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Hoodies not just for hoods, get over it

Thursday, 29 May 2008, 11:23 am | Green Party

Green Party MP Metiria Turei is delighted to support Youth Week and especially Hoodie Day. More >>

Heavier freight will endanger other road users

Thursday, 29 May 2008, 12:34 am | Green Party

Heavier trucks on New Zealand roads will endanger the lives of other road users and undermine incentives to use safe and sustainable transport such as rail and shipping, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says. More >>

Department of Conservation: A species in decline

Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 5:46 pm | Green Party

The Green Party is bitterly disappointed in the Government's Department of Conservation staff cuts announced today. More >>

Arctic melts while Labour drags chain

Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 4:50 pm | Green Party

New discoveries about the rate at which the Canadian Arctic ice cap is breaking up should inspire urgency in our efforts to address climate change, says Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons. More >>

Keeping warm a matter of life and death: Greens

Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 3:44 pm | Green Party

News that an extra 1600 New Zealanders die every winter due mostly to cold, damp and poorly maintained homes underpins the significance of the Green Party's successful Budget initiative to insulate all state houses, Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ... More >>

Disgust over treatment of East Coast beneficiaries

Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 11:30 am | Green Party

Green Party MP Sue Bradford will be asking questions of the Social Development Minister in Parliament today about Work and Income treatment of sickness and invalid beneficiaries in the Opotiki-Whakatane district. More >>

Govt. dithers, rainforest-felling imports continue

Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 9:39 am | Green Party

The Green Party has welcomed a government pledge to try to do something about stopping importation of illegally logged tropical kwila timber, after a year-long campaign by the Greens against such imports. More >>

Bright future for energy efficient technologies

Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 12:03 am | Green Party

Government Spokesperson on Energy Efficiency and Conservation, Jeanette Fitzsimons, today announced that 31 projects with a combined value of $950,000 have been offered funding under the second round of a government fund to encourage smart innovations ... More >>

Transparency should be paramount for TV funding

Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 3:21 pm | Green Party

The Green Party strongly supports the Broadcasting Minister's decision to require TVNZ to have to bid for any future Charter funding in a transparent way through New Zealand on Air. More >>

Crowded house for chickens: Greens

Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 11:05 am | Green Party

Chickens worldwide must be in a terrible condition, if New Zealand chickens have the best animal welfare standards in the world, Green MP Sue Kedgley says. A NAWAC report released today says the welfare of broiler chickens in New Zealand is on a ... More >>

Call for urgent and meaningful action on benefits

Monday, 26 May 2008, 10:33 am | Green Party

While the Green Party welcomes news that the Government is considering some relief for beneficiaries in the wake of last week's Budget, it says the changes are not enough. More >>

Exports at risk from dirty dairying

Monday, 26 May 2008, 10:24 am | Green Party

The Greens are warning that our dairy products will struggle to gain a European Union eco-label due to the impacts of dirty dairying on our rivers and lakes. This will place our exports at a competitive disadvantage and punish those dairy farmers ... More >>

Poll shows positive shift in child discipline

Monday, 26 May 2008, 10:00 am | Green Party

A Family First survey released today that shows 48 percent of parents still smack their children actually highlights a massive improvement in attitudes over the past year, Green Party MP Sue Bradford says. More >>

Contaminated medical devices a huge concern

Friday, 23 May 2008, 4:07 pm | Green Party

News that life saving medical devices used in New Zealand have been found to be coated with contaminated blood thinning pharmaceutical Heparin is a huge concern, the Green Party says. More >>

Meager tertiary concessions fail students again

Friday, 23 May 2008, 11:27 am | Green Party

Green Party Tertiary Education Spokesperson, Metiria Turei, has labeled the meager tertiary concessions in the 2008 budget as ridiculous. More >>

Green victory over MAF for clean rivers

Friday, 23 May 2008, 10:38 am | Green Party

The Greens are claiming a significant victory in its campaign to clean up rivers and lakes after MAF was forced by the Greens to drop its opposition to a plan by Horizons Regional Council to make their rivers safe for swimming. More >>

Greens win $100 million for environment, community

Thursday, 22 May 2008, 3:40 pm | Green Party

Almost $100 million has been secured by the Green Party in the 2008 budget, comprising their largest budget package ever. Among the Green Party initiatives is a guaranteed $10.26 million over four years for the Community Organisations Grant Scheme to provide ... More >>