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Parliamentary Budget Office Clearly Needed Ahead Of Election
Tuesday, 16 June 2026, 3:49 pm | Green Party
A Parliamentary Budget Office would serve the public interest by giving people an independent, trusted basis for that debate. More >>
NZ Rich Listers Own As Much Wealth As Half The Country
Monday, 15 June 2026, 7:13 am | Green Party
Our economy is bigger than it’s ever been, and it’s being hoovered up, not trickling down. The wealthiest 150 people now own as much as half of the rest of the country. More >>
NZ Govt Sides With The US Against Workers’ Rights – And Loses
Saturday, 13 June 2026, 3:51 pm | Green Party
By lining NZ up alongside the US, and against countries like Australia, Japan and France, this Government is showing what sort of employment laws they really want: worse conditions for workers and more power for big international corporates. More >>
Treasury Confirms $5 Billion Bill For Luxon's Climate Inaction
Thursday, 11 June 2026, 12:42 pm | Green Party
“New Zealanders deserve a Government who operates in reality, with real solutions to reduce emissions & the cost of living, something the Greens are proud to offer," says Green Party Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick. More >>
Calls For Government To Scrap Family Violence Agency Cuts
Wednesday, 10 June 2026, 5:12 pm | Green Party
“The Government needs to abandon these cuts and properly fund the prevention workforce, in the Centre and in communities,” says Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson. More >>
Bigger Fines Needed For Companies That Breach Privacy
Wednesday, 10 June 2026, 7:18 am | Green Party
“Serious privacy breaches are climbing with the Privacy Commissioner reporting a 43 per cent increase in declared serious breaches in a single year”, says Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson. More >>
$30m For School Drinking Water Safety Is A Start But Pollution Keeps Flowing
Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 3:30 pm | Green Party
The Greens will continue to keep the pressure on this Government to get serious about protecting people’s health, the environment, and basic human rights. More >>
Luxon’s Government Commits To Billion-dollar Gas Terminal With No Plan To Pay For It – Which Means You Will
Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 11:23 am | Green Party
Every day, it becomes clearer Luxon’s Government has no plan, no vision and no intention of doing anything sensible to secure our country and economy’s resilience and lower New Zealander’s bills. More >>
Calls For Ombudsman To Open Wider Investigation Into Private Back-Channel Emails In Luxon's Office
Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 9:57 am | Green Party
Something fishy is going on in the Prime Ministers’ office when lobbyist documents that miraculously end up as Government law change after being handled by his Chief Policy Advisor manage to somehow disappear from the public record. More >>
Budget 2026 Hides A Nearly $500 Billion KiwiSaver Hole Across The Public Service
Monday, 8 June 2026, 11:54 am | Green Party
The Greens first called this out last year, when the Government had not accounted at all for the increased employer contributions despite being an employer of tens of thousands of teachers, nurses and public servants. More >>
Greens Local Candidate Comment On The Use Of AI In MSD Decisions
Thursday, 4 June 2026, 3:29 pm | Green Party
4 June 2026 Families need support, not less human oversight from Luxons Government Green Party Coromandel candidate Pamela Grealey is concerned that Coromandel MP Scott Simpson has introduced legislation that would expand the Ministry of Social Development's ... More >>
Luxon's Government Nearly Halves Food Bank Funding As Demand Hits Record High
Thursday, 4 June 2026, 11:02 am | Green Party
Food banks are the last lifeline for the people doing it the toughest, and this Government has chosen to nearly halve their funding, says Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson. More >>
Government Clears The Way To Automate Decisions About People's Survival
Friday, 29 May 2026, 11:12 am | Green Party
"Handing decisions about people's ability to survive to a machine is a deliberate choice to make it harder for people to get the help they need," says Green Party social development spokesperson Ricardo Menéndez March. More >>
Chlöe Swarbrick Budget Speech 2026
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 7:09 pm | Green Party
Fewer and fewer people get more and more money and more and more influence, while more and more people are left with scraps they’re told to fight over - and told, don’t look up. More >>
Pasifika Left Behind By Budget 2026
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 3:08 pm | Green Party
Pasifika initiatives and communities have again lost out to big money and big influence in Budget 2026. More >>
Budget 2026 Fails Māori
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 3:00 pm | Green Party
Budget 2026 neglects its Tiriti obligations to make way for the super-rich and powerful, says Green Party Co-leader, Marama Davidson. More >>
Budget 2026 Confirms Luxon’s Climate ‘Plan’ Is A Trashfire
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 2:48 pm | Green Party
New Zealanders deserve a Government honest enough to show them a plan that tackles the hard things, and shows how they’ll deal with it. More >>
Government Miss Child Poverty Targets
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 2:39 pm | Green Party
Budget documents show the Government missing both 2027 and 2026 targets for children living in poverty adjusted for housing costs, with this number still at almost 20%. More >>
Budget 2026 Leaves New Zealand With No Plan
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 2:18 pm | Green Party
The Government could be doing so much more to bring down household bills and has decided not to in this Budget. Instead, they’ve spent every last dollar on more warships, drones and prison cells. More >>
“End Of An Era” As Government Law Change Disestablishes Ministry For The Environment
Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 5:46 pm | Green Party
“This is yet another callous blow to the environment where this Government is demonstrating their only intention for the environment is to exploit it for a quick buck. New Zealanders deserve so much better,” said Pham. More >>
