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RMA proposals promote more resource exploitation
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 10:48 am | Green Party
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) would kneecap sustainability and weaken local councils, the Green Party said today. More >>
Assets mustn’t be sold before referendum
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 4:01 pm | Green Party
The Supreme Court’s decision that asset sales wouldn’t materially impair water claims under the Treaty of Waitangi doesn’t change the facts that asset sales are economically reckless and are opposed by the vast majority of New Zealand, Green ... More >>
Manufactured Exports Plunge, Jobs Go As Nats Fail To Act
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 1:20 pm | Green Party
27 February 2013 Manufactured Exports Plunge, Jobs Go As Nats Fail To Act New data shows that the value of manufactured exports fell by nearly 7 percent last year as the high dollar hurt Kiwi businesses and contributed to 17,000 job losses in the ... More >>
Manufactured exports plunge, jobs go as Nats fail to act
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 12:36 pm | Green Party
27 February 2013 Manufactured exports plunge, jobs go as Nats fail to act New data shows that the value of manufactured exports fell by nearly 7 percent last year as the high dollar hurt Kiwi businesses and contributed to 17,000 job losses in the ... More >>
NZ banks laughing all the way to the bank
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 11:31 am | Green Party
NZ banks laughing all the way to the bank New Zealand banks, among the developed world’s most profitable, just got more profitable according to KPMG’s Financial Institutions Performance Survey. More >>
Hobbit documents shows pattern of dodgy backroom deals
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 5:55 pm | Green Party
Documents showing the Government ignored Crown Law advice and changed labour laws to suit Warner Brothers is further evidence of the kind of influence and access wealthy business people have to the Government, the Green Party said today. More >>
KiwiRail budget cuts will compromise safety
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 5:26 pm | Green Party
The tragic recent events at Morningside have highlighted the need to always put safety first, Green Party disability spokesperson Mojo Mathers said today. More >>
Government doing the minimum on minimum wage
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 1:51 pm | Green Party
Today’s 25 cent increase to the minimum wage will do little to help the working poor and a bigger increase is urgently needed, Green Party industrial relations spokesperson Denise Roche said today. More >>
PM Should Ensure Chch Schools Get Collegiate Treatment
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 12:18 pm | Green Party
26 February 2013 PM Should Ensure Christchurch Schools Get Collegiate Treatment The Green Party is calling on the Prime Minister to insist that the same criteria he cited for bailing out Wanganui Collegiate is used in decisions over the future of ... More >>
PM should ensure Chch schools get Collegiate treatment
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 12:11 pm | Green Party
26 February 2013 PM should ensure Christchurch schools get Collegiate treatment The Green Party is calling on the Prime Minister to insist that the same criteria he cited for bailing out Wanganui Collegiate is used in decisions over the future of ... More >>
Govt Encouraged Solid Energy Expansion
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 10:03 am | Green Party
Govt Encouraged Solid Energy’s Expansion But Never Required A Business Case The National Government encouraged Solid Energy expansion plans but never required it to submit a business case for its ambitious but ultimately futile $2 billion lignite ... More >>
Govt must pay attention to public over transport priorities
Monday, 25 February 2013, 11:46 am | Green Party
The National Government is completely out of step with public opinion when it comes to its transport priorities, Green Party transport spokesperson Julie Anne Genter said today. More >>
Govt must act on new toxic chemicals report
Monday, 25 February 2013, 8:55 am | Green Party
24 February 2013 Govt must act on new toxic chemicals report A new report which links endocrine (hormone) disrupting chemicals to increasing rates of cancer and other health problems highlights the need for greater use of the precautionary principle ... More >>
Minister Ryall must stop health privatisation experiment
Sunday, 24 February 2013, 8:49 pm | Green Party
24 February 2013 Minister Ryall must stop health privatisation experiment Health Minister Tony Ryall must step in to end the experiment in privatisation being conducted by the Waitemata DHB, Green Party health spokesperson Kevin Hague said today. Waitemata ... More >>
Conservation legislation about protecting not trading away
Sunday, 24 February 2013, 8:47 pm | Green Party
24 February 2013 Conservation legislation about protecting not trading away nature The Green Party today cautiously welcomed the announcement that the Minister of Conservation, rather than a second tier Department of Conservation official, will make the decisions ... More >>
Smart green agriculture
Sunday, 24 February 2013, 12:30 pm | Green Party
New Zealand farmers work hard to grow that food. Farmers get up early, work long hours in often unsure conditions and at the moment are looking up to the blue skies and down to the dry soil. More >>
Government’s economic agenda in disarray
Friday, 22 February 2013, 1:53 pm | Green Party
The Government’s economic agenda is in tatters today with the announcement of hundreds of jobs being lost at Telecom and GEON, and likely job losses and economic vulnerabilities at Solid Energy, the Green Party said today. More >>
Greens call for meaningful leadership on sexual violence
Friday, 22 February 2013, 9:49 am | Green Party
The Green Party welcomes Paula Bennett’s announcement that she will take the lead on sexual violence and urges her to back that up with concrete action and funding, Green Party spokesperson for women Jan Logie said today. More >>
Put the brakes on multi-billion dollar Transmission Gully
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 2:36 pm | Green Party
The Government should ditch its Public-Private Partnership (PPP) plans for Transmission Gully following embarrassing testimony today by the head of the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) that revealed a PPP will cost taxpayer three times more than if the ... More >>
Women paid less than men need better law
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 12:26 pm | Green Party
21 February 2013 Women paid less than men need better law The Government should adopt the Green Party bill to change the Equal Pay Act to allow women to check they are being paid the same as their male colleagues for the same job, says the Green Party. ... More >>
