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The Treasurer Wayne Swan is expected to announce 4-billion-dollar of cuts and changes to keep the government's budget surplus on track. Mr Swan will release his media economic outlook this morning. It's understood to include cuts to the defense budge

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Should Lords block tax credit cuts? YESTERDAY Lib Dem leader and Labour's Owen Smith debate tax credits

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新西兰英语 754 Death of MP, Parekura Horomia

We heard the sad news that Parekura Horomia died at his home in Tolaga Bay, this afternoon. He was 62. He had problems with his weight and tried for many years to improve his health but recently he had not been very well. He had been a Labour Party M

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The Labour Party will not ban men from becoming candidates for election in some seats. The Labour Council wants to discuss the idea during the Labour Party conference in November of having 50% women MPs. However, David Shearer, the leader of the Labo

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First check back to November 18th about the Labour Party conference. During the conference last weekend, David Cunnliffe refused to say if he supported David Shearer as Leader of the Opposition. This looked as if Mr Cunnliffe wanted to challenge Mr S

新西兰英语 693 Labour Party Conference

The Labour Party held their annual conference over the weekend. More than 500 members attended. A member is someone who pays a membership fee to belong to the Labour Party. This includes the 34 Labour Members of Parliament. The Leader of the Oppositi

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Cesar Chavez was a Mexican-American labour leader and civil rights activist. He was a farm worker who co-founded the biggest farm workers union in the USA and improved the working conditions of thousands of farm labourers. Many see him as one of Amer

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新西兰英语 64 Small Political Parties

It is not just the American Presidential elections in early November. Four days after the Americans have chosen their new President, we will vote but we cannot choose our leader. We can only vote for one person in our local area, our electorate, and

新西兰英语 74 National Party Wins

It was not a surprise last night to learn that the National Party won the election. The telephone polls had been telling us for a long time that National would get around 45% of the vote and Labour about 34% and that was exactly right. National has 5

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When Helen Clark left Parliament, the Labour Party announced there would be a by-election in Mt Albert to find a replacement MP. Russell Norman, co-leader of the Green Party, and John Boscawen of the ACT Party both want to be the MP for Mt Albert. Th

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The Labour MP Chris Carter is in trouble today. He wrote a letter which he handed to some reporters. The letter said that he believed Phil Goff, who is the Leader of the Opposition, does not have a chance to win the next election. He believed that an

新西兰英语 538 Labour Party Leadership

After the Labour Party lost the election, the leader, Phil Goff, resigned. Later this week the Party will choose another leader. They will choose between two men David Shearer and David Cunliffe. Both men have been speaking at Labour Party meetings.

新西兰英语 530 National plans new welfare benefits

362,400 people aged between 18 and 64 are on welfare benefits. (June 2010 figures). The Prime Minister, John Key, said today that if National is re-elected, there would be changes to the benefits. Sole parents who have children aged 14 and over will

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