National must start listening to the growing calls for increased investment in Research and Development, Labour's Research Science and Technology spokesperson David Shearer said today.

Notes for speech in Parliament

Once again, we've heard the rhetoric - but there's no substance.

It's Alan Bollard one, John Key nil.

National's announcement today of US, Canadian and NZ financial contributions to a Global Agriculture Fund represents a huge missed opportunity for NZ Inc, Labour's climate change spokesperson Charles Chauvel said.

The patchy picture in today's improving GDP figures is still not enough to reassure families struggling to pay their bills and worried about job security, says Labour Finance Spokesperson David Cunliffe.

Speech to New Zealand Higher Education Summit, Duxton Hotel, Wellington. Thank you for the invitation to be here today. I wish to distil my thoughts on the future of tertiary education into three areas: purpose, priorities and prospects.

2 July 2009 - The National Government's decision to subsidise fast broadband to the cities to while leaving rural New Zealanders to rely on the market is an astonishing betrayal of those who produce to wealth in this country, said Labour's Rural Affairs spokesperson Damien O'Connor.

20 May 2009 - Labour's research and development and science and technology spkesperson Moana Mackey is congratulating the Government for appointing a Chief Science Advisor in the Prime Minister's Office, but says the appointment is ironic as it seems National is about to gut science and research

"By slashing funding for science the government is making it harder for New Zealand to climb out of the recession," says Public Service Association national secretary Richard Wagstaff.

26 February 2009 - Labour Leader Phil Goff today called on the National Government to rethink its 1 April tax cuts.

30 January 2009 - Labour Leader Phil Goff has welcomed the release of a Treasury briefing today revealing that influential officials advised the National government that it would be wrong to scrap several key Labour initiatives when it came into power.