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Green Party praise for Helen Kelly
Wednesday, 14 October 2015, 11:52 am | Green Party
The Green Party has praised retiring New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) President Helen Kelly, who steps down today after eight years in the union leadership role. More >>
Key and Brownlee cannot get Iraq story straight
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 3:47 pm | Green Party
The Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence need to get their stories straight regarding what they knew, and when, about a report highlighting safety concerns at Camp Taji, the Green Party says. More >>
Government continues to deny Cantabrians democracy
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 2:29 pm | Green Party
The Green Party will be strongly opposing the Government’s Environment Canterbury (Transitional Governance Arrangements) Bill, which is due to have its first reading in Parliament today. More >>
High Court finds Govt in breach of OIA
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 12:37 pm | Green Party
The Government must change its arrogant approach to the public’s right to know about official information, following a court decision that Trade Minister Tim Groser acted unlawfully by refusing to make the slightest release information about the ... More >>
Stronger rules needed to protect beaches from oil spills
Sunday, 11 October 2015, 3:21 pm | Green Party
Stronger rules and enforcement to protect our beaches and marine environment are needed in the wake of new information that more than 360 oil spills have occurred in New Zealand waters since the 2011 Rena disaster, the Green Party said today. More >>
Key’s Camp Taji trip whitewashes reality
Friday, 9 October 2015, 11:41 am | Green Party
The Prime Minister’s comments about Camp Taji’s safety are an attempt to whitewash the reality there, particularly in light of the damning US report on the camp’s safety, the Green Party says. More >>
Independent evaluation of Charter Schools needed
Friday, 9 October 2015, 10:46 am | Green Party
A genuinely independent, expert evaluation of the Government’s charter schools programme is needed in light of revelations that Education Minister Hekia Parata interfered to prevent evaluators comparing the performance of charter school students ... More >>
Green Party backs mandatory captioning petition
Friday, 9 October 2015, 9:44 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Mojo Mathers is proud to sponsor a petition launched today by the Captioning Working Group, which calls for mandatory captioning to be put into law. More >>
Govt needs a plan to support people working in coal industry
Thursday, 8 October 2015, 11:31 am | Green Party
The National Government needs a plan to support people who work for Solid Energy and communities like Huntly as the coal industry winds up, the Green Party said today. More >>
KiwiSaver withdrawals highlight growing hardship
Wednesday, 7 October 2015, 12:52 pm | Green Party
Record numbers of people are withdrawing from their KiwiSaver schemes due to significant financial hardship, the Green Party said today. More >>
Charter schools evaluation reveals next to nothing
Wednesday, 7 October 2015, 12:27 pm | Green Party
The only useful conclusion in the Government-sanctioned evaluation of charter schools is the confirmation that smaller classes work better, the Green Party says. The evaluation, carried out by consultancy firm Martin Jenkins and released publicly yesterday, was ... More >>
Greens support E tū union launch
Wednesday, 7 October 2015, 11:36 am | Green Party
Today’s launch of the new union E tū, formed through the merger of the EPMU and the Service and Food Workers’ Union, has been welcomed by the Green Party. The new union covers over 50,000 members and is New Zealand’s largest private sector ... More >>
Super Fund tilts towards clean energy
Wednesday, 7 October 2015, 11:25 am | Green Party
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund’s commitment to invest NZ$540 million in clean energy is its clearest signal yet that they are taking climate change seriously, the Green Party said today. More >>
Sacrificing habitat of threatened species is a bad deal
Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 1:34 pm | Green Party
The Department of Conservation’s (DoC) decision to allow the habitat of threatened species such as long-tailed bat to be used for an irrigation reservoir sets a dangerous precedent that threatens our native wildlife, the Green Party said today. DoC’s ... More >>
Bee-killing pesticides need to go
Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 11:50 am | Green Party
The Government needs to ban neonicotinoid pesticides in light of new research that proves they kill bees and other important pollinating insects, the Green Party said today. More >>
Bad TPPA deal will cost New Zealanders
Tuesday, 6 October 2015, 10:05 am | Green Party
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) makes it more likely that everyday New Zealanders will become tenants in our own land, while private companies snap up the limited gains of about one percent of GDP, the Green Party said today. “The ... More >>
Greens celebrate $120 million savings from banking tender
Monday, 5 October 2015, 5:16 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is celebrating the conclusion of an uphill battle to get National to run a competitive tender process for New Zealand’s biggest banking contract – the Government’s master banking contract. More >>
Apology to David Wong-Tung and Oravida
Friday, 2 October 2015, 4:07 pm | Green Party
“On the 19th of June 2015, I issued a press release under the title “Govt. stuck in the mud over swamp kauri allegations.” More >>
Biggest gender pay gap since 2008
Friday, 2 October 2015, 12:36 pm | Green Party
Biggest gender pay gap since 2008 New data released today shows that the difference between median hourly wages for men and women is the largest since National took office in 2008 – evidence that National’s hands-off approach to closing the gender ... More >>
New Zealand must do more for our Pacific neighbours
Friday, 2 October 2015, 12:14 pm | Green Party
The Government must listen to Pacific leaders and start taking climate change seriously on the international stage, the Green Party said today. More >>
