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When Ministers in the previous Labour government opened new buildings or conferences, it was their custom to acknowledge National Party MPs who had made a special contribution to the event or opening....
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Labour believes that the Parliament genuinely is a people’s parliament. Even if people have differing views.So when Labour was asked (by the National Party on behalf of the Speaker) whether we...
View ArticlePosting from Labour’s EQ recovery spokesperson
Emergency service staff, whose priority is saving lives, are doing everything they can in what resembles a war zone. I have been helping distribute emergency phone numbers and I have come across some...
View ArticleCanterbury MPs earthquake update
Over the past 5 months Labour’s Canterbury MPs, Ruth Dyson, Lianne Dalziel, Brendon Burns and myself, have been writing a daily bulletin to keep people in our electorates and media informed about what...
View ArticleEnemies of democracy
Yesterday marked the end of hearings on the government’s disgraceful Mixed Ownership Model Bill. Astoundingly we were told that Treasury officials had already written their report, before all...
View ArticleAsset sales bill on the move
Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee Chair Todd McClay has announced he expects to report the Asset Sales Bill back to the House six weeks early, instead of the original date of 16...
View ArticleAsset Sales: Labour’s minority report
Last week we released our minority select committee report on the National Government’s Asset Sales legislation. They treated public opinion on this issue with utter contempt and abused the select...
View ArticleKeep Our Assets Bill Drawn
Yesterday my Labour colleagues and I had an outstanding result from the Members Ballot with four Labour bills drawn. If successful my State-Owned Enterprises and Crown Entities (Protecting New...
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