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Laila Harre to take up role with Greens
Friday, 30 March 2012, 11:36 am | Green Party
The Green Party announced today that former Cabinet Minister Laila Harre will be taking up the newly created position of Issues Director based in Auckland. The Issues Director is one of three senior political advisor roles with the Greens and will ... More >>
Key letter means independent inquiry needed
Thursday, 29 March 2012, 10:45 pm | Green Party
The Green Party says it is now essential an independent inquiry is held into the Bronwyn Pullar affair following the release of correspondence that potentially implicates John Key in the saga. John Key is listed as a supporter of Bronwyn Pullar in a letter ... More >>
Govt Continues To Fail Students
Thursday, 29 March 2012, 4:16 pm | Green Party
29 March 2012 Govt Continues To Fail Students The Government’s decision to freeze the student allowance parental income threshold is a further barrier to higher education, the Green Party said today. “This is the first step in a dangerous attack on students ... More >>
Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Consortium results: more work needed
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 3:37 pm | Green Party
Ballance’s Head of Research and Environment, Warwick Catto, says ongoing nitrification inhibitor research is important to give farmers confidence in the technology which has already shown good promise in reducing nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching. More >>
Green Party Calls For Fracking Moratorium
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 1:57 pm | Green Party
Green Party Calls For Fracking Moratorium While Investigation Undertaken The Green Party today welcomed the decision by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to undertake an investigation into fracking, and urged the Government to put in place ... More >>
Charter Schools Inquiry Needed
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 1:14 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is questioning the impartiality of the Government’s Charter Schools Working Party and wants an inquiry into whether the schools should be established at all. More >>
Intelligence and Security Committee must investigate Huawei
Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 1:19 pm | Green Party
The Green Party has written and formally requested that the Intelligence and Security Committee undertake an investigation into Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company and equipment supplier, after the Australian Government blocked Huawei from their ... More >>
Urgent review of foreign buy up of NZ land needed
Tuesday, 27 March 2012, 11:19 am | Green Party
There needs to be an urgent review of the way the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) operates, Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman said today. More >>
Tertiary funding system at fault, not Vic Uni
Monday, 26 March 2012, 2:10 pm | Green Party
Accusations that Victoria University “rorts” the government’s tertiary education funding system highlight the model’s poor design and inadequacies, the Green Party says. More >>
Govt must not contract out fisheries watchdogs
Monday, 26 March 2012, 1:19 pm | Green Party
Contracting out the fisheries observer programme is an ideologically driven strategy that will compromise the integrity of New Zealand’s fishing industry, the Green Party fisheries spokesperson Steffan Browning said today. More >>
Green Party saddened by death of Sir Paul Callaghan
Saturday, 24 March 2012, 3:17 pm | Green Party
“Sir Paul was a great scientist and public intellectual,” said Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman. More >>
Downscale of public prisons for private ventures a bad move
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 5:44 pm | Green Party
The Government closing public prisons while funding the building of private facilities at Wiri in Auckland by a group of foreign companies will be bad for New Zealand, the Green Party says. More >>
Green Party comment on Ports of Auckland lock-out notice
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 1:18 pm | Green Party
Ports of Auckland’s moves to lock-out union workers after an Employment Court agreement to continue bargaining means that the Mayor of Auckland Len Brown must step into the long-running Ports dispute, Green Party industrial relations spokesperson Denise ... More >>
GDP highlights National’s ‘one trick pony’ economy
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 12:37 pm | Green Party
Today’s GDP statistics highlight an increasing dependence on milk powder to earn our way in the world, the Green Party said today. More >>
ACC should release Boag-Pullar 45-point list
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 12:00 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is pushing for cultural reform at ACC and is calling on the organisation to release a 45-point list detailing some of its privacy and protocol breaches. More >>
Time for port to end waterfront dispute
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 8:57 pm | Green Party
21 March 2012 Time for port to end waterfront dispute The Green Party says news that workers at the Ports of Auckland will resume negotiating their collective employment agreement without the threat of job losses highlights the weakness of the port company’s ... More >>
Key opening foreign owned Bathurst Resources inappropriate
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 4:49 pm | Green Party
The Prime Minister should not be attending the event of a company that is currently applying to mine conservation land, the Green Party said today. “The Prime Minister’s attendance at the opening of foreign owned Bathurst Resources’ new head office ... More >>
John Key too slow - Smith inquiry still needed
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 4:36 pm | Green Party
John Key should have had the guts to sack or stand Nick Smith down two days ago when it became obvious the former ACC Minister had used his ministerial influence to help a friend in her dispute with ACC. More >>
Greens call for independent inquiry into Smith
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 1:20 pm | Green Party
The Prime Minister must stop hiding behind the Privacy Commissioner’s inquiry into a mass leak of ACC claimant details and order an independent inquiry into the behaviour of one of his most senior ministers. More >>
Green Party comment on Urewera verdict
Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 6:44 pm | Green Party
20 March 2012 Green Party comment on Urewera verdict There should be a full and independent inquiry into all aspects of the so called Urewera case once sentencing is completed, Green Party Police spokesperson David Clendon said today. The "Urewera Four'' ... More >>
