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Fitzsimons Announces February Resignation
Thursday, 28 January 2010, 10:49 am | Green Party
Green MP Jeanette Fitzsimons announced her resignation today, bringing a 13-year Parliamentary career to a close. “It’s a good time for a change of pace,” said Ms Fitzsimons. “The caucus is in good shape. We have a good second generation of ... More >>
Greens welcome call-in of factory farm consents
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 3:20 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today welcomed Environment Minister Nick Smith’s decision to make the right call and call in consent applications for factory dairy farms in the Mackenzie country. The decision comes after a concerted campaign by the Greens and environmental ... More >>
Government neglects vulnerable again
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 3:17 pm | Green Party
A twenty-five cent increase in the minimum wage will do little to help some of New Zealand’s most vulnerable families make ends meet, said Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei today. “John Key’s Government lacks both the courage and the compassion ... More >>
DOC allows commercial fishing of endangered eels
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 12:30 pm | Green Party
The Department of Conservation (DOC) is allowing commercial fishers to harvest endangered eels from rivers on conservation land, the Green Party said today. The Green Party has discovered that late last year DOC issued three concessions for commercial eel ... More >>
Green Co-leader launches Dirty Rivers Rafting Tour
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 9:30 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman will launch a national 'Dirty Rivers Rafting Tour' on the Hutt River tomorrow. More >>
Tax Reform on Greens Equality Agenda
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 9:23 am | Green Party
The Green Party offered its support of tax reform legislation today, noting that the right type of change to the tax system would help reduce the gap between rich and poor in New Zealand. More >>
Green Co-leader launches Dirty Rivers Rafting Tour
Monday, 25 January 2010, 10:40 am | Green Party
Green Party Co-leader Russel Norman will launch a national 'Dirty Rivers Rafting Tour' on the Hutt River tomorrow. Through January and February, Dr Norman will be rafting and kayaking down some of the country's most polluted lowland rivers, as ... More >>
Rich-poor gap set to increase tax recommendations
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 2:38 pm | Green Party
Gap between rich and poor set to increase under Tax Working Group’s recommendations Creating greater inequality by cutting taxes for the rich is bad for the economy, said Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman today in response to the release of the ... More >>
Locke welcomes Tamil asylum seeker decision
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 4:03 pm | Green Party
Green MP Keith Locke has warmly welcomed the government decision to accept 13 Tamil asylum seekers picked up by the Australian customs boat, Oceanic Viking. More >>
Make the right call, Nick – call it in
Monday, 18 January 2010, 1:10 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on Environment Minister Nick Smith to make the right call and call in resource consent applications for factory dairy farms in the Mackenzie Country. Cabinet is due to consider the factory farming issue when it meets for the ... More >>
NZ reverts to working longer and dumber
Monday, 21 December 2009, 12:42 pm | Green Party
Proposed changes to four weeks annual leave will see New Zealanders' family life suffer for little or no productivity gains, Green Party Industrial Relations spokesperson Keith Locke said today. More >>
Greens have solutions to forestry downturn
Friday, 18 December 2009, 12:54 pm | Green Party
Today’s news that the total area of forest in New Zealand has reduced by 14,000 hectares highlights the need for sustainable Green New Deal forestry solutions, the Green Party said today. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry figures also show ... More >>
Leaked UN report shows Key needs to step up
Friday, 18 December 2009, 12:35 pm | Green Party
A leaked UN report shows that New Zealand needs to come to the party and lift its emissions target to stop catastrophic runaway climate change, said the Green Party today. The United Nations report shows that the world’s current pledged emission ... More >>
NZ wide open to massive land grab
Friday, 18 December 2009, 10:29 am | Green Party
New Zealand needs to tighten its rules around overseas investment as China and the Gulf States go on a world-wide shopping spree for prime land, said Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman. Dr Norman is concerned by news reports of a proposed deal involving ... More >>
Postcard from Copenhagen - a Green Party podcast
Friday, 18 December 2009, 10:03 am | Green Party
Right now, the world is watching our negotiators at Copenhagen finalise a binding agreement on climate change. There's a whole lot at stake. Green MPs Jeanette Fitzsimons and Kennedy Graham are there keeping an eye on things. I caught up with Jeanette ... More >>
Speaker clarifies Schmucky affair
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 1:25 pm | Green Party
The assessment by the Speaker, Hon Dr Lockwood Smith, that clauses in a Government Bill conferring benefit on Doug Schmuck may be private clauses and should not have been included, was welcomed today by Green Party Co Leader Dr Russel Norman. More >>
Global Alliance can find solutions, enhance rep.
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 12:09 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today welcomed the announcement that New Zealand will lead a Global Research Alliance for reducing climate change emissions from agriculture, adding that it is crucial to pursue science and ideas that enhance our clean green reputation. More >>
Pig code delay is pork barrel politics
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 4:24 pm | Green Party
The pig-headed Pork Industry Board is holding a gun to the Minister of Agriculture, David Carter, and delaying the release of a new pig code, Green Animal Welfare spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
Minister’s callous flip-flop on environment fund
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 3:24 pm | Green Party
The Government has pulled the plug on a highly-successful environmental fund despite previously promoting the fund as part of the solution to New Zealand’s freshwater crisis and increasing the fund's Budget allocation this year. “The Sustainable ... More >>
Stop bullying our Pacific neighbours
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 11:49 am | Green Party
New Zealand needs to work on preventing climate change rather than bullying its vulnerable Pacific neighbours, said the Green Party today. “Tim Groser’s outburst at Tuvalu for trying to protect their country from disappearing under the sea is completely ... More >>
