Labour Leader to Deliver Scene-Setting Budget Week Speech
David SHEARER
Labour Leader
20 May 2012
MEDIA ADVISORY
Labour Leader to Deliver Scene-Setting
Budget Week Speech
Labour Leader David
Shearer will kick off the Budget week with a speech to the
NZ Manufacturers and Exporters Association in Christchurch
tomorrow.
His speech will argue that the Budget
won't do enough to grow the economy, and New Zealanders are
working harder than ever but not getting ahead as a
result.
It will set out facts including that
under National, we’ve got:
·
50,000 New Zealanders going to Australia in the past
year
· 50,000 more Kiwis without
jobs
· 50,000 more people living on
benefits
· And the worst economic growth
record of any government in at least 50 years
Labour is
calling for stronger economic leadership to deliver jobs
and higher incomes. Tough decisions are needed to help our
exporters expand their businesses, educate and up-skill
Kiwis, invest in science and innovation and save more for
the future.
Media are welcome to attend the speech.
Embargoed copies will be distributed in advance of the
speech.
Date: Monday 21
May
Time: 4.45pm
Venue: BNZ Russley Centre, Hurunui Room, Level 1, 5 Sir William Pickering Drive, Burnside, Christchurch
ENDS