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Govt has an opportunity to rebuild NZ's carbon market
Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 12:43 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is welcoming the recent rise in the price on carbon, and is calling on the National Government to commit to serious reforms of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) so that New Zealand can start to reduce domestic pollution, the Green ... More >>
Greens call for an end to poisonous weedkillers
Tuesday, 19 January 2016, 10:50 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and local councils to urgently reassess the safety of glyphosate, the carcinogenic active ingredient in weedkillers like Roundup, as it launches a nationwide ‘spray-free streets and ... More >>
Climate now ranked as the biggest risk to business
Monday, 18 January 2016, 11:00 am | Green Party
A lack of government leadership on climate change is leaving New Zealand businesses exposed to risks that are now ranked as the biggest facing businesses globally, the Green Party said today. More >>
New Zealand the hardest place in the world to buy a house
Friday, 15 January 2016, 10:48 am | Green Party
The National Government’s hands-off approach to the housing crisis over the past seven years has led to New Zealand becoming the most unaffordable place in the world to buy a house, the Green Party said today. More >>
OIA charging a worrying step
Thursday, 14 January 2016, 11:19 am | Green Party
The Green Party would like the Reserve Bank to make public its reasons for changing its policy to charge media outlets for Official Information Act (OIA) requests. More >>
Cheap oil gives the opportunity to start exiting from it
Thursday, 14 January 2016, 11:13 am | Green Party
Low oil prices give the Government the perfect opportunity to begin withdrawing its support for oil exploration and risky deep sea oil drilling, the Green Party said today. More >>
Government must prioritise equal pay for women
Thursday, 14 January 2016, 10:45 am | Green Party
The National Government must make achieving equal pay for New Zealand women a priority in 2016, or risks further contributing to the growing gender pay gap, the Green Party said today. The New Zealand Herald today revealed that the gender pay gap is the ... More >>
Recreational fishing parks a smokescreen to hide plunder
Tuesday, 12 January 2016, 3:17 pm | Green Party
The Government’s intention to introduce recreational fishing parks is an attempt to mask the fact it has left New Zealand huge Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to be plundered by oil and gas and seabed mining interests, the Green Party said today. More >>
MPI needs to take poisonous swedes out of the market
Tuesday, 12 January 2016, 12:14 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling for the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) to ban herbicide-tolerant swedes that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of dairy cows, after a report into their use told farmers to either not use them, or to be cautious about their ... More >>
New refugees need better support
Monday, 11 January 2016, 11:58 am | Green Party
Refugees coming to New Zealand need better support than they’re currently getting, the Green Party said today. More >>
New Zealand shouldn’t prefer human rights abusers
Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 10:55 am | Green Party
The New Zealand Government must halt its free trade discussions with Saudi Arabia after the latest in a long line of very public human rights atrocities. More >>
IPCA to investigate Green’s complaint over Hager search
Wednesday, 23 December 2015, 5:39 pm | Green Party
The Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCA) has written to the Green Party confirming that it will investigate its complaint about police actions that led to unlawful search of journalist Nicky Hager’s home. The Green Party received a letter ... More >>
Greens call on IPCA to investigate unlawful Hager search
Tuesday, 22 December 2015, 10:20 am | Green Party
The Green Party has written to the Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCA) formally asking it to investigate the decisions made by the police which led to the unlawful search of journalist Nicky Hager’s home. More >>
Today is the day National should back the CRL
Monday, 21 December 2015, 11:43 am | Green Party
The National Government should give Auckland an early Christmas present and bring forward funding for the City Rail Link (CRL), after Auckland Council pushed ahead today with preliminary work on the Albert Street tunnel, the Green Party said today. ... More >>
New figures show Serco received $8m in bonuses
Saturday, 19 December 2015, 4:58 pm | Green Party
Serco has received $8 million in performance bonuses since 2011, despite Serco’s performance being so poor its contract to run Mt Eden Correctional Facility has not been renewed. More >>
New figures show Serco received $8m in bonuses
Friday, 18 December 2015, 11:39 pm | Green Party
Serco has received $8 million in performance bonuses since 2011, despite Serco’s performance being so poor its contract to run Mt Eden Correctional Facility has not been renewed. Figures prepared for the Green Party by the Parliamentary Library, ... More >>
John Key’s behaviour, “it’s not OK”
Friday, 18 December 2015, 4:34 pm | Green Party
The White Ribbon Trust should be free to speak up about John Key’s recent inappropriate behaviour, the Green Party said today. John Key’s position as an Ambassador for the White Ribbon ‘it’s not OK’ campaign has been called into question and is ... More >>
National failing on climate change
Thursday, 17 December 2015, 4:12 pm | Green Party
National failing on climate change – emissions set to double in 15 years The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) says New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions are on track to double in the next 15 years, meaning the National Government’s promises at the ... More >>
Lack of Govt support means Kiwirail loses trains contract
Thursday, 17 December 2015, 4:03 pm | Green Party
The Government’s continued underfunding of Kiwirail is driving it into the ground and contributing to it losing major contracts, such as its Tranz Metro Wellington passenger rail contract today, the Green Party said. “The National Government has ... More >>
Migration not a sustainable way to grow economy
Thursday, 17 December 2015, 3:24 pm | Green Party
Economic growth fuelled by high migration rates is not sustainable, the Green Party said today. More >>
