Media Release Archive
Hide must come clean on Auckland council powers
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 10 March, 2010
"Rodney Hide needs to come clean about what powers the Auckland Council will have regarding the hiri...
Key and Hide determined to corporatise Auckland
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 8 March, 2010
Prime Minister John Key is being disingenuous in his defence of the so-called Council Controlled Org...
Hide should stop misleading Aucklanders, says Labour
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 5 March, 2010
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide is blatantly misleading Aucklanders in an increasingly despera...
Pressure grows to dump commercial model for Auckland transport
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 4 March, 2010
The Government should throw out its plan to run Auckland transport like a private company controlled...
Twyford hits back at Hide over Super City criticism
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 3 March, 2010
Labour's Auckland Issues spokesperson, Phil Twyford has hit back at criticism from Local Government ...
Calling on Aucklanders to protest Super City process
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 1 March, 2010
Labour MP Phil Twyford says he is taking the unusual step of asking Aucklanders to join a protest ag...
Local Boards will choose the colour of the carpet, says Labour
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 26 February, 2010
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New city needs strong democracy to cope with two million Kiwis
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 25 February, 2010
The need for the Auckland super city to have a genuine working democracy in place is reinforced by S...
West Aucklanders sound alarm on Waitakeres
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 23 February, 2010
West Aucklanders rang alarm bells about the future of the Waitakere Ranges at today’s Auckland Gover...
Documents show Boag misled the public over involvement in ATA recruitments
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 17 February, 2010
Tender documents show Michelle Boag misled the public over her role in the recruitment of senior man...
ATA must accept Boag company mistake and act on it
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 16 February, 2010
Attempts by the Auckland Transition Agency to downplay the politicisation of the recruitment process...
Boag and Banks put Supercity integrity on the line
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 14 February, 2010
Labour's Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford says Aucklanders should be very worried about the...
Labour and Greens to run public meetings on super city bill
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 27 January, 2010
Labour and the Greens are to run a series of public meetings across Auckland to encourage people to ...
Third Bill confirms Government super city hash job
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 15 December, 2009
The Government's third super city Bill confirms just what a hash the Government has made of the reor...
Ports of Auckland to be stripped of anti-privatisation provision
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 9 December, 2009
The Government has decided to repeal the law that would prevent the privatisation of the Ports of Au...
Government leaves Aucklanders in dark over local boards
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 4 December, 2009
The Government's third super city bill leaves Aucklanders in the dark over the power of local boards...
Auckland ward boundaries a gerrymander
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 20 November, 2009
The boundaries proposed by the hamstrung Local Government Commission smack of a gerrymander and will...
Hide spawns further confusion on privatisation of Auckland's water assets
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 17 November, 2009
Rodney Hide today said the Cabinet decision to allow the new Auckland Council to privatise the city'...
Key must explain contradictory water privatisation decisions
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 9 November, 2009
John Key must explain whether the Cabinet stands by its decision to allow the new Auckland Council t...
Super city corporatisation a shocker
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 29 October, 2009
The proposed structure of the new Auckland council will corporatise the city and is a betrayal of Au...