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A greenprint for transport in Rodney
Friday, 31 October 2008, 4:58 pm | Green Party
"This month the Rodney District Council held its first public meeting on Penlink funding for more than 10 years. But it still hasn't released public information on the costs, the funding sources, the financial risks to Rodney, or the risks to the ... More >>
Labour's transport policy: more cars
Friday, 31 October 2008, 3:59 pm | Green Party
"Despite Labour's rhetoric of sustainability and some baby steps towards this, their newly released transport policy is business as usual: more funding for roads," Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says. More >>
Nats finally wake up to banks' responsibilities
Friday, 31 October 2008, 3:57 pm | Green Party
The Green Party is welcoming National's belated recognition that the banks have responsibilities in return for taxpayers underwriting the deposit guarantee scheme and in return for the Reserve Bank extending them lines of credit. More >>
Key package helps - but Kiwis deserve better
Friday, 31 October 2008, 3:40 pm | Green Party
Details of John Key's transitional relief package show that National, like Labour, still falls short in terms of providing equitable assistance for all newly laid-off workers, says the Green Party. More >>
Compassion key to Greens' unemployment support
Friday, 31 October 2008, 10:38 am | Green Party
Everyone who loses their job deserves support, Green Party Social Development Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. More >>
SPCA forgot Govt's inaction on animal cruelty
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 3:19 pm | Green Party
The SPCA's list of shame, issued today, made for repellent reading but the real shame in New Zealand is that there had been no action to improve animal welfare in the last few decades, the Green Party says. More >>
Key cornered on different ETS stories
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 3:15 pm | Green Party
John Key's attempts to evade discussing his party's position on the Emissions Trading Scheme came to an abrupt end today when he was cornered by Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons in a Paraparaumu mall. More >>
Human rights left out of Nat's foreign policy
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 12:34 pm | Green Party
National's foreign policy, announced yesterday, fails to properly address the needs of the most oppressed people in the world, the Green Party says. More >>
Fundamental shift in health focus: Greens
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 12:06 pm | Green Party
The Green Party's Preventative Health Strategy was launched at Wellington Hospital today with Health Spokesperson Sue Kedgley calling for a dramatic change in how New Zealand approaches health. More >>
Infratil seeks to hide ratepayer-funded profits
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 10:02 am | Green Party
The Green Party is accusing Wellington bus service operator Infratil of lobbying politicians to overturn the Public Transport Management Act in order to obscure how they're spending public money. More >>
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 >>
