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To make things worse, workers have lost some of the protections that once came along with a good job. They can be made redundant and have their lives turned upside down without any financial compensation.
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Labour Groups: Positive
We must invest now to provide the infrastructure to meet this projected growth or risk traffic congestion damaging the economy and reducing our capacity to create jobs. The Abbott-Turnbull Government has courted conflict with Victoria, particularly over the scrapped East-West Link, which would have provided a paltry 45 cents in economic benefit for every dollar invested.
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Technology and Infrastructure: Positive
Labour will:set a target of net zero for greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, with legally binding emissions reduction targets, and carbon budgets to keep New Zealand on track to this goal establish an independent Climate Commission to recommend interim emissions reduction targets and provide advice on the ramifications of not achieving them
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Costs can be crippling for ordinary families. What is the point of having a childcare system that is so expensive it does not pay to work?
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Cancer Services: Fine Gael will extend BreastCheck, the national breast screening programme, to 65 – 69 year old women. Fine Gael will introduce a cervical cancer vaccination catch-up programme for all girls up to the age of 18 years.
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we must boost productivity growth to make Australia more competitive, productive and prosperous; we must start building a more diverse, world-class economy–a 5-Pillar economy–that builds on our strengths as a nation and builds real prosperity for the future so that living standards improve, not fall, in the years ahead;
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Economic Growth: Positive
•Increased federal contracts to small businesses. In 2003, small businesses received the largest percentage ever of all federal contracts.
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Incentives: Positive
We will improve the quality of care and the efficiency of the medical system by using American technological know-how to cut billions of dollars wasted in administrative processing and paperwork. Today, about a quarter of all health-related spending is not even medical.
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The food industry is the nation’s largest manufacturing sector, and employs more than 200,000 Australians, half of them in rural and regional areas. It accounts for about 2.5 per cent of GDP, yet there is little understanding of the food chain among governments, the community, manufacturers, processors and even farmers.
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Agriculture and Farmers: Positive
Pass a Nature Act to put the Natural Capital Committee (NCC) on a statutory footing, set legally binding natural capital targets, including on biodiversity, clean air and water,
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We will continue to oppose all efforts to weaken the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, and we will vigorously enforce laws that prevent discrimination.
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Equality: Positive
Introduce new support for small- scale family farms and for new entrants to farming. This support, including increased security of tenure for farmers, will help develop sustainable farming methods.
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Agriculture and Farmers: Positive
National Musical Instrument Library: Fine Gael will roll out a National Musical Instrument Library for children and young people, where a variety of instruments can be rented out for a nominal fee on a countrywide basis. We will also continue to support 'Music Generation' to ensure programmes are sustained on a long-term and lasting basis with Local Music Education Partnerships.
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Culture: Positive
Back a Citizens Convention and citizens assemblies to examine further ways to strengthen democracy, including developing a written People’s Constitution and Bill of Rights, and ensure the proposals come before Parliament.
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We believe in an America where people looking for work can find good jobs, where hard work pays,
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Labour Groups: Positive
Arts Council funding was increased to 380 million in 2007. This builds on earlier increases of about 80% between 1997 and 2002.
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Culture: Positive
Increasingly the public service has become over administrated It appears that the emphasis within the public service has increasingly moved away from a performance based culture and there are few if any meaningful parameters to review performance collectively or individually
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The Greens want to give people more control over their time and working arrangements, balancing this against their employers’ legitimate operational needs. Just over half of all Australians want to change their hours of work, even if it might impact on their income.
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Labour Groups: Positive
Successive years of cuts to our defense budget have put an undue strain on our men and women in uniform. This is especially harmful at a time when we are asking our military to do more in an increasingly dangerous world.
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Military: Positive
In addition to a new "Welcome to Medicare" physical, the program will contain new services and screenings to help detect and prevent heart disease, diabetes, and other major illnesses. We also applaud the addition of income relation for the Medicare Part B premium to further protect the Medicare program for the future and to protect low income seniors from increased costs.
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Continue and update our Business Growth Agenda. The Business Growth Agenda is helping New Zealand companies compete, invest and provide more jobs.
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Economic Growth: Positive
• ensure effective deterrents to poaching and trafficking of protected species and support ‘threatened species recovery programmes’
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Strong defence, meeting our NATO target of at least 2 per cent of GDP and increasing spending by at least half a per cent more than inflation every year.
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Military: Positive
- Stop discrimination. We will outlaw incitement to hatred and discrimination in housing and employment, including the armed forces, on grounds of sexual orientation.
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Equality: Positive
-• ensure the widest possible freedom in choice in education, promoted by diversity of systems and schools; -• ensure that all children have access to the best possible education, irrespective of sex, race, religion, socioeconomic background or place of residence;
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We do not wish to leave £1.4 Trillion of debt as a legacy for our children. Rebalancing our economy should have three focal points for the public sector:
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We will cut the standard rate of tax by 2% from 20% to 18%. We will index personal credits and bands to earnings.
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Incentives: Positive
Our fisheries sector has long been moving up the value curve. However, because of limited nutrient upwelling and low nutrient run-off from the Australian landmass our surrounding seas are typically nutrient poor and not very productive by international standards.
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Agriculture and Farmers: Positive
2. Appropriate counselling and guidance services and SNA provision for all pupils . Early intervention should be provided for those with Special Needs and a reversal of the 15% cut to special needs support;
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Anti-competitive behaviour: Introduce criminal sanctions to deter hard-core cartel behaviour, such as price-fixing and bid-rigging. Loan sharks: Bring in tougher consumer credit laws to target loan sharks and protect unwary consumers.
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Market Regulation
The Special Criminal Court has an important part to play in providing a viable route to prosecuting serious criminals. The three judge Special Criminal Court protects jurors and their families from the distinct threat that this level of criminality represents.
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Law and Order: Positive
Agri-food is also Ireland’s largest indigenous industry and themain economic driver in many rural areas. There is still great potential to expand this sector by providingpremium quality food, more jobs and added value through lower intensity farming.
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Agriculture and Farmers: Positive
It is at the core of our agenda for change. Investing in equality is what will help Ireland recover.
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Equality: Positive
We will equalize access to affordable credit and improve access to down payment assistance to help families of color, low-income families, and rural buyers purchase homes.
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However, Labor has been incapable of doing this The Nationals are committed to returning the Federal Budget to a real surplus and beginning to repay the mammoth debt accumulated by Labor.
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and promote equalities, we will: Campaign to reduce intolerance, including anti-Semitism, and hate crimes alongside organisations such as Show Racism the Red Card, the Anne Frank Trust UK, and Kick It Out.
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Equality: Positive
Labour:  Allowed power prices to skyrocket by 72 per cent in nine years. Under National they’ve gone up a modest 13 per cent.
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Simply put, the charge on irrigation water will reflect that freshwater is a common good, and that the use of this public good for private profit should result in a direct benefit going back to both the environment and the wider community. We will ring-fence the money generated by the irrigation charge for water pollution clean-up initiatives.
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The Authority will evaluate the Te Reo and Matauranga Māori outcomes it is purchasing through all medium – education, broadcasting, promotional, community, whānau and īwi and adjust its funding to achieve the best outcomes. Lead research on language acquisition to develop initiatives to accelerate learners ability to speak Te Reo and practice Matauranga Māori.
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Multiculturalism: Positive
We will support better pay for musicians, writers, visual artists, actors and those involved in set productions through engagement with the Irish Writers Union, the Musicians Union of Ireland, Equity, the Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild and all other relevant bodies. We will support artists, as the essential component of the arts world, in their lobbying for a better return from publishing and distribution companies, to make the arts a viable employment option.
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Culture: Positive
Many other developed nations resent such emissions changes being counted, but it was critically important to Australia’s achievement of our first Kyoto commitment. Excluding LULUCF (which many nations do in counting emissions), Australia’s emissions averaged 130% of 1990 levels (rather than 103%) over the first commitment period (2008-2012).
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• Achieve control over the nation's accounts, halt the rising burden of debt for future years,
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• An 11-clinic after-hours care network is up and running in Auckland, providing better care for 1.3 million people. • Better medicine monitoring for more patients through local pharmacies.
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We will vote to increase the minimum wage to £8.70 by 2020. We will also support measures to extend the Living Wage across the UK.
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reduce the monthly Drug Payment Scheme threshold to €100 per month, increase working age welfare payments by €10 with an additional €10 top-up payment for carers, disability allowance, invalidity and blind pension recipients,
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An investigation must be carried out to identify important wild and scenic rivers running through stewardship land which should be reclassified to protect these rivers. Legislation must ensure that the granting of RMA consents is consistent with the proposed National Policy Statement on Water Resource Uses and the Strategy.
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We will support: Keeping the cost of doing business low by maintaining Industrial De-Rating and the Small Business Rates Relief; Reducing the rate of Corporation Tax to at least 12.5%;
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Incentives: Positive
• Opened big motorway projects early: − Manukau Harbour Crossing. − State Highway 20 to State Highway 1 link.
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Technology and Infrastructure: Positive
In stark contrast, we believe we must take immediate action to curb the influence of lobbyists and special interests on our political institutions. President Obama signed an executive order to establish unprecedented ethics rules so that those who leave the executive branch may not lobby this administration and officials may not accept gifts from lobbyists.
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with skill and experience to advise Ministers on the implications of their decisions and deliver constant improvement in services to the public.
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Stroke Care Co-ordinators will provide information and education to patients and families and they will help patients to access local follow-up and rehabilitation programs, making sure that stroke sufferers get access to the care they need once they’ve left hospital Co-ordinators will be drawn from a range of fields, including nursing and allied health, ensuring that they have the experience and skills to offer much-needed support and assistance to patients and their families
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A new urban cycleways fund of $100 million. Safer drivers on safer roads.
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Technology and Infrastructure: Positive
Monday’s feeding frenzy of expenditure would actually make inflationary pressures worse. Mr Howard spent nearly $10 billion on Monday.
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Waiting times for patients ready for cancer radiation treatment have been reduced to just four weeks. Increased spending on the public health service by $1.5 billion over three years, despite some of the toughest financial times in our history.
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Oppose the privatisation of the ESB and other public sector companies. Explore and pursue possibilities for establishing new profitable companies in public ownership, particularly in strategic sectors.
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and with communities able to take charge of aspects of their own local development – through, for example, establishing local banks and community energy cooperatives. Devolve further revenue-raising powers away from Westminster, to regions from Cornwall to North East England.
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Fianna Fáil is the party of job creation and we are absolutely committed to maintaining high-levels of good employment, low levels of unemployment and a strong business sector.
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Economic Goals
Immediately review the effects of the centralization of truancy contracts on school communities and work with the sector to decentralize and better meet local need. Re-allocate Aspire Scholarship funding to support students from low income families to attend public secondary schools.
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Education Expansion
Encourage employers to promote employee participation and employee ownership, aiming to increase further the proportion of GDP in employee-owned businesses. We will change company law to permit a German-style two-tier board structure to include employees.
This example text from a political party manifesto is positive towards cooperation of government, employers, and trade unions simultaneously
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Supporting innovation and startups – Labor will drive jobs and innovation through tax relief and support for startups. Helping small business – Labor will deliver tax cuts to small businesses while putting them on a more even playing field when it comes to competing in the marketplace.
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Incentives: Positive
Because of the crucial need to raise wages and salaries by increasing investment, we favour accepting that there will need to be an ongoing gap between the company rate and the top personal rate (as there is currently) by introducing a radically lower company tax rate at 12.5%, with the top personal rate as low as revenue will allow, perhaps 25%.   We don’t doubt that that would have a very dramatic effect on investment, and therefore on wages, salaries and jobs.
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This cannot go on. From global warming to polluted rivers and asthma in children, everyone is already paying the cost of environmental damage.
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uphold the sovereignty, integrity and capacity of Ukraine, and continue to reject Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea
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Anti-Imperialism
and the climate and environmental emergency. Whether we are ready or not, we stand on the brink of unstoppable change.
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National is rebuilding our Defence Force to be the high- performing, focussed, and well-equipped military New Zealand needs to respond to modern challenges. Our strong economic management means we have been able to afford to invest in new and upgraded capabilities for the three services (Air Force, Army, and Navy).
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Military: Positive
reflecting the partnership between Māori as tāngata whenua and the Crown. The government in exercising its kāwanatanga or governance has an obligation to also honour and support the partnership and ensure that Māori retain rangatiratanga or self-determination.
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Multiculturalism: Positive
Farmers understand better than anyone the scale of challenges they face through globalisation and development. While farming is no longer a dominant part of our economy, Fianna Fáil absolutely believes that it plays a vital part in the social and economic life of our country which must be supported now and in the years ahead.
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Agriculture and Farmers: Positive
A challenge as large as building a health system of the quality which the public rightly demands requires further sustained actions. That is why we are proposing a series of ambitious next steps forward for our health system.
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Welfare State Expansion
Promote longer tenancies of three years or more with an inflation-linked annual rent increase built in, to give tenants security and limit rent hikes. Improve protections against rogue landlords through mandatory licensing and allow access for tenants to the database of rogue landlords and property agents.
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We will increase the number of hospital beds per 1 ,000 of the population from the current level of less than 4 to 4.6, with a view to further raising this ratio. We will increase nursing home beds by 3,800.
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• Continue to promote Kiwisport, as a way of encouraging children to participate in and enjoy sport through the use of modified rules and equipment. • Promote the design of safe playgrounds.
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Culture: Positive
Our education system should give all children the best chance in life. By designing it so that poverty, disability, and learning difficulties can't stand in the way, we can transform the lives of our children and ensure all of us get to benefit from everything they have to offer.
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There are a number of policy areas where local authorities could have a greater role in decision-making, including:  Education: planning for the number of schools, teacher/student ratios, local policies on how to achieve national standards;
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Reinstate the lower small-business corporation tax rate. Introduce a package of reforms to business rates – including switching from RPI to CPI indexation,
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And we will take the family home out of tax for all but the richest by increasing the effective Inheritance Tax threshold for married couples and civil partners to £1 million, with a new transferable main residence allowance of £175,000 per person.
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Equality: Positive
Ensure that the single-sex-based exemptions contained in the Equality Act 2010 are understood and fully enforced in service provision. Create a safer society for women
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Equality: Positive
Overseas Development Aid: As we resolve our budget crisis, Fine Gael will place a renewed focus on and approach to meeting the U.N’s Millennium Development Goals. We will review the implementation of the 2006 White Paper on Irish Aid with a view to addressing shortcomings and to build on successes.
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Internationalism: Positive
make redundancy payments tax free; introduce legislation to assist whistleblowers ensuring that employees who expose illegal activity are protected.
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Labour Groups: Positive
Reinstate the lower small-business corporation tax rate. Introduce a package of reforms to business rates – including switching from RPI to CPI indexation,
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At this critical time in our country’s life, voters face a stark choice: do they want a centre-left government headed by Phil Goff or do they want a centre-right government headed by John Key?   There are no other options available.
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Political Authority
Corporation Tax is due to fall to seventeen per cent by 2020 – the lowest rate of any developed economy – and we will stick to that plan, because it will help to bring huge investment and many thousands of jobs to the UK. We know that the business rates system presents considerable challenges to some smaller companies.
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We will prohibit anti-competitive “pay for delay” deals that keep generic drugs off the market, and we will allow individuals, pharmacists, and wholesalers to import prescription drugs from licensed pharmacies in Canada and other countries with appropriate safety protections.
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Maintain the value of Child Benefit in real terms. Maintain the combined value of child income support measures at 33% - 35% of the minimum adult social welfare payment rate.
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We need this infrastructure as more and more Australians are using the internet in their everyday lives. The NBN is one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects ever attempted in Australia, and in the event of the change of Government, we will have an important opportunity to hit reset on this troubled project, and bring it to completion.
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Technology and Infrastructure: Positive
native animals and their habitats must be protected. the protection of native animals, and the restoration and extension of their current natural habitats.
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Environmental Protection
This will result in better supervision of younger constables and improved oversight of cases involving serious crimes. • instigate a zero tolerance regime of abuse and crimes against police officers in the discharge of their duties.
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Law and Order: Positive
We will push back against erosion of press freedom wherever it occurs and in whatever form—whether through direct intimidation of, and violence against, journalists or legal, regulatory, and financial pressures that smother free speech.
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Freedom and Human Rights
  When  approximately 80  percent  of  healthcare  costs  are  related  to  lifestyle –smoking,  obesity,  substance  abuse–far  greater  emphasis  has  to  be  put  upon  personal  responsibility  for health  maintenance.   Our  goal  for  both  Medicare  and Medicaid  must  be  to  assure  that  every  participant  receives  the  amount  of  care  they  need  at  the  time  they need  it,
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Welfare State Expansion
American innovation has twin engines: technology and small business, employing over half the private-sector work force. The synergy of our technology and small business drove a world-wide economic transformation of the last quarter-century.
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Technology and Infrastructure: Positive
Deploying over 500 Defence Force personnel to pursue our interests across the globe – from the Middle East to Antarctica Training Iraqi soldiers in the fight against ISIS
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Military: Positive
Funding for DOC will increase by $330 million over three years to 2017. In June, we announced our Climate Protection Plan 8 — our plan to address climate change through a revenue neutral carbon tax.
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Environmental Protection
In addition to the steps to ensure Wales has a strong voice within the UK we will: Devolve Air Passenger Duty to put Wales on a fair playing field with Scotland and Northern Ireland and put Cardiff Airport on a fair playing field with regional airports in England.
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Decentralization
This means that a single person earning up to €72,000 will pay no USC. But by making changes to tax credits for higher earners we will ensure those earning over €120,000 will not gain from this change.
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Middle Class and Professional Groups
Let’s be clear - Ireland has a good education system by international standards. But the ongoing lack of investment and modernisation means that many are being left behind, and that what’s been achieved is being put at risk.
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Education Expansion
We’ve improved continuity of care, provided the option of longer stays in maternity units, and better post-natal support. We’ve made sure children receive better and more frequent health checks, vaccinations when they need them, and a solid foundation for a healthy life.
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Welfare State Expansion
National Ministers will lead agricultural trade delegations to open up more new markets and opportunities for New Zealand exporters. Give more control to Maori landowners to unlock the potential of the Maori land estate
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Agriculture and Farmers: Positive
Invest to ensure that broadband connections and services to be provided before 2020 have a speed of 2 Gbps or more, with fibre to the premises (FTTP) as standard and unlimited usage by 2020 across the whole of the UK. SMEs should be prioritised in the roll-out of hyperfast broadband.
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Technology and Infrastructure: Positive
Make every publicly managed prison a working prison by the end of 2017. In a working prison, every eligible prisoner will have a structured timetable and be engaged for a minimum of 40 hours per week in rehabilitation and reintegration activities-education, employment and programmes - or constructive activity that supports reducing reoffending.
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Law and Order: Positive
Fair Pay Agreements (FPAs) will be agreed by businesses within an industry and the unions representing workers within that industry. FPAs will set basic standards for pay and other employment conditions within an industry, according to factors including job type and experience.
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Labour Groups: Positive
We will protect Nevada and its communities from the high-level nuclear waste dump at Yucca mountain which has not been proven to be safe by sound science. We will use our natural resources to fuel our economy, but end Republican giveaways to special interests that exploit public lands without regard for environmental consequences.
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Environmental Protection