Party Blog
Mangere wins Phil Goff as special guest
Jenny Michie | 19th October 2009 | 2:58 am
We're pleased to announce that Mangere has won Phil Goff as their special prize guest in this weekend's Labour Weekend parties. Over 300 people are hosting parties all over the country, and they're multi purpose events: fun times with people you like, fundraiser for the Labour Party and a celebration of another quality public holiday bought to you by the labour movement!
Labour puts the FUN into fundraising
Dianna Snaddon | 17th October 2009 | 11:24 pm
True to form, the Labour Party continue to come up with innovative ideas to put the fun into fundraising by organising events that make the hard task of raising money into great social occasions
The East Coast Bays, Ohariu and Waimakariri Electorates have each come up with some great fundraisers covering action on the water, great food and team camaradarie.
On Saturday 24th October, at 2.00pm the East Coast Bays LEC are making the "offer of a lifetime" - the opportunity to secure your very own ride on the bio-fuelled boat Earthrace. Earthrace is an amazing powerboat that holds the record for a powerboat to circumnavigate the globe (60 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes), which was completed in June 2008. She now has a new mission;To work with Sea Shepherd on marine conservation. Earthrace is one of the most amazing vessels ever built. She is a wavepiercer, and can submarine up to 7m (23ft) underwater. She can travel over 13,000 nautical miles (over half way around the planet) on one tank of fuel....And she runs 100% biodiesel made from sustainable sources. Tickets are just $100.00 and available from Viv Goldsmith 09 442-1572 or 021 12279 or email goldsmith@vodafone.co.nz. Be in quick, there are only eight places left.
Ohariu Labour presents their "End of Winter Dinner and Auction" - their major fundraiser for the year - at 7.00pm on Thursday 29 October 2009. Once again it is going to take the form of a delicious Indian dinner, being held at the home of Ash Basin, the Country Club, Ohariu Valley Road. The guest speaker is Parliament's newest MP, David Shearer, fresh from a stunning by-election win in Mt Albert having only a few months earlier returned from his very important role with the UN in Iraq. he LEC also hope to launch the first of their new branch networks at this event, and will also hear an update from their own MP, Labour's Climate Change Spokesperson, Charles Chauvel. ickets are $75 per person, and include the event, the meal, and a welcome drink. Tickets are already selling fast so please be sure to contact David Hollander by phoning 021 892 882 to buy yours.
Waimakariri LEC are having a Quiz Night on Monday 16 November at the The Peg Tavern, Belfast. from 7.00 to 9.30pm $20.00pp or a Team of 6. The event is being organised by Heather Mannix, phone 03 9813073 or 027 3600228 for tickets. If you can’t get a team together, don't worry they will have a team for you.
Labour News 102 - Thanks to everyone who helped make conference so great
Jenny Michie | 9th October 2009 | 1:15 am
Over 600 delegates attended last months Labour Party Annual Conference at the stunning Rotorua Events Centre. It was a big success with great workshop that got everybody buzzing and thinking, inspiring speakers, wonderful atmosphere and it was great to see democracy in action with a card vote during the remit session.
Over 600 delegates attended last months Labour Party Annual Conference at the stunning Rotorua Events Centre. It was a big success with great workshop that got everybody buzzing and thinking, inspiring speakers, wonderful atmosphere and it was great to see democracy in action with a card vote during the remit session.
Thank you to everyone who helped make conference such a success.
People who helped run Workshops: David Cunliffe, Jordan Carter, Annette King, David Craig, David Parker, Jeremy Greenbrook, Jo Bartley, Richard Northey, Erin Ebborn Gillespie, Lianne Dalziel, Rob Egan, Martin Ward, Rajen Prasad, Len Brown, Mike Lee, Phil Twyford, Andy Linton, Su'a William Sio, Rochelle Rees, Pete Hodgson, Jill Ovens, Patrick Leyland and Bronwyn Presland.
And a special thanks to people from outside the Party who came and made the workshops challenging and often surprising:
Lachlan Mackenzie from Fed Farmers, businessman Selwyn Pellet, Steven Miles and Nick Moraitis from Australia, Monsignor David Cappo from Adelaide, Professor Ralph Chapman, Lewis Holden from the Republican Movement and Don Christie President of the Open Source Society. The Fringe workshops were great and we'll certainly be incorporating them into future conferences. I couldn't mention the Open Source workshop without acknowledging one of the youngest conference delegates, eight year old Jackson Lacy, who wowed the other workshop participants with his enthusiasm and amazing knowledge of the inner workings of open source.
Thank you to our powerful and inspiring speakers: Rotorua Mayor Kevin Winters,host MP Steve Chadwick, Party President Andrew Little, South Australian Premier Mike Rann (I've got a hard copy of his speech if anyone wants one), CTU President Helen Kelly, Labour Leader Phil Goff and Deputy Leader Annette King. And who could forget Mike Williams' gold badge presentation with the wonderful 'good bastard' speech from Pete Hodgson?
Thanks too to Trevor Maxwell and his kapa haka group, the Fraser House team, Rosemary Cathcart and the Rotorua LEC for putting on a great dinner for us (even though the ABs didn't win), our event producer Romola Lang and her team for another great conference. I'd like to acknowledge the Sector Council heads for their role in keeping the Party in good shape. Thank you to our fabulous MC Darren Hughes, where would we be without you? To Therese McCrea from Palmy for giving us the marvellous Labour Cake - you are a decorating genius and we loved it! A debt of gratitude to Philippa Burns for 'selling' the Labour Party Packs and the Dick Frizzel poster all weekend with such panache and a special thank you to our beautiful flower girl Charlotte Agnew-Harrington and my hardworking minions, the Lesperance kids. Thanks, you were a treat!
And a big thankyou to photographer John Chapman who was flat out all weekend taking hundreds of photos. A selection of conference photos is available at Grassroots Labour (which now has 954 members so if 6 of you could join right now to make it an even thousand, that would be good!). If John took your photo and you'd like a copy just email me jenny.michie@labour.org.nz
And for those of you who went to conference and would like to give us some feedback, here's a quick survey form you can fill in to help us make Annual Conferences even better.
