax issue: a capital gains tax on property investments is needed.
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Alliance Party co leader Kay Murray says World Environment Day must be about more than a few ceremonial tree plantings and other "feel good exercises." "We can't afford token gestures on climate change and the degradation of the planet and its people." Ms Murray says the Alliance believes the state of the planet, the people and the economy are all connected.
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Alliance Economic Development spokesperson Quentin Findlay says Bill English’s 2009 Budget is a ‘Winnie the Pooh’ budget – "a budget of very little brain".
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The Alliance Party says that the National Government and Labour opposition should "get off the grass" with their pathetic response to the collapse of free trade in dairy products with the USA.
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The Alliance Party says electricity generators have been given a license to print money as freezing winter weather pushes up peoples power bills.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says it is unacceptable that receivers have not guaranteed wages owed to laid off workers at the Lane Walker Rudkin factories in Christchurch, Greytown and Pahiatua.
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Alliance Economic Development spokesperson Quentin Findlay says that Finance Minister Bill English should stop talking and start acting to regulate banks to curb excessive profiteering.
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The Alliance Party is supporting locked out flight attendants employed by Air New Zealand subsidiary Zeal 320 Ltd.
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The Alliance Party says the National Government's plan to blow $35 million on boot camps is money down the drain for taxpayers, as it will do nothing for at risk youth and may even make things worse for them.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The Alliance Party says the Government should take ownership of the Lane Walker Rudkin (LWR) Factory in Christchurch to prevent a disastrous loss of hundreds of jobs.
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