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Aucklanders deserve decent public transport
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 10:20 am | Green Party
Auckland Green MP Sue Bradford says the Green Party is concerned about news that National Party Transport Spokesman Maurice Williamson says they oppose the regional fuel tax. More >>
Industrial dairying drives rainforest destruction
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 10:15 am | Green Party
A thousand-fold rise in imports of a rainforest-destroying feed to prop up New Zealand’s burgeoning dairy industry has huge implications for the country’s clean and green brand, the Green Party says. More >>
Assistance to Paritutu victims too little too late
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 10:13 am | Green Party
The Green Party says the free annual health check-ups offered to Paritutu residents exposed to dioxin from the Ivon Watkins Dow chemical plant is a bit better than nothing, but seriously questions why it has taken so long and comes without the hint of an ... More >>
Power network should remain under Kiwi control
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 10:07 am | Green Party
Dr Cullen's comments on the sale of Wellington's line network, reveals an urgent need to amend the Overseas Investment Act and develop a list of key strategic assets that should remain in New Zealand control, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says. More >>
Green Party wants commonsense emissions trading
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 3:48 pm | Green Party
Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons welcomes the release of the Cawthron Institute's environmental assessement of the emissions trading policy. More >>
Public Lecture: Thinking beyond sustainability
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 3:19 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos will brief students and members of the public around New Zealand on how the world’s love affair with economic growth impacts on our environment. More >>
NZFSA review reveals gaping holes
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 2:12 pm | Green Party
Stuart Slorach's review of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority published today shows systemic failure in the organisation, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says. More >>
Green Party response to petition shortfall - time
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 2:04 pm | Green Party
Green Party MP Sue Bradford says she is not surprised the petition aiming to force a referendum on physical punishment of children has failed to collect enough signatures. More >>
Children - our most vulnerable citizens
Monday, 28 April 2008, 12:44 am | Green Party
Kiwi kids are the biggest victims of the current food price crisis, Green Party Children's Issues spokesperson Sue Bradford says. More >>
Wellingtonians will lose as strategic asset sold
Monday, 28 April 2008, 12:06 am | Green Party
It is tragic that yet another strategic asset, Wellington's lines company, has fallen into foreign control, meaning Wellingtonian's can only loose out, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says. More >>
Time EcoLab let striking workers join collective
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 12:00 am | Green Party
News from Hamilton that striking EcoLab staff are being denied the opportunity for the same employment agreement as other workers who do the same job as them is concerning, says Green Party Employment Relations Spokesperson Sue Bradford. More >>
Protection from bottom trawling needed
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 5:45 pm | Green Party
Green Party Conservation Spokesperson Metiria Turei is calling on the Fisheries Minister to give New Zealand's marine environment the same protection from bottom trawling he has just given international waters. More >>
FTA loopholes may allow dodgy drugs into NZ
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 11:28 am | Green Party
The Government's trade agreement with China could increase the numbers of contaminated and counterfeit medicines coming into New Zealand, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley warned today. More >>
Fitzsimons: Keep the Coal in the Hole
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 11:12 am | Green Party
Today is Earth Day. It began in the USA in 1970 and is often seen as the start of the modern environmental movement. In 1990 it mobilised 200 million people in 141 countries and gave impetus to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. More >>
If you go down to the woods today...
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 10:32 am | Green Party
The Greens today revealed that a security firm, run by the same private investigators involved in hiring paid informants to infiltrate community groups, has applied to the Department of Conservation to patrol public conservation land on the Stockton ... More >>
Call for public release of DoC staff cuts report
Tuesday, 22 April 2008, 12:18 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling on the Department of Conservation to release the draft report which reportedly claims that 56 staff, including their marine conservation unit, are at risk of losing their jobs to meet a budget shortfall. More >>
Community groups should be freed from spies
Monday, 21 April 2008, 8:45 am | Green Party
Community groups need to freed from the oppressive influence of private paid informants in their midst says the Green Party, in light of revelations today that further attempts have been made recently by private investigators to infiltrate the Save Happy Valley ... More >>
Better to be safe than sorry over baby bottles
Monday, 21 April 2008, 12:57 am | Green Party
The Green Party is calling for New Zealand health authorities to follow the lead of their Canadian counterparts and move to protect infants from exposure to a potentially harmful plastic used in baby bottles. More >>
When will we turn the corner?
Friday, 18 April 2008, 3:53 pm | Green Party
The Green Party says today's news that New Zealand's greenhouse emissions have continued to rise, though not as fast as previously, is still not good enough. More >>
Greens support review of monetary policy
Friday, 18 April 2008, 11:14 am | Green Party
The Green Party is adding its voice to calls for a thorough review of monetary policy in light of further closures of New Zealand manufacturers, and is calling on Labour and National to remove their new right blinkers on monetary policy so we, as a nation, ... More >>
