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Green Co-Leader slams investment review process

Friday, 24 July 2009, 4:32 pm | Green Party

Dr Norman reveals that the New Zealand law firm which represented the Canadian Pension Fund's attempt to buy into Auckland Airport in 2008 is now represented on the technical advisory group which is advising the Government on how to rewrite overseas investment ... More >>

Auckland could be super tanker, not a super-city

Friday, 24 July 2009, 11:07 am | Green Party

Auckland’s proposed new super-city is likely to end up as a super tanker - a huge, remote monolith that is too big, too inflexible, and too distanced from the community to be effective, or to solve the myriad of challenges facing Aucklanders, Green Party ... More >>

Infrastructure bonds better than PPPs

Thursday, 23 July 2009, 5:49 pm | Green Party

The Green Party today called for the Government to create infrastructure bonds for New Zealanders to invest in rather than raise financing via the failed public-private partnership (PPPs) model. “All the evidence is that PPPs don’t work because taxpayers ... More >>

Vested interests drive investment rule shake-up

Thursday, 23 July 2009, 5:32 pm | Green Party

The appointment of five lawyers from firms that make money from overseas investment to advise the Government on rewriting overseas investment rules is a blatant conflict of interest, said Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman. When Finance Minister Bill ... More >>

Time to label pork free range v intensively farmed

Thursday, 23 July 2009, 12:15 pm | Green Party

Green Party MP Sue Kedgley welcomed the Pork Industry’s decision to investigate labelling pork so that consumers can work out whether pork products are free range or have been intensively farmed. The Green Party has been calling on the Pork Industry ... More >>

Shift heavy freight by rail, not juggernaut trucks

Thursday, 23 July 2009, 11:10 am | Green Party

Heavier, longer trucks will inevitably lead to more crashes and deaths on our roads and will undermine our rail freight network which is better suited for moving heavy freight, Green Party Associate Transport spokesperson Sue Kedgley said today. More >>

NZ needs to take leadership role on climate change

Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 5:13 pm | Green Party

Green Party MP Kennedy Graham today challenged Prime Minister John Key to lead the way on climate change response in the Pacific. More >>

Govt must rethink funding for vulnerable students

Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 4:48 pm | Green Party

The Government should rethink its education funding priorities in light of recent reports of children facing severe hardship due to their special needs care being cut, said Green Party Education Spokesperson Catherine Delahunty. At Question Time ... More >>

Central govt leaving councils in the poo

Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 4:11 pm | Green Party

Investing in sewerage should be a core part of the government’s infrastructure package in order to clean up New Zealand’s long list of polluted waterways, such as that reported in Wellington harbour, Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman said ... More >>

Fonterra must act on dirty dairying to protect NZ

Wednesday, 22 July 2009, 3:15 pm | Green Party

The Green Party is calling on Fonterra to apply financial penalties to New Zealand’s most infamous dirty dairying group after it was once again convicted of polluting the environment. Party Co-Leader Russel Norman said today’s Waikato Times report ... More >>

Labour & Greens launch inquiry into bank behaviour

Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 10:15 am | Green Party

Recent events in the banking sector demonstrate the immediate need for an enquiry, said Green Finance Spokesperson Russel Norman today. More >>

Time to put community safety before politics

Friday, 17 July 2009, 12:41 pm | Green Party

The Green Party is calling on the Government to get serious about addressing crime and look at real solutions rather than implementing “getting tough” rhetoric that doesn’t work. “Community safety needs to come first. The Government needs ... More >>

NZ free to give consumers choice on folic acid

Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 2:13 pm | Green Party

Green MP Sue Kedgley said there is no Australasian standard requiring New Zealand to fortify bread with folic acid. “Contrary to what the Minister of Food Safety Kate Wilkinson has repeatedly claimed, New Zealand opted out of the joint standard ... More >>

Cycleway more robust than ever

Tuesday, 14 July 2009, 11:38 am | Green Party

Shifting the focus of the National Cycleway to a network of iconic rides will now deliver significantly greater economic benefits for the $50 million invested, said Green Party Cycling spokesperson, Kevin Hague today. “Wide consultation with stakeholder ... More >>

Minister must put NZ interests first

Monday, 13 July 2009, 11:49 am | Green Party

Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson must put New Zealand’s interests first in any decision she makes regarding the fortification of bread with folic acid, said the Green Party’s Food Safety spokesperson Sue Kedgley. From September 2009 all bread ... More >>

Report highlights Government stupidity on obesity

Monday, 13 July 2009, 11:09 am | Green Party

News that New Zealand has the third highest rate in the OECD shows that the Government needs to make fighting obesity its top health priority, said the Green Party today. The report puts New Zealand's obesity rate third highest in the OECD at 26.5 per ... More >>

NZ should push pause on folic fortification

Thursday, 9 July 2009, 1:50 pm | Green Party

Fears voiced by Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson that New Zealand could jeopardise trans-tasman relations if it paused on the mandatory fortification of bread with folic acid is at odds with our willingness to go our own way on country of origin ... More >>