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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 >>
Cadbury’s about-turn highlights consumer power
Monday, 17 August 2009, 1:48 pm | Green Party
Cadbury’s announcement that it is dropping palm oil from its chocolate shows the power of consumers to make a difference, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley said today. Ms Kedgley welcomed Cadbury’s decision and called on other food manufacturers to follow ... More >>
NZ must never resume horrific live sheep trade
Monday, 17 August 2009, 11:30 am | Green Party
The Minister of Agriculture’s public statement that the cruel trade of exporting live sheep for slaughter won’t resume under his watch is good news for New Zealand’s reputation as a humane country, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley said today. More >>
Road safety gains from new handheld cellphone law
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 5:28 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is delighted that at long last the Government is making it an offence to drive while talking or texting on a hand held phone. “Most other countries banned the use of cell phones while driving years ago. I'm astonished it has taken us so ... More >>
NZ training Burmese Junta’s stooges
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 3:48 pm | Green Party
New Zealand must back up its words with action against the Burmese regime - and ensure no official representatives of its military dictatorship receive training in New Zealand, said Green Party MP Kennedy Graham. The conviction and sentencing of Burmese ... More >>
PPP debate stacked in favour of private sector
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 1:22 pm | Green Party
NZ’s Finance Minister is spot on when he says we need to learn from the Australian experience of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) - why New Zealand should steer well clear, said Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman today. This morning Mr English ... More >>
NZ to spend on emissions target when it could save
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 11:56 am | Green Party
The Government wants to take the most expensive route to its emissions target, telling the world it will purchase carbon credits rather than work to reduce New Zealand’s greenhouse gases. “John Key’s climate policy is ‘Why try when you can buy?’” ... More >>
Government leaves sea lions to fend for themselves
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 4:08 pm | Green Party
Today’s Government decision to abandon the sea lion Population Management Plan leaves the species high and dry, and moves them a step closer to extinction. More >>
Weak target weakens New Zealand’s prospects
Monday, 10 August 2009, 4:58 pm | Green Party
Prime Minister John Key is running from responsibility with a weak 2020 emissions target, softening our negotiating position and further undermining our clean, green brand. More >>
SAS return will sabotage years of good work
Monday, 10 August 2009, 4:47 pm | Green Party
The Government’s decision today to send the SAS back to Afghanistan is an example of strategic folly based on muddled thinking, said the Green Party’s Foreign Affairs Associate Spokesperson, Kennedy Graham. More >>
Public transport investments create jobs
Friday, 7 August 2009, 2:29 pm | Green Party
New Zealand must seize the day and make much-needed public transport investments to create jobs and prevent transport chaos during the Rugby World Cup in 2011. Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman said today’s release of annual public transport ... More >>
