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Green Party launches policy to require 100% captioning of TV

Thursday, 14 August 2014, 11:17 am | Green Party

The Green Party today announced that building a more accessible and inclusive society for disabled people will be a social priority for this election. The Green Party will: 1. Amend the Broadcasting Act and Telecommunications Act to require targets ... More >>

Green Party to lodge official complaints

Thursday, 14 August 2014, 10:01 am | Green Party

Green Party to lodge official complaints The Green Party is today lodging a series of complaints with the Police, Parliamentary Service, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and the Privacy Commissioner after revelations in Nicky Hager’s new ... More >>

Minister restarted native logging against advice

Thursday, 14 August 2014, 9:34 am | Green Party

Conservation Minister Nick Smith ignored scientific and technical advice when he pushed through law changes to allow logging on West Coast conservation land, the Green Party said today. New information released to TVNZ shows that the Department ... More >>

John Key’s SkyCity empire will suck Auckland dry

Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 1:32 pm | Green Party

John Key has gifted SkyCity the opportunity to create a gated empire in Auckland city where the casino can siphon off all the spending associated with a convention centre, while Auckland pays in increased gambling harm, the Green Party said today. More >>

National must stop meddling with ACC before the election

Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 12:12 pm | Green Party

The redesign currently occurring at the Accident Claims Corporation (ACC) for sensitive claims needs to be put on hold immediately, said the Green Party today. More >>

Green Party celebrates MOU win on contaminated sites

Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 12:05 pm | Green Party

The Green Party is celebrating the announcement of a national register of contaminated sites today, and $2.5 million to start cleaning two sites up. The Green Party and the National Party agreed to include toxic site management work in their Memorandum ... More >>

Minister has failed to change ACC culture

Tuesday, 12 August 2014, 4:52 pm | Green Party

The latest damning report by the Auditor General shows that the ACC Minister has failed to fulfil her mission to fix the sick culture at ACC and real change will not come till a new Government is elected, the Green Party said today. More >>

Green Party announces priorities for Christchurch

Tuesday, 12 August 2014, 10:39 am | Green Party

The Green Party has today announced its plan for a fairer, smarter and more democratic Canterbury rebuild, with a focus on smart transport solutions, restoring local democracy, and keeping Christchurch’s assets. More >>

Full details of oil execs’ junket revealed

Monday, 11 August 2014, 11:26 am | Green Party

Full details of a $237,000 taxpayer-funded oil executives’ junket in 2011 have emerged. National paid the nearly quarter of a million dollars to wine and dine 11 oil executives in New Zealand during the Rugby World Cup. More >>

NZ Govt must push for fair play in Fiji elections

Friday, 8 August 2014, 11:39 am | Green Party

The New Zealand Government needs to do more to push for human rights and media freedom in Fiji as it stages its first election since the 2006 coup, the Green Party said today. More >>

Big funding injection for regions in Greens transport plan

Friday, 8 August 2014, 11:24 am | Green Party

The Green Party will increase transport spending in the regions by 50 percent over the next decade under its new transport plan, the Green Party said today. “Transport is the life-blood of the regions. They have been starved under National,” Green ... More >>

Convention Centre: Another taxpayer subsidy for business

Thursday, 7 August 2014, 4:07 pm | Green Party

The awarding of the Christchurch convention centre contract raises more questions than it answers, said the Green Party today. More >>

National’s environmental priorities are not what NZers want

Thursday, 7 August 2014, 3:48 pm | Green Party

National’s environment priorities, presented by Conservation Minister Nick Smith at the Environmental Defence Society conference today, are greenwash and won’t protect the New Zealand we love, the Green Party said today. More >>

Green Party announces massive investment in public transport

Thursday, 7 August 2014, 11:06 am | Green Party

The Green Party will invest over $10 billion in new public transport projects and rail over the next decade, transforming how New Zealanders get around our largest cities. The Green Party’s ten year transport plan, announced today, will cost less ... More >>

National’s “growth” – more jobless, wages down in real terms

Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 11:02 am | Green Party

New data today shows that six years under National has translated into more people without jobs and salaries and wages down in real terms, the Green Party said today. “The benefits of economic recovery have largely been for the few. Most households ... More >>

Falling milk prices highlight danger of economic strategy

Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 10:31 am | Green Party

Falling dairy prices are highlighting the danger of National’s economic strategy that focuses on the export of a few, simple commodities, the Green Party said today. More >>

Greens pledge free off-peak public transport for students

Tuesday, 5 August 2014, 2:05 pm | Green Party

The Green Party today launched its plan to deliver free off-peak public transport for tertiary students. The plan is the second component of the Green Party's economic priority this election: Building a smarter greener economy that really works for ... More >>