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Greens Call For End To Subsidies For Methanex
Monday, 16 December 2024, 1:37 pm | Green Party
The Green Party supports the call by CICTAR, 350 and Common Grace Aotearoa to to prioritise Aotearoa’s remaining gas supply for safeguarding our energy security. More >>
Govt Child Poverty Targets Allow For Increase In Poverty
Friday, 13 December 2024, 4:28 pm | Green Party
We are calling on Minister Louise Upston to explain how these targets are consistent with the Child Poverty Reduction Act which requires a reduction of child poverty, says the Green Party’s spokesperson for Social Development, Ricardo Menéndez March. More >>
Govt’s Emissions Plan For Measly 1% Reduction
Friday, 13 December 2024, 11:33 am | Green Party
The Climate Commission signalled in April that to ensure a liveable future we need tighter emissions budgets and more ambitious measures. Instead of taking this advice seriously, the Government has delivered a final plan that somehow reduces even less ... More >>
Greens Stand In Solidarity With Whakaata Māori On Sad Day
Friday, 13 December 2024, 10:25 am | Green Party
The Green Party recognises the significant contribution of Whakaata Māori in influencing how Māori perceive themselves and how the world perceives Māori. More >>
Sanctions Regime To Create More Hardship For Families
Friday, 13 December 2024, 9:29 am | Green Party
The Social Security Amendment Bill takes old policies from Australia that are well documented to have failed, and looks to repurpose them in our country where they are destined to push people deeper and deeper into hardship. More >>
Govt Gifts Renters Housing Anxiety For Christmas
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 5:50 pm | Green Party
“The Government is giving renters a Christmas gift that no-one asked for: no-cause evictions,” says the Green Party's Housing spokesperson Tamatha Paul. More >>
Bill To Sanction Unlawful Occupation Of Palestine
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 2:27 pm | Green Party
The bare minimum people should expect from their representatives is to put substance behind words. Our Parliament unanimously passed an almost identical Act in support of Ukraine and we can and should do it for Palestine, says Green Party co-leader More >>
One Year On, Still No Progress On New Ferries
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 1:58 pm | Green Party
By undermining rail and pushing more trucks on our road system, the Government is creating more carbon emissions and further hampering our country’s progress on meeting its international climate change commitments. More >>
Greyhound Racing Industry Ban Marks New Era For Animal Welfare
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 1:51 pm | Green Party
“This is a great day for the welfare of greyhounds, they have a right to live without suffering,” says the Green Party’s Animal Welfare and Racing Spokesperson, Steve Abel. More >>
Rangatahi Voices Must Be Centred In Government’s Relationship And Sexuality Education Refresh
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 11:24 am | Green Party
“Any review process must truly prioritise the voices and wellbeing of rangatahi,” says Green Party Education spokesperson, Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan. More >>
Govt Introduces Archaic Anti-Worker Legislation
Monday, 9 December 2024, 8:04 pm | Green Party
If the Government wants to see fewer strikes it could just pay our nurses, teachers and doctors what they deserve instead of dishing out billions of dollars in tax cuts to wealthy landlords. More >>
He Ara Anamata: Greens Launch Emissions Reduction Plan
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 7:44 pm | Green Party
Grounded in Te Tiriti o Waitangi, He Ara Anamata shows how we can achieve robust, systemic change that cuts pollution at the source, working with nature every step of the way. More >>
Swarbrick Calls On Auckland Mayor To End Delay Of Revival Of St James Theatre
Friday, 6 December 2024, 7:12 pm | Green Party
“Thousands of Aucklanders supported years’ worth of campaigning to revive the St James Theatre - and we won - but manufactured paper-pushing has been holding up the start of construction work this year,” says Auckland Central MP and Green Co-Leader, ... More >>
Fossil Fuel Lobbyist Appointment To EECA Board Called Out
Friday, 6 December 2024, 5:42 pm | Green Party
“The appointment of a fossil fuel lobbyist to this board is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse,” says the Green Party Spokesperson for Energy, Scott Willis More >>
Greens Echo OECD Call For Electricity Market Reform
Friday, 6 December 2024, 1:11 pm | Green Party
We can have cheaper electricity, alongside development of a cleaner, smarter grid, through the separation of the gentailers as the starting point, says Green Party Energy Spokesperson Scott Willis. More >>
Government Smokescreen To Downgrade Climate Ambition
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 5:01 pm | Green Party
“Whether it’s climate action or child poverty, Christopher Luxon committed at the election, then quietly tried to change the targets and reduce action while in Government,” says Green Party Co-Leader and spokesperson on Climate Change, Chlöe ... More >>
Govt Guts Funding For Social Sciences And Humanities
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 1:57 pm | Green Party
“The uncertainty this creates among a sector that is already chronically under-funded cannot be under-estimated." More >>
You Can’t Bank On Pine Trees In A Climate Crisis
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 1:45 pm | Green Party
“The Government’s changes are an acknowledgement that there’s a problem in converting productive, food-growing land into biodiversity-squashing pine plantations, but they stop far short of fixing that problem." More >>
Govt Continues To Punch Down
Monday, 2 December 2024, 5:27 pm | Green Party
“This shallow, soundbite policy will see poverty continue to proliferate,” says the Green Party’s Social Development Spokesperson, Ricardo Menéndez March. More >>
Prime Minister Shirks Responsibility On Global Climate Commitment
Sunday, 1 December 2024, 2:56 pm | Green Party
“Climate commitments aren’t numbers on a page to be toyed with at political whim. They’re hard scientific limits, requiring each country to do our bit for a liveable planet,” says Green Party Co-Leader and spokesperson for Climate Change Chlöe ... More >>
