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Greens to Nats - Tourism depends on environment
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 3:25 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is reminding the National Party that our tourist industry is 100% reliant on our natural environment. And hence National's plan to gut the already-weak environment protection legislation, the Resource Management Act, will destroy our ... More >>
Green Party - Advocate for the Arts
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 2:28 pm | Green Party
The Green Party's artistic vision of the future - where artists and the arts are recognised and supported for the contribution they make to New Zealand - will be unveiled in the Party's arts, cultural and heritage policy launch at Auckland's Imperial ... More >>
Putting NZ back on air: Green broadcasting policy
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 2:26 pm | Green Party
The Green Party says New Zealand has the most deregulated broadcasting environment in the western world and a Broadcasting Commission is needed to set some ground rules for broadcasters in New Zealand. More >>
Dirty dairy conversions an environmental problem
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 12:21 pm | Green Party
Greenpeace's direct actions to highlight environmental problems caused by industrial farming in the central north island draws attention to results of the Government's failure to include agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme along with other ... More >>
Worst for last in Nats' Prisons policy
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 4:24 pm | Green Party
The National Party has saved the worst for last in their Prisons policy - that they 'will allow competitive tendering for the management of prisons on a case-by-case basis', the Green Party says. More >>
Key wants FPP back - and the Greens gone
Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 2:44 pm | Green Party
John Key's call for the party with the most votes to form the Government is a disguised call for returning to First Past the Post - where a Government could represent a minority of voters, the Green Party says. More >>
Key's Welfare Proposal Unworkable and Unfair
Monday, 27 October 2008, 5:14 pm | Green Party
'It demonstrates his lack of understanding of the practicalities of administering a national social security system,' says Social Development spokesperson Sue Bradford. More >>
Aussie banks should suspend export of dividends
Monday, 27 October 2008, 5:02 pm | Green Party
The Aussie banks should cease exporting dividends back to their Australian parent banks while they are getting financial support from the Reserve Bank, says the Green Party. More >>
Green ads acclaim goes global
Monday, 27 October 2008, 4:51 pm | Green Party
Acclaim for the Green Party election campaign has gone global with the iconic ‘Aila’ billboard rating number one on the international billboard of the week spot on the highly regarded BestadsonTV.com website , an online showcase for top advertising ... More >>
Two-headed monster threatens exports
Friday, 24 October 2008, 4:28 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on New Zealanders to be wary of the National/Act two-headed monster that is threatening New Zealand's clean and green reputation, a reputation that underpins our export economy. This is in response to Key's comments about a ... More >>
Greens launch Clean Green Agriculture at Hastings
Friday, 24 October 2008, 12:19 pm | Green Party
Cementing and building on New Zealand's international clean green image is central to the Green Party's new Agricultural Policy. More >>
Organics can feed the world, but National silent
Friday, 24 October 2008, 9:25 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling for the New Zealand farming sector to take note of a new United Nations report (1) which shows that organic production in Africa can increase yields while protecting soils and the environment. More >>
Vector vetoes kindergarten
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 4:14 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is stunned to learn that parent representatives of the Titirangi Kindergarten were blocked by a row of security guards from attending Vector’s Annual General Meeting today. More >>
Drug flood fears founded, vigilance urged: Greens
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 4:04 pm | Green Party
News today of a 100kg Chinese drug seizure in Auckland underscores the fears voiced by Green Party MP Metiria Turei earlier this month. More >>
Bank guarantee should halt dividend flows offshore
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 3:21 pm | Green Party
ANZ's $3.3 billion annual profit reinforces the Green Party's call for a limit on dividends flowing out of New Zealand into overseas investors' pockets, now the New Zealand taxpayer is shouldering the risks of the banking sector's behaviour. More >>
Nat MP's slip reveals secret road-building agenda
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 2:54 pm | Green Party
National's secret road building agenda has been revealed by loose-lipped MP Maurice Williamson. More >>
Bollard confirms inflation now beyond control
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 10:25 am | Green Party
Today's Reserve Bank decision to cut interest rates by 1 percent when inflation is running the highest in 18 years confirms that the thinking behind monetary policy is obsolete, says the Green Party. More >>
Greens Launch Wellington Transport Strategy
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 4:51 pm | Green Party
The Green Party announced their Transport Strategy for Wellington today, which is designed to eliminate congestion in Wellington, make public transport affordable, and reduce our carbon emissions and our reliance on fossil fuels. More >>
Coke versus Pepsi not good enough anymore: Norman
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 3:21 pm | Green Party
An analysis of election media coverage in The Press today shows that TV news programmes are being bullied into cutting the MMP parties out of their content, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman says. More >>
More community input into preschools needed
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 12:53 pm | Green Party
Green Party Education Spokesperson Metiria Turei welcomes Government funding of $9 million over two years to develop nine new early childhood education services on existing school sites in south Auckland, but calls for more grassroots community ... More >>
