Media Release Archive
Aucklanders to pay for a super city most don't want
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 27 May, 2010
Auckland ratepayers will be hit with a bill of $170 each to pay for a super city model most of them ...
Government says 'NO' to Aucklanders
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 24 May, 2010
Government has said 'no' to the two big things that Aucklanders wanted that would help fix their bro...
Super city poll numbers spell failure for Govt
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 14 May, 2010
Labour's Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford said independent poll results out today showing s...
Government confirms first part of water con
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 7 May, 2010
The Government has finally admitted its new Local Government Bill will allow private ownership of wa...
Government to allow private ownership of water for 35 years
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 30 April, 2010
Rodney Hide’s Bill allowing private companies to own the water infrastructure of councils for up to ...
Hide's hypocrisy stretches from the north to the south
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 21 April, 2010
Aucklanders and Cantabrians will be surprised to hear Rodney Hide championing democracy after he has...
Aucklanders are not happy campers
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 14 April, 2010
“The Government has missed a unique opportunity to develop Auckland’s Queens Wharf into a showcasing...
Hide's push for privatisation
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 9 April, 2010
“Rodney Hide needs to come clean about his push to privatise Auckland assets” says Labour Spokespers...
Corporate appointment will fuel suspicions
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 26 March, 2010
“The Government’s appointment of liquor boss Doug McKay as CEO of the Auckland Transition Agency wil...
Flawed bill will still cost Aucklanders
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 25 March, 2010
Labour MP Phil Twyford says Rodney Hides third super city bill states that 6 of the Auckland CCOs wi...
Hide spins in face of mounting opposition
Promoter: Labour Party
Media Release: 16 March, 2010
Labour's Auckland Issues spokesperson, Phil Twyford says “Minister of Local Government, Rodney Hide ...
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...