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Govt wants taxpayers to pay twice for emissions
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 9:47 am | Green Party
The Government’s plan for the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will mean that ordinary kiwis will have to pay twice for their emissions, the Green Party said today. “Far from choosing the most cost effective option, the Government is planning for failure, ... More >>
Transport Minister shuts door on reducing carbon
Monday, 31 August 2009, 10:16 am | Green Party
The Government has rejected one of the simplest and most effective ways of reducing New Zealand's carbon emissions, the Green Party said today. “Stephen Joyce's announcement that work will stop on fuel economy standards for vehicles coming into New Zealand ... More >>
Communities can fight Nat’s pillage of DOC land
Friday, 28 August 2009, 11:28 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on communities to defend their local heritage sites from pillage by mining companies. Minister of Energy and Resources Gerry Brownlee this week called for the most precious and significant land in New Zealand’s public ... More >>
Loads of roads programme is dinosaur thinking
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 4:33 pm | Green Party
The ‘loads of roads’ National Land Transport Programme will mire New Zealand in an outdated 1950s approach to transport and do nothing to protect us from rising oil prices, climate change, or the obesity epidemic. More >>
Greens welcome latest folic acid moves
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 10:22 am | Green Party
The Government's decision to defer mandatory fortification of bread sold in New Zealand with folic acid until 2011 is a prudent decision, and will give time to assess potential safety concerns around mandatory fortification, the Green Party’s Food Safety spokesperson ... More >>
Reject Boscawen’s bill
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 4:35 pm | Green Party
A Member’s Bill to define violence against children is unnecessary and dangerous, Green Party MP Sue Bradford said today. “I call on all parties in Parliament to unilaterally reject John Boscawen’s bill amending the Crimes Act – it’s not ... More >>
Decent rail or Loads of Roads?
Wednesday, 26 August 2009, 2:11 pm | Green Party
Starvation rations for the rail network and supersized meals for the city’s roading network are on the menu for Aucklanders. More >>
Assurance for parents welcomed
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 9:43 am | Green Party
Green Party MP Sue Bradford congratulated Prime Minister John Key on his decision this afternoon to stick to his principles on the section 59 reform, despite pressure from those who wish to relegalise assault on children. “Steps to increase people’s ... More >>
National listens to Hide, not the people
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 9:25 am | Green Party
It is tragic that the National Party values Rodney Hide’s opinion more than that of the people of Auckland, especially Maori, the Green Party said today. “The majority of submitters to the Auckland Governance Committee, Maori and Pakeha alike, endorsed ... More >>
Fonterra misleading farmers on palm kernel claims
Monday, 24 August 2009, 3:42 pm | Green Party
Fonterra is contradicting the World Bank and misleading farmers in its attempts to justify the massive use of rainforest-destroying palm kernel on intensive dairy farms. “Fonterra is misleading New Zealanders and defying a World Bank report that found ... More >>
Palm kernel addiction threatens economic sabotage
Monday, 24 August 2009, 10:15 am | Green Party
Revelations today about New Zealand dairy farming’s growing addiction to palm kernel feed show the immense risk of unsustainable dairying to our priceless ‘clean and green’ export brand. Palm kernel (PKE) is produced along with palm oil on land ... More >>
Referendum result inconclusive
Saturday, 22 August 2009, 12:56 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP Sue Bradford said it is hard to draw any conclusions from tonight’s physical discipline referendum results based on such a flawed question. More >>
Greens defend independent NZ armed forces
Friday, 21 August 2009, 3:20 pm | Green Party
New Zealand’s independent foreign policy would suffer if it entered into a joint military task force with Australia, the Green Party’s Defence spokesperson Keith Locke said today. “The best approach is to ensure our units are interoperable and ... More >>
Govt out of step with global law trends
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 1:11 pm | Green Party
The Government has a way to go yet before it fully understands the complexities of foreign policy, Green Party Associate Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Kennedy Graham said today. More >>
Hide’s Maori seat threat hides deeper failures
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 11:20 am | Green Party
Local Government Minister Rodney Hide is hiding behind the Maori seats in Auckland to cover much deeper failures in his radical right wing agenda, the Green Party said today. Mr Hide has threatened to resign his portfolio if the National Government ... More >>
Come clean on your welfare intentions Minister
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 4:42 pm | Green Party
The Green Party today urged the Government to come clean on its full plans for benefit reform. “Social Development Minister Paula Bennett’s answers to questions in the House this afternoon have given us a revealing glimpse of the Government’s ... More >>
Something fishy about latest NZFSA diet survey
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 12:02 pm | Green Party
Swimming with sharks could be safer than eating some varieties of fish sold in New Zealand, Green Party Food Safety Spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today. The latest New Zealand Food Safety Authority diet survey showed battered fish tested in Dunedin ... More >>
Government gets reality-check on RMA reforms
Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 1:48 pm | Green Party
A Parliamentary select committee has listened to commonsense and rejected some of the Government’s attempts to weaken New Zealand’s environmental protection laws. Today the report of the Local Government and Environmental Committee on the Resource ... More >>
Stop messing with GST - start investigating a CGT
Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 1:35 pm | Green Party
The Tax Working Group currently toying with GST proposals needs to spend more research time looking at why New Zealand is the odd one out in the OECD over Capital Gains Tax, Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman said today. Earlier this week Dr Norman ... More >>
Bradford questions Bennett’s real agenda
Monday, 17 August 2009, 2:37 pm | Green Party
Paula Bennett’s latest moves on benefits indicate National may be softening up New Zealand for cutbacks on benefit amounts and access, Green Party Social Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford said today. “Reports this morning that Social Development ... More >>
