Labour Party Getting 'Fired up' for Election at Annual Conference

Stormy start to Labour's election push as party takes aim at a winter of discontent

Holding a wintertime event in Wellington is not without its fair share of weather-related risk, as Labour can now testify. The party’s election-year congress had its Saturday crowds thinned by the wild winds and rain that led to a suite of flight cancellations and road closures. But several hundred attendees braved the weather, making their way to the capital’s Tākina convention centre to hear about the party’s plans to take back power come Nove…

Thomas Coughlan: Labour candidates drive through night to reach blustery capital

Labour’s candidates didn’t think they’d begin their congress weekend retracing the tyre marks of disgraced National MP Jami-Lee Ross. And yet that’s what a...

Labour Party getting 'fired up' for election at annual conference

Labour Party candidates and members are rallying in Wellington, with leader Chris Hipkins saying it is a chance for the party to get "fired up" ahead of the election.