Press Releases
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Landline Polls Must Go
Posted on November 14, 2011 by admin in Election 2011, Hone Harawira, Press ReleasesLeader of MANA Hone Harawira Leader of MANA, Hone Harawira, urges voters not to be fooled by phoney landline polls that create a false impression about which candidate is in front and which one is behind. He comments “Today’s poll released by Te Karere…
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MANA CALLS FOR FULL DISCLOSURE ON TPPA
Posted on November 14, 2011 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press ReleasesMANA leader Hone Harawira is calling on the government to release all details of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) which US president Barack Obama announced there had been preliminary agreement on. Mr Harawira says MANA has consistently opposed the US…
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Mana seeks apology from National for misleading voters on tax
Posted on November 14, 2011 by admin in John Minto, Press ReleasesMana is challenging John Key to front up and apologise to New Zealanders for National’s misleading election material about the percentage of tax paid by New Zealanders In their election handouts shoved into every letterbox in the country National claims that…
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Street Survey would see MANA with 4 MPs
Posted on November 14, 2011 by admin in Hone Harawira, Press Releases“The results of a street survey conducted by the NZ Herald confirm what we’ve been hearing on the ground” said MANA Leader Hone Harawira. “With just over 3% of the party vote, me, Annette Sykes, John Minto and Sue Bradford would…
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Asset sales to subsidise rich farmers
Posted on November 10, 2011 by admin in John Minto, Press ReleasesSelling our assets for irrigation subsidies to the Dairy industry adds insult to injury MANA’s economic justice spokesperson John Minto says the dairy industry should pay for their own irrigation and not flog off New Zealanders assets to subsidize their building. “Why…
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Mana: Nats lack common decency on GI housing
Posted on November 10, 2011 by admin in Press ReleasesMana: Nats lack common decency on GI housing The National Government’s move to evict long term residents out of Glen Innes shows they lack any sense of common decency says Mana housing spokesperson Sue Bradford. Ms Bradford says when Housing New…
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Mana: Waitakere campaign – Bennett to finally appear?
Posted on November 9, 2011 by admin in Press Releases, Sue BradfordMana – Election 2011 Media Release Tuesday 8 November 2011 Mana: Waitakere campaign – Bennett to finally appear? Mana candidate Sue Bradford is looking forward to finally being able to engage with Paula Bennett at a local Waitakere candidates’ meeting tomorrow night. Ms Bradford…
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Mana: Labour in no hurry over child poverty
Posted on November 8, 2011 by admin in Press ReleasesMana Social Wellbeing spokesperson Sue Bradford says she is not impressed with Labour’s lack of urgency over child poverty. “For years organisations working with children have been challenging Labour over its refusal to extend Working for Families to cover beneficiary children,”…
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Govt accounts should be shifted to Kiwibank – Mana
Posted on November 7, 2011 by admin in John Minto, Press ReleasesMANA is calling for all New Zealand government accounts to be shifted from Westpac to Kiwibank in a move which would express national economic pride in New Zealand. This follows the announcement last week that the ANZ and Westpac (two of our big four…
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Mana moves to clarify industrial relations policy
Posted on November 7, 2011 by admin in John Minto, Press ReleasesMANA has moved quickly to make it clear the party does not support compulsory trade unionism as stated by the New Zealand Herald newspaper this morning. MANA spokesperson John Minto says the mistake in the Herald took MANA’s support for nationally…
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